Erica Donlevy
HR & People Ops Leader | Startups & Growing Teams
New to Contra
Erica is ready for their next project!
Building High-Performing Teams
Built and managed recruiting and onboarding operations to support rapid organizational growth across a range of functions and seniority levels. My work included workforce planning, sourcing and recruiting, interview process design, candidate experience, offers, onboarding, and early-career programs. I developed repeatable recruiting workflows that reduced time-to-hire by 20%, maintained approximately 30-day hiring cycles, and redesigned onboarding to accelerate new-hire productivity and integration.
0
22
Building a Scalable HR Infrastructure
Built and strengthened core HR infrastructure to support a rapidly growing organization across multiple states and an expanding global workforce. My work included HRIS and payroll administration, benefits, multi-state compliance, immigration documentation support, policy and process development, workforce data and reporting, and compensation support. I also helped establish repeatable People Operations workflows and supported the company’s expansion of talent into Latin America—creating infrastructure that could scale alongside the business.
0
14
Building a People-First Employee Experience
Built and strengthened employee experience programs across the full employee lifecycle during a period of rapid company growth. My work spanned onboarding, employee engagement, learning and development, manager enablement, internal communications, benefits, and performance management. Key outcomes included improving employee engagement/eNPS, reducing onboarding time by 30%, and helping reduce the benefits renewal rate increase by 13% through HSA contributions.
0
18
Scaling People Operations from 68 → 180+ Employees
Helped build and scale the People Operations infrastructure for a rapidly growing technology startup, supporting growth from 68 to 180+ employees.
My work spanned recruiting, onboarding, HR systems, employee experience, performance management, manager support, benefits/payroll, compliance, and People analytics—building practical processes that could evolve with the organization.
0
22