Zachary Kovat
Talent & People Leader
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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ezCater · Director of Talent · January 2021As Director of Talent reporting to the Chief People & Culture Officer, I drove hiring process and strategy across more than 40 states, overseeing three recruiting teams (Tech, Business, and Capacity) totaling 15 people. In late 2020 and early 2021, COVID pushed the company to send everyone home, and we made the call to shift from a Boston/Denver in-office hiring model to a remote-flexible, hybrid one. I was leading Compensation at the time, so I built out 8 distinct pay regions, each priced off an anchor city, to support hiring people wherever they lived rather than where our offices were. We recoded our job postings as remote and reworked our sourcing strategy around this new model. That shift opened up a much larger talent market for us, whether we were hiring executives, engineers, or marketers, and let us recruit well beyond our original hub cities. It supported the company's growth from 425 employees at the start of 2021 to 1,000 employees by the start of 2024.
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Work history
Feb 2017 - Mar 2026 · 9.2 years · Director of People Operations & Talent, Director of Talent, Senior Manager of Talent, Manager of Business Recruiting & Executive Search, Lead Business Recruiter
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017 · 11 months · Pricing Services Manager
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1.3 years · Account Manager/Customer Success Manager
Apr 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1.8 years · Account Executive & Project Manager
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013 · 1.3 years · Technical Recruiter
Apr 2011 - Nov 2011 · 8 months · Golf Operations Staff
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