Ej Sander

Background

About Ej Sander

I’m passionate about people and about having the opportunity to be the conduit of life-changing professional experiences. I value being authentic and engaged, treating people with respect, creating spaces for growth, and holding myself and others to high standards. I’m a leader who can build and drive a big vision through targeted actions that keep us always moving forward. I’m a recruiting and organizational leader with 17 years of broad experience with startups, mid-size and large complex enterprise organizations. After 10 years as an internal recruiting leader, I founded Monocle Search Group in 2015. We’ve built a successful boutique executive and leadership search firm partnering with such companies as Airbnb, Meta, Snap, WarnerMedia, Procore, Shippo, Faire, Lyft, RIS Rx, SavageX, Laurel.ai, The Walt Disney Company, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Premera Blue Cross, Zillow and HBO. Throughout our history more than fifty percent of the leaders we’ve hired are from underrepresented groups. We believe having vibrant diverse talent pipelines to be the best way to hire the right person for a company’s talent needs. I’ve led large internal recruiting organizations, managers and individuals supporting 900+ hires annually and managed small agile teams. As well as owning recruitment strategy end-to-end, I’ve built recruiting programs focused on diversity, early talent development, marketing, recruiting operations and leadership rotational programs. While still very hands on as a recruiter, I lead from a high-level strategic perspective yet can easily transition to tactical action. I lead with compassion coupled with accountability. I set clear measurable goals, value metrics & data, create space for people to succeed, to fail, to be creative, and to be vulnerable and support both personal and professional growth. There will always be challenges — that will never change. But we always have the opportunity to influence how we approach our endeavors. Whether pursuing a personal or professional goal, leading a meeting, interacting with a co-worker, dealing with failure or success, finding a solution, taking ownership, giving support, being creative, or supporting others. And if done right, always having a little fun while we do it.