Why We Do What We Do
We are a full-cycle recruiting strategic partner dedicated to helping organizations hire and retain top-tier talent faster and smarter. Our high-touch approach combines precision, insight, and innovation to deliver solutions tailored to the unique needs of every client and candidate.
What sets us apart is our genuine care for clients, candidates, and the teams we support, guided by a deep passion for recruiting. Recruiting—when done right—is not transactional, it’s relational. We focus on building trust, understanding business objectives, workforce challenges, and cultural alignment to ensure long-term success for both the client and the candidate always with retention in mind.
Riptide Recruiting offers a full range of services, including permanent placement, embedded recruitment, retained executive search, and talent acquisition consulting. Across every engagement, we prioritize trust, transparency, efficiency, and alignment with your business goals, ensuring each hire strengthens teams, enhances culture, and drives lasting impact.
By blending high-level service with our extensive network and expertise in global hiring, Riptide Recruiting transforms hiring into a strategic advantage, helping organizations navigate the tides of talent acquisition with confidence, clarity, and precision.
About the Founder
Riptide Recruiting was founded with a clear purpose: to bring intention, integrity, and humanity back into the recruiting process.
My career in talent began while I was in college and playing hockey at the University of Utah. Go Utes! During this time, I was working for an HR consulting firm where I was first introduced to the impact thoughtful hiring can have on organizations and individuals alike. At the time, I was still searching for my own professional direction. It was a pivotal conversation with my stepfather who recognized my natural ability to connect with people and that led me to explore recruiting as a career.
That decision proved to be life changing.
I began my recruiting career as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Ken Garff Automotive, where I quickly discovered that recruiting was more than filling roles. It was about building relationships, influencing outcomes, and helping people find opportunities where they could truly thrive. Driven to expand my experience beyond a national scope, I later joined Rio Tinto as a recruiter, gaining exposure to global talent strategies and complex, large-scale hiring environments.
It was during my time at Rio Tinto that the vision for Riptide Recruiting truly took shape.
Across industries, I saw recruiting becoming increasingly transactional. Candidates were reduced to resumes, hiring leaders were treated as tasks, and speed often took priority over quality. As a result, retention suffered, trust eroded, and meaningful connections were lost. I also saw a significant lack of intentional focus on diverse talent, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and groups whose potential is often overlooked despite the value they bring.
Riptide Recruiting was created to challenge that model.
This is a people-first recruiting firm built on partnership, quality, and long-term success. I collaborate closely with clients to understand not only the technical requirements of a role, but the culture, leadership style, and future vision of the organization. Equally important, I advocate for candidates with transparency and respect, knowing firsthand how impactful the right opportunity can be at the right moment.
Retention matters. Relationships matter. People matter.
At Riptide Recruiting, we do not believe in volume-based recruiting or quick placements for the sake of speed. We believe in aligning quality candidates with quality companies intentionally, ethically, and with retention in mind. I never forget that we were all candidates once, and there is no greater reward than helping someone land a role that changes the trajectory of their career.
At Riptide Recruiting, we don’t just recruit, we help change lives.