Katie Wagner
Principal, Growth by Design Talent
Katie Wagner is a Principal on the advisory team at GBD, where she partners with clients to revamp their recruiting engines and build systems that scale. She’s spent her career stepping into moments of chaos and turning them into structure: most recently as Head of Talent at Tarro, where she built the company’s recruiting infrastructure from scratch, and previously at DoorDash, where she scaled a 50-person TA org, hired 5,000+ people, and launched new global markets during hyper-growth. She’s based in Philly, where you’ll usually find her reading, writing for her Substack, or chasing her two kids (ages 4 and 2) around with her husband.
Structured Interviewing 2.0: The Proactive, AI-Powered Approach to Better Hires
Your team probably has structured interviewing practices - debriefs, standardized questions, maybe even rubrics. Recent surveys have revealed a gap: while 90% of organizations have implemented aspects of structured interviewing, most still struggle with inconsistent decision-making and navigating partnerships with hiring managers.
This session focuses on taking a proactive, AI-enabled approach to structured interviewing. You'll learn how AI-powered interview intelligence can diagnose pain points in your hiring process, how to empower your recruiters to leverage those insights, and how to shift decision making throughout your hiring org, leading to healthier collaborations and—most importantly—better hiring decisions.