About · Founder, Savant
Jessica Smith
Talent strategy and signal intelligence for Energy and AI.
Systems-based talent strategy and operations leader with 12+ years in technical recruitment, founder-operator and former CGO. I apply Lean principles across departments, removing waste from hiring and making the tradeoffs between speed, quality and cost explicit.
I operate as a player-coach and lead with predictive talent mapping: tracking funding, contracts, acquisitions and executive moves to show leaders which roles will get contested, and who they will be competing with, 6-18 months before the req opens.
12+ yrs
Technical recruitment and talent operations
45 → 80+
Employees scaled at LiveSwitch, with time-to-fill for technical roles cut from 45 to 30 days
95%
Of LiveSwitch hires retained past six months
100%
Offer-acceptance rate running SAP recruitment at Illumiti
Experience
- Founder, Savant : talent strategy and signal intelligence for energy, oil and gas, power and data centre companies, and the AI and infrastructure companies competing with them for talent.
- Chief Growth Officer, Fundz : a B2B agentic AI signal and market intelligence platform.
- Talent Acquisition, LiveSwitch : scaled the company from 45 to 80+ employees and cut technical time-to-fill by 33%.
- SAP Recruitment, Illumiti : Top Recruiter 2020, a 3:1 submittal-to-hire ratio, and the first early-careers program.
On stage & in the community
- Speaker and moderator at Future Wealth Miami 2026(Dec 4-6): three sessions, including a Lab talk on why the next era of agentic AI belongs to those who own the data and signal intelligence.
- Member, Agentics Foundation.
- Ran TAKEDOWN, a podcast built to educate the tech community.
- Based in Ontario, Canada, working with leaders across North America and globally.