I'm Stephanie Deer, Founder of North Star Talent Advisors. I built this practice because I've spent 20+ years watching companies treat hiring as an afterthought, and then pay for it at every stage of growth. The foundation matters. How you build it determines everything that comes after.

I bring experience across investor-backed, public, and bootstrapped technology organizations, with a track record of building and transforming Talent Acquisition functions at critical inflection points. My work spans TA strategy, hiring infrastructure, AI-enabled recruiting operations, embedded recruiting and candidate experience, with the operational rigor to make it stick.