Heather McDonald

Heather McDonald is a seasoned recruitment professional with extensive experience in talent acquisition and human resources. Currently serving as Principal Talent Advisor at Red Hat since May 2019, McDonald manages full-lifecycle recruitment for Products, Global Engineering, and IT organizations in North America, supporting an average of 30-40 requisitions while contributing to projects such as job description standardization and interview training development. Prior to this role, McDonald held positions at Worldpay as a Senior Talent Advisor, and at Vantiv as Principal Technology Recruiter and Senior Technology Recruiter, where significant contributions to employee growth were made, achieving over 300% expansion in technical roles. McDonald earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008.