Verint Appoints Michelle Rife as VP of Global Talent

Customer experience automation company Verint has appointed Michelle Rife as Vice President, Global Talent. Michelle has 20+ years of expertise in Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, People Operations, Employer Branding and Global Recruitment in the top technology firms.

She will assume a new role as she works to recruit, develop and retain the best talent in the expansion of the company's AI-powered solutions for customer experience and workforce engagement.

Michelle is the strategic talent consultant for Rife Consulting Group. She guided organizations to implement modern strategies for talent acquisition, use AI-driven recruiting tools, enhance hiring processes and develop data-driven talent acquisition strategies.

Her consulting efforts supported a range of companies from increasing hiring efficiency, cutting costs with agency, building robust workforce planning initiatives, to enhancing candidate experience.

Prior to this, she was Vice President, Global Talent at Branch. She was responsible for talent operations in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Key Highlights:

• Michelle Rife joins Verint as VP, Global Talent to support its AI-driven growth
• She brings 20+ years of experience in talent acquisition, workforce planning, and employer branding
• Previously, she led Rife Consulting Group and held leadership roles at Branch, Facebook, GE Digital, and PlayStation

During her tenure, the branch grew from around 300 to 600 employees. She has bolstered talent operations, enhanced workforce planning, introduced early career programs and optimized internal mobility and employer branding measures.

Michelle has come from a long history of senior talent positions across a variety of technology firms. She was the Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Aurora, and was responsible for recruiting strategy for Product Analytics and Data Science talent at Facebook.

She has also held the position of Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at GE Digital and played a leadership role in leading the talent acquisition and employer branding initiatives across North America for PlayStation.

She also has leadership experience at BrightEdge, Vendavo, Quixey, and Imperva. In these companies, she developed recruiting capabilities that could be stretched to meet growing demand, improved employer brands and aided global expansion and IPO.

Sharing the news on LinkedIn, Michelle said, “After an incredibly fulfilling chapter running my own consulting business and intentionally stepping away from the day-to-day corporate world, I am thrilled to announce that I have joined Verint as their VP of Global Talent.”

She continued, “none of this journey would have been possible without my ride-or-die support system, the people who showed up for me, kept it real, and never let me settle. Robin Lykins, Amberly Marston, Tom Allegretti Jr., AJ Mizes, SPHR, Chikara Kennedy, PCC, NCPM and Clayton W. I am so grateful for each of you. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.”

“To the incredible Verint People Team, Christine Kehoe, Helen Vergel de Dios, Gabrielle Neben and CEO, Dave Rhodes, thank you for your trust and for believing that I am the right person to help guide this organization through its next phase of growth. I do not take that lightly, and I am so energized by what we will build together,” she concluded.

Michelle has a wealth of experience in talent acquisition, workforce planning, people analytics, employer brand, diversity and inclusion, and AI-powered recruitment.