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HIRING, REBUILT · EPISODE 1

What can a hiring team hand over to AI?

Friday, October 09, 2026 · 14:00 CEST

Duration: 60 minutes

Location: Online

About this episode

Hiring, Rebuilt is an eight-part series with Hung Lee of Recruiting Brainfood and Oliver Vaage from Alva Labs.
A new episode every two weeks.

Most conversations about AI in hiring are about speed. This one is about what a team can genuinely stop doing, and whether the decisions get any better.

Jennifer Mullen leads the Business Functions hiring team at Intuit: sales, marketing, finance, legal, compliance and HR, with a team across the US, the UK, Australia and Canada. She has been there eleven years. She was there before the company rebuilt itself around AI, right through it, and after. Most people change company to change job. She stayed still and the company changed around her.

Hung Lee and Oliver Vaage ask the questions most webinars skip. Not what the technology promises, but what she handed over first, whether it worked, and what she pulled back from.

In this episode:
  • What Intuit's hiring team actually handed over, and what came back

  • Where the time went when the admin went away, because it usually gets absorbed

  • Writing a job spec for a role that will not sit still

  • What happens when a hiring manager disagrees with the shortlist

  • Whether hiring outcomes have moved, or only the speed of getting there

  • Five years out: is the recruiter's job bigger, or smaller?

    For TA leaders and hiring teams. The Q&A is live only. Can't join us? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.

Speakers

Oliver Vaage

Chief Revenue Officer, Alva Labs

Oliver works with HR and TA leaders on modernising the hiring operating model, using AI responsibly, and moving recruiters away from admin toward strategic work. He co-hosts every episode of Hiring, Rebuilt, brings Alva's point of view into the conversation, and is happy to be told he is wrong.

Hung Lee

Curator

Hung Lee is the Editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood

He is an industry professional with over 20 years experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer, award winning recruitment tech founder and, and now Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood

Jennifer Mullen

Director, Talent Acquisition - Business Functions, Intuit

Jennifer leads hiring for Business Functions at Intuit, the company behind QuickBooks, Mailchimp, Credit Karma and TurboTax. That means everything outside engineering and product: sales, marketing, finance, legal, compliance and HR, with a team across the US, the UK, Australia and Canada. Before Intuit she was at Yahoo, Expedia and busuu. She has spent eleven years inside one company as it rebuilt itself around AI.