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00:19:42Where to Connect with Cristina
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Hiring senior leaders on gut feel is a risk most companies cannot afford.
Cristina Navarro, Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Tubi, joins Shannon to discuss why traditional interview formats fail at the executive level and how her team built a structured leadership assessment to close that gap. She explains how the process was co-created with senior leadership, why prompt design matters, and how thorough prep on both sides of the table leads to better decisions.
Cristina also walks through how debrief structure protects against groupthink, how candidate feedback from the process informs onboarding strategy, and why the goal was never to add friction but to give everyone involved more confidence in one of the most consequential hiring decisions a company can make.
Key takeaways:
- Co-creation drives adoption: When senior leaders help build the assessment, buy-in follows naturally once results come in.
- Prompt design is the foundation: A role-specific, well-scoped prompt is what separates a meaningful assessment from a generic exercise.
- Debrief order changes outcomes: Hearing from the most senior voices last protects the room from influence bias before a final decision is made.
- Recruiting data shapes onboarding: Themes that surface during the assessment can directly inform how a new executive is set up from day one.
Timestamps:
(00:43) Meet Cristina Navarro
(02:08) Why executive hiring carries more risk than any other level
(03:49) What Tubi does differently in senior leader hiring
(05:20) How the leadership assessment was built and who was involved
(07:14) Preparing both candidates and interviewers for the assessment
(10:25) Why no new faces in the room is an intentional design choice
(11:42) How debriefs are structured to reach a confident hiring decision
(12:55) What candidates say after going through the process
(15:37) Plans to expand the assessment beyond VP-level roles
(17:07) Using recruiting findings to inform executive onboarding
(19:25) Where to connect with Cristina
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