Introducing Michael Offutt

We’re very proud to announce that Michael Offutt has joined the Riverside team as our Director of Talent Acquisition!

Michael has been working in talent acquisition and people operations for the past ten years, both in corporate and agency settings across North America. His work has helped hundreds of organizations build high-performing people and talent functions. As a talent and culture strategist, his primary goal is always to balance the needs of a business with the people that make that business work. At Riverside, our motto is Together, We Rise, and we truly believe that Michael’s presence will hone our team to make that motto a reality. 

Riverside has grown immensely over the past seven years, and we intend to continue reaching for the stars. Michael believes that, as an organization that’s ready to leap to the next level, a strong infrastructure for people operations and talent acquisition is critical to forge our way forward. He’s uniquely positioned to get us there, too—given his background and his passion for helping small businesses thrive, he has what it takes to help drive Riverside forward.

During his time with us, he hopes to build out an employee value proposition unlike any other within the merchant services industry. He plans to instill people-first business practices across the organization, and is focused on growth and retention—adding high caliber, superstar team members to the Riverside team, while building and growing the talent we have today.

When asked what he was most excited for, he replied: “I’m excited to partner and collaborate with business leaders across the organization to build the systems, processes, and tools required to become an employer of choice!”

CEO Brandon Skinner said: “Earlier this year Riverside completely overhauled its recruiting efforts. Over time we realized we had overcomplicated our recruiting process so we brought back Jeff Hill to help us get back to basics and get our recruiting back to where they needed to be. In working with Jeff we knew that we needed someone with extensive experience in the Talent Acquisition world to ensure that Riverside would be a place people would call home or view as a crew—to come to work and love and enjoy what they do. From the second we first spoke with Michael we knew he was the one! Both his breadth of knowledge and his pure excitement about Riverside and the position itself made it a no brainer. In just over a month, Michael has already staffed the department properly and has begun implementing new systems to ensure our success both short term and long term.”

We’re so excited to see what Michael will do with both our infrastructure and with what makes Riverside special—our people!

Fun Facts:

• Michael is a cat dad of two! His cats’ names are Meow Meow Kitty Bojangles and Sir Jean Thomas

• Michael is a gamer—his current favorites are Apex and Overwatch

• Michael is an ex-competitive dancer and musical theater performer

• Michael belts a mean karaoke!