Background
Talent Acquisition Manager
Jessica Vogel is a Talent Acquisition Manager at The Well. She brings more than 14 years of full-desk recruiting experience, specializing in administrative, finance and legal talent, with a particular focus on financial services and RIAs. She joined The Well in October 2026 so she could, in her words, do what she loves for a very focused group of people.
Jessica earned a BA in Business Administration from Dordt University, where she discovered her interest in the people side of business. She began her career as an internship coordinator for the trades at a Boston tech school before spending 14 years as a recruiter and senior consultant at Grant-Shannon Staffing, a small Minneapolis agency. There, she worked the full desk: winning clients, sourcing and screening candidates, and seeing every placement through. At that agency she made more than 265 placements and billed over $2.2 million personally, reaching $1 million in sales by 2020, owning every part of a search in a firm that never had more than six people.
Jessica has built her career around relationships, thoughtful matchmaking and helping candidates and clients find the right fit for long-term success. She believes every role at an RIA is critical, so she has no favorite position to fill. Instead, she thrives when given the latitude to bring creative consulting and intuitive matchmaking to a search. At The Well, she connects qualified candidates with clients she takes the time to know deeply, using active listening, discernment and strong follow-through. Her searches include financial and wealth advisors, client service roles, a portfolio manager, a tax director and a chief compliance officer.
One compliance search shows how quickly the right introduction can move. An independent RIA near Madison, Wisconsin, needed a chief compliance and operations leader, ideally from the Midwest. Jessica's strongest candidate lived in Phoenix. She re-screened him, confirmed his readiness to work remotely and travel regularly to the office, and presented him as the only candidate. The firm interviewed him within a week, made an offer, and he accepted 12 days after the search opened.
In another search, Jessica introduced a Client Services & Growth Coordinator to a Minneapolis consulting and coaching firm. The hiring manager initially passed because the candidate's resume did not match the expected profile. Jessica advocated for the candidate, encouraging the client to give her a chance. The candidate progressed quickly, excelled in her personality assessment and became one of the firm's strongest hires. The client later thanked Jessica for trusting her intuition and pushing past the initial hesitation.
Jessica grew up outside Chicago and lived in Boston and Minneapolis before her family moved to 40 acres on a river in the country. They can canoe into town, and her daughters ride horses.