Founded and operate a fractional TA consultancy, partnering with tech startups and scale-ups to design, build, and optimise their talent functions. - Source and fill niche roles across functions and levels - from individual contributors to executive hires, delivering full-cycle recruitment with the quality and rigour of an embedded recruitment partner. - Build and optimise end-to-end recruitment frameworks, ATS integrations, and EVP positioning for early- stage and scaling organisations. - Drive TA capability building, process optimisation, and employer branding. - Serving as Talent & Growth Board Advisor at The Connect, an innovative creator-first platform, building the advisory team, designing the people and talent function roadmap, and architecting end-to-end hiring processes, including assessment frameworks and EVP.

Strategic TA delivery for Microsoft’s Customer & Partner Solutions (MCAPS) commercial sales organisation across EMEA, while supporting a major enterprise ATS and career systems migration. - Consistently exceeded a target of 5 hires per month throughout the duration of the contract, maintaining a strong and active delivery pipeline. - Pivoted seamlessly from Tech & Product to Commercial Sales recruitment, demonstrating cross- functional versatility. - Achieved a 96%+ offer acceptance rate, reflecting exceptional candidate relationship management and closing capability. - Contributed to Microsoft’s global ATS and career systems migration, coaching hiring managers through technology transitions and supporting process redesign across the enterprise. - Leveraged data and market intelligence to advise hiring managers and business leaders on TA strategy and talent gap implications. - Proactively embedded Microsoft Copilot and AI tools across the entire recruitment lifecycle - from sourcing and research through to candidate engagement and offer management - driving productivity and speed without sacrificing quality or the human-led approach that defines candidate experience.

Led all people operations and talent acquisition for a rapidly scaling remote-first tech company with 25,000+ global customers. - Built and managed a 17-person global function spanning Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, Culture, and HR. - Reduced time-to-fill from 65 to 40 days for critical technical positions through process redesign and sourcing innovation. - Achieved 78% direct sourcing success rate, reducing agency expenditure by 45% - Increased female engineering hires by 30% through targeted pipeline diversification initiatives. - Elevated team performance by 38% through structured coaching, development programmes, and operational improvements.

Spearheaded global TA strategy during SumUp’s hypergrowth phase, scaling the function from the ground up across multiple markets. - Built and led a high-performing team of 23 recruiters and employer branding specialists across Germany, Bulgaria, and the USA. - Delivered 200+ technical hires while maintaining an 89% offer acceptance rate. - Reduced time-to-fill by 37% through the implementation and optimisation of Greenhouse ATS. - Increased engineering offer acceptance rates by 22% through improved candidate experience and EVP articulation. - Organised 8 technical community events, directly yielding 25+ quality engineering hires.

Held progressive technical recruitment leadership roles across three of Europe’s most prominent tech companies. - Built Meta’s first European engineering hub, maintaining an 85% closing rate on senior engineering offers. - Led EMEA technical recruitment at Yahoo covering ML, data science, mobile, and engineering; developed and launched Yahoo London’s CS Graduate Programme. - Managed Zalando’s PayCo unit recruitment, directly hiring 47 senior engineers across backend, SRE, and data engineering disciplines. - Consistently maintained 90%+ hiring manager satisfaction scores across all three organisations.

Gained extensive full life-cycle recruitment experience across corporate, agency, and contract environments, specialising in technical roles across financial services, defence, and technology sectors.

Google Project Management

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2025 - 2025

Credential ID: H7NWQDMI5DV0