Feb 2024 – Oct 2024 · 8 mos

• TA Manager for Bird.com. Scale-up Tech and AI hiring. Helped the business grow from 200 → 1000 employees.
• AI-powered Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Platform for Marketing, Customer Service, and Payments

Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Managing talent acquisition, recruitment operations, recruitment experience, sourcing, recruitment marketing, talent attraction and employer branding initiatives.

Oct 2021 – Aug 2022 · 10 mos

• Building the Global Recruitment Marketing & Talent Brand function from the ground up!
• Giving hiring managers and recruiters a competitive advantage to attract and hire the best talent globally 🌍

Sep 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Building Product, Design & Engineering teams at MessageBird.

Sep 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• Responsible for:
• Acting as lead recruiter in the Infrastructure recruitment team. Arranging weekly Kanban meetings, leading quarterly kick-off meetings, retrospectives, sourcing event and award ceremonies.
• Full-life Cycle Recruiting. Partnering with hiring team to build effective recruitment pipelines and processes.
• Build and maintain a network of passive candidates through continuous market mapping and sourcing strategies. Advise and train business on new sourcing tools and hacks.
• Maintain qualitative and quantitative data dashboards, report key insights to stakeholders, improve conversions and predict outcome.
• Increase the quality of hires and better candidate experience whilst reducing time to hire.
• Conducting in-depth phone and onsite interviews, advise and prepare candidates in quick timelines.
• Drive the offer process, including generating offer letters, negotiating offers, and closing candidates
• Recommend and implement new initiatives and strategies for more effective talent acquisition in line with the company mission and values.
• Onboard and mentor new members of the recruitment team.
• Organising department and interviewer calibration sessions (scorecards, feedback sessions, candidate experience, pipeline analysis).
• Organising and attending recruitment events and conferences: including Booking Meetup, Amsterdam Kubernetes meetup, Kubecon, Open Source Summit and SREcon.
• Speaker at Sourcing Summit London SOSU (June 2018)
• Keynote speaker at Talent Acquisition live TA-Live Amsterdam (September 2018)
• Speaker at Sourcing Summit Europe (October 2018)
• Skillset: Recruitment, Recruiter, Talent Acquisition, Headhunting

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Being a Panda.
• Managing and training a team of 2 direct reports.
• 360 degree recruitment: sourcing and new business development for multiple startups and multinational clients in the UK and abroad.
• Maintaining a high degree of best hiring practices and client management.
• Building active and passive candidate pipelines through innovative sourcing strategies and tools.
• Continuous use of data to improve quality of hires and reduce time to hire.
• Online & Offline community building, organising and attending events.
• Market mapping, insight and research.
• Improving candidate experiences and customer success management.

Jul 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• At Cranberry Panda managed Web Analytics, Conversion Rate Optimisation and Customer Insights recruitment.

Jan 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · 10 Linen Court, East London, London, N1 6AD

• Learning the art of recruitment.
• Full life-cycle recruiting and sourcing across various agency and inhouse Digital Marketing roles.
• New business development and client meetings.
• Building strong candidate relationships.
• Customer and client success management.
• Skillset: Recruitment, Recruiter, Headhunting

Apr 2012 – Feb 2013 · 10 mos · The world

• S2THEP LTD was a marketing agency built to strategically create links between clients and targeted music audiences.
• Offering a deep understanding of new media and product placement strategies. Represented brands and their products, providing budget support through audio/visual advertising.
• Brand endorsements, sponsorships and partnerships
• Brand Development
• Lead Generation and Business Development
• Social Media, PR and Brand Communications
• Web Analytics & Conversion Rate Optimisation

Mar 2011 – Jun 2011 · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• At EMI. I was given two specific projects:
• Market research and content writing for the OpenEMI educational document explaining the use of music licenses in the UK. This was published on the EMI website.
• To evaluate the monetary value of streaming sites like Spotify and Vevo. For this task, I ran A/B + MVT tests on the EMI Website using web optimisation tools to analyse results and report directly back to VP of Digital Projects.
• I also took part in the development of online 'Fan Reach' campaigns for online street teams.

Jan 2009 – Jul 2009 · 6 mos

Aug 2008 – Jan 2009 · 5 mos