Marlena Guadagno

Head of Talent

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led recruitment for 300+ tech hires annually.
  • Managed teams across multiple countries.
  • Expert in talent acquisition and recruitment strategy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader with expertise in global recruitment strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment ManagementRecruitment StrategyExecutive SearchTeam LeadershipMarket Research

Other Skills

ChineseEnglishForeign LanguagesFrenchHuman ResourcesIntercultural CommunicationInternational BusinessInterviewsItalianManagementMandarinMicrosoft OfficeMusic TheoryProcess ImprovementRecruiting

Experience

13 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 4 mos
Current Experience

Fluence

Head of Talent Acquisition, EMEA

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Miro

2 roles

Head of Engineering Recruitment

Mar 2023Jan 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Leading Miro's global Engineering recruitment team. Managing a team of 3 Recruitment Managers and 15 Recruiters/ Sourcers (post downsizing) spread across three locations: Amsterdam, Berlin and Yerevan.
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Senior Manager, Recruitment

Feb 2021Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Leading Miro's Engineering recruitment team in Amsterdam. Hiring 200+ Engineers per year (hyper growth). Team size: up to 25 (FTEs and RPOs), hired from scratch
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Booking.com

3 roles

Global Talent Acquisition Manager

Promoted

Nov 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Leading recruitment for the Core Product business unit. Team size: up to 22 (FTEs and RPOs) spread across Europe, China and Israel.
  • Create and deliver on recruitment strategy to make 300+ Tech and Product hires per year
  • Manage, train and coach Recruitment team of up to 22 members
  • Manage RPO recruitment strategy and RPO team on-site and remotely
  • Partner with senior stakeholders (VP and SVP level)
  • Create and deliver TA strategy for the Tel Aviv Machine Learning centre
  • Lead process improvement projects with the objective of improving the global E2E Hiring Process
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Strategy

Recruitment Team Lead

Feb 2017Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Leading global Engineering Recruitment including Tech & Product of the China R&D centre in Shanghai. Team size: 6-20+ (Recruiters, Sourcers, RCs) spread across Europe and China
  • Drive recruitment strategy and lead teams of varied sizes (from 6 to 20+)
  • Deliver on global Engineering hiring targets of 70 hires per Quarter
  • Grew the Tech & Product org in Shanghai from 40 to 120 people in 1 year
  • Partner with senior stakeholders in the different key areas for recruitment initiatives
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Senior Tech Recruiter

Oct 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Support, train and mentor more junior members of the wider recruitment team
  • Involved in high impact initiatives such as the interview training of 700+ interviewers across the organization
  • Manage recruiting and sourcing strategies. Initiating creative sourcing activities such as meet-ups, Hackathons, interview days, employee referrals etc.
  • High volume recruitment within the hyper-growth phase of our organisation
  • Working closely with hiring managers and interviewers to keep alignment in the interview processes and roles expectations
  • Working in a very fast paced and dynamic environment where dealing with change and ambiguity is a must
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Loftus bradford

Executive Search Consultant

Mar 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

  • Executive Search Consultant serving clients in EMEA, India, APAC and the Americas by attracting top diverse talents in General Management, Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain. Specialized in filling global senior positions for multinational clients in the FMCG / consumer goods field.
Executive SearchTalent Acquisition

Amaris

Senior Recruiter

Jan 2013Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Shanghai & Barcelona

  • Amaris is an International Consulting Group in Technologies and Management. It was created in Geneva in 2007 and it quickly expanded with its over 40 offices worldwide.
  • Oversee Recruitment activity
  • Prepare and deliver trainings for new Recruiters joining the company
  • Distribute the work and the different daily tasks among the Shanghai Recruitment team
  • Act as a lead for the Shanghai team, making sure that every member of the team is reaching the monthly and weekly objectives, solving internal problems and reporting directly to the Country Manager based in Europe
  • Participate in projects related to the use of new social networks, new job-boards, improve the cooperation between the European and Chinese branches, give new ideas for the development of the brend new chinese platform
Recruitment ManagementTeam Leadership

Solidiance

Market Research

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Shanghai City, China

  • Solidiance is a marketing strategy consulting firm.
  • Market research for the drafting of a white paper around the development of Sustainable Buildings in China. The purpose of the paper was to provide online visitors with high level and up to date information on the market.
Market Research

Education

University of Leeds

Master's degree — Chinese and Business (Leeds Business School)

Jan 2011Jan 2012

Beijing Language and Culture University

Intensive Chinese Course — Chinese Language

Jan 2011Jan 2011

University of Leeds

Erasmus Year Abroad

Jan 2009Jan 2010

University of Perugia

Bachelor's degree — Foreign Languages for Management

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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