 Dan Matthews

Recruiter

Germany7 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Tripled team size at Linearity.
Achieved 100% offer acceptance rate.
Implemented data-driven hiring processes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in SaaS and high-growth startups.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionData-driven RecruitmentTeam BuildingProcess Improvement

Other Skills

Strategic Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingCommunicationExecutive SearchTalent IntelligenceAdvanced SourcingMarket MappingCordX-rayOttaGitHubLinkedIn RecruiterNotionCandidate ExperienceSoftware Development

About

Candidate Experience Advocate | Talent Leader | Scaling High-Impact Teams in Startups & Tech I'm passionate about delivering world-class candidate experiences and using data to improve hiring processes, eliminate bottlenecks, and build scalable recruitment strategies. Currently laying the foundations of all things talent at Ordio GmbH, an innovative startup redefining the Deskless workforce space. Currently, hiring across AI Engineering, Backend, Frontend, Product Management, and Sales 🚀, helping shape a product-led, people-first culture from the ground up. Previously, I tripled the team at Linearity, an award-winning vector graphic design software company 🎨, where I owned both people operations and all hiring of business-critical roles across Engineering, Design, and Marketing. Before moving into the startup space in 2022, I partnered with Klarna during a high-growth phase in Stockholm, scaling engineering teams hiring across Senior, Lead, Principal, and Staff Engineers, as well as Engineering Managers 👨‍💻👩‍💻, to help build Klarna’s highly scalable global payments platform. I am a huge advocate for: 🛠️ Continuous process improvement 📊 Building data-driven hiring systems/processes 🤝 Designing top tier candidate centric hiring processes 📘 Learning how great products (and teams) are built from the inside out Outside work, I’m a gym enthusiast 🏋️, Chelsea FC fan ⚽, recruitment stats nerd 📈, proud dad 👶🏻👧 and yes, Ms. Rachel is an honorary team member in our household 😂.

Experience

Ordio

2 roles

Talent Acquisition Lead - Hiring Software Engineers 🚀

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Germany · Remote

Principal Recruiter - Engineering/GTM

Jul 2024 – Apr 2025 · 9 mos · Germany · Remote

Freelance via Linearity:
Scope: Supported hiring for high-priority roles to build out the product and marketing functions during a pivotal growth stage.
Key Contributions:
👨‍💻 Hired critical talent: VP of Marketing, 2 Frontend Engineers, and a Senior Backend Engineer—contributing directly to product development across web and mobile.
🤝 Strategic partnership with founders: Defined hiring requirements, co-designed interview processes and assessments, and established core hiring foundations.
🧠 Process innovation:
Introduced weekly hiring syncs and pipeline reviews to improve collaboration and decision-making
Optimized inbound funnels to increase applicant quality and reduce screening time
📊 Data-driven hiring: Delivered weekly hiring metrics to highlight funnel performance, transparency, and areas for improvement.
🚀 Results:
💯 100% offer acceptance rate
🧲 Source-of-hire: 50% sourced / 50% inbound
🧙 Time-to-offer reduced by 50% in 2025
⏱ Time-to-fill reduced by 33% in 2025

Strategic Talent AcquisitionData-driven RecruitmentProcess ImprovementTalent Acquisition

Linearity

2 roles

Principal Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Specialist

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr · Berlin, Germany · Remote

Officially promoted to Principal Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Specialist leading all hiring efforts, improvement and optimisation projects and collaborating with the leadership team in building the world's next best marketing design software platform🚀
🚀 Grew Linearity single handedly from 40 to 90 people with the leadership team

Strategic Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionTeam Building

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

Linearity is a software company whose products are designed to breathe new life into the design process and provide innovative ways of visualizing ideas. Founded in 2017 by then-17-year-old founder Vladimir Danila, Linearity's product lineup includes vector and motion design tools like Linearity Curve and Linearity Move, tailored for both marketing professionals and enthusiasts. We've been recognized as one of Europes Top B2B rising 100 "Soonicorns" by Sifted.
Responsibilities:
📊 Tracking data/metrics/conversions to improve funnel metrics & Interview processes
🗣 Managing all candidates through the full interview process (sourcing, engaging, interview prep, scheduling, offers, salary recommendations, offer acceptance)
🤝 Collaborating with C-Suite, Engineering Managers & Leadership teams to optimize and create successful & streamlined hiring processes
🏆 Leading all hiring across the business ranging from Engineering, Management, CS, Marketing, Design, QA & Growth
Achievements / Improvement Projects:
👨‍💻 Successfully built out 2 high performing backend/web engineering teams
⌛ Reduced time to offer/hire from 30/35 days to 25/20 days
🕧 Reduced time to fill from 70 days to 54 days in engineering
📉 Implemented data driven hiring approach to improve hiring funnels/pipelines
📈 Increased offer/acceptance from 80% to 100%
⚡ Quickest time to offer in engineering is 9 days
👋 Increased Referral hires from 25% in 2022 to 44% in 2023 by leveraging Workable referrals
🧙‍♂️ Lead & owned ATS migration from Recruitee > Workable levelling up recruitment efforts / metrics
📄 Drove the initiative of our Public Notion page for transparency
🥇 Supporting People related initiatives

Data-driven RecruitmentCommunicationTalent AcquisitionProcess Improvement

Klarna

Senior Talent Partner - Engineering via Scede

Mar 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Scede supporting Klarna with their engineering hiring.
Relocating Fullstack Software Engineers from India, Latin America & Asia to Stockholm to support Klarna building their resilient backend microservices.
Role included:
🙋🏻‍♂️ Handled full lifecycle recruitment from sourcing, engaging, interviewing, interviewing scheduling to delivering offers and drafting offer contracts
🥇 Weekly syncs with stakeholders and engineering team to highlight blockers, areas for improvements and discuss hiring pipelines across level 2, 3 & 4 engineers (Mid, Senior / Lead/EM's)
📈 Internally led improvement projects using funnel individual and teams conversions improve pass rate at each stage and increase productivity
Tools: Notion, Lever, Slack, AmazingHiring, Linkedin Recruiter, Talent Insights, X-Ray Searches, Github, Stackshare.io

Third republic

DevOps, Cloud Platforms Recruitment Consultant

Mar 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs · London, United Kingdom

The recruitment market is changing.
Accessing talent needed for Digital Technology Transformation is becoming more difficult
It is becoming harder to identify people, harder to engage people and harder to stand out
Companies are engaging legacy PSL’s using outdated methods with increasingly poor results
Third Republic - solving your recruitment challenges for leading and emerging Digital Technologies.
Providing you with specialist recruitment solutions for best of breed Digital Technologies:
Salesforce
Workday & SuccessFactors
ServiceNow
Cloud Platforms
DevOps
Strategy & Architecture
Big Data technologies
“Your strategic recruitment partner for Digital Technology Transformation"

Oscar

Consultant | Infrastructure & DevOps

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

I recruit contractor IT support and Infrastructure staff for Public & Private sector companies. These positions include -
Infrastructure Support Managers
DevOps & Infrastructure Engineers
O365/Azure Architects
VMWare Specialists
3rd Line Support Engineers
Cisco Engineers