Riona Lavin

Associate Partner

United Kingdom13 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led GTM talent at a pioneering SaaS company.
Achieved top performance in EMEA sales recruitment.
Recognized for building high-talent-density teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment leader with a focus on GTM talent acquisition.

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Core Skills

RecruitingTalent AcquisitionSales RecruitmentAccount Management

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentSalesManagementExecutive SearchInterviewsSales ProcessSearchSales ManagementGraduate RecruitmentNetworkingDirect SalesPermanent PlacementIT RecruitmentExecutive Sales RecruitmentInternal Sales

About

My journey with Atlan started long before I officially became an Atlanian 💙 After a decade recruiting for VC-backed SaaS startups, I came across a team solving a legacy data problem they’d lived themselves. Over six months of partnering on their early GTM build, something rare became clear: this wasn’t just another product. It was a mission, with a team to match. I joined as the first GTM talent hire and haven’t looked back 🚀 What pulled me in wasn’t just the vision. It was the culture. Low ego. High trust. A group of people who genuinely have each other’s backs, and show up with energy and purpose every day. Today, I lead GTM talent at Atlan — helping to build a high-bar, talent-dense team of exceptional individuals who will shape our next chapter. Curious? Let’s chat 👋

Experience

Atlan

2 roles

Director, GTM Talent

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · United Kingdom

I lead GTM Talent at Atlan and a team of exceptional Talent Partners committed to one thing: bar-raising hiring.
We partner with Sales, Marketing, CS, Partnerships, and RevOps to build a high-talent-density GTM org.
If you’re a builder who wants to do the best work of your career with a team who truly cares, I’d love to meet you!

RecruitingBusiness DevelopmentSalesManagementTalent Acquisition

Talent Partner, GTM

Oct 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · United Kingdom

Atlan is a modern control plane that brings order to the chaos of fragmented data infrastructure—cataloging, enriching, and securing data so teams can actually use it with confidence.
💡 The challenge? Data practitioners spend 30-50% of their time just searching for and understanding data. Atlan helps cut that down by 95%, so teams can spend less time hunting for data and more time making an impact.
We’re lucky to be backed by investors like Insight, Sequoia, and Waterbridge, and even prouder to be trusted by the founders & CEOs of Snowflake, Looker, Stitch, DataRobot, and more—the very people who shaped the modern data stack.
Some milestones we’re celebrating along the way:
🏆 Leader on the Forrester Wave (Enterprise Data Catalogs, Q3 2024)
✨ Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for D&A Governance
The best part? We’re just getting started!

RecruitingSalesExecutive SearchManagementTalent AcquisitionSales Recruitment

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2 roles

Associate Director

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

FY 21/22 - President's Club
145% target - £430k perm billings on exit (50% split = total revenues £800k+)
Top Performer in EMEA
#2 performance globally

RecruitingSalesAccount ManagementSales Recruitment

Principal Consultant

May 2012 – Aug 2021 · 9 yrs 3 mos

FY20/21 - 205% - £440k perm billings (50% split = total revenues £850k+)
Top Performer in EMEA, #2 performance globally
FY20/21 - President's Club
FY18/19 - President's Club
Company record holder for highest individual billings in a single month in 2021 - £128,300 (Sept 2021)

RecruitingSalesManagementSales RecruitmentAccount Management