Sophie Hadfield

Recruiter

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands10 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

Led core business hiring across EMEA at Uber.
Extensive experience in executive search and talent acquisition.
Proven track record in hiring for high-growth tech companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in high-growth tech and executive recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementTechnical HiringLeadership RecruitmentExecutive HiringTeam LeadershipTechnical RecruitmentExecutive RecruitmentExecutive Search

Other Skills

Internal RecruitmentInternational RecruitmentEnd-to-end hiringTechnology RecruitmentCandidate ExperiencePeople ManagementDiversity SourcingCorporate RecruitingExecutive PlacementsMarket MappingRetained SearchTime ManagementRelationship BuildingSkilled Multi-taskerPresentations

About

Hiring for core business roles across EMEA at Uber! 🚀 Check out our careers page: https://jobs.uber.com/en/ I first joined Uber to focus on tech hiring and, as our business has scaled at incredible speed, I’ve since transitioned to lead core business hiring across EMEA, an exciting shift fueled by the strong growth and momentum on the commercial side of Uber. 🌍 Today, Uber powers 38 million trips every day across 15,000 cities in 70 countries, generating $187B in annualized gross bookings, with Q2 2025 revenue up 18% year-over-year! Before joining Uber, I spent several years at Meta as a Leadership Recruiter, leading end-to-end hiring for technical leaders and people managers across areas including Monetization, Family of Apps, Reality Labs, AI, Central Products, Privacy, Integrity, Security, and Infrastructure. Earlier in my career, I supported strategic leadership hiring at Deliveroo, FREENOW, WorldRemit and Heidrick & Struggles Executive Search, experiences that strengthened my passion for connecting exceptional talent with impactful opportunities.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs

Current Experience

Uber

2 roles

Senior Talent Advisor, Core Business

Promoted

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

End-to-end business-critical hiring across EMEA for Uber, covering key markets including Egypt, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Germany, Romania, Portugal, France, Poland, The Czech Republic, The United Kingdom and The Netherlands.
Driving full-cycle recruitment by balancing internal mobility and external talent acquisition, while partnering cross-functionally with HR, Finance and Hiring Managers to align hiring strategies with evolving business priorities.

Internal RecruitmentInternational RecruitmentStakeholder ManagementEnd-to-end hiringTalent Acquisition

Senior Technical Recruiter

May 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Hired tech roles at Uber, spanning mid-level to leadership positions, including both people managers and individual contributors. Working across areas including Compute, Networking, Observability, Developer Tools and Michelangelo Studio (Uber's AI model training and inferencing platform).
At Uber, we are ambitious, engaged and excited about transforming the way the world moves. Our teams are passionate about developing technologies that advance Uber’s mission of bringing safe, reliable transportation to everyone, everywhere. Join us to move yourself—and the world—forward. Uber is currently offering opportunities for engineers to work on some of the most exciting projects in the industry.
Get in touch or check out our career page here: https://www.uber.com/us/en/careers/

Technology RecruitmentTechnical Hiring

Freenow

Principal Talent Acquisition Partner @ BEAT (part of the FREENOW Group)

Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Executive, leadership & senior IC hiring at FREENOW (formerly Beat). Independently led executive hires including the Chief Product Officer, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Total Rewards.

Executive SearchCandidate ExperienceExecutive Hiring

Deliveroo

2 roles

Recruiting Lead

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

Led a team of two recruiters and one sourcer to build out a new tech hub in Edinburgh with the goal to grow the team from 10 to 70 in 2020.
Worked across Deliveroo’s tech leadership team on developing Edinburgh’s headcount strategy and identified quarterly hiring targets for the Edinburgh recruitment team to support rapid growth in Q1.

People ManagementEnd-to-end hiringTeam Leadership

Technical Recruiter, Engineering Leadership

Nov 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Sourced and hired engineering leaders across all the Deliveroo tech teams. Hires included VP level engineering leadership and engineering management.
From December 2019, shifted focus to work with tech leadership on researching whether Deliveroo should build out a tech hub in Edinburgh, following Deliveroo’s acquisition of Cultivate.

Diversity SourcingTechnical hiringTechnical Recruitment

Worldremit

Executive Search

Sep 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Responsible for all leadership recruiting at WorldRemit. End-to-end hires included the head of product
design and the VP of engineering.

Executive hiringCorporate RecruitingExecutive SearchExecutive PlacementsInternal RecruitmentLeadership Recruitment

Leathwaite

Associate, Global CIO / COO

Mar 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

Member of the CIO/ COO and legal practices. Hired senior executives across EMEA and worked directly with clients such as Morgan Stanley, Citadel, Barclays and HSBC.

Executive SearchMarket MappingExecutive Recruitment

Heidrick & struggles

3 roles

Associate, Consumer & Retail

Feb 2016 – Mar 2016 · 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

Part of the consumer, retail and leisure & hospitality team. Supported partners on senior
executive assignments.

Executive PlacementsRetained SearchExecutive Search

Associate, Global Technology & Professional Services

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Oct 2015 · 6 mos · Sydney, Australia

End-to-end hires covered the full search lifecycle: From BD tasks which grew the client base to
client briefings, candidate sourcing, interviewing, ongoing meetings and final placements.

Executive SearchCandidate ExperienceExecutive Recruitment