Chris Waniala

Recruiter

London, England, United Kingdom15 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in connecting technical leaders with high-growth companies.
Proven track record of strategic placements in tech startups.
Co-founder of community initiatives for engineering leaders.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter specializing in SaaS and high-growth technology sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitmentStakeholder ManagementCommunity Building

Other Skills

Market MappingBusiness DevelopmentEvent ManagementMarketingAdvertising SalesDigital StrategyGrowth HackingProject ManagementBrand ManagementLogistics ManagementPresentation SkillsSocial MediaCommunicationStrategyDigital Media

About

I'm an Engineering Leadership Recruiter specialising in technical recruitment for both Early Stage & High-growth technology companies. I continue to build my career around one core mission: connecting exceptional technical leaders with companies poised for rapid scale. I've successfully placed CTOs, VPs/Directors of Engineering, Engineering Managers & Founding Engineers. Please feel free to get in touch: chris.waniala@fewandfar.io

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Few&far

2 roles

Senior Talent Consultant

Promoted

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Leading technical recruitment initiatives for VC-backed startups and scale-ups, specialising in C-level and senior engineering leadership placements.
Key Achievements:
Strategic Placements: Successfully placed senior tech leaders at Sierra (Series C), Granola (Series B), Ekorn, Playter, Comparison Tech; Henry Schein, StudySmarter (Series A), Minna Technologies (Series B), NeuroLabs (Series A) and more.
Business Development Excellence: Identified and nurtured relationships with VC firms resulting in new client partnerships and expanded market presence.
Community Leadership: Co-founded the "Engineering Manager Roundtable" event series; collaborated on "The Few" CTO, Co-Founder cohort.
Stakeholder Management: Partnered with Founders and C-level executives to define role requirements, create compelling job descriptions, and establish hiring processes aligned with strategic growth objectives.
Market Mapping: Conducted comprehensive competitive analysis and talent landscape research to inform hiring strategy and compensation benchmarking.
Notable Client Portfolio: Seed to Series B+ startups across fintech, healthtech, e-commerce, SaaS, and consumer technology sectors

Technical RecruitmentStakeholder ManagementMarket MappingBusiness Development

Talent Consultant - Engineering

Jun 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

At Few&Far, I help my clients across Europe attract the very best Software Engineering Leaders today that can surpass the technological milestones of tomorrow.
Please feel free to get in touch:
chris.waniala@fewandfar.io

Burns sheehan

Consultant

Feb 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

As a trusted advisor, Burns Sheehan offers specialist recruitment services to many of the country’s leading technology businesses.
Our team is expert in every aspect of recruitment, from sourcing the hard-to-find talent, to providing exceptional candidate care. We pride ourselves on building relationships, looking far beyond the transaction. Our reputation is our business.
With almost one hundred years of combined experience, our scope of knowledge in the tech industry is vast.
We’ve cultivated a strong reputation within the digital community through our consistent honesty and integrity.
We employ only the brightest minds that consistently apply imaginative, real-world thinking that translates into meaningful, pain-free results.
Our job is to listen to your needs, connect you with the right people and the best opportunities, and make the world a better place, one placement at a time.
We also happen to be lovely people to work with who are deeply embedded in the tech community.
If you’re thinking about your next move take a peek at our current vacancies here https://www.burnssheehan.co.uk/job-search-results/28/ and get in touch!

Zalando se

Talent Acquisition Partner - Elements

Oct 2017 – Jan 2018 · 3 mos

Elements talent solutions

Researcher

Aug 2017 – Jan 2018 · 5 mos

We are Elements, a hiring consultancy which helps high-growth tech orgs to build and resource a world-class hiring function.
Since 2009, we've helped some of the world’s leading technology companies to hire (and often relocate) some of the best tech, product, design & marketing talent in the world. Maybe more importantly, we have also helped them to establish a world-class candidate experience and hiring process.
Our intimate knowledge of international passive candidate markets, combined with resource-intensive search process dramatically reduces our partners’ time-to-hire - even on the most challenging roles.
And, where are partners are hiring at scale, our embedded model reduces their recruitment agency spend by roughly 50%.
Nice to meet you. Let us know if you’d like to chat.