Nadia Vatalidis (she/her/hers)

CEO

Johannesburg, South Africa22 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Expert in scaling remote-first organizations globally.
Led successful IPOs for industry-leading tech companies.
Passionate about building self-enabled cultures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS HR leader with extensive experience in global talent management.

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Skills

Core Skills

People ManagementTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

Learning & DevelopmentLeadership DevelopmentTotal RewardsEmployee RelationsScaling People OperationsVendor ManagementP&L ManagementTrainingExecutive DevelopmentExecutive ManagementHeadcount planningCareer CounselingPerformance ImprovementPublic SpeakingBrand Ambassadorship

About

As Head of People at Doist, the creators of the world's #1 Task Management App, I oversee people strategy and culture for a 100+ person team distributed across 35+ countries, supporting 45 million users worldwide. With over a decade of experience scaling remote-first organizations, I've enjoyed being part of multiple industry-leading Tech SaaS global companies grow from dozens to thousands of employees. My expertise spans remote-first organizational design, international expansion, and building self-enabled cultures in distributed environments. I've thoroughly enjoyed scaling global teams - growing Remote.com from 70 to 1000 employees in 80+ countries and GitLab from 75 to 1,300 employees in more than 60 countries, culminating in their successful IPO. When I'm not working, I'm hiking with the fam, trying out new plant based recipes, lifting weights, chasing Frenchies around the garden, reading, running or taking my Specialized Gravel bike or Scott Spark 910 29'er for a spin! 🚴🏼‍♀️

Experience

22 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Doist

Head of People

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote · Remote

Working alongside the amazing fully remote team behind the world's #1 task management app: https://app.todoist.com/app/
Interested in our roles? Please apply directly via our careers page: https://doist.com/careers
This role gives me the opportunity to work on all things people and culture, the core of my responsibilities are spread across the following:
Talent Acquisition
Learning & Development
Leadership Development
Total Rewards, including building a public Perks Calculator
Stock Options and currently working on a buy-back program
All aspects of Employee Relations
Scaling People Operations and Experience
Vendor Management for the People Team
P&L for all things People

Talent AcquisitionLearning & DevelopmentLeadership DevelopmentTotal RewardsEmployee RelationsScaling People Operations+3

Camunda

Interim Director, Talent Acquisition

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Johannesburg Metropolitan Area · Remote

Testgorilla

Head of People & Culture

Feb 2023 – Jan 2024 · 11 mos · Remote · Remote

TrainingPeople Management

Remote

2 roles

VP of People

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Executive DevelopmentExecutive ManagementHeadcount planningLeadership DevelopmentCareer CounselingPerformance Improvement+5

Director of People

Dec 2020 – Sep 2021 · 9 mos

Learn more about Remote in our public handbook 📖 🌐 : https://www.notion.so/remotecom/handbook-a3439c6ccaac4d5f8c7515c357345c11

Executive DevelopmentHeadcount planningPeople Management

Gitlab inc.

4 roles

Senior Manager, People Operations

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Nov 2020 · 9 mos · Remote

Manager, People Operations

Promoted

Jun 2019 – Feb 2020 · 8 mos · Remote

People Operations Generalist

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · Remote

Global Recruiter

Oct 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote

This way up group

Fractional HR, Executive Search and Coaching

Mar 2017 – Oct 2017 · 7 mos · Remote

I took a small break from GitLab to take a care-giver role in our family and did some fractional work in my mornings and evenings.

This way up group

Founder II Fractional People & Culture, Executive Search & Executive Coaching

Oct 2005 – Sep 2016 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Remote

This was a start-up that originated from a small executive search firm into supporting international companies with all aspects of Human Resources, Employee Relations, Learning & Development, Outplacement Services, Talent Acquisition and Executive Coaching needs. I was fortunate enough to support organizations remotely across the Unites States, Italy, Ukraine, Poland and South Africa. This also involved a full P&L responsibility as well as managing a female only team of 10 highly ambitious women, whilst delivering a world class service for local and international clients.
Originally, This Way Up Group was known as Brighthouse Consulting and rebranded in 2012. Concurrently, I ran a small National Biometric Agency called Ecocheck Verification Systems.

Global Talent AcquisitionStrategic Human Resource PlanningHR ConsultingExecutive CoachingEmployee WellnessEmployee Relations+3