Amit Phakey

CEO

Datchet, England, United Kingdom16 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scaling talent acquisition for tech companies.
  • Proven track record of increasing hiring rates significantly.
  • Strong leadership in managing diverse recruitment teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader in the Tech industry with expertise in scaling recruitment processes.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTeam LeadershipRecruitmentTechnical RecruitingSourcing

Other Skills

Project ManagementTeam ManagementCandidate ManagementClient ManagementInfrastructureBusiness IntelligenceMobile ApplicationsContract RecruitmentRecruitment AdvertisingPermanent PlacementExecutive SearchIT RecruitmentBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentScreening Resumes

About

Enabling high growth tech companies to scale through building highly productive TA orgs & strategies

Experience

16 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Superbet

Global Talent Acquisition Director

May 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Managed hiring for 3 of the 4 areas of the business (Tech, Product & Commercial) in EMEA & LATAM across the Superbet group (inc Happening, Lucky7 & Napoleon)
  • Built & scaled new offices & engineering hubs in Madrid & Amsterdam
  • Grew, trained & managed the TA team, streamlined hiring processes & increased hiring YoY from ~20pm to ~70pm
Talent AcquisitionTeam LeadershipProject Management

Deel

Global Talent Acquisition Manager (Engineering, Product & Data)

Jul 2023 – Apr 2024 · 9 mos · Windsor, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Led the EMEA Talent Acquisition Team focussed on hiring for Engineering, Product & Data roles across EMEA & LATAM
  • Hired 40+ positions per month (from Mid level to Snr Directors)
  • Responsible for 100+ global vacancies including…
  • Software Engineers (BE, FE, FS & TL)
  • Senior Product Managers
  • Senior Product Designers
  • Senior Product Operations Managers
  • Senior Data Analysts
Talent AcquisitionRecruitmentTeam Leadership

Meta

4 roles

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager (ML & Spec Leadership)

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Managed 3 globally dispersed teams of 40+ Technical Recruiters & Sourcers hiring for the following roles into London, Paris, Zurich, TLV & Singapore…
  • Software Engineering Managers
  • Machine Learning Managers
  • Computer Vision Managers
  • AI Managers
  • AR / VR / Graphics Managers
  • Research Managers
  • Data Science Managers
  • Data Engineering Managers
  • Product Design / Growth Managers
  • Senior Software Engineers
Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingTeam Management

Talent Acquisition Lead (Machine Learning)

Sep 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • - Led a team of Sourcers & Recruiters hiring for the best Machine Learning & AI Engineers & Managers
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment

Technical Recruiter (Engineering & Machine Learning)

Promoted

Mar 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Hired ML & AI Engineers into FAIR, Ads Ranking & Security teams
  • Managed the candidate process inc intial outreach, interview prep & offer negotiation
  • Partnered with Hiring Managers
  • Mentored team members
  • Interviewed potential Recruiters / Sourcers for Meta, London
Technical RecruitingCandidate Management

Technical Sourcer (Engineering)

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr

  • - Sourced for the best Software Engineers
SourcingRecruitment

Google

Technical Sourcer (Engineering)

Oct 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Victoria, London

  • Sourced online to find the best candidates worldwide for positions such as Software Engineers, Front End Engineers & Technical Client Facing Engineers
  • Sourced for niche technical skills in EMEA, APAC & the US
  • Developed various sourcing methods utilising LinkedIn, Open Source & Social Media
SourcingRecruitment

Parallel consulting

IT Recruitment Consultant

Jun 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Recruited for clients within Finance, Banking, Betting, E-Commerce, Media, Telecoms, Consultancy, Travel, Software etc
  • Recruited contract & permanent candidates for Software Engineering, Infrastructure & BI
  • Client & Key Stakeholder Management
  • Contract & Permanent offer negotiations
RecruitmentClient Management

Synarbor plc.

Recruitment Consultant

Sep 2009 – Jun 2010 · 9 mos

Education

Royal Holloway, University of London

BA (Hons) — Human Geography

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007

Brunel University of London

MSc Management — Business Management

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008

Hampton School

Jan 1989 – Jan 2004

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