Sep 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Heading up the Global Tech Recruiting division at Bolt including Engineering, Product, Data & Hardware. Directly managing the Souring & Recruiting leadership team and recursively managing a high performing Talent Acquisition team
• Bolt is the first European mobility super-app. We are fighting for better cities and against private cars, offering a better alternative to every purpose a private car serves – including ride-hailing, shared cars and scooters, and food and grocery delivery.

May 2017 – Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Since initially joining Facebook as a Recruiter, my growth journey was significant, quickly progressing into leading the London analytics recruiting team to managing the International recruiting function for Data Science and related pipelines with a team that spans EMEA (London, Dublin, Zurich, Tel Aviv + remote) and APAC (Hyderabad and Singapore) Directly managing 3 managers and a recursive team of 35+ Recruiters and Sourcers.
• Leading comprehensive top-down vision and recruitment strategy. Managing a distributed team of recruiting & sourcing professionals to execute against robust hiring targets.
• Collaborating with key business stakeholders to understand future growth and drive inclusive
• and scalable strategies to deliver the growth.
• Leveraging data to drive operational efficiency and amplify operational excellence to drive rapid growth.
• Defining the overall recruiting performance goals across the team and driving diversity hiring strategy and significantly impacting DEI results across the team and organisation

May 2014 – May 2017 · 3 yrs · London, United Kingdom

• I had the opportunity to work broadly across Microsoft Engineering, owning Product and Program Management recruitment across Europe. This enabled me to understand how and why we build the next generation of products and services including Azure, Bing, MSN, Nokia, Office, Skype, Windows, Xbox and Yammer.
• I worked across all areas of new product innovation including; machine learning with Bing Search Relevance, natural language processing for O365 and big data technologies with Skype's huge user base! I was also fortunate to partner with various countries across Europe which helped me to learn about local markets and gain compete insight as well as local employment laws and processes.
• As well as managing the end to end recruitment lifecycle and focussing on stakeholder management, I also continued to build upon my passion and skills for talent sourcing, building valuable networks across PM

Sep 2013 – May 2014 · 8 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Skype is a truly global communication services provider, developing innovative technology that allows millions of individuals to
• As a Talent Sourcer I was responsible for identifying, sourcing and networking with active and passive candidates to attract and hire exceptional talent to join Skype. Using techniques such as; X-Ray, Flip and Boolean searches and the use of social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Stackoverflow, Github, Meet-Up and Blogs to successfully source technical candidates.
• My primary focus was on Software Engineering and Product Management within the London technology space,

Jul 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Watford, England, United Kingdom

• Camelot operates 4 of the UK’s top 10 FMCG brands and runs one of the world's most cost-efficient lotteries. In addition to its UK presence, Camelot offers consultancy to lottery operators around the globe.
• Working with Camelot Strategic Solutions to recruit all roles for a rapidly growing Software Engineering and QA team.
• I played an integral role in hiring the team that were responsible for building the biggest eCommerce platform in the UK. This is a highly skilled team of Software Engineers, SDET’s, Product Managers and QA’s.
• Ownership of souring of candidates through building an extensive network and in-depth knowledge of the market.
• Designing the assessment & selection process (resulting in average time per hire improving from 140 days to 30 days).
• Building Camelot’s employer brand as a Technologist through the sponsorship of events i.e. XP Day 2012, hosting several CodeRetreats, meetups etc.

Aug 2011 – Jul 2012 · 11 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Working in a fast paced, high growth startup; Thunderhead.com provides powerful SaaS solutions for customer engagement across all touchpoints.
• As the only Recruiter, I developed and executed a hiring strategy taking ownership for all recruitment across the company globally
• Generating innovative ways to attract, select and on-board candidates.
• Developed Employer Value Proposition and launched via social media
• Successfully built and developed a global sourcing strategy for all regions
• Implemented new careers site & worked with Marketing to drive click through rate, resulting in 39% increase in direct applications
• Reduced average time to hire from 4 months to 40 days. Reduced cost of hire by 50%

Jun 2007 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Watford, Hertfordshire

• Partnering with business managers to make strategic hiring decisions across Operations, Commercial, Finance and Business Transformation departments.
• Recruiting all senior level positions from Operations Manager through to Executive Directors within the UK and EU.
• Partnering with HR and Talent Management on TUPE transfers, company restructuring and designing and implementing Development Centers to identify training needs and skills gaps.
• Train, guide and coach business managers on hiring trends and recruiting tools including the running of assessment centres and the interpretation of psychometric evaluations.

Dec 2004 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Sovereign Business Resources specialise in IT Recruitment for a variety of sectors. Providing permanent, contract and interim staff on a contingency and retained basis.
• This full lifecycle recruitment consultancy role focused on Technical recruiting into the London Insurance and Reinsurance market

May 2003 – Nov 2003 · 6 mos

• Based in the Head office of this large global Recruitment Agency, this position allowed me to gain a positive insight into the recruitment market and gain knowledge of commercial sector