Glauco Leal

Recruiter

Stockholm, Sweden10 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 1000 hires in 11+ years.
  • Led recruitment teams to top performance consistently.
  • Global experience in talent acquisition and project management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR Tech professional with extensive experience in global talent acquisition and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitmentTeam LeadershipProject Management

Other Skills

Data GovernanceEmployer BrandingInternal CommunicationsSourcingTechnical RecruitmentStrategic PlanningLeadershipTeam BuildingCompetitive IntelligenceTalent IntelligenceAnalytical SkillsSocial MediaCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Nonprofit OrganizationsNon-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

About

Started my career in Latin America. Scaled across EMEA. Trained teams in China and South Korea. Coached leaders across Europe. Coordinated distributed talent functions across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. Managed global and highly complex technical projects. 11+ years. 1000+ hires. From operator to strategic partner. Bias for action. Systems thinker. Global by design. NOTE FOR AGENCIES: I’m not exploring external collaborations at the moment.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Lovable

Recruiter

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos · Stockholm · On-site

  • 🔸 Building teams across Security Engineering, Sales, and People
  • 🔹 Previously hired for Finance roles

H&m group

2 roles

Tech TA Lead, Product - EMEA

Promoted

Jul 2023Jul 2025 · 2 yrs · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Hybrid

  • 🔸 Built and led a recruitment team of 5 individuals from the ground up, while hosting agile ceremonies, monthly O2O, goal setting, etc. In less than a year, the team was constantly a top performer, ranking #1 among other tech teams consistently
  • 🔹 80+ team hires in 2023, 120+ team hires in 2024 (for roles such as Head of Product, Delivery & Roll Out Lead, Product Manager, Program Manager, Design Operations, SCRUM Master, UI Designer, UX Writer, Business Analyst, Commercial, etc), ranging from Mid to Head of level across EMEA
  • 🔸 Drove global talent acquisition process revamp and data governance initiatives to enhance business efficiency and insights.
  • 🔹 Built essential resources and conducted training sessions on sourcing and process adoption for a global audience of stakeholders and the wider TA community.
  • 🔸 Took part in global employer branding projects (videos, global campaigns) and drove data hygiene initiatives to maintain brand integrity and data accuracy.
RecruitmentTeam LeadershipProject ManagementData GovernanceEmployer Branding

Senior Tech TA Partner

Mar 2023Jul 2023 · 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Hybrid

  • 🔸 Led a recruitment team of 6 individuals for two functions simultaneously (Core Platforms and Engineering & Architecture), while hosting agile ceremonies
  • 🔹 Recruited across different Core Platforms and Engineering & Architecture positions, with 20+ team hires ranging from Mid to Managerial level across EMEA
  • 🔸 Designed and implemented a new team tracking system, establishing routines and spreadsheets that significantly improved accountability and were successfully adopted by other teams in the organization.
RecruitmentTeam LeadershipProject Management

Mollie

Talent Acquisition Business Partner - Tech

Sep 2022Mar 2023 · 6 mos · Lisbon, Portugal

  • 🔸 Recruiting Mid, Senior, and Engineering Managers for Backend (JAVA, PHP, Node.js) and Frontend (React, React Native, Vue.js) positions.
  • 🔹 Overhauled sourcing tools and channels, salary bands, interview materials, etc.
  • 🔸 Leading recruitment end-to-end in Portugal.
RecruitmentSourcingTechnical Recruitment

Klarna

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist - Tech

Dec 2021Jun 2022 · 6 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

  • 🔸 Partnered with Business Leaders (Head of Recruitment, Head of Engineering) to own end-to-end recruitment of both high volume and niche roles (average of 80% offer to acceptance, 30 days process time).
  • 🔹 Recruited more than 30 profiles across Junior, Senior, Leads, and Heads, for pipelines like Data Engineering, Python, JAVA, Security Engineers, JavaScript (Node, React, Angular, TypeScript, etc), Scala, Pascal, Go, Erlang, DevOps, Cloud
  • 🔸 Final responsible for the recruitment in Germany (Berlin, Mannheim, Gießen), Portugal, Italy, Spain (Madrid, Barcelona), and ad-hoc recruitment for Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenburg), and Canada.
  • 🔹 Projects/initiatives led: Salary benchmark research for Tech Recruiters both internally and externally, leading to internal discussions and reviews of salary bands, an initiative for DE&I to focus sourcing efforts on more diverse pipelines, backgrounds, etc and trained co-workers in sourcing, for both diverse and non-diverse profiles, tech and non-tech.
RecruitmentProject ManagementStrategic Planning

Damia group portugal

IT Recruiter

Oct 2021Nov 2021 · 1 mo · Lisbon, Portugal

  • Sourcing and interviewing for technical roles such as Full Stack Developer, Engineering Manager, and Delivery Manager, while hiring for the following stacks: JAVA, Node, React, Angular, DevOps, TypeScript, and AWS.
RecruitmentSourcingStrategic Planning

Adecco

Recruiter

Aug 2021Sep 2021 · 1 mo · Lisbon, Portugal

  • Active recruitment and sourcing of French, English, and Portuguese Customer Support Representatives for companies such as Apple, Nike, Booking, and Bolt (average of 76% offer to acceptance rate, 14 days process time).
RecruitmentSourcingStrategic Planning

Dhl

2 roles

HR Tech Ops

Jan 2021Aug 2021 · 7 mos · Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

  • 🔸 Spearhead the deployment of a brand new CMS and Global Career Website, which unified 5 business units under the same umbrella, rose page views by 67%, and increased the applicant number by 20% in comparison to the same period of the previous year (2020).
  • 🔹 Implement, track and manage content and solutions via Phenom People, JIRA, and Confluence, which enabled the team to deploy the new Global Career Website in under 4 months, under a very complex architecture, which interconnected 7 ATS and 2 CRMs.
RecruitmentSourcingStrategic Planning

Employee Experience

Aug 2020Dec 2020 · 4 mos · Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

  • 🔸 Conducted interviews with several employees and externals, while collecting and interpreting data to analyze the engagement, responsivity, and overall perception to build a long-term HR engagement plan.
  • 🔹 Managed a team of 4, while implementing project management tools, project brand, routine, governance, and reporting cadency between the team and the vice-presidency of the company.
Project ManagementInternal CommunicationsLeadership

Ucb

2 roles

PMO for Global Talent Acquisition

Nov 2019Aug 2020 · 9 mos

  • 🔸 Led a team of 5 people to track and assisted them in their domains (employer branding, talent platforms, entry-level recruitment, global recruitment - APAC, EMEA, America’s focus) and managed communication directly with the HR VP and more than 100 recruiters across the globe.
  • 🔹 Implemented project management foundation, agile methodology, kanban board, project charters, RAID log, etc for Belgium and North American teams.
Project ManagementTeam BuildingLeadership

Talent Analytics and Technology Analyst

Aug 2019Nov 2019 · 3 mos

  • 🔸 Performed several system tests and user access management (RBP) tasks on SAP SuccessFactors to ensure the company was giving the right access level to the employees and had no security flaw that could be exploited due to bugs or malfunctions while working closely with the HR IT department.
  • 🔹 Support for the annual compensation review process.
  • 🔸 Technical and processual documentation.
Project ManagementTeam BuildingRecruitment

Panama embassy

Human Resources Intern

Mar 2016Oct 2016 · 7 mos · Santos

  • Recruited and onboarded 10 new employees, while being responsible for managing and issuing VISAs for more than 200 employees, and daily/weekly communication between the embassy and the Panamanian government.
Project ManagementTeam BuildingRecruitment

Aiesec

Head of Talent Acquisition

Mar 2013Jul 2019 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Multiple Locations

  • 🔸 Led the recruitment strategy of 11 offices in Hungary, while delivering yearly plans, business strategy, organizational development, and career paths, leading to a boost in performance and over 60% of revenue growth, more than 500 hires (tech and non-tech, direct and RPO), and an 82% retention rate
  • 🔹 Delivered conferences and workshops across Europe and Asia (China and South Korea)
  • 🔸 Regional coach for 16 offices across Europe
  • 🔹 Designed and delivered L&D HR plan and content for offices across 120 countries and territories.
  • 🔸 Built both the Organizational & Coach development models to sustain the growth of its upcoming years
  • Other roles performed throughout the years:
  • Senior TA Director - Malta - May 17 - Jun' 18
  • TA Director - Brazil (physical) & Portugal (remote) - Jan’ 16 - Dec’ 16
  • Branch Manager - Brazil - Jan’ 15 - Dec’ 15
  • Recruiter - Brazil - Mar’ 14 - Dec’ 14
  • Jr. Recruiter - Brazil - Sep‘ 13 - Feb’ 14
  • HR Coordinator - Brazil - Mar’ 13 - Aug’ 13
Strategic PlanningInternal Communications

Freelance

Web Developer

Jan 2008Dec 2012 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Brazil

  • Built websites from scratch using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on the Front, and PHP, and MySQL on the Back. WordPress and Joomla were the CMS of choice. My portfolio is available on request.
RecruitmentSourcing

Education

Universidade Católica de Santos

Bachelor's degree — International Relations and Affairs

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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