Matt Spiers

Recruiter

London, England, United Kingdom7 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in recruiting across diverse sectors including Tech and GTM.
  • Proven track record of hiring top talent in fast-paced environments.
  • Strong focus on diversity and inclusion in recruitment processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in Tech and AdTech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingPeople ManagementStakeholder EngagementInterviewing

Other Skills

Corporate RecruitingStrategic SourcingSenior Stakeholder ManagementGreenhouse SoftwareExecutive SearchAttraction StrategiesNegotiationApplicant Tracking SystemsLine ManagementRelationship DevelopmentEquality & DiversityCandidate ExperienceHuman Resources (HR)Business RequirementsCreative Problem Solving

About

Experienced Talent Partner/Recruiter with a strong background hiring across the UK, Europe and US for positions within Software Engineering, Product and Data Analytics & Engineering, as well as Marketing, Design, Account Management and Sales. History of working in fast-paced (lets be honest, sometimes chaotic) environments as part of large and small People and Recruitment teams. 75/25 split between Tech/GTM throughout career so far. Broad experience hiring within AI & Research (xAI), The Trade Desk (Global AdTech), SuperAwesome (AdTech, Gaming), Abel & Cole (Sustainable, organic food delivery B Corp), Flexport (a silicon-valley-founded tech logistics platform), Miro (a hyper-growth B2B SaaS company) as well as large Enterprise businesses (EDF Energy, Three UK), E-Commerce (Rockar Digital) and Pharma (Alliance Pharmaceuticals).

Experience

7 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
4 mos
Current Experience

Xai

Member of Recruiting Team

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Helping xAI scale with world-class Technical talent in London

The trade desk

2 roles

Recruiter - Client Services

Nov 2025Jan 2026 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Made the decision to leave TTD after only 10 months after being approached by xAI. Great company and even better people.
  • Supporting The Trade Desk’s growth in EMEA hiring within Client Services (Programmatic Trading and Account Management).
Corporate RecruitingRecruiting

Recruiter - R&D/Tech

Apr 2025Dec 2025 · 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Supporting The Trade Desk’s growth in EMEA hiring within Platform Support, Business Intelligence, IT Support, Infrastructure and Engineering.
  • The Trade Desk powers the most sophisticated buyers in advertising technology. We were founded by the pioneers of real-time bidding, and we’ve become the fastest growing demand-side platform (DSP) in the industry by offering agencies, aggregators and their advertisers best-in-class technology to manage display, social, video and television advertising campaigns.
Technical RecruitingStrategic SourcingSenior Stakeholder ManagementGreenhouse Software

Superawesome

Recruitment Lead

Nov 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Following SuperAwesome's divestiture from Epic Games, I joined to help lead global Talent & Recruitment efforts, as part of a small People team, rebuilding the recruiting infrastructure. Reported directly to the Chief People Officer. Hired 40+ people including Leadership, GTM (Sales & AM, Programmatic/Trading), Engineering, AI and Product, in SF, Chicago, New York, London, Romania & Portugal.
  • SuperAwesome’s technology is used by hundreds of brands and content-owners to safely engage with over 500M young people from Gen Alpha and Gen Z every month. The company's DNA of privacy, curation, and moderation helps keep Gen Alpha safe online, and enables brands to connect with Gen Z’s values of privacy, inclusive communities, and authentic content.
Technical RecruitingExecutive SearchAttraction StrategiesNegotiationApplicant Tracking SystemsCorporate Recruiting+1

Abel & cole

Recruitment Lead

May 2023Oct 2023 · 5 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Led the recruitment efforts for Project Strawberry - A website re-platform project where extra headcount was required. Hired a variety of roles across Development, DevOps, UI/UX, Testing, Product, Marketing and Customer Services. Over the time with them hired and onboarded 20 people, improving processes and optimising onboarding.
  • Abel & Cole is the sustainable online grocer, delivering excellent quality, fresh food to switched on households since 1988.
Equality & DiversityCandidate ExperienceHuman Resources (HR)RecruitingBusiness RequirementsCreative Problem Solving+6

Flexport

Principal Tech Recruiter (Software Engineering)

Oct 2022Mar 2023 · 5 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

  • Joined Flexport to take pressure off the internal team and provide hiring support across Engineering. This involved a key Engineering manager hire, Software Engineer hires of varying levels, roll-out of new tools including GEM and supporting the roll-out of a new hiring process to increase the volume of candidates through the SWE process.
  • 🚀 We believe trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global trade easy for everyone.
  • Flexport is building the platform for global logistics—empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services to grow and innovate.
  • Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $10B worth of merchandise across 112 countries every year.
Candidate ExperienceStakeholder EngagementCreative Problem SolvingClosing CandidatesTracking SystemsNegotiation+5

Troi

2 roles

Talent Squad Lead

Promoted

Apr 2022Apr 2025 · 3 yrs

  • Clients included SuperAwesome for 18 months, Abel & Cole for 6 months, Flexport for 6 months and Miro for 18 months.
  • Maintaining responsibilities of an embedded Talent Acquisition Manager whilst managing a small team.
  • Full-cycle recruiting. - Leadership hiring. - ATS Implementations. - Recruitment Analytics. - DE&I. - Employer Branding. - Process Improvement.
  • Troi are your in-house talent partner on a monthly subscription. Startup, Scaleup or Enterprise? We tailor the right solution for you.
  • Troi own the full recruitment lifecycle, it’s not just about bums on seats. We live inside your organisation and tackle the world of hiring together. We know things can change quickly – we’re fast, flexible and adapt to your needs. We’ve been doing this for a while now and know that not only will our subscription model save you time and money, it’s just simply more effective.
People ManagementStakeholder EngagementLine ManagementRelationship Development

Talent Acquisition Manager

Apr 2021Apr 2022 · 1 yr

  • Partnering with Startups and Scaleups as a Technical Recruiter.
  • Full-time embedded in Miro as a Talent Acquisition Manager, hiring within Growth Analytics, Marketing Analytics & Product Analytics.
Stakeholder EngagementRelationship Development

Miro

Tech Recruiter - Data Analytics

Apr 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

  • Initially a 6 month contract embedded via Troi, multiple extensions meant I was with Miro closer to 18 months.
  • Talent Partner specialising in all things Data Analytics (Growth, Product, Marketing, People & Sales) recruitment in Amsterdam (and some US). Miro was in hyper-growth from 700>1800 whilst I was with them.
  • Miro have built a platform for modern work, enabling collocated, distributed, and remote teams to communicate and collaborate across formats, tools, channels, and time zones — without the constraints of physical location, meeting space, and whiteboards.
  • Partnered closely with Gabor Kiss & Misha Advena, among others, to hire:
  • Head of Marketing Analytics
  • Growth Marketing Analysts
  • Marketing Analytics Managers
  • Growth Analysts
  • Growth Analytics Managers
  • Growth Analytics Team Leads (& 'Head of')
  • Analytics Ops Manager
Candidate ExperienceStakeholder EngagementCreative Problem SolvingClosing CandidatesTracking SystemsNegotiation+5

Ntrinsic consulting

2 roles

Software Development Recruitment Consultant

Jan 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Primarily supporting key clients with hiring across Software Development & Engineering, as well as the Data space, whilst driving Business Development across key markets.
  • Supported EDF Energy, Smart DCC, Three UK, Alliance Pharmaceuticals, Harper Collins & Racing Post.
Candidate ExperienceInterviewing

Recruitment Consultant

Mar 2019Jan 2020 · 10 mos

  • Ntrinsic is a Technology recruitment agency (£30mn turnover ) with offices in London and Brussels servicing the UK and European markets. Part of the Nikkei-listed, Outsourcing Inc (OSI) group ($2bn turnover).
  • Role was focused on hiring:
  • CIO/CTO/CDO
  • Head of Infrastructure / Applications / Architecture / Development / Implementation
  • Change and transformation – Head of PMO / Programme Director / Project Director / IT Director /
  • Director of Technology
  • Head of Data / Science / Engineering & Application Engineers
  • Mixed ERP roles across SAP / Dynamics 365 / AX
Interviewing

University of surrey

UK/EU Student Recruitment Officer

Jun 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Guildford, England, United Kingdom

  • With a focus on school's liaison, my target was to promote the University of Surrey at Higher Education events primarily in the UK, as well as assisting with EU trips. My role was responsible for building strong relationships with high performing schools and colleges, on the telephone, via email and in person. The key aim from this was to increase student applications to the university.
  • A main area of my role was to confidently deliver a large number of presentations to groups of young people and parents on a variety of HE related topics, such as Student Finance.
  • Additionally, I assisted for 3 months processing Agent applications through our Agent portal for students from Greece and Cyprus - requiring a great deal of accuracy and responsibility.
  • Surrey UCAS fair, I assisted with the planning, organisation and management on the day - with over 8500 students in attendance. In 2018 I have attended over 80 events, with many being the large-scale UCAS fairs. These include Belfast, Bristol, Sussex, Sheffield, Exeter, London (Central and West), Norfolk, Suffolk and Hampshire.

Education

University of Surrey

Bachelor of Science - BSc

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