Natalie Maslen

CEO

United Kingdom13 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in hiring top sales talent for tech companies.
Led successful talent acquisition teams across EMEA.
Proven track record in strategic recruitment for SaaS.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Talent Acquisition Leader with expertise in recruiting for high-growth tech companies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionSales Recruitment

Other Skills

API Market DisruptionTeam LeadershipHeadhuntingRecruitingSourcingExecutive SearchContract RecruitmentHuman ResourcesRecruitment AdvertisingConsultingPermanent PlacementTemporary StaffingGraduate RecruitmentMedical DevicesEngineering

About

I've been in talent for a good many years now and couldn't imagine doing anything else. It's easy to forget the impact that getting a new/the right job has on someones life and I feel very grateful that I get to be a part of that :)

Experience

13 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Kong inc.

3 roles

Director, Global Sales Talent

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos · England, United Kingdom

Head of EMEA & APJ Sales Talent

Mar 2025 – Oct 2025 · 7 mos · England, United Kingdom

Principal Talent Lead | Sales

Jul 2024 – Feb 2025 · 7 mos · England, United Kingdom

Kong creates open source software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle.
Kong is disrupting the extremely fast-growing API market, helping companies best leverage micro service/API architectures as they look to transform into digital enterprises to compete in today's economy.
We have raised $170M from Tiger Global Managementet, Index Ventures, a16z, GGV, CRV, Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt
Kong has more than tripled its valuation in the last few years, and has now reached Unicorn status with a $1,4 billion valuation. Kong has also crossed the $100m ARR gate while remaining growing at 40% YoY.
I’m looking to hire the best sales talent to learn, earn and have fun while doing it!

Talent AcquisitionSales RecruitmentAPI Market Disruption

Confluent

5 roles

Director of GTM Talent | EMEA/APJ & Global Strategy

Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos

Director of Talent | EMEA & Global Projects

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Manager, Talent | EMEA

Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr

I led an incredible team of TA professionals who played a huge part in building a phenomenal company and hiring the best talent across EMEA.
Founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® and backed by Benchmark, Index Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Confluent pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. We are the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen and we’ve only just begun. Be a pioneer. Transform the world through data. Confluent.io/careers
Cloud 100 List, Forbes: 2017, 2018, 2019
Top Startups, LinkedIn: 2019
50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies to Work For, Battery Ventures: 2019
Employees' Choice Awards - Top CEO, Glassdoor

Team LeadershipTalent Acquisition

Manager, Talent | EMEA

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Lead Recruiter

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos

Bmc software

Senior Sales Recruiter - EMEA

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs · Winnersh, Berkshire

I was a Headhunter within BMC recruiting across EMEA. When not searching for the best software sales talent in the market I developed strong relationships across multiple business units whilst collaborating with VP's, Directors and Managers to provide strategic guidance with regards to their recruitment needs.
BMC Software is the IT game-changer. Global Businesses rely on BMC Software to transform their Cloud, Mainframe, Virtual and Mobile IT services. BMC Software innovates, and secures extraordinary business performance at reduced risk. And our people are the catalyst to make this happen.

Alexander mann solutions

Lead Recruitment Business Partner

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

Working onsite in London with Royal Mail for their contract recruitment. I also worked with HSBC, Vodafone Ireland and Post Office

HeadhuntingSales Recruitment

Medical engineers - medical device recruitment

Executive Search | Medical Engineers

Apr 2012 – Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Based in the South of England & covering opportunities across the globe

Medical Engineers are a Retained Search firm who specialises in placing engineers within the medical device development market. Working on an exclusive basis with high caliber candidates and businesses, they pride themselves on forging long term, professional business partnerships based on honesty, integrity and trust.
Working with professionals who are: Bioengineers, Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineers, Project Engineers, Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Technicians, Engineering Team Leaders and Managers up to Director level
Industries we work within: Medical devices, orthopaedic development, pharmaceutical