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Nick Smith

Recruiter

Doncaster, England, United Kingdom16 yrs 4 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 14 years of experience in Talent Acquisition across multiple industries.
  • Expert in technical recruiting for engineers and developers.
  • Proven success in building effective hiring strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the Tech and Games industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Other Skills

Machine LearningAICandidate ManagementStakeholder ManagementTalent SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionTalent PipeliningData AnalysisApplicant Tracking Systems360 RecruitmentAgile RecruitmentRecruitment ToolsFull-life Cycle RecruitingEmployer BrandingEmployment Consulting

About

A tech and games enthusiast with over 14 years’ experience in Talent Acquisition, covering multiple industries including Semiconductors, Media and FinTech. Hiring has predominantly been on technical roles; engineers and developers across domains such as hardware, software, research, AI and mobile, product all from graduate to executive level, along with supporting the occasional corporate role e.g. finance, project management, HR. Talent projects have included early careers (e.g. graduate hiring strategy, careers fairs, university collaboration), process mapping and improvement, market mapping, data and insights, ATS management and generating TA collateral.

Experience

16 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Fin

Talent Partner (via Elements)

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos · Remote

  • Hiring Machine Learning Scientists for Fin's AI Group to help build new features for Fin, the #1 AI agent for Customer Service
Machine LearningAITechnical RecruitingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Codasip

2 roles

Talent Partner (via Elements)

Jan 2025Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Codasip is focused on innovative processor solutions, taking pride in designing and developing cutting-edge, high-performance, and energy-efficient CPU cores from scratch, and their own automated proprietary tools to fully customize them.
  • They give customers a unique competitive advantage by empowering their system-on-chip developers to build the most innovative products.
  • Apply now: https://codasip.com/company/careers/

Talent Partner (via Elements)

Apr 2023Aug 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Hiring Engineers (Embedded Software, Compilers, Kernel), Sales Engineering, Technical Product, Technical Project, Documentation, Quality, Finance:
  • 26 offers and 23 hires (88% conversion) across 10 different domains (mostly technical) and 5 different countries (predominantly UK, Czechia and Germany)
  • 85% of candidates in pipelines sourced with 12 offers being sourced (46%)
  • On average over 49% response rate on reach outs with over 47% of those being positive
  • Created talent dashboards covering offers/hires, pipeline breakdowns and stage conversions, candidate TTH and source of hire - including user guides to increase understanding of the data
  • Impactful talent mapping for niche roles helping us understand the target market and facilitate collaborative discussions around expectations and essential/desirable skills for candidates
  • Created lasting hiring guidance documents for over 10 domains
  • Creation of a hiring manager guide that covers use of the ATS, effective job adverts, kick-off/discovery meetings and conducting interviews
  • Ran info/training sessions on offers, candidate experience, scorecards and talent data
Candidate ManagementStakeholder ManagementGlobal Talent AcquisitionTalent SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionTalent Pipelining+12

Spotify

Talent Partner (via Elements)

May 2022Jan 2023 · 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Owning end-to-end TA pipeline for Spotify's Freemium Mobile Squads, collaborating with multiple hiring managers across EMEA and the US, successfully offering to 19 (mainly iOS) engineers and hiring 16 (acceptance rate 84%) across ~5 months of hiring uptime.
  • Some diversity hiring required, resulting in 3 sourced diversity hires. Also supported other consultants by sourcing Data and AI Engineers.
  • Owned the data gathering, presentation creation and delivery of Q3 and Q4 2022 retrospectives, feeding back to senior consultants on team performance including key metrics, successes and challenges.
  • Delivered and supported on other data pieces such as; data on hiring sources, along with the gathering and structuring of base data, to create a wrapped presentation for 2022 mobile engineer hiring.
  • Tackled a number of Hiring Manager challenges around offers and packages, suitable levelling and diversity.
Candidate ManagementTalent SourcingGlobal Talent AcquisitionTalent PipeliningTechnical RecruitingStakeholder Management+10

Wayflyer

Talent Partner - Technology (via Elements)

Nov 2021Apr 2022 · 5 mos · County Dublin, Ireland · Remote

  • Initially supported sourcing for Engineering, but pivoted into Product Design (new domain) due to lack of support. Offered to 11 designers, hiring 7 (acceptance rate 64%). Supported Marketing in final month, building the pipeline and securing 1 hire.
  • Worked with Head of Design, establishing changes to interview process and sourcing criteria utilising market and pipeline data.
Candidate ManagementStakeholder ManagementGlobal Talent AcquisitionTalent SourcingTalent PipeliningPre-screening+11

Elements talent consultancy

Talent Partner

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Talent Partner at Elements, the pioneers of Embedded Talent Consultancy.
  • We built the model around our very first embedded partners: Spotify and Atlassian. We knew that the traditional, transactional dynamic of the hiring world served neither party well. So we created something entirely different.
  • Focusing on the transformative impact of effective collaboration, we work alongside our partners as trusted consultants. Advising from the inside, our people go deeper, inspiring truly meaningful change.
  • Over the last 10 years, we’ve worked with brands like iZettle, Booking.com, King & Just Eat. For each partner, we’ve built a bespoke team of embedded consultants, capable of advising right across their talent functions.
  • Embedded is the future, and we’re its leaders.
Candidate ManagementStakeholder ManagementGlobal Talent AcquisitionTalent SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionTalent Pipelining+13

Imagination technologies

5 roles

Talent Acquisition Partner

Promoted

Apr 2017Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Full Lifecycle TA; briefing, sourcing, screening, assessments/interviews, pre-close and offer negotiation. Supervised a TA specialist, managed their inventory of roles and ensured they understood the role/search and could deliver on candidates. (Hired over 300 candidates across all my Talent Partner/Recruiter positions.)
  • Stakeholder management including sprint plans, talent strategy, market mapping, role changes and levelling, running workshops/retrospectives and utilising data where necessary to influence change.
  • Delivered on a variety of projects such as documenting the UK Visa process, mapping and improving the offer process, careers site branding and graduate collateral, TA collateral and a host of internal and external presentations.
  • 3 years owning the Graduate Programme; 80-100 events per year, of which 30+ were attendance at careers fairs. This also included placements and school level events and hires, as well as the management of the headcount and budget.
  • Created and delivered weekly/monthly HR and TA live/static reports looking at metrics such as offers/hires, pipeline breakdown, TTH/TTF, source, headcount, starters/leavers and attrition. Stakeholders were C-suite down to team level.
  • ATS Superuser owning all direct changes and issues as well as managing the relationship and projects with our ATS vendor.
Candidate ManagementStakeholder ManagementGlobal Talent AcquisitionTalent SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionTalent Pipelining+17

Senior Internal Recruiter

Apr 2016Mar 2017 · 11 mos

Internal Recruiter and Graduate Programme Officer

Apr 2015Mar 2016 · 11 mos

Internal Recruiter and Graduate Programme Coordinator

Jun 2012Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Recruitment Administrator

Nov 2010May 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

General motors manufacturing in luton

HR Advisor (Annual Placement)

Jul 2007Jul 2008 · 1 yr · Luton, United Kingdom

Education

Loughborough University

2.2 BSc (Hons)

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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