Apr 2024 – Jun 2024 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• Pleo is the spending solution for forward-thinking teams everywhere. Our smart company cards empower thousands of businesses across Europe

Mar 2024 – Jul 2024 · 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• We partner with tech companies and games studios to help them achieve their hiring goals. Since 2013, we've scaled teams for 100+ businesses in Europe and North America via our flexible, subscription-based or pay-as-you-go recruitment solutions 🌍

Sep 2023 – Nov 2023 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Oct 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• (FinTech cloud-native Payment Technology Platform providing core payments infrastructure for financially regulated businesses. Launched in 2016, they have gone from start-up to established scale-up at a rapid pace and are now regarded as one of the top FinTech companies in Europe. Rapid growth environment -when joined, employee count was around c. 170 and when I left it was close to 500.)
• Official Winners of "LinkedIn Best Talent Team 2021"
• I began my journey on the internal engineering recruitment team, tasked with fuelling the rapid growth of our engineering department.
• I led in-depth interviews, assessing candidates' expertise with cutting-edge technologies like GoLang, IaC, Kubernetes, Terraform, Microservices, AWS, GCP, CI/CD tools, TDD/BDD, and DevSecOps.
• I then took ownership of scaling our Product Team, building new squads from the ground up and expanding existing ones.
• Partnering closely with key stakeholders, including Heads of Product and the CPO, I helped craft innovative recruitment strategies for high-impact roles across the UK, Europe, and North America.
• I took full ownership of the recruitment process for critical positions (Senior Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Senior Product Manager, Technical Writer)—from initial role briefing and sourcing through to candidate evaluation and offer presentation.
• Weekly syncs with internal stakeholders kept the pipeline flowing smoothly, where I provided insights, updates, and tailored recommendations.
• I also spearheaded the management of our ATS (Greenhouse), ensuring seamless operations—from posting new roles and screening applications to organising later-stage interviews.

Aug 2020 – Oct 2020 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Turtle Tech Talent was born from the ashes of the Covid-19 crisis, yet like the turtle, they have designed the business to be resilient and to last.
• I was given the opportunity to be a part of the Special Acquistion Squad (S.A.S). A mixture of recruiters and talent acquisition specialists, who lost our jobs through no fault of our own due to Covid-19.

May 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• I joined talent's London office only 5 months after they launched in the UK, joining as a Talent Advocate alongside two others within this team.
• I quickly became an integral member of the team and was involved in discussions on how to move the company forward, beyond my core responsibilities as well as actively helping to recruit new team members. This can be a natural progression within an early startup and it's something I have really enjoyed and has allowed me to diversify my skills and experience.
• During my time here I have helped over 150 tech professionals find a new role via the platform and I have also been involved in taking on personal projects to scrutinise our own processes and then improve on them.
• Responsibilities:
• Qualifying candidates via signups to the platform
• The platform focussed on Tech professionals across the board including Software Engineers, DevOps and Product
• Initial screening calls to understand technical knowledge and background before making profiles live on the platform
• Mentoring candidates during their time on the platform and speaking with them on a weekly basis to understand how interviews were going and offer insight in to various processes
• Actively sourcing candidates mainly via LinkedIn Recruiter and then on boarding to the platform
• Attending external events as well as setting up our own to give more exposure to the brand and act as another avenue of sourcing candidates
• Staying proactive and open minded to alternative ways of sourcing candidates as well as offering the best experience to them in a very overcrowded recruitment market

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Established in 1992, Aspire specialise in the Digital, Media and Marketing Communications space. We have offices based in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Mar 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• ECOM are the UK's leading specialist recruiter for the digital marketplace and are now part of InterQuest Group plc.

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 · 8 mos · 9 Wootton Street, London, SE1 8TG

• Salt (and our APAC operation “Sodium”) is a specialist digital recruiter that represents everything that is innovative and emerging in the digital world. Be it ecommerce & customer insight, digital marketing, online advertising, web technologies or cloud, we truly understand the challenges and opportunities of digital.

Sep 2013 – Jul 2014 · 10 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Personnel-IT specialise in the recruitment of contract and permanent IT staff across all sectors.
• Responsible for researching candidates against specific client briefs across the IT spectrum from Software Developers to Project Managers. This is done in a telephone-based environment through understanding and identifying the relevant skill sets, face to face pre-interviews, qualifying a candidate’s level of experience and promoting clients’ opportunities.

Nov 2011 – Sep 2012 · 10 mos · Newton Abbot, Devon

• I specialised in recruiting highly capable Web Developers for various clients. Sourcing candidates with varying levels of Web development skills including HTML(5), CSS(3), JavaScript, JQuery and many more specialised technologies. I also communicated with creative individuals working on Web design, UX and UI design.

May 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Newton Abbot, Devon

• As a Candidate Research Executive at BlueGlue I specialised in sourcing high-calibre candidates for some of the most innovative companies in the UK.

Jan 2010 – May 2010 · 4 mos · Ashburton, Devon