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London, Gb

London, England, Gb

Leading the growth of Checkout.com’s global Engineering and Product teams, I’ve built a high-performing talent function that aligns with our company’s rapid scale. I partner with executive leadership (CPO, CTO, VPs, Directors) to shape our recruitment strategy and drive key hiring initiatives.Key achievements:Strategic Leadership: Designed and implemented a centralized global interview process and assessment framework, ensuring scalable, effective hiring processes across Tech and Product.Team Development: Built shadowing programs and delivered interview training to hundreds of employees, enhancing our hiring managers' ability to identify world-class talent.Process Improvements: Led engineering-wide retrospectives on our hiring processes, driving continuous enhancements to attract top-tier talent.Data-Driven Decision Making: Improved our use of recruitment data, providing actionable insights to the CPO, CTO, and leadership team, directly informing workforce planning.Executive-Level Engagement: Regularly present hiring insights and strategies to executives, ensuring alignment with our business objectives.Agile Talent Function: Launched the first dedicated Product & Design Talent function, improving time-to-hire, offer acceptance rates, and diversity metrics.I’m passionate about leading efficient, inclusive recruitment processes that support long-term growth and innovation.

London, England, Gb

Talent Acquisition Lead for the Games Technology Unit, Corporate, and Commerical Divisions at Improbable, leading a team of experienced recruiters partnering with our Core Technology (Software Engineering, Games Engineering, Solutions Engineering) Product, Corporate and Commercial teams, across the UK, US, Canada, and Germany. Ensuring delivery against hiring strategies to revolutionize the way we and our customers build games and simulations.Taking a lead in developing sustainable talent acquisition and hiring plans and strategies, performing analysis of hiring needs through understanding workforce planning and ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery against these needs across the Games Technology Unit.Playing a key role in anticipating the organisation's future roadmap and working with Executives, Directors and senior leadership across the organisation to advise on recruiting tactics, furthermore ensuring the team delivers against these tactics, helping to sustain the company’s success.Partnering with the broader talent acquisition team for shared use of tools and resources to ensure successful delivery of objectives. Responsible for designing, planning and executing selection processes looking to identify bottlenecks in the recruiting processes and improve our overall talent architecture.

London, England, Gb

Managing a team of 4 technical recruiters and sourcing specialists. Leading a team responsible for recruiting across multiple technical disciplines covering Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Business Intelligence, QA. Data Science, and Digital & Business Transformation acting as the main point of contact for all Financial clients. Frequently included in the top 10 highest performing consultants within the business across the UK and Ireland while leading and growing a high performing team.

London, England, Gb

Principle Recruitment Consultant working with multiple financial institutions to support them with their talent acquisition. Areas covered; Software & Infrastructure Engineering, Data Engineering, Project & Programme Management, Digital Transformation, Quality Assurance.

London, England, Gb

Senior Consultant specialising in the recruitment of Software and Data Engineers within the financial services industry

London, England, Gb

A recruitment consultant working with a number of high profile financial institutions primary focused on Data and Software/Infrastructure engineering.

Munich, De

Part of the team responsible for the Marketing & Events activity for the BMW and MINI Lifestyle product group.