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Worthing, Gb

Decentralized, Us

Chainlink Labs is the leading provider of secure and reliable Web3 services that have enabled trillions of dollars in transaction value across DeFi, insurance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. Chainlink Web3 services enhance smart contracts by connecting them to real-world data sources and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provide global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains. Chainlink Labs is dedicated to the development and integration of Chainlink as the industry-standard Web3 services platform connecting the world to blockchains

Galway, County Galway, Ie

Planet provides integrated software, payment and technology solutions for its customers in the Hospitality and Retail sectors and worldwide via a network of global Financial Services Partners. Founded over 35 years ago, we have evolved our services, delivering an innovative digital commerce platform that puts customer experience first. With headquarters in London and more than 2,500 expert employees located across six continents we serve customers in over 120 markets.• Reporting to the CPO, lead an international team of 7 recruiters responsible for hiring across all regions and roles. Oversaw 400+ hires in 17 countries.• Emphasis on pastoral care, mentoring and upskilling the talent team. Implemented new strategies to increase productivity and collaboration within the team (such as sourcing jams and regional playbooks)• Spearheading Planet’s DEI initiatives, currently building manager training, balanced shortlisting, creating relationships with the Women’s network and overhauling our DEI marketing. Targeting 50/50 gender balance by 2025• ATS implementation: Project lead for converting from Pinpoint to Workday with support from KPMG• Working with various members of the ELT, functionally aligned chiefs of staff and HRBPs to design and execute talent strategy• Remain hands on recruiting, mostly focused on executive hiring within product and technology (including direct sourcing our SVP of Infrastructure, and SVP of Service Management)• Further reduced agency spend to <0.5% of all hires and reduced exec search usage by personally sourcing (saving £300K+)• Role was eliminated due to major restructure within HR

London, England, Gb

Improbable’s synthetic environment platform was a powerful, flexible and secure simulation platform, tailored to the needs of the defence community and able to support the most sophisticated military simulations and synthetic environments ever experienced.• Reported into the COO, I led talent acquisition efforts across half of the defence unit for the UK (Customer Engineering, Core Platform, Research Science and PMO)• Grew the Defence talent team from 3 to 9. Direct line management of 3 with 6 further indirect reports (internal and RPO). Responsible for pastoral care, L&D, performance management and mentoring.• Remodelled and implemented new ways of working, increasing hiring velocity from 19 hires in Q1 to 50+ in Q2 & Q3.• Project lead for talent augmentation with diversity in mind. Created working partnerships with FDM group and Digital Futures to hire ex-forces, work returners and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.• Worked closely with the C-team on key business OKRs such as D&I, cost per hire reduction and workforce planning.• Remained hands-on recruiting, often for niche roles across leadership and engineering. Hired 44 individuals. • Role was eliminated due to parent company restructures

London, England, Gb

• Hands on recruiting niche technical roles, primarily Engineering Management, Research Engineers & Scientists, Platform engineers, QA and specialists across modelling and simulation.• Hired 11 senior managers including our director of communications and our first two female engineering managers.• Doubled the size of the Research function, headhunted well respected academics focusing on computational statistics and reinforcement learning from the Alan Turing Institute, Oxford University and Liverpool University.• Build and implemented robust interview loops, often for brand new teams, divisions and skill sets. Continually tweaked and honed our approach to identifying pastoral leaders.• Working closely with divisional heads on work force planning, outreach strategies, media, and growth.• Ran interview training for behavioural interviewers across Improbable. Graduated 80+ new interviewers in 2022.• Line manager of 3 reports from RPO. Transitioned them from an external resource to an onsite and embedded team.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Calypso Technology, Inc. is a cloud-enabled provider of cross-asset front-to-back solutions for financial markets with over 35,000 users in 60+ countries. With a rich legacy of innovation and 20 years of experience its award-winning software improves reliability, adaptability, and scalability across several verticals, including capital markets, investment management, central banking, clearing, treasury and collateral.• Owning talent acquisition efforts within my region, focusing across Mexico City, Santiago, New York, Tokyo, Paris and London. Recruiting at all levels and divisions including Consulting, Sales, R&D and Operations. Hired 33 candidates, all direct. • Successfully closed multiple roles in Mexico that had been open for 2+ Years. Success has led to a renewed strategy within Mexico to develop it as our CoE for the Americas.• Supporting Global Head of Talent on multiple initiatives including ATS change (Taleo to Pinpoint, ongoing), EVP, Recruitment Self Services (RSS) for hiring managers, scorecard and interview structures, Glassdoor • Given Japan as an extra territory based on performance closing two senior roles where the APAC team were struggling (September 2020) • Recipient of 4 TOAST awards from the business for high levels of service • Mentoring junior recruiters in India with LinkedIn Recruiter searching and international recruitment strategies.

London , Gb

A start up consultancy dedicated to building and scaling inhouse recruitment teams across various verticals. Completed two assignments with Investec W&IN and Concentra Analytics as well as:- Ran weekly squad meetings and training programmes for junior and mid-level recruiters for the enterprise vertical (June-November) - Second and final stage interviewing for Talentful staff members- Weekly 1:1 mentoring with junior recruiters - Consultant of the Year 2019

London , Gb

SaaS business analytics provider and consultancy (series B funded) focused around organisational development and human capital management.Hired 9 individuals across HR, Product, Operations, Sales and Consulting. Hired our replacement Talent Acquisition Manager and built extensive pipelines across UK, EMEA and US roles. Worked closely with Exco on talent and culture strategy efforts including work force planning, interview skills training and designing & implementing a new global recruitment process.

London , Gb

I headed up recruitment for the 250+ tech division within Investec Wealth & Investment in the UK. My focus was on mid to senior level hires across Core Development, IT Change and Infrastructure. I hired 31 professionals whilst reducing agency spend/ bringing direct sourcing up to 75%

Brighton, Sussex, Gb

I was responsible for business development, hands on resourcing & recruiting, and team management (at height, 4 direct & 7 indirect reports). I was also working closely with EMT & HR to streamline and enhance the wider organisation. I had a focus on CDN and video streaming (in particular P2P Streaming, OTT and next generation video delivery)In this time period, I personally placed 9 roles, whilst overseeing my team placing 37 (£168K individual figures, £397K team)

Brighton, Sussex, Gb

I headed up the Connected Media team, covering recruitment services across OTT, CDN, IPTV and all points in-between. Managed a small team of talented consultants, as well as helped streamline and enhance the wider business. Developed business with new VC backed startups in this arena, as well as helped account manage our relationships with larger telecom operators. I personally placed 17 roles, with my team hiring 43 in total (£219K personal, £417K team).

Brighton, Sussex, Gb

I worked on account development and client acquisition, as well as delivery on global recruitment projects, for companies across the Connected Media ecosystem. Successfully helped a wide range of clients across CDN, CAS, DRM, OTT and Broadcast technologies. clients included tech vendors, system integrators and Telecom Operators.Placed candidates in Mexico, US, Germany, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, South Africa and the UK. Placed 25 positions, mostly technical roles, generating £236K in this period.

Gb

My first role in recruitment. I worked for a small executive search firm, focused within the asset management and group risk industries, for the UK market. In particular passive equities. I worked with clients such as Metlife, HSBC GAM, Legal & General, AMEX and One Family in a support capacity. Started as a part of a team of three and finished as the sole resourcer for two directors

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