Thomas Pearson Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, Us

Global Senior People Leader for Bitmovins Revenue Organisation. Partnering with executive leadership CEO, President, CRO, SVP Sales, SVP Customer Success, SVP/GM APAC, Director Marketing and International management teams in both a strategic and tactical capacity.Proactively aligned people strategies with business objectives, contributing expert guidance on pivotal People initiatives that drive success and continuous growth. Spearheaded innovative projects that leveraged all aspects of HR, including Talent Management, Performance Management, Organisation Change, implementing best practices for a globally inclusive work environment.🏆 Winner - IBC - Corporate Star Award - Best Campaign to Improve Diversity 2023🏆 Winner - Rise Award - Ally of the Year 2024

Denver, Colorado, Us

I am the go-to person for all employer branding, diversity and inclusion and recruiting questions. As Head of Talent Acquisition my role is to:- Lead and motivate a high performing Talent Acquisition team to ensure all have a thorough understanding of the businesses they support to locate, engage and attract prospective candidates- Build and nurture strong, credible relationships with HR partners, senior leaders, hiring managers and other critical stakeholders across the organization; act as trusted advisor and strategic expert- Set strategic and tactical plans to anticipate upcoming talent needs and improve the full recruitment life cycle.- Track and analyze strong portfolio of talent metrics to measure and quantify success, develop talent strategies, and educate partners on key performance indicators (KPIs)- Lead the full-cycle recruitment process for executive roles and deliver against top hiring goals through appropriate experimentation and best practice benchmarking- Engage and drive a best-in-class diversity, equity and inclusion recruitment strategy that embraces and expands Bitmovins outreach capabilities into diverse pools of talent in the marketplace- Develop and promote the employer brand and value proposition of Bitmovin

City Of London, London, Gb

AI-SaaS, Simulation as a Service, Series A. (Core Java, Python, React.js).My role is to develop a world-class talent function from scratch for one of the most exciting scaling start-ups in the industry. I helped guide Immense from an on-premise company with offices in MK, London, Barcelona and San Francisco, to one of the first fully distributed UK start-ups. Reporting into the MD/CEO, advised on company org restructures, performance reviews etc to optimise growth. Involved reingineering our communication, management, social and cultural ideologies. Onboarded and optimised Greenhouse ATS, implemented continuous engagement platform 15Five, embedded new 360 review, 1:1, L&D processes, introduced OKRs, conducted manager and exec training/coaching. Conducted salary benchmarking and compensation design exercises.Hiring incredible people is the most important thing any business can do. As Head of Talent my role is to look inwardly at how we look after our incredible team and cultivate a culture second to none; take ownership of the candidate experience, drive our diversity and inclusion strategy; whilst creating and delivering a direct sourcing strategy.Major objective is drive and support the business as we made the change to a fully distributed company. I have full ownership of Immense’s Talent agenda from setting hiring strategy through to execution. I am responsible for leading and optimizing all stages of the hiring process; from structuring our pipeline to sourcing talent, internal training, on-boarding and orientation. I lead a number of HR initatives including but not limited to L&D, Comp & Bens, Employee Relations, Employee Satisfaction.A heavy focus is on ensuring we have internal processes that not only attract but retain world class talent. This includes implementing a continuous engagement platform, coaching managers and our co-founders on people best practice. Driving our culture and social agenda to ensure we build a really Immense company!

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

Set up a Division within Provide focusing on taking our knowledge from CAV's and Smart Cities to help facilitate the Digital Rail movement.Managing and training a team of 3 recruiters - conducting 1:1s, mentoring, training, SKIPFrom Senior Executive appointments to developers, across the UK, EMEA and Americas we are helping to educate the rail industry on who their competitors actually are (not who they think), how the Software industry moves differently to what they are used to and how to have a voice in a very competitive and fast paced industry.TCMS, Control Systems, Autonomous Trains, Rail Infrastructure, Customer Experience, TOC's, AI, Telematics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Smart Ticketing, Commercial, Sales, Innovation Leaders.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

I was placed onsite 3 days a week, reporting into the HRD managing a team of 3 recruiters, 2 HRBPs responsible for:- Sourcing, onboarding and implementing a new ATS (Greenhouse SW)- Overhaul and optimisation of candidate experience (website redesign, LinkedIn Branding, recruitment process re-design, manager/interviewer training, unconscious bias training.- Scaling business from 15 - c100 in 18 months.- Implementing new onboarding strategies.- Created and delivered original content for employer branding and recruitment purposes on Linkedin, Facebook, Twoitter, Instagram, professional bodies/groups.I lead a brand new division focused on the Intelligent Mobility space. We work with some of the worlds leading innovators in Connect and Autonomous Vehicles, Digital Rail, Mobility as a Service (MaaS), Intelligent Transport Systems et al.- Building, cultivating and maintaing talent pools across multiple technical and commercial verticals. - Introduced a new "LIcense to Hire" process to ensure the business was ready to hire, improving candidate experience and commitment.- Representing the company at trade fairs, conferences, kick-offs.Key project areas: CAV, V2X, V2I, V2V, V2G, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, UAV, Driveless Vehicles, Vehicular Communications, Telematics, MaaS, Freight & Logistics, Business Model Innovation, Behavioural Research, Research & Development, AI, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, IoT, M2M, 5G.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

Delivering a bespoke RPO services to key clients. My major client was Alfresco. I was onsite 3 days a week, reporting into the HRD, managing a team of 2 international recruiters.Our challenge was to scale this pre-IPO scale-up by 100 people in 12 months. Putting in place the ATS (People Click), sourcing, onboarding and retention strategies. Flew to Atlanta to build out a brand new office circa (30 people) and help drive engagement through cultural initiatives and team building activities. Company has since been bought out and made public. Representing the company at trade fairs, conferences, kick-offs.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

I manage a team of 15 consultants. My focus is on keeping the team at the forefront of internet sourcing technology and ensuring that our team of boolean black-belts continue to find people from places you did not even know were places.2 days a week, Onsite Talent Specialst for Opensource scale-up: Canonical. HR team coaching in talent acquisition best practice. Building and cultivating passive international talent pools across tech and commercial disciplines. As an opensource company they had no office restrictions, this was my first experience into a fully distributed business and international recruitment. Learning to communicate in written Mandarin, German, French, Spanish and Taiwanese to increase initial engagement and improve candidate experience. Rapidly scaling international operations by 150 heads in 24 months.Set up 3 Divisions covering Tech, Commerical and Business Ops roles:1. Tech Transfer / MedTech (UCLB, Cambridge Innovations, UCLC) 2. Smart Energy - (Energy Systems Catapult, CGG, FFA, Ikon Science, British Gas-Hive). 3. Semiconductors - ARM, Imagination Technologies, STMicro, DisplayLink, NXP, Nvidia.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

Managing 3 recruiters, working with a number of VC backend SW/Tech companies in Cambridge sourcing people for their international offices: ARM, GHX, Scientia.Onsite Talent Specialist at i2 for 1 day a week. i2 needed scalng quickly which lead to 2 buy-out eventually by IBM.

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Gb

I started off as a 360 consultant working in the Telco space with Vodafone, RIM, Colt Telecom, Bulldog Communications.

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