The University of Sheffield

Head of Talent Acquisition  -  Executive Search Consultant  -  🌎   Planet Conscious 🌱

I am leading all things Talent Acquisition at Glassnode, building the function from scratch. Now, with the help of a fantastic team, we are growing the business one hire at a time with a strong focus on exceptional candidate experience. In the first year of running TA, and two new products later, we have grown from 30 to 120+ exceptional, passionate and diverse individuals working remotely from 37 countries and counting. 

About us: 

We're an ambitious team of researchers, builders, and entrepreneurs with many years of experience in the crypto space and are passionate about digital assets.

Glassnode is a leading market intelligence platform for on-chain and derivatives data. We offer the most comprehensive library of advanced on-chain metrics and insights for Bitcoin, Ethereum and hundreds of other digital assets, bringing data intelligence to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

With an emphasis on user-centric interfaces, we aim to deliver intelligible, actionable, and unique insights from blockchain data and beyond, helping investors make educated decisions in an overly emotional and irrational market, and equipping blockchain teams with valuable insights on their projects and tokens.

Glassnode

Head of Talent Acquisition

I joined JustWatch to build the Talent Acquisition function and processes from scratch, putting the candidate experience first. 

The primary mission was to: 
• Hire the TA team from scratch
• Introduce an ATS and HR tools
• Double the number of employees (55-120+) 


A few of the milestones our TA team achieved: 

• Successfully rolled out Lever and BambooHR and managed pipelines of up to 120 simultaneous processes at once 
• Created a highly automated, simple and scaleable process with the main focus on candidate experience, continuous feedback and employer brand
• Onboarded every hiring manager on the new process, tools, and feedback loops
• I have hired, trained and mentored each team member through a fast-track programme 
• Despite a very low candidate hire %, due to particular fit requirements - candidate experience went up significantly to over 85% of interviewees rating it 5* 
•Analysis of the company culture, close focus on diversity, and inclusive language in external communication, which led to the job posting conversions going up to as high as 25% for some of the roles
• Redesign and rollout of the Talent page

TA team was recognised through a LinkedIn Talent Award 2021 as the most efficient team in Germany in an "under 100 employee company" category. 


About JustWatch. 

For consumers, JustWatch is a leading streaming guide that helps to find out where to watch movies and TV shows online via an app or our website. 

For clients like movie studios or streaming services, it is an international movie marketing company that collects anonymised data about purchase behaviour and movie tastes of fans worldwide from consumer apps.

JustWatch

Head of Talent Acquisition 

I provide executive search, overall hiring strategy, talent acquisition process flow, Recruitment software selection and setup and scaling planning. Team capability, training needs assessment/development and execution, meaningful metric and data point setup and more. 

I am proficient in building and consulting on HRIS tooling and people processes, onboarding/offboarding and compensation challenges. 

Recent consultancy projects include:

•Regional C-level and Country-level assignments, Fashion & Apparel Industry 
•Talent acquisition strategy development for a hyper-growth startup, FMCG
•Executive search and core team recruitment assignment, FinTech 
•Recruitment process development and implementation, eCommerce
•Talent acquisition process simplification for lean business scaling, Carbon Calculator startup
•Salary banding and org chart development, Streaming Platform

Stealth Startup

Talent Acquisition Strategy & Execution. Executive Search

I joined SumUp to build and run three Talent hubs, yet due to Covid, the expansion plans were put on hold and my role became much less ambitious than I'd hoped. After a short stint and a quick process fix-up I moved on. 

SumUp is a leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company in Europe with over 2000 employees around the globe. SumUp is driven to build the first-ever global card acceptance brand and is well on its way as small businesses in over 31 countries around the world rely on SumUp to get paid.

SumUp

Talent Acquisition Lead

Responsible for the Talent Acquisition function for Circ, have built recruitment teams, rolled out tools and processes on a global scale from scratch. Circ was eventually acquired by Bird early 2020. 

Daily hands-on team leadership, training and development, and strategic global talent acquisition in alignment with the company’s strategy and vision. 

Scaling from 30 to over 950-people strong company across 40 locations in EMEA. Positions covered by the team range from Internships, Operations, BD, Country Lead, VP and C-Level executives.

Circ

Head Of Recruitment

Skills: Executive Search · Team Leadership · Global Talent Acquisition · Talent Assessment · Applicant Tracking Systems

Recruitment Lead

NoVus Headhunters represents Portugal within the InHunt World network with over 25 representative offices around the globe. 

http://inhuntworld.com/location/headhunting-portugal/

InHunt World International Headhunting Network is a network that connects top local headhunting companies offering headhunting services from specialists to middle and top-level management. From us, you will always get the best local headhunting help with a cost-effective approach no matter where your need is.

InHunt World

Partner

I started noVus Headhunters, a Lisbon-based recruitment firm that turned into a Global Executive Search Consultancy with search partners in over 25 countries.

We differentiate ourselves through a highly personal approach to each candidate and a no-nonsense process with the clients. 

Our clients benefit from reduced time to hire and see improved success rates and a stronger brand image through appropriate representation, with us being an organic recruitment extension of your business.

We do not give up until the right candidate is on board.

noVus Headhunters

Founder & Executive Search Consultant 

At Monocle International we specialise in mid and senior-level appointments across Energy, Accounting/Finance and Consumer.

Since the business was founded we have achieved strong YOY growth through delivering against two key objectives: To create long-lasting partnerships with our clients and increase the level of industry talent through strong talent delivery processes in our core sectors. 

Roles covered: 

General / Business Management
VP and C-Level 
Board - Level

Monocle International

Senior Consultant - Executive Search

Mackinnon Bruce International is a global executive search and selection business where I ran a contract recruitment arm, recruiting exclusively in the International Energy Sector. 

We have successfully placed numbers of contractors across the globe, most recently in North America, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, UAE, Caspian Region, Mediterranean and our home market of the UK and Continental Europe.

Mackinnon Bruce International

Head of Contract Division

Executive Search & Selection in the Energy industry

Alex Usmanov