Ordio - Schichtplanung der Zukunft

Short temp contract with Ordio (still employed at Linearity)

Tasks:
- Supporting with hiring high priority roles (Frontend Engineers, Backend & VP of Marketing) to setup the marketing department and contribute to building key features on their web and mobile product.
- Partnered with the founders on hiring requirements, designing the interview process and modules, optimising inbound application & setting up hiring fundamentals
- Introduced weekly hiring sync for hiring efficiency and introduced pipeline weekly overview for improved collaboration
- Contract to close high priority roles whilst still employed at Linearity
- Delivered hiring metrics on a weekly basis for transparency and areas to optimise
- Hired an amazing VP Marketing, 2 Frontend Engineers & a Senior Backend Engineer
- 100% Offer Acceptance
- Source per hires: 50% Sourced, 50% Applicant
- Time to Offer: Reduced by 50% in 2025
- Time to Fill: Reduced by 33% in 2025

Principal Recruiter - Marketing Leadership / Engineering Hiring

Linearity

Officially promoted to Principal Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Specialist leading all hiring efforts, improvement and optimisation projects and collaborating with the leadership team in building the world's next best marketing design software platform🚀

Principal Recruiter - Talent Acquisition Specialist 

Linearity is a software company whose products are designed to breathe new life into the design process and provide innovative ways of visualizing ideas. Founded in 2017 by then-17-year-old founder Vladimir Danila, Linearity's product lineup includes vector and motion design tools like Linearity Curve and Linearity Move, tailored for both marketing professionals and enthusiasts. We've been recognized as one of Europes Top B2B rising 100 "Soonicorns" by Sifted.

Responsibilities:
📊 Tracking data/metrics/conversions to improve funnel metrics & Interview processes
🗣 Managing all candidates through the full interview process (sourcing, engaging, interview prep, scheduling, offers, salary recommendations, offer acceptance)
🤝 Collaborating with C-Suite, Engineering Managers & Leadership teams to optimize and create successful & streamlined hiring processes
🏆 Leading all hiring across the business ranging from Engineering, Management, CS, Marketing, Design, QA & Growth

Achievements / Improvement Projects:
👨‍💻 Successfully built out 2 high performing backend/web engineering teams
⌛ Reduced time to offer/hire from 30/35 days to 25/20 days
🕧 Reduced time to fill from 70 days to 54 days in engineering
📉 Implemented data driven hiring approach to improve hiring funnels/pipelines
📈 Increased offer/acceptance from 80% to 100% 
⚡ Quickest time to offer in engineering is 9 days
👋 Increased Referral hires from 25% in 2022 to 44% in 2023 by leveraging Workable referrals 
🧙‍♂️ Lead & owned ATS migration from Recruitee > Workable levelling up recruitment efforts / metrics
📄 Drove the initiative of our Public Notion page for transparency 
🥇 Supporting People related initiatives

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Vestlane

Short temp contract with Vestlane (still employed at Linearity)

Tasks:
- Supported hiring Vestlanes first internal Senior Frontend & Backend Engineers to take ownership of their applications frontend & design systems / backend application.
- Partnered with the CTO on hiring requirements, designing the interview process and modules & setting up hiring fundamentals in Notion.
- Tracked weekly metrics & challenges and delivered solutions to the stakeholders to ensure a smooth hiring process.
- Short contract to close a high priority role whilst still employed at Linearity

Principal Technology Recruiter - Product Engineering Hiring

coboworx

Short contract with Coboworx (still employed at Linearity)

Tasks:
- Hired across sales (Senior Sales Manager / VP Sales) to drive the sales org & business forward
- Built out the interview process with the Leadership team 
- Partnering with the founders on hiring requirements, improvement areas and optimise hiring processes
- Introduced weekly syncs to improve collaboration and deliver hiring & sourcing metrics across the hiring pipelines
- Delivered retrospective to investors and founders on sourcing effort, hiring bottlenecks and effort level to make 1 hire
- Short contract (still employed at Linearity)

Principal Recruiter - GTM / Sales / Executive Hiring

Edgeless Systems

Short contract with Edgeless Systems (still employed at Linearity)

Tasks:
- Supported hiring 2 pivotal roles (Chief of Staff / Marketing Lead) to drive the business forward
- Partnered with the founder on hiring requirements, improvement areas and optimise hiring processes
- Led the hiring sync for hiring efficiency and introduced pipeline weekly overview for improved collaboration
- Reverse engineered hiring process for hiring transparency & effort level to make one hire
- Short contract to close 2 high priority roles  whilst still employed at Linearity

Principal Recruiter - GTM / Leadership Hiring

Scede

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Scede supporting Klarna with their engineering hiring.

Relocating Fullstack Software Engineers from India, Latin America & Asia to Stockholm to support Klarna building their resilient backend microservices.

Role included:
🙋🏻‍♂️ Handled full lifecycle recruitment from sourcing, engaging, interviewing, interviewing scheduling to delivering offers and drafting offer contracts
🥇 Weekly syncs with stakeholders and engineering team to highlight blockers, areas for improvements and discuss hiring pipelines across level 2, 3 & 4 engineers (Mid, Senior / Lead/EM's)
📈 Internally led improvement projects using funnel individual and teams conversions improve pass rate at each stage and increase productivity 
Tools: Notion, Lever, Slack, AmazingHiring, Linkedin Recruiter, Talent Insights, X-Ray Searches, Github, Stackshare.io

No matter what phase of growth you're at, we deliver the right mix of people, processes and practices to hit your talent goals. How we do it, is flexible - and designed to give you what you need, when you need it.

Since launch in 2013, we've partnered with over 50 founders and their teams across Europe. We've helped to scale 10 billion $ unicorns and 12 tech companies pre-acquisition or IPO; giving us deep insight into what it takes to supercharge your talent efforts - or start them from scratch. 

Our focus, above all, is on delivering impact; operating a "one-team" approach with our partners and making hiring a success for them.

Want to build an incredible team together? Let's talk. Drop me a direct message here on LinkedIn, or reach out to us at any time via hello@scede.io.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Klarna

Building JavaScript and Java Engineering at Klarna Stockholm.

I'm interested in speaking with Full Stack Engineers that use React.js, Node.js, are experienced in deploying AWS, obsessed over TDD and have a passion for micro-services based architecture.

We’re Klarna. We’re simplifying buying. Ever since we started in 2005, we’ve been committed to making online shopping easy and hassle-free. It’s an ongoing mission and there’s more than two and a half thousand of us working on it everyday. We’re active in 14 markets, serve 90 million consumers and work with 250,000 merchants.

Our goal is to become the world’s favourite way to buy.

If you’re triggered by having an impact on how millions of people shop and pay online, you’re exactly the type of person we are looking for.

Please contact me on - Daniel.matthews@klarna.com

Senior Talent Partner - Engineering via Scede

Third Republic

The recruitment market is changing.
• Accessing talent needed for Digital Technology Transformation is becoming more difficult
• It is becoming harder to identify people, harder to engage people and harder to stand out 
• Companies are engaging legacy PSL’s using outdated methods with increasingly poor results

Third Republic - solving your recruitment challenges for leading and emerging Digital Technologies.

Providing you with specialist recruitment solutions for best of breed Digital Technologies:
• Salesforce
• Workday & SuccessFactors 
• ServiceNow 
• Cloud Platforms
• DevOps 
• Strategy & Architecture 
• Big Data technologies 

“Your strategic recruitment partner for Digital Technology Transformation"

DevOps, Cloud Platforms Recruitment Consultant

Oscar

I recruit contractor IT support and Infrastructure staff for Public & Private sector companies. These positions include - 

-Infrastructure Support Managers
-DevOps & Infrastructure Engineers 
-O365/Azure Architects 
-VMWare Specialists
-3rd Line Support Engineers
-Cisco Engineers

Consultant | Infrastructure & DevOps

A candidate experience advocate, always aiming to deliver a positive candidate experience. You'll also find me using data to improve hiring processes and identify bottlenecks in processes.

Currently, leading all hiring at Linearity, an award-winning vector graphic design software company 🖼🎨, supporting all people-related tasks and hiring business-critical positions across Engineering, Marketing, & Design 🚀 📱⚙.

Previously, supported Klarna with their exponential growth plans in Stockholm, hiring Senior / Lead / Principal / Staff Engineers & Engineering Managers 👨‍💻👩‍💻 to contribute to building Klarna's highly scalable payment system 🚀 🖥 ⚙.

I've been involved in the hiring scene since 2018 supporting multiple industries (Fintech, Medtech, Start Ups & Cloud Consultancies) hiring DevOps and software engineers to build products/platforms that are shaping the world as we know it.

I'm a huge fan of continuously improving processes 🏅, being data-driven 📊, ensuring a positive candidate experience and learning about different types of software architectures/patterns 🔧 🖥.

Aside from recruitment, I'm a gym fanatic 🏋‍♂️, a football fan (Chelsea supporter), reading 📘, looking at stats around recruitment📊 & and a proud father to a Toddler girl 👧(yes Ms Rachel is our private babysitter 😂).

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