Synthesia

🚀 With Synthesia preparing for a new phase of growth, I have stepped up to lead the technical part of talent acquisition.

👩‍💻 I do full-cycle recruiting, mentor and support my colleagues, and work on projects critical to the entire talent acquisition function. As the sole individual contributor focused on software engineering roles, I have successfully scaled our engineering team from 8 to over 60 talented individuals.

🔍 If you're an engineer looking to join us, check out our careers page: https://www.synthesia.io/careers

Tech Talent Acquisition Lead

🧚‍♀️ I led Synthesia's Talent Acquisition team through an intensive growth period, managing 6 direct reports while also engaging in full-cycle recruiting for both engineering and TA roles.

🚀 In one year, our Talent Acquisition team successfully made over 240 hires, with 33 hires directly attributed to my efforts.

📈 During this period, we implemented a modern hiring tech stack, including Greenhouse, candidate.fyi, Metaview, Certn, eqtble, SeekOut, Calendly, and LinkedIn Recruiter. This allowed us to make significant progress in reporting and data-driven decision-making.

🌟 I strongly believe in prioritizing outputs over inputs and see talent acquisition as a strategic partner to the business rather than a transactional function. Consequently, we invested substantial time in partnering with the business, assisting with forecasting, education of hiring managers, setting up hiring processes, and improving candidate experience.

Head of Talent Acquisition

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Engineering

Synthesia's 1st dedicated TA hire ✨

I hired for Product and Engineering, IT, Security, People and TA roles with a very strong focus on hiring high-impact senior engineers  🧑‍🔬

Started with 8 people writing code and in 1.5 years helped scale the team as the only tech recruiter to around 40 people writing code👩‍💻

Talent Acquisition Partner - Engineering

candidate.fyi

Candidate.fyi is a tool that will take your candidate experience to the next level.

It provides an easy way for candidates to understand how the hiring process will look like, get additional information on the process, interviewers, and the company in general. But they are also empowered to give feedback for every single step of the hiring process, making Candidate.fyi such an important part of data gathering if you are trying to run a data-driven TA function. On top of it all, it is really, but really, easy to use.

After using Candidate.fyi very successfully in quickly growing startups with amazing support from the Candidate.fyi founders, I was invited to join as a Talent Advisor, together with some amazing names in Talent Acquisition like Punith Suvarna, John Renfro, Devon Siegel, Jason Klein, and others, to support Candidate.fyi on their journey of improving candidate experience.

Advisor

Ogrodje

Ogrodje is the leading podcast for the Slovenian audience, focusing on engineering topics.

After appearing as a guest on Ogrodje twice, we decided to take our collaboration to the next level. Together, we launched a new podcast series called Zagon, which I now host. Zagon takes a step back to explore the fundamentals and the softer, human aspects of engineering careers.

List of Zagon episodes so far (content is in Slovenian):

S02E03 Biti programer
S02E09 Zagon Zagon: Kje začeti?
S02E15 Zagon Delo na daljavo
S03E05 Zagon Zagon: Kako do boljše plače?

Podcast Host

ITClass

•Independent Talent Acquisition Specialist – Recruiting specific IT profiles - focus on people who develop software and system administrators. 
• Consulting – Helping our clients to build their development teams, to retain their employees and how to position themselves within the job market.
• Profile Screener – Scanning profiles, verifying necessary qualifications & experience via several platforms including: LinkedIn, Stack overflow, GitHub, Slack, Reddit etc.
• Interview Preparation – Coaching & training of interview dialogue, dynamics & material.
• Employment Liaison – Effective communication between clients & potential employees.
• CRM – Develop & Nurture client relationships.
• ATS (Bullhorn).
• Hiring for Slovenian companies in Slovenia and SE Europe.

Technical Recruiter

Mugen.si

•	Talent Enabler – helping developers and other IT professionals make their next step 
•	IT Specialist – In-depth knowledge & experience of recruitment/acquisition within IT sector
•	CV Expert – Improving IT CVs based on tailored formatting & design specific to job search
•	Interview Preparation– Coaching & training of interview dialogue, dynamics & material   
•	Relocation Support – Guiding successful candidates with successful international location including Slovenia & Germany  
•	Employment Liaison – Effective communication between clients & potential employers 
•	CRM – Develop & Nurture client relationships
•	Profile Screener – Scanning profiles, verifying necessary qualifications & experience via several platforms including: LinkedIn, Stack overflow, GitHub, Slack, Reddit etc.

Freelance Technical Recruiter

Vipta d.o.o.

•	Order of Business – Provision of basic bookkeeping, phone handling, post & records
•	CRM – Effectively communicating, developing current & new client relationships
•	Soft/Hardware Coordinator – Provision of technical IT support & troubleshooting
•	Scheduling – Planning & organizing efficient schedules relative to associate & senior mgt. 
•	Financial Control – Budgeting & tracking costs relative to travel, expenditure, supplies etc.

Office Manager

BorderGuru

•	On/Offboarding Coordinator – Introducing new employees to the company alongside the exit of current employees 
•	Office Conduct – Overseeing vacation authorization, team building events etc. 
•	Relocation Lead – Supporting new employees with relocating to Germany
•	Talent Acquisition – End-to-end recruitment for technical and operation positions
•	Operational Optimization – Streamlining of organizational procedures & protocols 
•	HR Liaison - New hire onboarding, uniforms, training & licensing etc. 
•	Order of Business – Provision of basic bookkeeping, phone handling, post & records
•	Strategy Implementation – Executing continued growth, 100% increase in team size

Office & HR Manager

(Please note I only hire engineers 👩‍💻)

Hi 👋
Welcome to my profile 🙂

I am first and foremost a Tech Recruiter. What I do in life is search for great engineers that can help us build the future of video 💪 Because I was good at this apparently, I was promoted to Head of TA at Synthesia, where I am supporting 6 TA Partners. 

What I love to do is spread love and knowledge about tech 💛, giving my two cents about the tech job market, the never-ending search for 🦄 and in general break the stereotypes about tech 🤦‍♀️ I do this as a serious person on meetups, me on different social media and as a stand-up comedian 😄

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