Description

Talent Acquisition Services for Startups & Scale-ups

Leverage over 17 years of specialised Talent Acquisition expertise to transform your talent strategies. We offer tailored hiring services and solutions designed to support high-growth startups and scale-ups in building scalable, cost-efficient, and employer brand-centric hiring functions.

✅Build, mature and scale in-house Talent Acquisition functions aligned with your growth plans

✅Remove hiring bottlenecks

✅Attract and engage top talent

✅Implement cost-effective hiring strategies

✅Improve hiring quality

✅Build or enhance employer brand

✅Streamline recruitment operations with automation and data-driven insights

✅Design inclusive hiring practices and improve candidate experience

Flexible engagement options:

🤝Embedded

🎯Project-based

🗒️Interim

Languages

Polish
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational
French
Basic
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

London (up to 50km)

Saffron Talent
Founder
HUMAN RESOURCES
June 2025 - Today (1 year)
London, United Kingdom
Talent Acquisition Services for Startups & Scale-ups

Leverage over 17 years of specialised Talent Acquisition expertise to transform your talent strategies. We offer tailored hiring services and solutions designed to support high-growth startups and scale-ups in building scalable, cost-efficient, and employer brand-centric hiring functions.

✅Build, mature and scale in-house Talent Acquisition functions aligned with your growth plans
✅Remove hiring bottlenecks
✅Attract and engage top talent
✅Implement cost-effective hiring strategies
✅Improve hiring quality
✅Build or enhance employer brand
✅Streamline recruitment operations with automation and data-driven insights
✅Design inclusive hiring practices and improve candidate experience

Flexible engagement options:
🤝Embedded
🎯Project-based
🗒️Interim
💡Advisory
Talent acquisition Recruitment
Mangopay
Head of Talent Acquisition
HUMAN RESOURCES
November 2022 - November 2024 (2 years)
London, United Kingdom
Headed up a TA function during a stage of growth by 50% in 2 years
Lead an international team of 7 in France, Luxembourg, Poland and UK
Improved TA team performance through: managing poor performance via PIP, mentorship, up-skilling and setting stretch objectives
Implemented a direct hiring strategy by promoting employee referrals and sourcing, resulting in removing agencies from roles below VP level and increasing headhunting by 2,5 times YoY
Established a strong Employer Brand across Europe by: launching a careers website, running social media campaigns and improving Glassdoor rating
Improved quality of hire by: introducing hiring principles, designing and rolling out company wide Interview Training and building a Hiring playbook
Built a TA KPI Dashboard for the executive team enabling data based decision making and improving hiring collaboration
Managed ATS migration to Greenhouse, whilst saving 6 month’s vendor fees
Co-managed the roll-out of a Workforce Management module in HiBob, enabling headcount management process efficiency and automation
Effectively managed the hiring budget resulting in a 82% reduction of cost per hire over 2 years
Drove automation and efficiency resulting in 20% reduction of time to hire
Motive Partners
Head of Recruitment
HUMAN RESOURCES
February 2021 - July 2022 (1 year and 5 months)
London, United Kingdom
Set up and headed up the Recruitment function at Jigsaw XYZ from scratch, in the lead up to and post the acquisition by Motive Partners
Designed and executed company wide hiring strategy resulting in more than doubling in size in the space of 18 months (delivering 33 hires in 2021 and 66 in 7 months of 2022)
Initially was the sole person in charge of all recruitment, then grew the team to 3
Rolled out new ATS implementation with Lever
Designed all hiring processes from attraction to on-boarding
Introduced a direct sourcing model
Rolled out new processes including: employee referral programme,
UK visa sponsorship, interview training and employer branding