Sean Cilliers

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive global talent acquisition strategy to attract top-tier talent across all business units.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and business leaders to understand hiring needs and develop tailored recruitment plans aligned with organizational goals.
• Collaborate with HR to design and implement talent retention strategies, including career development programs and employee engagement initiatives, to support long-term organizational success.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment processes, from candidate sourcing and screening to offer negotiation and onboarding, ensuring a positive candidate experience at every touchpoint.
• Drive recruitment across hardware, software, data science/ML, product, science, and commercial roles.
• Cultivate a culture of data-driven hiring by integrating talent metrics and analytics into recruitment processes, fostering informed decision-making and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities:

• Led a team of Talent Partners across Europe, driving their performance, professional development, and ensuring alignment with ACELR8’s recruitment objectives and client needs.
• Defined and implemented best practices for recruitment at ACELR8, leveraging industry insights and innovative methodologies to attract top talent, enhance candidate experience, and streamline hiring processes.
• Oversaw the recruitment budget and resource allocation, optimizing spend to ensure cost-effective hiring while maintaining a high standard of talent acquisition.
• Provided regular talent acquisition metrics, analytics, and reports to senior leadership, offering data-driven insights and recommendations to enhance recruitment strategies and outcomes.
• Conducted comprehensive market research to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges in talent acquisition, informing strategic recruitment decisions and mitigating risks.
• Collaborated closely with client stakeholders to align recruitment strategies with business goals, ensuring successful hiring outcomes that drive growth and innovation.
• Produced detailed reports on account health, talent pipeline progress, and target delivery, enabling informed decision-making and timely strategic adjustments to meet client and organizational objectives.

Key client projects that I led while I was at Source Coders

• Talent Manager at Greyparrot Sep 2020 - Mar 2021

Greyparrot provides computer vision solutions for the recycling and waste management industry to power next-generations robotics and smart systems. Our focus is on building solutions that solve business challenges and have a positive impact on our society.

• Talent Manager at Cervest June 2019 - Apr 2020

Earth Science AI - Bringing clarity to decisions on climatic and extreme events.Cervest fuses the most rigorous science, advanced AI and comprehensive scaling to provide real-time asset level analysis that simplifies complex, inter-related data, closing the knowledge gap between the challenges we face and the actions we can take.

• Talent Manager at Trussle January 2018 - Apr 2018

The UK's #1 online mortgage broker. Unlike other brokers, our service is completely free.

Client project - Klarna May 2018 - January 2019

Leading a team of recruiters working with Klarna's software engineering team both in Berlin and Stockholm.

Key functions of the role.

• Sourcing top-quality candidates to join Klarna's Product Engineering teams in Berlin and Stockholm.
• Worked with the business heads and senior stakeholders to build out and shape the talent acquisition strategy, identifying priority hires to meet current and future business needs.
• Managed the full recruitment process to ensure new joiners have the best onboarding experience.
• Managed a team of four recruiters

Key responsibilities:

• Led and owned end-to-end recruitment for the Digital and Technology teams across the Sydney and Melbourne offices, ensuring alignment with business goals and talent needs.
• Developed and executed strategic recruitment plans for all open positions, driving efficient and effective hiring processes.
• Partnered with the diversity recruiter to ensure compliance with corporate policies and promote inclusive hiring practices.
• Conducted exit interviews and managed employment termination processes to ensure smooth transitions and valuable feedback collection.
• Organized and hosted monthly industry meetups, including the Node.js Meetup in Sydney and Node Girls, to strengthen community engagement and expand the talent pipeline.
• Collaborated closely with the marketing team to develop and enhance the Talent Brand Strategy, ensuring a strong employer brand presence in the market.