Welcome to Michelle's freelance profile!
This freelancer is available full-time but hasn't confirmed their availability in over 7 days.
Location and workplace preferences
- Location
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Can work onsite in your office in
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- around London and 50km
Preferences
- Project length
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- ≤ 1 week
- ≤ 1 month
- Between 1-3 months
- Between 3-6 months
- ≥ 6 months
- Company size
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- 1 person
- 2-10 people
- 11 - 49 people
- 50 - 249 people
- 250 - 999 people
+2 other
Verifications
Freelancer code of conduct signed
Read the Malt code of conduct
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual
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German
Basic
Categories
Skills (8)
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Michelle in a few words
- Hired at grad level, all the way to C suite across Europe, Singapore and US.
- Scaled a Top 5 European Fintech by 250+ in under 1 year and built multiple Founding teams.
- Worked with first-time Founders as well as serial Founders, backed by VCs.
- Also worked with bootstrapped startups so have built teams with little to no hiring budget.
- Built out Talent Acquisition & People Operations functions from scratch and am comfortable leading a team, being an individual contributor or being in a standalone role.
- Stengths include matching values, working styles and personality differences between Founders/Teams and candidates - no candidate of mine has failed probation or left the company in their first 12 months of placement.
Irish passport - right to work in UK & EU)
Experience
Kana
Tech
Head of Talent & People Operations - As a freelancer
- First team member to join first-time Founder, my role covered everything under the Talent, - People Operations and Culture umbrella
- Designed Talent and People processes from scratch
- Built a team of 8 in 2.5 months (incl. 4x Founding Engineers, 1x Founding Designer, 1x Founder’s Associate, 1x Customer Success Engineer, 1x Operations Associate)
- Designed company benefits package and onboarding process
- Managed visa sponsorship licence application process
- Took on Chief of Staff responsibilities supporting Founder across all areas of the business, ideation, crafting core Kana values
- Implemented new HRIS system (Zelt)
- Identified and arranged company move to new office, reducing monthly costs by 50%
- Planned company off-sites across UK
- Provided support and relocation plans for team member impacted by the Ukraine/Russia war
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