Istanbul, Türkiye
🏎️💨 start-up&scale-up enthusiast with a passion for building dynamic and innovative teams 🎓 holds a Bachelor's in Psychology, specializing in organizational behavior, people & culture best practices, and product development processes 🌍 experienced in global start-ups, scale-ups, and big tech teams, fast-paced environments 🚀 with a data-centric high focus on: talent acquisition of tech and business teams employer branding university recruitment candidate experience employee experience culture engagement projects employee relations
LI.FI is a crypto infrastructure company enabling seamless cross-chain swaps and bridging across different blockchains • Own full-cycle recruitment across EMEA and APAC for all functions, with engineering as the engine; helping scale the team from 40 to 140+ and counting, reaching crypto-native talent through channels standard pipelines miss (GitHub, Discord, Telegram, referrals, web3 events) • Run the global employee lifecycle end-to-end: Onboarding, contracting across 36+ countries, and data integrity across HiBob and DocuSign; keeping records compliant and audit-ready through hypergrowth. • Redesigned the company's employee handbook from scratch and rolled out Juicebox (AI-powered sourcing) to raise top-of-funnel quality and hiring-metric visibility • Embed AI into daily TA and People Ops workflows; sourcing, outreach, JD and comms drafting, process improvement, and workflow design; compounding output and speed across the entire function
Biggest e-commerce technology company in EMEA • Used Lever and responsible for full cycle of recruitment for technology team. Total HC has increased over %30 and technology team reached 2000+ people. •Took responsibility for 8-10 pipelines on average at high-volume. •Took responsibility both as a recruiter and coordinator and led processes of posting job openings, sourcing top talent, conducting phone and recruiter interviews, coordinating the rest of the process and extend offers. • Roles including android&ios, frontend, backend, data, QA, tech support and various data science roles to get our data science and machine learning teams x2 bigger. • Always worked with relevant data -conversion rates, time to hire, source of hire, candidate experience- acted on them to increase our scores. • Have been part of hiring manager interview skills improvement, candidate communication, referral program projects and increased efficiency scores.
Ended due to company-wide lay-offs As Ruul, we enable talents and businesses to work compliantly and flexibly with custom work-tech solutions tailored for the new work landscape. • Responsible for people strategy across departments, such as: performance cycle, career progression, succession and development for all levels • Responsible for implementing culture initiatives such as company-wide gatherings, onsites, voice and tone practice, salary and benefit researches • Responsible from the orientation process of new comers such as; introducing them to other teammates, induction presentation, monthly orientation coordination while staying complaint with EU-Turkey labor • Responsible for building a structured full-cycle talent acquisition process as well as establishing a new brand onboarding experience. • Leading the end-to-end recruitment process, including posting job openings, sourcing top talent, conducting recruiter screens, coordinating interviews until the end of pipeline and extending offers • Analyzing and interpreting data points -engagement scores, skill gap analysis, labor disputes, sourcing metrics, conversion rates, time-to-fill, candidate experience feedback- for making data-driven decisions to optimize the process, attracting top talent and delivering best experience for both candidates&employees
Ended due to company-wide lay-offs Zeplin is a connected space for product teams where they can share designs, generate specs, assets and code snippets. In just 7 years, we’ve reached over 5 million users from thousands of product teams, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Microsoft and many many more. We’re a Y Combinator startup, also backed by amazing investors like Elad Gil, Mike Maples, Kevin Hale. We’re a small, distributed crew with offices in San Francisco, Istanbul and London, UK. • Responsible for full-cycle talent acquisition of Zeplin in Turkey and UK. I’ve hands-on end to end recruiting experience both in technical & strategic positions across these locations. • Led the end-to-end recruitment process, including posting job openings, sourcing top talent, conducting initial phone and recruiter screens, coordinating interviews until the end of pipeline and extending offers • Experience recruiting for a wide range of technical engineering roles, including frontend, backend, data, and design integrations, as well as various sales roles such as SDR/BDR, strategic account executives, and solution engineers • Managed Greenhouse ATS with sourcing, monitoring, managing multiple pipelines and pulling out data-driven reports to improve our processes • Initiated and led a university engagement project by interviewing over 30 student societies from over 10 top universities in Turkey • Has worked on candidate communication project and updated all communication templates with the candidates and helped redesign of the candidate experience; this led to increasing our outreach responses by %48 • Used Greenhouse ATS, LinkedIn Talent Solutions/Recruiter, Stackoverflow, Github, Hireflow, TalentWall, and other recruiting technologies.
At Softtech Ventures, we helped start-ups build their systems to become brand-new unicorns. As one of the two members at the HR team, I've actively managed the recruitment cycle and also I've designed the cycle all over from scratch for start-ups in our portfolio. Also, took intensive business partner responsibilities. • Responsible for the talent acquisition process end to end. We built a project management, hiring and onboarding system for our HR operations. • Hands-on experience in recruiting both in technical & strategic positions. Working very closely with line managers to understand business needs and to ensure a common ground in their people decisions. • Acted as an internal talent acquisition partner of 4 start-ups in our portfolio and their specialty area as it goes: fintech, proptech, edtech and hrtech. Worked on the recruitment of software engineers, product specialists/managers and various sales roles for these start-ups. The total headcount increased by %73. • Conducted a need analysis for start-ups, worked on employee experience, engagement, building culture and new project development systems for start-ups.