Istanbul, Türkiye
I source talent from emerging markets where most companies don’t yet have access, using AI and smart systems to scale teams quickly. 🌍 10+ years across startups, small businesses, legal environments, and government-facing roles 📍 Hired across 20+ countries | Built systems behind 5x team growth. 🚀 Owned recruitment, testing, hiring and onboarding for 4 teams (totalling 50 people – product development, content production and AI content creation) within 8 months. As a strategist and hands-on operator, I thrive between hiring, operations, and market entry, connecting companies to emerging talent markets and making it work in practice by building systems that empower teams to scale without chaos. How do I Add Value? 🔍 Talent Strategy - Hiring End-to-end hiring across global markets focused on high-impact talent. ⚙️ AI-Enabled Systems - Operations Replacing slow, manual processes with systems that actually move at the speed companies need. 🌍 Emerging Market Team Build-Outs - Accessing talent in markets most companies overlook and setting up the infrastructure to support it. 📄 Compliance Structure - Making sure everything holds up legally and operationally across regions.
Recruiting talent across creative strategy, production, video editing, and operations supporting purpose-driven Youtube channels that are led by prominent creators and values-oriented brands.
• Drive end-to-end HR strategy and operational execution across talent, compliance, systems, growth, and culture while cutting manual reporting time by 50% through streamlined operations. • Led hiring from 20+ countries for 70+ roles across 6 teams and drove low budget, yet effective, culture initiatives that achieved 90% retention and 95% employee satisfaction. • Owned recruitment, testing, hiring and onboarding for 4 teams (totalling 50 people – product development, content production and AI content creation) within 8 months. • Scaled an AI Content Production team from 0 to 30 in 4 months by incorporating automations and AI tools to execute recruitment and onboarding at scale, including hackathons to mass test 20+ AI Creators per week, designing KPI incentives and assessment criteria, and implementing a streamlined and highly organized contract and hiring process.
• Oversaw recruitment, hiring and operations for a remote, creative team. • Built all HR and admin systems from scratch, covering documentation, workflows, project management systems, contracts, and compliance.
• Provided advanced English language coaching to professionals & students.
• Managed daily operations, bookkeeping and billing for a 4-person legal team, coordinating all meetings, travel, and communication with stakeholders. • Responsible for the Managing Partner’s professional and personal calendar, inbox, travel, events, and files. • Managed the firm’s bookkeeping, time-entry, billing, and collections. • Prepared meeting materials and coordinate logistics with internal staff and external offices. • Partnered with firm’s IT consultant to ensure smooth operation of computers and network. • Provided Managing Partner with weekly reports on the financial standing of the company. • Coordinated Human Resources related issues including employee time-off calendar, reimbursements, on-boarding logistics and training for new employees.