Hannah James

Hiring for Tesla⚡️across EMEA | 🇱🇹 🇬🇧

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Generalist Recruiter, with extensive E2E/full-cycle hiring experience across agency, RPO, and in-house settings. Specialised in Corporate Functions/HQ hiring across EMEA. Helping build strong Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, and Project Management/Operations teams. Enthusiastic about applying data insights and AI technologies to empower more efficient talent acquisition strategies.

Experience

  • Senior Recruiter, G&A at Tesla
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Bolt (1 yr 11 mos)
    • Senior Recruiter | Internal
      Oct 2025 - May 2026 · 8 mos

      Internal Senior Recruiter, hiring for Corporate Functions, including Legal, Finance, and People & Workplace. I cover roles globally, within and outside of Europe. Countries I hire across include: the UK, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Thailand and Canada.

    • Talent Acquisition Lead | via RPO - Chapter 2
      Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 · 8 mos

      Acting as Senior Recruiter for Corporate Functions (Finance, People, Legal, Policy, Marketing) hiring and leading a team of Chapter 2 (RPO) Recruiters working on the Bolt account.

    • Senior Talent Partner | via RPO - Chapter 2
      Jul 2024 - Jan 2025 · 7 mos

      Embedded at Bolt, as part of Talent Acquisition team for Corporate Functions (Finance, People, Legal, Policy, Marketing). Running E2E (including strategic sourcing) hiring processes for junior/mid/senior level roles, across multiple locations, including Estonia, Romania, Poland, Portugal and France.

  • Talent Partner | via RPO - Chapter 2 at Collinson
    Oct 2022 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Collinson are a business run by family values, not shareholder returns. Free to act with agility while making long-term investments. And we’re passionate about delivering customer-centric products and services that help our clients build enduring relationships with their customers. Collinson is built around delivering better experiences for our clients’ customers. We enrich and provide confidence in the traveller journey with our world-renowned Priority Pass airport lounge and experiences programme, while also creating and managing our own airport spaces. We protect via tailored insurance and assistance offerings and deliver travel medical and security services, currently critical to the recovery of the travel sector. And at a time when meaningful engagement with customers is more important than ever, we drive real-time engagement and conversions, increasing the value of loyalty and rewards programmes.

  • Ruebik (Full-time · 1 yr 3 mos)
    • Senior Recruiter, Team Manager
      Mar 2022 - Sep 2022 · 7 mos

      I am a 360 recruiter and team manager, working mainly on executive-level assignments across all sectors and with focus on HR and Marketing talent. Clients worked with include Dr. Martens, BT Group and Advanced. In addition to shortlisting candidates, client management, and design of JDs and interview processes, I oversee a team of researchers focused on the identification of talent pools for any live roles and first-stage reach outs. I am responsible for building capability across the team through feedback sessions and training, as required. I am also involved in the selection process and coordination of any Mentorship Programme projects for Ruebik's clients. This requires organisational skills, in addition to the ability to identify, attract and engage relevant talent.

    • Senior Recruiter
      Jul 2021 - Feb 2022 · 8 mos

  • Social360 (2 yrs 11 mos)
    • Analyst Team Manager
      Apr 2021 - Jul 2021 · 4 mos

      I was leading a group of Analysts, organising and overseeing smooth running of operations. I set strategy for various social media monitoring and analysis projects, with focus on maximising internal resources and making sure all deadlines are met, and high client service standards are maintained. In addition to team management and overall quality control, I was responsible for the automated media alerts service, and continued working on more complex analysis projects for Social360 clients. I also coordinated the internship program, ran training sessions for any prospective hires, and lent support to the commercial part of the business.

    • Editorial Analyst/Manager
      Oct 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

      In addition to the planning and execution of social media analysis projects for various clients, I managed one of the Analysts, coordinated the internship program, and was involved in testing and training of prospective hires. I also carried out day to day client communication, and supported commercial contacts.

    • Editorial Executive
      Sep 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

      As Editorial Executive I was involved in the setup, execution and quality control of various social media monitoring projects, including human curated analysis and automated alerts for Social360 clients across a number of industries.