Kira Patel

Interim Recruitment Manager at Tesla

United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Tesla (Full-time · 3 yrs 6 mos)
    • Interim Recruitment Manager
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      Currently in an interim management role at Tesla, leading a team of 11 across G&A, contingent, early careers, and internal recruitment across EMEA

    • Lead Recruiter
      Oct 2024 - Jul 2025 · 10 mos

      Currently leading General & Administrative hiring across EMEA while supporting, developing, and mentoring a team of 3 recruiters. Partnering with senior stakeholders to drive hiring across G&A functions, with a focus on quality, speed, and stakeholder trust.

    • Senior Recruiter, EMEA
      Feb 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Led end-to-end hiring across high impact G&A verticals in EMEA, consistently delivering top talent for roles in HR, Finance, Legal, Policy and Analytics.

  • Talentful (2 yrs)
    • Senior Talent Partner (Tech)
      Jan 2022 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Talent Partner (Tech)
      Mar 2021 - Dec 2021 · 10 mos

  • Senior Talent Partner (via Talentful) at G-Research
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

    G-Research is Europe’s leading quantitative finance research firm. We hire the brightest minds in the world to tackle some of the biggest questions in finance. We pair this expertise with machine learning, big data, and some of the most advanced technology available to predict movements in financial markets.

  • Talent Partner (via Talentful) at DeepMind
    Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 · 10 mos

    DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application for positive impact. We’re on a scientific mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how.

  • Recruiter - Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data at Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data
    Jun 2020 - Mar 2021 · 10 mos

    Primarily part of Group Data working on roles: Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Analysts, Engineering Managers, Cloud Engineers.