Sam Schultz

Giving new, purposeful life to local plastic waste. Circular. Sustainable. Made in A Coruña.

A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

About

Experience

  • Founder at Self-employed
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Founder of Plic, a circular design studio in A Coruña, Spain — transforming locally sourced plastic waste into bold, functional homewares and everyday items. Driven by sustainability, local collaboration, and giving materials a meaningful second life.

  • People Experience & Talent Acquisition at Localyze
    Jan 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Focusing on making the Localito experience nourishing and full. Creating a positive remote work culture and giving employees the support they need to perform at their best. • Lead engagement programs, elevating job satisfaction and retention rates. • Analyze feedback data to refine employee support systems, elevating satisfaction and retention. • Collaborate cross-functionally, aligning strategies to optimize employee journey. • Designed comprehensive benefits programs for a diverse workforce, ensuring inclusivity. • End-to-end recruitment for all departments, ensuring positive candidate experience and reduction in turn-over, with a focus on quality of hire. • Owner of employer branding initiatives and data collection to put Localyze on the map.

  • AMBOSS (Full-time · 3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Talent Operations Partner
      Mar 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

      • Optimising the effectiveness of talent as an operation and driving best practice across the board. • Building out reports and dashboards to measure recruiting performance. • Developing and managing relationships with recruiting partners and vendors. • Researching cutting-edge technologies and evaluating the recruiting stack • Facilitate interview training and unconscious bias workshops to up-skill the team.

    • Talent Acquisition Manager
      Aug 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

      • Ownership over full cycle recruitment process: from screening CVs, scheduling interviews, and guiding hiring managers. • Develop and facilitate recruitment strategies and event materials in collaboration with creatives and developers (live events, Meetups, networking, career page). • Teaming up with different stakeholders to further enhance, implement and increase AMBOSS’ employer branding activities. • Research and develop original strategies to identify and captivate top talent. • Manage and constantly enhance the candidates’ experience throughout the recruitment processes.

  • Native Speaker Kita Assistant at Multi Lingua International Kindergarten
    Aug 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr

  • Events Operations at Soho House & Co
    May 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Ensure efficient and courteous reception of members and hotel guests representing the Soho House brand • Coordinating customer experience from being seated through the ordering process and on to leaving the establishment • Facilitating training and onboarding of new employees