Sam Saunders

Scaling Workato in APAC | Talent Acquisition Leader | Singapore PR

Singapore

About

International Recruiter & HR Business Partner with 14 years of experience advising technology companies and leading Regional Talent Acquisition teams. A proven specialist in the SaaS, Financial Services, Fintech and Enterprise Software space with a track record placing a wide spectrum of commercial and technical roles from mid to senior, to C-level.

Experience

  • Senior Partner, Talent Acquisition at Workato
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    Leading GTM & AI Lab recruitment for Workato in APAC. Workato empowers enterprises to transform their business operations by orchestrating business processes end-to-end and operationalizing AI across the entire organization. Designed with best-in-class security and governance, scalability, performance, and availability, Workato makes it easy for IT and business teams to orchestrate their applications, data, and experiences.

  • Head of Recruitment, Asia at Cartrack
    Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr

    • Managing a team of 32 recruiters based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Dubai & New Zealand. • Leading TA & growth strategy for Cartrack across the region. • Successfully implemented new sourcing strategies and reduced both time to fill and cost per hire in the region, achieving 100% direct sourcing with $0 spend on external agency. • Implemented new recruiting tools and processes, resulting in more than double the number of new hires being onboarded per month, after just six months.

  • Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition at Nium
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Recruitment Lead for APAC and the Middle East. • Directly hired on average 15-20 mid to senior level roles per quarter. • Reduced overall cost per hire, with 100% direct sourcing and $0 spend on external agency. • Hiring across all business lines, including Sales, Marketing, Product, Legal & Compliance.

  • Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Binance
    Oct 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr

    • Team Lead for European business hiring, managing a team of six recruiters responsible for Leadership, Business Development and Marketing hiring across the region. • Recruiting globally (predominately Europe, Asia & US) for mid to senior level roles across multiple business lines including Institutional Sales, Payments (Binance Card), BNB Chain and Regional Marketing. • Directly hired a volume of on average 16-20 positions per quarter.

  • Talent Manager at Swingvy
    Feb 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Head of Recruitment, responsible for hiring all roles (commercial and technical) across Swingvy’s offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Korea. • Maintained a 100% direct hire rate across the region, greatly reducing our cost to hire with $0 spend on external agency. • Regional HR Business Partner, advising on, creating and delivering new initiatives in areas such as employer branding, culture, talent strategy, org structure and employee compensation and benefits.