Cyprus
Hello, I am an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager and HRBP in the Game Development industry, SaaS, AI, Web3 and FinTech. My achievements include successfully extending up to 21 offers per month, managing small recruiting teams of 2-3 individuals, and handling a maximum of 37 job openings simultaneously. I have a track record of closing positions at the C-Level, such as Marketing Director, Finance Director, HR Director, COO, CPO, Executive Producer, CTO, CIO. I've built startup HR departments from scratch 4 times and implemented HR process atomization and HR CRM. Over the last two years, I have spearheaded the recruitment of two development teams for large-scale AAA projects, increasing the headcount from 10-20 to 150 members. I have single-handedly formed complete teams for two companies. I am well-versed in the roles and responsibilities of specialists across various departments: Client, Server, Art, Game Design, HR, Business Development, Marketing, and Backoffice. Within the realm of Fintech, I have successfully filled positions for roles such as Senior Go Developer, Senior Python Developer, Senior System/Data Analyst, Senior C++ Developer, Senior React Developer, Senior .Net Developer, and Senior Node.js Developer. My reach goes beyond borders, covering the recruitment landscapes of the CIS region, the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico, the European Union, Brazil, and Argentina. Collectively, I have personally hired over 150 individuals within the span of two years. Tools: People Force, Recruiter lite, Hurma, Huntflow, Talantix, Airtable, Linkedin Helper,, Persia, BambooHR, Sales navigator, ContactOut, amoCRM, Instant Data Scriper. Clickup. Jira, Confluence, Notion, Planfix, Calendly Discord, Slack, Office, G-Suite Google, Chat.GPT DeepSeek
Farcana is a free-to-play 3rd-person arena shooter built on Unreal Engine 5 & powered by a Web3 economy, coming to PC. My achievements: ☑Built the Talent Acquisition HR department from scratch and hired and onboarded over 150 employees within two years, 75 of whom were personally recruited by me (Game Design, ART, DEV, Backoffice). ☑Successfully filled C-level positions, including CMO, CFO, CPO, CTO, HRD and CTO. ☑Implemented recruitment automation tools, reducing hiring cycle times by 30%. Created the career page at https://www.farcana.com/career, implemented HR CRM (People Force) and synchronized related services. ☑Developed and executed HR brand strategies in collaboration with marketing, enhancing employer branding and reducing candidate acquisition costs. Through publishing articles on LinkedIn and in specialized groups and chats on social media, I increased candidate traffic to the company's career site by х10 times. Additionally, I improved the closure rate of vacancies via the career site from 0% to 70%, thereby reducing hiring costs by х2. ☑Developed the official LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/farcana/ and increased its followers from 2,000 to 7,000. ☑Managed recruitment for roles in Web3, blockchain, and fintech sectors, including Solidity developers, Python engineers, and Data Analysts.
☑Build Hiring Pipeline from scratch, ☑Hiring Unreal 5/ C++ developers, GD, 3D artists, 2D Concept Artists, Game Designers, Level Designers, VFX Artists,, Level Artists, Network Multiplayer Developers, DevOps, System Analysts, Sound Designers, Technical Designers, Technical Artists,
My main task was to find outsourcing studios, ready to take on game development on PC and mobile platforms. My achievements: ☑ Found 5 gamdev studios of 40 to 90 people with a large portfolio of PC and mobile games in the shooter genre, ready to perform the development of the Alpha version of the game and also ready to sell out. ☑ Organized negotiations between Dizzaract (Farcana), signed NDAs and contracts with studios. ☑ Found an in-house producer for Farcana to oversee the development of outsourced studios.
I currently work for a company with over 80 employees. The company is developing AAA cross-platform project for PC, consoles and mobile platforms. I managed to attract top specialists from the gamedev market to our team, such as Wargaming, Vizor, Playrix, Sperasoft, Eon Games, Dragon's Lake, Trace studio, Motorspot, Globant, Epam, Itechart.... The company was created from scratch for a large project. Therefore, I had to develop an HR strategy for the company. ☑ I hired 2 middle recruiters (Art and Dev specializations), set KPI for them and implemented a system of weekly reports. ☑ Organized weekly hiring and HR meetings with heads of departments. ☑ Created a landing site for recruitment, independently developed a logo and company mission. Created an official company page on linkedin, on rabota.by, on ingamejob.com, collected requirements from hiring managers and created vacancies on job sites. ☑ Tested several ATS systems for building a recruitment pipeline: I chose PeopleForce with a recruiting package and set up a system for selecting candidates by hiring managers. ☑ Implemented software for opening contacts in Linkedin (SalesQL, ContactOut); connected Premium Linkedin recruiters; installed Linkedin Helper and created a group of recruiter bot accounts. ☑ Developed and implemented the onboarding process: "welcome package", onboarding checklists for employees, instructions for the first working day for employees. Automated the process through PeopleForce. ☑ Hired more than 30 senior level employees and leads. ☑ Сollected a database of candidates in the linkedin of specialists from game development