Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Boo! 👻 I’m Susanna, appearing whenever clunky, ChatGPT mumbo jumbo talent acquisition roams the tech space. Hiring shouldn't feel like summoning spirits. My stack: 10 years of track record in scaling teams and headhunting experts and leaders around the globe. I’ve worked with a plethora of companies from multiple countries and industries (tech being my definite soulmate though), from startups to scaleups and corporations, consulting and in-house. I don't just fill roles: I build, I lead, I strategize. I architect distinctive offerings and bring clarity in resource planning and hiring. Killing bottlenecks, not vibes! Let’s exorcise empty talent pipelines and build healthy tech cultures that trust hard and sustain performance long‑term. ——— Things I've been up to: 🙌 Leadership Responsible for talent acquisition and its renewal, kick-starting and scaling employer branding from scratch, leading in-house TA + consulting teams. No paranormal activity detected. 📈 Solving talent shortage From audits to development plans to strategy and implementation. Leading consulting projects, optimizing for maximum talent intake, and increasing employee retention. Finding and fixing the underlying root causes hindering growth. A couple of mellow Halloween pranks here and there. 🚀 Scaling early-stage businesses Co-founder: made 306K€ in revenue and 79K€ in net profit within 1 year of building my consulting firm. Business development, offering building, sales, and project delivery. Partner: I grew a consulting agency from scratch to 9 employees in 1 year while active on client projects. Like a Poltergeist, really. 💎 Headhunting From experts to C-level. I’m a T-shaped professional with my specialization in IT, yet filled several other white-collar roles. No Tarot cards or ghost prompting involved.
- Developing and executing UpCloud's global talent acquisition end-to-end - Building & maintaining talent pipelines through multiple channels (inbound, outbound, headhunting, job ads, recruitment marketing, talent pool nurturing, EB... you name it) - Driving the candidate selection process towards an optimal organizational fit and great candidate experience - Building & maintaining collaboration with the business - Coaching hiring managers - Coordinating pre-employment and onboarding-related requirements - Ensuring contract compliance - Managing external talent acquisition and recruitment partners - Managing the applicant tracking system - Creating & analyzing talent acquisition KPIs, generating regular reports and insights for stakeholders - Planning & executing employer branding UpCloud is a European cloud service provider offering the world’s fastest cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service from 15 data centres in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Chicago, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Madrid, New York, San Jose, Singapore, Stavanger, Stockholm, Sydney, and Warsaw. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Our customers run business-critical web applications on our enterprise-level IaaS platform. They trust us for our high performance, reliability, and very cost-effective pricing. We help our customers to speed up their time to market, get a reliable production environment, and scale their business forward. Our key customer segments are SME’s working in managed hosting, IT services, eCommerce, SaaS, and PaaS. We have been recognized twice as the #1 Performance Leader among the top 10 Cloud Hosting Providers in Europe by Cloud Spectator.
Headhunting experts and leaders, talent acquisition process facelifts. Freelancing was my main focus 03/2024 - 10/2024. From 11/2024 onwards, a side-hustle, as I'm working full-time at UpCloud.
Lifting Verisure's recruitment and employer branding to a new, strategic maturity stage. - Leading & mentoring talent acquisition team - Creating & implementing TA & EB strategies - Building & maintaining a solid link between TA, sales, and business - Executive search - Renewing recruitment processes, people assessment, collaboration, recruitment training, responsibilities, efficiency, KPIs, EVP, candidate personas, creating a starting point for systematic EB
As one of the 3 founders, my role consisted of everything biz dev related as well as client work; change programs, development roadmaps, change mentoring. In one year, we made 306K € in revenue and 79K € in net profit ✌️ Our pitch: fighting against burnout culture by making work life simultaneously more effective and fun. Employees are demanding more of their employers and jumping ship when their needs are unmet. We help companies take better care of their current and future employees by designing and implementing great employee experiences, and building more attractive, retentive workplaces. We decided to, unanimously, run the business down due to scalability not reaching our shared ambition level. This one-year run, one of the most valuable experiences of my life, with the absolute best co-founders ❤️
Built a consulting business from scratch. 🔥 Brought in +250K € in sales 🔥 Invoiced +120K € in consulting projects 🔥 Scaled team from 1 to 9 consultants. Set up recruitment, onboarding, acted as consultant team lead 🔥 Together with my team, built company strategy, offering, organization, culture, and brand from zero to hero. We became a recognized and highly wanted employer in one year only! All four minority shareholders, myself included, exited the company together.