Ultimate Beauty

Ultimate Beauty is a fast-growing, people-first, fully remote organization. Our purpose is to enable our team members to live their best life, while doing this "business thing" really really well.

As Chief People Officer, I'm responsible for developing a world-class culture as we 10x our business. This means I get to play with radical, leading-edge concepts such as Remote Work, Unique Ability, EOS, and Best life Coaching.

The bigger goal is to first prove we can have a couple hunded people live their best lives, while delivering outsized results.. -> And then share our learnings to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work.

Chief People Officer

Running Remote

Community Member

The Future is Remote

Ex-management consultant/entrepreneur/leader → turned Remote Evangelist. On a mission to inspire, educate & coach individuals, teams & organizations to succeed in a remote world.

20-30 minute conversations with the leaders, thinkers, and doers of Remote Work. 

Highlighted episodes
🎙 Humanizing Remote w/ Chase Warrington, Head of Remote @ Doist (https://spoti.fi/3U7N8b7)
🎙 The Benefits of Remote Work w/ Tony Jamous, Founder @ Oyster (https://spoti.fi/3hd1TL7)
🎙 Asynchronous Work w/ Nicolas Cava, Engineering Manager @ Zendesk (https://spoti.fi/3h36QWE)

Podcast Host / Remote Evangelist

Beleco

70% of companies are already hybrid (intentional or not). However most companies do not know how to realize the benefits (up to 50% reduced cost, while increasing productivity and engagement)

Beleco helps companies with the transition to Hybrid, through subscription based furniture for Offices and Home Offices. 

As Head of Hybrid I lead our internal Hybrid Transformation, and act as a thought leader with the wider community. 

As VP of Sales, I am  building a World Class Sales Organisation, to help our customers with their Hybrid Transformation, and create great workplaces for their employees - wherever they are.

Head of Hybrid / VP of Sales

NetSuite

Sales Manager, Nordic Startup & Scale-up segment. 
Led the turnaround of an underperfoming sales team of 11 remote account executives.

Sales Manager, Nordics

Google

Leading Google's engagement with startups across Northern Europe (Nordics & Benelux) 
- Grew function by >120% to 42M ARR
- Managed Google's portfolio of top 10 Scaleups to help drive hypergrowth (~200% YoY)
- Engaged with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem to support top 100 startups at scale

🚀 Head of Startups, Northern Europe

- Account Executive for Spotify, one of Google Cloud's top 3 customers globally (>300M ARR)
- Grew product adoption -> account revenue by 57%
- Led team of 16 cross-functional Googlers (Stockholm, New York, Dublin)

Account Executive, Top Account, Google Cloud

Business developer responsible for larger technology partners in Northern Europe and FRITES. Worked with two of Sweden's most exciting startups, helping them develop world class ad-tech products. 

Responsible for progressing and closing the largest deal in Channel Sales EMEA history.

Strategic Partner Developer, Channel Sales

- Helped Secure 50M SEK investment form Norrsken Foundation
- Hired and managed product and tech team
- Responsible for product strategy and development

Head of Product

Kugghuset AB

- Responsible for Future Labs (Product development hub)
- Managed design and development of a sales competition tool for Bambora
- Implemented internal sales pipeline & dashboards
- Trained colleagues in relationship driven sales

Product Developer

Seed Nordic

Startup Accelerator / Startup Factory

- Invested in 3 startups and led them through a 4 month program (1 exit) 
- Delivered startup-as-a-service innovation projects (6 weeks from idea to first paying customer)

Sample projects:
- Bambora Growth Capital
- Butlr
- Pimobo
- Frameworks
- NYFoodBox
- GetSocial

CEO / Product Developer

Serendipity

Serendipity Innovations was a management company with specialist expertise in innovation processes and early corporate development. 

- As a business developer I supported clients with their innovation needs, while continuously identifying establishing and growing new businesses.
- I was the initiator of S:Growth Accelerator, which we spun off and renamed Seed Nordic.

Business Developer

Head of Hybrid @ Beleco 🏡👨‍💻 Subscription based furniture for office and home office 📢 Remote Evangelist 🌟

🚀 On a mission to inspire a million people to live better lives through better work
🌟 Strategic thinker with 19 years experience across consulting, technology, commercial & people roles. 

Chief People Officer at Ultimate Beauty, ensuring that our people are happy, healthy engaged and able to do great work remotely.

🎙️ Podcast Host for "The Future is Remote", I engage in insightful conversations with industry leaders and thinkers in the remote work landscape.

Kenneth Hellem

Oyster®

Reporting to the VP of People, I am responsible for developing, aligning, and driving the execution of Oyster hiring strategies and talent programs, with overall responsibility for TA Strategy and management of our Global Talent Acquisition team. 

My core focus in this role includes:

• Maximizing efficiency, enablement, and planning for our global recruiting efforts
• Building a high-impact hiring strategy to ensure we have the talent required to drive business success
• Aligning programs to drive key initiatives within our internal and external hiring strategies
• Headcount management, recruiting enablement and insights, candidate experience and internal mobility programs
• Iterating and advancing our talent acquisition capacity model to accurately inform the optimal allocation of resources to meet hiring needs across our global workforce

Senior Manager of Talent, Programs and Operations

Using new technologies, and their accompanying data, to design process improvements, streamline and scale strategies, and optimize outcomes—all in the name of helping our global recruiting team become more efficient and effective. 

Areas of focus include:

📊 Workforce and Headcount Planning
🌟 TA Strategy & Operational Excellence
💡 Training & Enablement
🧰 Recruitment Tools & Systems Management
🕵‍♀️ Data Analytics and Reporting

Senior Global Recruitment Operations Manager

Responsible for designing, building and implementing programs and processes to improve the operational and cross-functional efficiencies of our globally distributed Talent Acquisition team.

🧰 Implemented technology (TalentWall, BrightHire and TruePlan) and process improvements that facilitated efficient global recruiting at scale and contributed to its growth. 

⚡️ Collaborated with recruiting leadership, cross-functional teams, and third parties such as Greenhouse to identify issues, goals, and solutions that resulted in higher recruiter productivity.

📈 Utilized a data-driven approach to assess and impact the resolution of issues and opportunities.

Global Recruitment Operations Manager

HIGHER Community

Member of the world’s largest talent acquisition community with 10,000+ international members and counting. Driven by a global community of TA leaders from the world’s fastest-growing companies, HIGHER’s goal is to provide a levelling up for the talent acquisition function by amplifying the impact of the most ambitious professionals in this space.

MessageBird

Responsible for the global recruitment strategy, operational effectiveness and delivery efforts for the Revenue & G&A recruitment teams; together we hired over 160 new Birds around the world in 2021.

Managed, coached, developed & scaled a global team of five high performing Recruiters who fuelled MessageBird's global expansion across EMEA, APAC, LATAM and NORAM for the following teams:

Sales Development | Mid-Market & Enterprise Sales | Solutions Engineering | Partnerships | Customer Support | Customer Success | Technical Account Management | Marketing & Sales Operations | Legal | Finance | People | Internal Operations

Manager, Global Talent Acquisition

Onfido

Wunderkind

Founded in 2012, Wunderkind (formerly BounceX) orchestrates real-time, multichannel marketing programmes customised for every individual web visitor. 

Recognised as one of the highest-rated cloud companies to work for in 2018 & 2019, I established their EMEA recruitment function and built all hiring processes from the ground up. Taking both a strategic and tactical approach to the role, I built their Enterprise Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and Design teams.

Lead Recruiter | EMEA

Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform

Nexmo is a CPaaS company providing communication APIs & SDKs. Tasked with growing the SaaS commercial organisation across EMEA, APAC and Americas, key highlights during my time at Nexmo include:

Implementing new hiring, interview and on-boarding processes.

Scaling our global Mid-Market and Enterprise SaaS sales teams in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

Building our Pre-Sales, Customer Success & Sales Enablement functions from the ground up.

Enabling expansion into new markets by directly sourcing VPs of EMEA, APAC an N.America.

I had an absolute blast partnering with the business to directly hire 144 humans during my time here. Many of my stakeholders have been kind enough to leave recommendations from my time partnering with them on my profile.

Lead Recruiter | Commercial

Contentive

I joined Contentive (part of the Blenheim Chalcot group) during an accelerated period of growth and scaled the team from 30 to over 100 humans across London, NYC and Hong Kong in this stand alone role.

This was a stand alone and an all-encompassing Talent Acquisition, HR & People Operations role in a fast paced, high growth start-up. My passion for building businesses definitely stems from my time here, as does my GSD mentality :)

Head of Talent

Blenheim Chalcot

Blenheim Chalcot is an international start-up incubator with over 40 companies and 4,000 employees within its portfolio.  Within the central Talent Acquisition team, I partnered with start-ups as they rapidly grew from initial concepts to successful organisations, hiring their technical, digital and creative talent.

Talent Acquisition Partner

Aspire

Successfully sourced Digital, Technical and Creative talent for a variety of brands including; MailOnline, InSkin Media, Ebuzzing, Telegraph Media Group, Hearst Magazines, IPC Media, Ocean Media Group, Wowcher,

Senior Recruiter | Creative & Technical 

Bearing Partnership

A part of Bearing Partnership’s technical division, I served the growing demand for exceptional technology professionals producing scalable Digital products and services.  I  strengthened their capability in providing highly skilled development, infrastructure and project management staff on a permanent and contract basis.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Career highlights: hiring over 500 people in 70+ countries. Speaking at RecFest, Knebworth 🎪

What brings me joy: designing, building and implementing talent strategies, programs and processes that enhance experience and improve efficiencies. Oh and data 🤓

What do I do: reporting to the VP of People and partnering with the C-Suite and Executive team, I lead the Talent Acquisition department at Oyster and own all things global Talent, Programs and Operations 🌐

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