Roderick Distler

Reason for looking: Reorg has been acquired by Permira

●Driving candidate and stakeholder experience to reduce offer declines, from over 30% to less than 5%

●I introduced a new structure on hiring process, empowering stakeholders to embrace talent acquisition and establishing a recruitment regular cadence with hiring managers

●I was described as a 'hiring machine' by the Chief People Officer

●In 6 months I hired 17 candidates from New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore, 16 direct hires and 1 referral including Account Managers, Credit Analyst to Frontend Engineers.

●This accelerated a number of teams to help Reorg, from a startup to scale up in 2022.

●Reducing average time to hire from over 90 days to 36 days.

Left due to a global hiring freeze.

●Hiring Pre-sales Engineers, Post - sales Engineers and Sales folks who specialist in AI and Data

Led and mentored a team of 3 sales recruiters from Dublin to Berlin

●I drove and agreed with the Global Head of Sales Enablement to expand our ideal candidate profile to look at non-SAAS sellers for Mid – Market Account executives given the sheer competition for talent.

●Hired 10 folks within 5 months within the Sales organization including 2 Regional Sales Directors for DACH, turning DACH from Red to Green from the CRO perspectives on the Quota carrying sales folks.

●This resulted in less spend on headhunt elsewhere globally as DACH revenues improved numbers.

●I was described as a Change agent: as I redesigned the interview process to be more efficient and streamlined. Adopted across EMEA as the Regional sales directors for DACH advocated internally only after 4 candidates were interviewed.

●I worked closely with the EMEA VP, his regional sales leaders, Head of Compensation to ensure Contentful were hiring sales folks at the right level & compensation to ensure a successful hires and longer term retention.

●These changes resulted in higher conversion rate of candidates through the interview process, while sufficiently reducing the time to hire from over 100 days to 30 days