Iulia Nicolaie

• Execute full cycle recruitment globally for Grafana for R&D Cloud, Platform, and Security Engineering teams: ICs & Leadership roles
• Builds deep relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, anticipating their concerns and successfully advocating for business priorities
• Effectively analyzes own and immediate teams' metrics to build and influence process improvements ( e.g. conversion rates)
• Proactively solves complex issues and shares best methods with managers and broader organization
• Presented analytical insights on recruitment trends to engineering leadership regularly
• Utilize organization and project management skills to prioritize and lead multiple projects and searches simultaneously

Accomplishments:

• Maintains OAR > 86%
• Highest volumes of hires across a team of 4 individuals in H2 2023 with personal metrics > team average across time to hire/ time in stage
• Project Manager for a strategic initiative to redesign and implement full cycle hiring processes for Backend Engineering teams, scaled best practices across hiring for all engineering department
• Project Manager for a strategic initiative to improve the overall candidate experience during the interview process leading to attracting and retaining top talent, enhancing our employer brand, and increasing overall hiring efficiency.

• Full cycle Technical Recruiter hiring globally on a team of 8 Tech Recruiters EMEA managing 10+ requisitions ranging from Data Engineers, Security Engineers, Android/iOS Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, Frontend/Backend Engineers, Product, Design, and New-Grad Engineers for Elasticsearch and Kibana engineering departments
• Collaborated with top-tier leadership to design hiring plans that met aggressive hiring needs within Elasticsearch teams
• Presented analytical insights on recruitment trends to engineering leadership regularly
• Committed to diversity and inclusion efforts for increased representation
• Data tracking and conversion rates improvement for increased hiring efficiency

Accomplishments:

• Maintains QAR> 75%
• Led D&I initiatives for URG in engineering and technical roles resulting in these groups making up 60% of the offers made Q1/Q2
• Hosted virtual events with Write/Speak/Code, Women In Tech & Make School to help drive internal branding and strongly represent D&I and URGs

• Attracting and hiring top talent for Amsterdam HQ
• Partnered with the VP of Engineering on all 2019 and 2020 engineering hiring. 100% goal reached by 2019 and at 85% for 2020
• Organized and facilitated weekly sourcing jams to fill hard-to-find positions in mobile engineering (iOS/Android)
• Conducted weekly hiring sync meetings with the Engineering leadership team to monitor progress and develop strategic plans
• Extend, negotiate, and close candidates on job offers

Accomplishments:

• Maintained a candidate offer-to-close ratio of over 85%
• Implemented a new applicant tracking system GH, reducing administrative time by 20% and improving candidate experience by 15%
• Created and implemented training content including sourcing techniques, candidate qualification, effective interview preparation, negotiation, and closing
• Implemented Metaview across engineering teams