Nelya Pearson

Member Board of Trustees

Worktree

Jun 2025 - Jul 2026 (1 year 2 months)

Board Trustee Member of in employability charity. Worktree has delivered 1000s of career support sessions to school age children and young people in UK.

Talent Acquisition Lead

Geoteric

Mar 2024 - Apr 2025 (1 year 2 months)

( via Nelly Works) Frontrunner in AI seismic interpretation software, Geoteric is one of the most exciting software companies in the Energy sector globally. ✅ Supported global hiring efforts across Geosciences, Commercial/GTM and Software Engineering roles globally - 20 + hires in 12 months, working part time. ✅ Led Talent Ops projects to support scaling: implemented Ashby ATS, Metaview AI Notetaker and Sourcing Agents, Salary Benchmarking), hiring manager onboarding ✅ Tactically supported talent Mapping, and headhunting in existing and newly established regions: UK, Brasil, Norway, UAE, Malaysia, US

Founder & Principal Talent Partner

Nelly Works

Oct 2023 - Current (2 years 11 months)

I'm the Founder of Nelly Works, Talent Consultancy helping category defining start-ups scale their teams. We know how to sell the mission, move fast with integrity and find the best talent. We offer: 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 Acquisition Partners — in- house talent acquisition support on a monthly subscription model for rapid, flexible scaling. 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 — one off support with technical, GTM & leadership hires. ✉️ nelya@nellyworks.com

Talent Acquisition Partner

Zencore

Oct 2023 - May 2026 (2 years 8 months)

(via Nelly Works ) Headquartered in San Francisco, Zencore is a Google Cloud Premier Partner consultancy. ✅ Supported Zencore with scaling team in Europe across AI, Data, Cloud and GTM roles.

Senior Recruiter ( Supported WhatsApp, Facebook, Meta Reality Labs , Instagram)

Meta

Mar 2020 - Mar 2023 (3 years 1 month)

✅Full cycle recruitment of UX Researchers, Research Scientists and ML specialists for WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Reality Labs, and other product areas in EMEA ✅Delivered Managing Bias/Diverse hiring training to senior stakeholders. ✅Coordinated remote events to attract top senior diverse product talent from EMEA ✅Scaled interviewer pools and delivered interview training in UK resulting in faster time to hire and improved candidate experience scores ✅Coordinated candidate coaching/interview prep programme for UX Research this improving conversions across the process. ✅Coached junior colleagues and new hiring managers

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Senior Recruiter

Scape Technologies

May 2019 - Feb 2020 (10 months)

(ML /Computer Vision DeepTech Start up - Acquired by Facebook) ✅Hands on recruitment for all technical hires: Software Engineering(Python, C++, JavaScript, Mobile), Machine Learning and Computer Vision Researchers, Interns and AR/VR specialists ✅ Led strategy on defining and scaling company’s Talent Brand ✅ Represented company at industry events/pitching product concept to passive candidates ✅ Rolled out Unconscious Bias interview training ✅Introduced key hiring data metrics/reporting

Talent Manager

Hubble

Nov 2018 - May 2019 (7 months)

(PropTech AI B2B platform) ✅Managed all recruitment for the company, reporting to COO ✅ Scaled team from 30 to 50+ through mainly direct recruitment ( Software engineering, business development, technical sales, marketing and interns) ✅ Improved people operations/HR and recruitment processes ✅ Coached stakeholders in hiring best practices: interview training, sell calls coaching; ATS training; ✅ Improved diversity hires across technical (48%) and sales(52%) teams.

Principal Recruiter - Technology

Provide

Aug 2016 - Nov 2018 (2 years 4 months)

✅ Established and led Connected desk ( smart cities, connected home, energy) ✅ 360 recruitment for data, ML, engineering, product and commercial roles

Practice Manager - Oil and Gas/ Energy division

Provide

Jun 2012 - Jul 2016 (4 years 2 months)

✅ Established and led Oil and Gas recruitment division ✅ Business development and hands on recruitment for energy operators and vendors (focusing on G&G solutions providers) in UK, EMEA & US across R&D, Scientists, Commercial and Engineering hires ✅ Represented company at all industry events ✅ Trained and managed a team of 5 Recruiters ✅ Multiple Top Biller awards

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Progressive Global Energy

Aug 2010 - Jun 2012 (1 year 11 months)

✅ Executive and contingent searches for key Oil and Gas companies in EMEA & US across niche engineering and R&D roles (expat and local hires) ✅ Worked with leading consultancies to hire passive sales and technical talent ✅ Trained and mentored Trainee Recruiters

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