Sarah-Emily Oades

VP People & Talent

Eucalyptus

Jan 2026 - Current (9 months)

Leading People, Talent and Business Operations for Eucalyptus (Juniper, Pilot, Compound), the international digital healthcare company acquired by Hims & Hers in 2026.

I lead an international People & Talent function of now ~30 across the UK, Australia, the Philippines and Japan, with hiring and employment operations in Germany and Canada, a full CPO-scope remit spanning talent acquisition, executive search, HR business partnering, people operations, total reward, employee relations, culture and engagement, DEI, L&D and workplace.

Function build: unified People and Talent into one function, rebuilt and realigned the team around the business, hiring its leadership layer (People Ops, Exec Recruitment, HRBP, TA) and rai

Advisor

Koa Health

Dec 2025 - Current (10 months)

Chief People Officer & SVP Operations

Koa Health

Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 (5 months)

As Chief People Officer & SVP of Operations at Koa Health, I combine strategic HR leadership with operational oversight to foster a culture of inclusivity, efficiency, and growth. In this dual role, I’m committed to aligning HR strategies with business objectives, championing DEI, and ensuring employee well-being through innovative programs and global talent management.

On the operations side, I lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance business efficiencies, streamline processes, and support sustainable, scalable growth. From driving operational excellence and optimising resource allocation to fostering cross-departmental collaboration, my focus is on building resilient structures that empower teams and enable Koa to deliver

Talent Consultant

Eucalyptus

Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 (5 months)

As a Talent Consultant, I am focused on two key priorities within the Global Talent function:

- Leading the end-to-end executive search for several VP & C-Suite positions, managing everything from role scoping and stakeholder alignment to sourcing, interviewing, and candidate management. I partnering closely with the COO, CCO, and CEO to ensure alignment on leadership requirements and a strong candidate experience.

- Accelerating the build-out of the European engineering hub, scaling from a small team to a target of 20 FTE by year-end. This includes overseeing hiring strategy, driving direct sourcing, and collaborating with agencies. I worked closely with the CTO and VP of Operations to deliver hiring outcomes in a fas

Chief People Officer & SVP Operations

Koa Health

Oct 2024 - Aug 2025 (11 months)

As Chief People Officer & SVP of Operations at Koa Health, I combine strategic HR leadership with operational oversight to foster a culture of inclusivity, efficiency, and growth. In this dual role, I’m committed to aligning HR strategies with business objectives, championing DEI, and ensuring employee well-being through innovative programs and global talent management.

On the operations side, I lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance business efficiencies, streamline processes, and support sustainable, scalable growth. From driving operational excellence and optimising resource allocation to fostering cross-departmental collaboration, my focus is on building resilient structures that empower teams and enable Koa to deliver

VP, People

Koa Health

Apr 2024 - Oct 2024 (7 months)

Strategic Advisor

Workflow

Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 (5 months)

Strategic Advisor

Harper

Nov 2023 - Jul 2024 (9 months)

VP, People

SEON Fraud Fighters

Apr 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 10 months)

Talent, People, Culture, Org design, DEI and L&D and much more including various ops projects.

- Built out a (really incredible) Global Multifunctional People & Support Team for APAC, EMEA & Americas
- Review & relaunch of Global Employee Benefits (UK, US, JK, HU)
- Implementation of Organisational design and levelling structure with career pathing
- L&D focus with: LMS implementation (Juno Journey), Language learning, Manager Training
- Global Compensation Benchmarking including total reward (ESOP et al)
- Global policy review around parental leave, hybrid working, Bullying, Discrimination & Harassment.
- Overhaul of Global Performance Review to include 360 feedback, Development plans
- Implem

Head of People (Via Blossom Advisory)

THREAD

Mar 2022 - Aug 2022 (6 months)

Part-Time, interim Head of People, advising Founder, COO & CEO helping to grow Thread & provide people support including infrastructure, sponsorship, Organizational Design & ER.

- Adhoc ER duties covering performance management and significant management enablement
- Advisor to founder/ COO/CEO for all people related topics, particular focus on scaling and engagement.
- Implementation of HRIS and review of ATS creating more clarity for staff and preparation for fundraising
- Total Benefits review for a group of 90 people, focus on adding EAP increasing engagement exponentially

Talent Consultant (Via Blossom Advisory)

Socialsuite

Mar 2022 - May 2022 (3 months)

Reporting to Board, Scaled SocialSuite GTM, Customer Support & BD teams US & AUS
- Worked directly with CEO and investors to scale GTM org by 25 people, reducing TTH to under 27 days
- Advised on EVP, TVP & EB - leading to 17% increase in applications and increase in engagement
- Compensation and Total reward review for Australia & US GTM teams, reducing offers declined to 0.

(Interim) Global Director of People & Talent (Via Blossom Advisory)

MATCHESFASHION

Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 (7 months)

- DEI 2022 framework incl. public pledges, ENPS & ERGs
- Partnerships with London College of Fashion, Access Aspiration, She Can Code, BYP.
- Internship and Tech Immersion program Class of 2023
- Re-structure of the People & Talent Team with a special focus on engineering hires

(Interim) Global Director of People & Talent (Via Blossom Advisory)

Amboss

Feb 2021 - Sep 2021 (8 months)

+ Embedding of Values into all People processes,
+ Data and Reporting as part of people processes, with a focus on clear reporting, Team KPIs
+ Hiring Enablement - Interviewer & Unconscious Bias Training, Process realignment,
+ Employer Branding/EVP and Candidate Experience in 2021 and Beyond,
+ Upskill, restructure, hire and and provision of career frameworks for the Talent team.

In addition to this I also completed several rounds of executive coaching, and delivered insight or structure to organisational design, market expansion, job banding, job levelling and compensation frameworks.

(Interim) Global Head of Talent & DEI (Via Blossom Advisory)

Zego

Aug 2020 - Feb 2021 (7 months)

- Large focus on scaling up - predominantly Tech >100 August - December 2020, ~300 2021
- Strategic initiatives incl D&I, Data and Reporting & Hiring Enablement in 2020
- Dramatically increased representation in 2020- From August 27th to December 31st 2020 we have upped female representation in Tech & Product from 9.6% to 30.6% and BAME 15.7% to 27.2%. In non tech we launched similar hiring sprints, resulting in significant increase in representation across the board.

(Interim) VP, People, Talent & Culture (Via Blossom Advisory)

IMMO Capital

Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 (6 months)

Working with a small team at IMMO, a real estate fintech disrupting residential real estate, to scale the team and create the best experience for our people.

My time here has straddled HR, Recruitment, L&D, D&I and OD and working with the C-suite. Specifically this has included:
- Culture & Values roll out, globally
- Growing the team, trippled in size
- DEI initiatives across people and Talent
- Implementing Performance management & Manager enablement
- Implemented ATS, Talent metrics and reporting
- Total Reward review & org levelling structure
- Extensive policy work across 3 countries, all very different

Employee engagement, Total reward, coaching, L&D, project management, perfor

Head of Operations & Marketing Talent, EMEA

Uber

Nov 2019 - Jul 2020 (9 months)

Leading Operations & Marketing Talent Team for the Uber portfolio, including Uber Rides, UberEats and UberFreight in EMEA.

Additionally D&I POC for EMEA TA.

Head of Sourcing, Sales & Campus Talent, EMEA

Uber

Sep 2019 - Nov 2019 (3 months)

Leading an amazing team across multiple disciplines within the People Team for EMEA.

The Team focussed on:

- Sourcing Channels across all Lines of Business to include Operations, Sales, Corporate and Tech for EMEA.
- Sales for Uber for Business, UberFreight and UberEats.
- Campus Recruitment for all Lines of Business including MBAs and Masters.
- EMEA wide D&I campaign focussed on Sales Hiring

Head of Sourcing, Channels, (Interim) Sales and Campus Talent

Uber

Feb 2019 - Sep 2019 (8 months)

Leading Sourcing, Sales and Campus Talent, across UberEats, UberFreight, Uber Rides and Uber for Business - with a focus on EMEA.

Built Sales Recruitment Team in response to the expansion of the UberEats and Uber for Business brands.

Head of Talent, Americas & UK

YOOX NETAPORTER GROUP

May 2018 - Feb 2019 (10 months)

Offered a new assignment which added leading the Talent Team in the Americas across the NET-A-PORTER.COM, THEOUTNET.COM, YOOX.COM and MRPORTER.COM business areas to my responsibilities.

Heavy Supply chain/ Logistics contingent to the US role including hiring of over 1200 peak season interims.

Projects included:
- Design and Implementation of new A

Head of Talent, EMEA

YOOX NETAPORTER GROUP

Sep 2017 - May 2018 (9 months)

Interim assignment leading the Recruitment Team of 14 across the NET-A-PORTER.COM, THEOUTNET.COM and MRPORTER.COM business areas as well as MBA, Executive and all non-tech recruitment with full P&L responsibility.

The Team is made up of Senior Recruiters, Recruiters, Sourcers and Coordinators.

Working closely with our people teams, we are executing on a full Talent Transformation across the YNAP group.

Projects include:
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Blossom Advisory

Aug 2017 - Dec 2025 (8 years 5 months)

Boutique Business Consultancy offering Executive and Founder Coaching and interim People and Operations 'plug and play' support. Helping Leaders be better. We advise primarily startup and scaleups, Series A-D, across Org design, conflict resolution, EQ, Manager enablement, International Expansion & Scaling, Policy, People Process, Talent, Total Reward and many other people and operational related topics.

Current Projects include:
- A complete EVP review & rework covering comp, benefits, payroll and people processes for a recently funded start up,
- A commercial expansion into the US market covering set up and initial hires
- Coaching two Series A Founders.

Interim People Director (via Blossom Advisory)

oBike Global

Aug 2017 - Sep 2017 (2 months)

− Hired small local team of 2 to help with roll out of 8 countries in 8 weeks, completed in 6weeks
− Full cycle Recruitment role also including HR responsibility for Payroll, ER, People Development and some Government Relations

Senior Partner, Global Leadership

Bookingcom

Sep 2016 - Aug 2017 (1 year)

Booking.com is the world’s leading accommodation site and one of the largest global e-commerce players.

From the Amsterdam HQ I was the first hire out of a small team of 5. Together, we were the first step to moving from a 100% Agency led Executive hiring model to a predominantly directly hire model. In the first 9 months we achieved 90% in direct hires.

Team consisted of : Recruiter, Sourcer and 2 Coordinators.

Main Focus was on Global Leadership hiring for Marketing, CS, PS and Bookingsuite.

Global Talent Acquisition Manager

Travelzoo

Nov 2013 - Oct 2016 (3 years)

Full global remit across EMEA, NA and APAC in addition to a special expansion project in Sydney.

Worked on multiple projects focused on streamlining Recruitment processes & re-aligning chain of responsibility in order to more closely monitor metrics across NA. In particular focusing on creating a better candidate experience, ensuring parity between departments' interview experience and improving the visibility of the Travelzoo brand as an employer.

Additional tasks include but not limited to:
• Recruitment of Sales, Publishing, Production, Customer Service and IT & Finance roles
• PSL and Recruitment Marketing
• Recruiting from Graduate to Executive level across the US and Europe
• Forging excellen

Recruitment Manager Europe & North America

Travelzoo

Jul 2011 - Nov 2013 (2 years 5 months)

Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO) is a profitable, high-growth, Internet media business with annualized revenues of $148 million. Every week, we engage with an audience of 26 million members worldwide. With 25 offices around the world, we engage with colleagues and advertisers from more than 11 countries every day. We provide outstanding benefits, training programs and travel opportunities. Our favorite benefit is the "Travelzoo Experience" - ask me about it!

During this time I completed on-site assignments in NY, Singapore, Munich and London.

Working as Talent Acquisition Manager here includes the following tasks:
• Full Recruitment Cycle EU
• Talent Strategy within Europe
• Recruitment of all Sales, Publis

Interim Corporate Recruiter

LivingSocial

May 2011 - Jul 2011 (3 months)

• Located in the London Headquarters, I was responsible for all Multilingual Recruitment within the UK/European division of LivingSocial.
• Recruitment for Sales, Production, market planning, creative.

Legal Consultant (Private Practice & In-House)

Al Hilal Group

Jan 2011 - May 2011 (5 months)

Recruiter

Euro London Appointments

Sep 2009 - Jan 2011 (1 year 5 months)

Managing and expanding Ops desk - global clients including Mercedes, Apple and Lego.

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