Dan Matthews

Candidate Experience Advocate | Talent Leader | Scaling High-Impact Teams in Startups & Tech I'm passionate about delivering world-class candidate experiences and using data to improve hiring processes, eliminate bottlenecks, and build scalable recruitment strategies. Currently laying the foundations of all things talent at Ordio GmbH, an innovative startup redefining the Deskless workforce space. Currently, hiring across AI Engineering, Backend, Frontend, Product Management, and Sales 🚀, helping shape a product-led, people-first culture from the ground up. Previously, I tripled the team at Linearity, an award-winning vector graphic design software company 🎨, where I owned both people operations and all hiring of business-critical roles across Engineering, Design, and Marketing. Before moving into the startup space in 2022, I partnered with Klarna during a high-growth phase in Stockholm, scaling engineering teams hiring across Senior, Lead, Principal, and Staff Engineers, as well as Engineering Managers 👨‍💻👩‍💻, to help build Klarna’s highly scalable global payments platform. I am a huge advocate for: 🛠️ Continuous process improvement 📊 Building data-driven hiring systems/processes 🤝 Designing top tier candidate centric hiring processes 📘 Learning how great products (and teams) are built from the inside out Outside work, I’m a gym enthusiast 🏋️, Chelsea FC fan ⚽, recruitment stats nerd 📈, proud girl dad 👧 and yes, Ms. Rachel is an honorary team member in our household 😂.