Steven Machin
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Technical Hiring @ Ashby
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Technical RecruiterAshbyJan 2026 - Current (9 months)- Talent Acquisition ManagerCMapJul 2025 - Dec 2025 (6 months)
- Senior Talent Acquisition ManagerGetsafeSep 2023 - Jun 2025 (1 year 10 months)Owning Talent Acquisition efforts, predominantly across the Tech function:
- Making key hires across Engineering, Product, Design, Data - as well as Technical Leadership.
- Developing best-in-class process and structure to underpin an outstanding hiring culture.
- Working with stakeholders of all levels across the organisation, to implement a hiring-first culture where team-building, candidate experience, and hiring excellence is all part of an established company standard. - Senior Talent Acquisition ManagerAmbossSep 2021 - Jul 2023 (1 year 11 months)At AMBOSS, I partnered with the Tech, Product, and Design teams at Amboss to build successful, sustainable teams alongside hiring managers and hiring teams of all levels of experience.
AMBOSS primarily operates in Germany and the USA - so it was crucial to understand both markets, and to be able to adapt to new locations across both countries quickly and efficiently.
I worked across a small talent team, seeking to build a successful hiring culture through establishing high-quality processes and improving existing ones. - Lead Tech Talent Acquisition ManagerSumUpApr 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 5 months)Leading a small Talent Acquisition function within SumUp's Hardware Group.
In this role, I took full responsibility for hiring across a cross-functional multi-disciplinary team of ~100 people - made up of engineering, security, hardware, product, supply chain, and customer care. - Tech Recruiting PartnerÑFeb 2019 - Mar 2020 (1 year 2 months)Took full responsibility for a concentrated hiring push across Backend Engineering roles.
The main challenge here was to build and sustain a robust and reliable hiring pipeline that could deliver 10+ top-quality engineers per month, across all levels from Junior through to Tech Lead. - Recruitment ConsultantEcomJan 2017 - Dec 2018 (2 years)I worked specifically within Berlin to place JavaScript experts into companies across all sectors.
My main objective was to build up a desk within a tech market in Berlin, more or less from scratch. - Tech Recruitment ConsultantAuburn RoseJan 2016 - Dec 2016 (1 year)
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- Bachelor of Arts (BA, HistoryLancaster UniversityJan 2011 - Jan 2014 (3 years 1 month)
- SSouth Dartmoor Community CollegeSouth Dartmoor Community CollegeJan 2007 - Jan 2011 (4 years 1 month)