
Marc Douch
Director of Talent Acquisition | Strategic TA Leadership
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Mobility: London
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Founder & Talent Acquisition Director with 10+ years scaling TA functions for high-growth tech companies. Built EMEA hiring from scratch at HiBob ($40m→$200m ARR), led global teams of 8+ recruiters, and delivered 80+ hires in 2 months at sub-$2k cost per hire. I provide fractional TA leadership, systems audits, and scalable infrastructure design to de-risk your growth and transform reactive hiring into strategic advantage.
Work experience
Founder & Principal Consultant
StackBuilders Talent Consulting
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Hoyland, Barnsley S74, UK
– StackBuilders is a strategic talent consultancy designed for growth-stage companies that need to move from ad-hoc hiring to a structured, scalable engine. We provide the expertise of a Talent Director with the flexibility of a consultant. – Key Engagements: – Fractional TA Leadership: Providing strategic oversight and executive partnership for companies. – Talent Systems Audits: Conducting deep-dive diagnostics of TA tech stacks, interview processes, and data integrity. – Embedded Delivery: Managing full-lifecycle recruitment for critical technical and commercial roles, ensuring zero ramp-up time and high-velocity results. – Infrastructure Design: Developing scalable compensation frameworks, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), and structured interviewing playbooks. – Currently partnering with rapidly growing businesses across the UK, EMEA and the US to de-risk their hiring and stabilise their growth.
Global Director, Talent Acquisition
Multiplier
Jul 2025 - Nov 2025
5 months
Hoyland, Barnsley S74, UK
– I joined Multiplier in 2025 to lead global Talent Acquisition, managing a team of eight across the US, Vietnam, and India. Reporting to the SVP People & Culture and working closely with our co-founders, I'm part of the global People leadership team, focused on building a data-driven, scalable TA function that truly partners with the business. – In a short space of time, we've transformed TA from reactive to strategic — aligning recruiters to business functions, introducing structure around position and offer approvals, and embedding real-time hiring metrics and reporting to founders. – We've already extended 80+ offers in just over two months, with a cost per hire below $2,000 and nearly 40% headhunted hires, outperforming SaaS benchmarks. Alongside this, I've led the rollout of a new ATS, introduced consistent global processes, and partnered with functional heads to build 2026 capacity plans that align with our long-term growth strategy.
Talent Acquisition Manager - EMEA
HiBob
Dec 2021 - Jun 2025
3 years 7 months
London, UK
– Since joining HiBob in 2021, I've built and scaled the EMEA Talent Acquisition function from scratch, growing the region fivefold as the business scaled from $40m to $200m ARR. – I lead a team of five across the UK, Netherlands, Germany, and Portugal, partnering with leadership on hiring strategy, workforce planning, and leadership recruitment. My focus is on data-driven, high-quality growth, using insights from Tableau dashboards and our in-house ATS (Bob Hiring), which I helped design and implement globally. – I've also introduced new tools and processes to boost efficiency, launched structured assessment frameworks across Sales, CS, and Engineering, and developed HiBob's global TA pillars: Data-Driven Hiring, AI & Automation, Process Efficiency, and Brand Advocacy. – Passionate about people development, I've built cohesive, high-performing teams (including rehiring and promoting team members) and represented HiBob as a speaker at industry events like CIPD Ireland and HR Technologies London.
Talent Acquisition Manager
Starling Bank
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
3 years
London, UK
– Starling Bank is an award-winning and fully-licensed bank built to give people a fairer, smarter and more human alternative to the banks of the past. We offer four different account types – personal, business, joint and euro, plus a child card. Pairing this with a pioneering payment services proposition for businesses, Starling's world-class tech reimagines banking for life today, putting the tools people need to feel good about money in the palm of their hand. – Starling's head office is in London, but our team works across offices in Southampton, Cardiff and Dublin – and it's growing every month! During lockdown, we quickly adapted to remote working and are still supporting most of our staff to work remotely.
EMEA Recruiter - Sales, Presales, Services and Customer Success
Zendesk
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 3 months
London, UK
– Zendesk was started in a Copenhagen loft by three friends who used an old kitchen door as a desk. They wanted to bring a bit of zen to the chaotic world of customer support. And they wanted to do it with software that was nice to look at and easy to use. – Since then, the company has grown. The software is now built all over the world, by a growing group of talented, charming people. The offices are bigger and we have real desks, but we've held on to the spirit with which we began: be genuine, listen to customers, and keep it beautifully simple.
Resourcing Consultant
EE
Jan 2014 - Oct 2015
1 year 10 months
Paddington, London
– EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, is the first in Britain to offer superfast 4G mobile services alongside fibre broadband. We run EE, Orange and T-Mobile plans, delivering over 27 million customers the best network and the best service so they trust us with their digital lives. – In fact, EE has Britain's overall biggest and fastest mobile network. It's so good that readers of Mobile Choice magazine awarded it best network in the UK. – We are building that best mobile network by investing £1.5bn over three years to rollout superfast 4G mobile services covering more than 160 towns and cities. This builds on our £15 billion investment since 2000 building Britain's biggest 3G mobile network. Our fixed Fibre Broadband service has now reached 15 million households.
Consultant
Oasis HR
Feb 2012 - Dec 2013
1 year 11 months
– Oasis HR is a multi-award winning specialist Recruitment Consultancy delivering HR and Change resourcing solutions across all sectors. As a network-driven consultancy, we offer our clients innovative sourcing techniques; enabling us to attract exceptional candidates who are typically 'passive' job seekers. Our client base encompasses all industry sectors and we have a proven track record of delivering permanent, interim and temporary professionals at all levels across all HR disciplines.
HR Researcher
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
1 year 1 month
Hatfield, UK
– Sourcing the best candidates for mid-senior level HR opportunities across the UK for all industry sectors.
Education
The Nottingham Trent University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology
2007 - 2010
3 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Recruitment Practice Standard
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