In this webinar we will look at the essential foundations your business and TA team needs in place when getting ready to scale your hiring. We will talk about how you can use themes to inspire when building your TA function, as you grow headcount at a rapid rate across the business.

Our panellists will talk through their experiences of taking businesses through funding rounds, and the factors to consider when moving from seed to series A (and beyond!), and taking a company from private to public.

We will discuss salary battles for top talent and how to set up a compensation philosophy from the beginning and get buy-in from C-Suite when it comes to compensation/salary levelling.

What you will get from this session:

* A deeper understanding of common growing pains as companies scale and what happens behind the scenes in TA during funding rounds

* Strategies to tackle the nuances when it comes to supporting your recruitment teams with growing rec loads and how to manage hiring manager expectations during hypergrowth

* Knowledge of how to set up your TA teams for growth and the ebb and flow during periods of scale

More about the speakers:

Ben Paton, Talent Director at Talentful

Ben is a startup talent leader with over 10 years experience of hiring for early stage businesses. He has served as a Talent Director at Talentful, having joined when the business was four people, and helped them scale to 200+ in four locations. Whilst at Talentful, Ben has specialised in the tech startup space, and has helped to scale Depop, Gram Games, Tractable, Zopa and Spotahome.

Louise Burgess, Director of Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding at SoSafe

Louise has ten years of experience working in high growth companies in a variety of sectors including SaaS, AdTech, and Cloud Consulting across North America, EMEA and APAC. She has worked with 4 different founder-led businesses and been part of two exits. As well as talent acquisition, she has designed and rolled out onboarding programs, benefit plans, compensation benchmarking and implemented repeatable, scalable processes including implementing tooling such as Greenhouse and Gem.

Jocelyn S. Lai, Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Talent Brand at Duolingo

Jocelyn is the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and Talent Brand at Duolingo. She grew up through the advertising and marketing industry (JCPenney, T3, GSD&M, R/GA, Droga5) and has spent the past four years in consumer tech, where she helped Duolingo scale from a private company of 100 employees to a public company of 750+ employees.

Jocelyn is a regular public speaker and has been recognized by the American Advertising Federation, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, The Wall Street Journal, and SXSW for her achievements.

Recently, Jocelyn was recently named in the T100 list of Global Talent Leaders by Talentful in 2023, was ranked #2 by Talentful's 2022 Top 50 Talent Leaders in Tech, and awarded Pittsburgh's 2021 Culture Builder of the year, which recognises an empathetic leader who is making their workplace more inclusive, resilient and engaging.

Jocelyn holds a B.S. and M.A. in Advertising from The University of Texas at Austin. Follow her tweets at @jocelynslai