At Santa Monica Talent we recently completed senior marketing leadership searches for VP Marketing and CMO roles. During the hiring process, we interviewed over 200 candidates, and have created a summary of what those candidates ‘looked like’.

Seed and Series A founders face countless challenges and dilemmas when it comes to hiring. Part II of this article looks at the key leadership roles we believe Series A start-ups simply have to get right.

Seed and Series A founders face countless challenges and dilemmas when it comes to hiring. Part I looks at the key leadership roles we believe Seed start-ups simply have to get right.

Office vs Remote and 5pm finishes… Welcome to work in 2022!

This is part II of the article on staff shortage. Having recently seen both The Guardian and The Times talk about staff shortages and what to do about them, I wanted to detail my own 2021 experiences.

Having recently seen both The Guardian and The Times talk about staff shortages and what to do about them, I wanted to detail my own 2021 experiences. They are lengthy, so I’ll break them into two parts. Part I below, part II coming next week.

Following FinTech’s lead, InsurTech has become a real growth marketplace and that looks set to continue in the coming years. But in what sub-sectors will that growth occur? And how can startups get their hiring right for 2021 and beyond?

If you’re running a fast-growing start-up, your employees are key to the future success of the company, share option schemes are certainly worth thinking about. We have put together an article with some key insights.

I’ve just published an article on the latest talent trends in partnership with Barclays’ Fintech hub, Rise. It includes my take on how remote working might influence the talent market, how existing roles might be affected, and whether Covid-19 could mark the end of blitzscaling.

At a time when discussion about diversity and inequality in the workplace seems more common than ever, the gender pay gap shows no sign of disappearing. Female thought leaders in the technology sector share their perspectives on the gender pay gap and unbiased hiring in London.

I recently sat down with Mike Baliman of the London Fintech Podcast and spoke about getting a job in tech no matter what age or stage you’re at. I delved into the ways of finding the perfect job if you’re already working in the tech industry and thinking about moving on to something new, or if you’re wanting to break into the tech industry for the first time.

What I learned, and didn’t, from SXSW 2018. I’ve not long been back from the spectacle that is SXSW. What did I learn?I’m glad you asked.