Christianna Polydorou

Hiring Leader
Building Teams
That Compound

Christianna Polydorou, fractional Head of Talent Acquisition
WHAT I CAN HELP WITH

Hiring for your most critical roles

I make the hires that matter, fast. From technical builders to commercial and operational leaders, I source candidates who often won't apply and fill the role quickly while raising the talent bar.

  • Hiring systems

    Role scoping, structured interviews, scorecards, AI workflows, hiring analytics, onboarding

  • Hiring training

    600+ managers trained across 20+ countries to run a sharp, fair interview and make hiring choices that keeps talent density high.

  • Employer branding

    Compete for talent against companies with ten times your budget.

About

I'm a Fractional Head of Talent Acquisition. I help founders make the hires that actually move the company forward - running searches end to end, fixing how you interview, and building hiring that doesn't fall apart as you scale. You only pay for what you need right now.

Hiring hurting somewhere? Tell me where.

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~1500

hires contributed to across my career in TA, incl. exec hires

600+

team leads trained to interview well, across 20+ countries

40+

markets hired in globally

>90%

offer acceptance rate

Background
  • Many Gifts Consulting
    (Fractional, external embedded for startups)
    Fractional Head of TA
    2025–Now
  • Wolt (DoorDash)
    (In-house)
    Head of Talent Acquisition
    2023–2025
  • Chapter 2 RPO
    (External embedded)
    Talent Acquisition Lead
    2022–2023
  • Klarna
    (In-house)
    Senior Recruiter & Lead
    2021–2022
  • Guanshee
    (Own business, external for startups)
    Founder, China-EU recruitment platform
    2019–2021
  • Nonstop Consulting
    (Recruitment agency)
    Recruitment Consultant
    2017–2018

Testimonials

Christianna played a key role in hiring across the region, with a large number of successful hires. Strong ownership, acts with speed, and an effective leader for her team.
Dimitris Karelos · Regional General Manager, Wolt (Doordash)
She is extremely supportive, a true professional, and her team made our hiring life much easier. The TA trainings were some of the best sessions I have been a part of.
Tofik Suleymanov · Country Manager, Wolt Azerbaijan
Christianna is bright, confident and extremely ambitious, focused on finding solutions. Absolutely comfortable with heavy volume, and consistently exceeded expectations with strong quality results.
Caroline Fredin · Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Talent Development, (Former manager at Klarna)
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3 different ways to work with me

MODE 01

End-to-end search

I help you hire your most critical role/s. From founding hires to commercial, ops, technical or Exec talent. With a guaranteed 5 qualified introductions per role. A fixed fee, not a percentage.

MODE 02

Project

A defined piece of work: build your hiring system, design your interview process, run training for your managers. Fixed fee for the deliverable, not charged by hour.

MODE 03

Monthly Retainer

I embed into your internal team for as long as you need, on a monthly retainer. Helping with hiring and building the engine as well as general people ops. Unplug anytime.

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