Hedvi Kink

I joined the company as Head of People, but quickly found myself stepping into a much broader role and took on more hats to wear. Today, I oversee a range of responsibilities, from internal communications to legal matters and everything people and workplace related. I handle everything from ambiguous, messy problems to strategic execution. My work involves many interesting topics, from consulting on management topics, researching international expansion, resolving cross-team conflicts, and leading projects like our move to a new building built specially for us. I also collaborate with the CEO on fundraising, helping craft our story and build the pitch deck. Additionally, I work with our sister companies, supporting everything from initial setup to growing their teams. It’s the mix of diverse challenges and the opportunity to solve complex problems that keeps me going.

NFTPort has raised $26 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Taavet+Sten and Atomico. Led everything-people-related at NFTPort during a crucial phase. Expanded the team internationally while building the remote-first culture, led employee engagement initiatives, created the first benefits program, and supported leadership in various people related topics, as well as handled downsizing, ensuring a seamless transition for departing team members.

Helped a few tech companies and startups in people related things, like hiring, building their employer brand, employee relations related processes etc. Companies I worked with: Fractory, Guardtime, Supersimple, Bercman Technologies, Videolevels.

Part of Mooncascade's executive team. In a short period of time, helped to grow the HR/admin team, set clear responsibilities and priorities and HR strategy for the next year. Managed to update and improve a lot of things in my area, e.g. updated the perks & benefits package and performance management process. Left the company to take some time off for my little personal project.

Joined Sixfold to grow the awesome team in Estonia, Austria and remotely. Besides hiring people, got to do so much more – from planning and designing new offices to building HR processes.

In November 2017 Rogue Wave Software acquired ZeroTurnaround. I led complex recruitment projects and was responsible for the recruitment function in our European offices. I trained new members in our recruitment team and coordinated their work. My main focus was filling technical roles in Europe and leading sourcing efforts in US and Canada. Our goal was to hire passionate people with the right mindset. In order to do that, we worked together with the global recruitment team on different recruitment initiatives – implementing a new ATS, creating an onboarding process for all the locations, revamping our interview process etc. In addition to recruitments, I ended up dealing with some other HR related tasks as well – employer branding strategy and activities, coordinating relocation process, coordinating onboarding, employment relations etc.

Responsible for everything recruitment & employer branding related in ZeroTurnaround’s offices in Europe and US. Led all the technical, business/sales roles recruitments and trained new members in recruitment team. Partnering with HR partners on other HR related topics. In November 2017 Rogue Wave Software acquired ZeroTurnaround.

ZT had grown a lot over the years and I went in to help it grow even more. My main responsibility was to make sure we are attracting top talent not only in Estonia but from other countries as well. I managed all the recruitment projects from the start to the end and my work didn't end when the candidate took the job, but I also planned the onboarding process etc. If we hired a foreigner, I helped them with everything needed to be done to start working with us. I was also responsible for employer branding related activities and helped out in other HR activities, like employee surveys, employment relations etc.

I was the main partner in recruitments for IT units in Estonia and worked with managers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden. I managed recruitment projects from the start to the end which means that I was responsible for all the activities related to recruitment, for example compiling job advertisements, doing active search and headhunting, interviewing, personality tests etc. I have recruited for many different positions, some examples: developers, testers, system analysts, architects, application administrators, infrastructure engineers, database administrators, department managers etc. In addition to IT recruitments I have had several projects: I was responsible for managing trainee process meant for IT. In 2016 I was Employer Branding Project manager for Swedbank Estonia. In 2016 I was responsible for organizing Open Day in IT meant for IT students. In 2015 I managed trainee summerprogram – planned and organized weekly events during summer for trainees, for example seminars, lunch with managers, trip to the office in Tartu, visiting different co-partners etc. I also participated in different overall HR activities, for example diversity-related activities, career counseling, participating in career fairs, doing cooperation with universities etc. In addition to other activities I was mentoring new team members in our recruitment team.