Marina Dögg Jónsdóttir

As Head of People Experiences at Starbreeze, I partner closely with leaders to build a high-performing, human-centered organization. I lead work across people strategy, leadership development, performance, culture, and organizational effectiveness, supporting teams through growth, change, and uncertainty. My focus is on creating clarity, trust, and sustainable performance — ensuring leaders have the tools and capability to enable strong execution while maintaining a healthy, engaged workplace.

End to end recruitment working with games and tech teams.

- Responsible for recruiting for Nicosia, Berlin, Paris and Guildford - Leading recruitment efforts from scratch for a brand new Wargaming studio, DPS Games. Built up a team of 120 people. - Designed and implemented recruitment strategies for DPS Games - Managing a small team of recruiters and co-ordinator - TA partner to various departments across Paris, Berlin, Guildford and Nicosia, both at a strategic level but also hands on recruitment - Recruiting and advising with C-level leaders - Recruited across Europe, US and APAC - Deep knowledge of Greenhouse to manage and track recruitment - Using reports heavily to impact and influence recruitment when and where needed

Main responsibilities: - Consult with hiring managers to identify/scope recruitment needs and develop/implement effective sourcing strategies. - Provide a great candidate experience from initial contact until hired - provide great hiring manager experience - Build strong partnerships, networking and community engagement. - Identify qualified applicants, conduct screening interviews, coordinate onsite interviews and evaluate applicant qualifications. - Explore innovative ways of sourcing candidates through social media and other on-line capabilities. - Search, build and maintain networks of candidates/sources to build a strong talent pipeline - Educate and influence hiring leaders on candidate skills, recruiting processes, strategies and market conditions. - Track critical recruitment data, produce regular reports on recruiting activity for the business, using Greenhouse - Play games in my free time :)

- Recruiting end- to end mainly for Game Development but also Marketing, IT, Finance and HR. - Responsible to align recruitment and leading recruitment efforts between Shanghai, Atlanta, Reykjavik and Newcastle - Sending recruitment reports to relevant stakeholders within the company - TA partner to different managers across disciplines to make sure we´re hiring the right talent, at the right time at the right cost - Part of the broader HR team to ensure alignment and to hit goals based on the TA strategy

Main responsibilities: • Responsible for regular review and continuous improvement of the CCP recruitment process to ensure best practice and top professionalism • Provide excellent market practices and techniques to facilitate sourcing, professional evaluation and efficient hiring • Excellent knowledge of sourcing, inclusive of social media technology, and selection techniques • Build excellent relationships with hiring managers to provide advice and guidance throughout the recruitment process in order to keep it as professional as possible • Drive the recruitment process through our online ATS experience • Full-life-cycle in in-house recruiting (to hard to hire locations Atlanta, Newcastle and Reykjavik) with primary hires resulting in placements within Art, Engineering, Design, Production, Finance, HR, IT and Admin. • Working closely with Universities to find young promising talents • Responsible for scheduling interviews, debrief sessions and maintain excellent relationships with candidates • Develop and maintain strong candidate relationships, requiring regular touch points to build a strong talent pipeline • Advice on attendance at relevant job fairs/conferences to source talent candidates • Have a good knowledge of what´s happening in the game industry; new games, what other companies are doing, how they do it etc. • Despite not being a hard core gamer, I play games whenever I can to be on top of things high-level when talking to candidates and co-workers. I´m not just any recruiter, I´m a dedicated games industry recruiter.

Assist with recruiting and staffing logistics Performance management and improvement tracking systems Employee orientation, development, and training logistics and record-keeping Assist with employee relations Company-wide committee facilitation and participation Company employee communication Compensation, benefits, immigration administration and record-keeping; Employee services Maintaining employee files and the HR filing system Assisting with the day-to-day efficient operation of the HR office

Taught Danish

Taught Danish