Oscar Elliston

Senior Talent Partner @ Attio

About

Leading technical recruitment for Attio Previously built startups for BCG Digtal Ventures and led recruitment for McKinsey Digital in London.

Country

United Kingdom

City

London

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Headhunting, People Analytics, LinkedIn Recruiter, Data Science, Technical Recruiting, Human Resources (HR), Onboarding, Candidate Experience, Start-up Ventures, Start-up Consulting, New Venture Launch, Talent Strategy, Recruiting, Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Corporate Communications, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategic Communications, Social Media, Event Management, Publicity

Experience

Senior Talent Partner

Attio

2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

London Area, United Kingdom

Scaling Attio's technical teams (Engineering, Product, Design) Focused predominantly on Engineering hiring. I am working with Engineering leadership as a full cycle recruiter and talent partner. Refining the roles, processes, headhunting, screening and interviewing

Senior Talent Architect

BCG X

2022-7 - 2025-4 · 2 yrs 10 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Building and scaling startup teams --- I was part of the venture team building new companies for our clients across Europe, focusing predominantly on talent strategy and hiring founding team members. I advised across organisational design, compensation and benefits, location analysis, interview design and employer branding. Previously built ventures: - Global Insurance AI Build: Built a new GenAI engineering and product team. Designed bespoke processes and managed candidates end-to-end, hiring 25+ in 3 months - Climate Tech NGO: Hired 28+ tech professionals to form new tech hub including x4 c-csuite. Additionally, designed interview process and challenges, helped shape company EVP, conducted location analysis. - Practi: Health/Dental-Tech platform for insurance company https://www.practihealth.co.uk/ - 60beans: E-commerce coffee marketplace https://www.60beans.com/

Founding Head of Talent

Practi

2022-10 - 2023-5 · 8 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

A BCG X Venture Working on people strategy and hiring the founding team for a health-tech venture owned by a large insurance player.

Founding Head of Talent

60beans

2022-7 - 2022-9 · 3 mos

Berlin, Germany

BCG X Venture Scaling 60beans' founding team. Working across product, design, engineering and content roles.

Location Lead Recruiter - McKinsey Digital London

McKinsey & Company

2021-6 - 2022-7 · 1 yr 2 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading on all experienced hires into McKinsey Digital in London. Covered areas include but are not limited to: - Digital Strategy Consultants - Software Engineers - Product Managers - Digital Business Builders (Leap) - Designers: product, UI, service designers/UX

BI & Data Analytics Consulting Lead | Technology Consulting

Investigo

2020-7 - 2021-5 · 11 mos

Opening up new clients and filling roles in technology cosulting

Consultant | EPM Lead | Technology Consulting

Investigo

2019-9 - 2020-7 · 11 mos

London, United Kingdom

Placing tech consultants

Delivery Consultant | SAP | Technology Consulting

Investigo

2019-1 - 2019-9 · 9 mos

London, United Kingdom

Sourcing tech consultants

Co-Founder & Director

Windridge & Young

2015-1 - 2018-12 · 4 yrs

London Area, United Kingdom

I co-founded a company initially to focus on B2B and bespoke menswear projects though it grew to cover B2C and e-commerce. I lead operations and marketing; Including but not limited to: > Business development > Procurement, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment > Account management > Digital Marketing, PR & Advertising > E-Commerce, web development, tracking analytics > Finance - VAT returns, year end accounts