Matthew Rainbird

People & Culture:

• Lead and host Demochamp, a weekly cross-functional demo day to foster collaboration and showcase team innovation.
• Organize and manage initiatives to boost employee morale and strengthen team culture, including quarterly Fix, Hack, Learn weeks, and team-building events.
• Develop and distribute weekly pulse polls to assess team sentiment, and work closely with leadership to address concerns and feedback.

Process & Operations:

• Designed and maintain team SharePoint site and manage Microsoft Teams channels to streamline communication and knowledge sharing.
  Build and implement scalable processes to support team operations and improve cross-functional efficiency.

Talent Strategy:

• Developed and delivered training for Microsoft's ANZ Global Talent Acquisition team, enabling them to effectively recruit for specialized roles within our organization.
• Provide ongoing coaching and support to recruiters and hiring managers; play an active role in candidate sourcing and interviews.
• Co-designed and implemented the hiring process, ensuring alignment with team goals and culture.

Procurement & Vendor Management:

• Manage the procurement lifecycle for software and services, from vendor evaluation to purchase and onboarding.
  Collaborate with stakeholders to assess needs, ensure compliance, and optimize procurement processes.

• Joined Microsoft's global talent team through the acquisition of Clipchamp.
• Actively hiring software engineers, product owners, designers, and marketers to upscale Clipchamp's development capabilities.
• Work across the business with multiple internal organisations to attract and secure top-tier talent.
• Partner with various hiring managers to create seamless hiring processes, generate offers, and develop strategies for ongoing success.
• Interviewed candidates using different interview methods and approaches.
• Take part in indirect sourcing through events and non-traditional sourcing methods.
• Actively contribute to diversity and inclusion by increasing diverse slate, as well as designing new job posts and direct messages which appeal to diverse audiences.

• Operated as trusted advisor and subject matter expert to build strong and credible relationships with senior leaders, hiring managers and critical stakeholders.
• Interviewed candidates using different interview methods and approaches.
• Wrote and posted technical job descriptions.
• Built and executed sourcing, assessment and closing approaches to manage return on investment expectations.
• Utilise various points of data to influence processes and hiring manager decisions.
• Actively mentoring and upskilling engineering team members and hiring managers to create seamless hiring process.
• Implemented various sourcing strategies to identify high-quality candidates.

• Company Overview: Luminoso Recruitment was a start-up boutique specialist IT, Digital, Product and Marketing agency based in Brisbane & Sydney, servicing companies nation wide
• As a senior consultant is was my responsibility to adopt new clients, manage existing relationships, build out talent pools and pipelines and ultimately increase revenue by placing candidates.
• Unfortunately due to the pressures of COVID, Luminoso Recruitment Brisbane had to seize operation.
• 50/50 role of business development, client engagement and sourcing and placing candidates across various positions and companies.
• Successfully placed dozens of candidates and also running hiring campaigns for selected partner businesses.
• Increased company revenue and brought in new business through various streams.
• Luminoso Recruitment was a start-up boutique specialist IT, Digital, Product and Marketing agency based in Brisbane & Sydney, servicing companies nation wide

• Company Overview: Just Digital People is/was Brisbane's premiere Digital and IT recruitment service provider
• As a business, our focus was targeting and serving the top digital/ technical talent & companies.
• As a consultant, I championed recruitment for software development, data, cloud and operations based roles, particularly in small to medium and startup companies.
• 50/50 role of business development, client engagement and sourcing, placing candidates across technical and digital positions, focusing on small - medium sized companies.
• Worked with and added multiple organisations across Australia to our ever growing list of partners.
• Successfully placed many candidates across IT & Digital.
• Just Digital People is/was Brisbane's premiere Digital and IT recruitment service provider

• Company Overview: Stellar is a blue collar recruitment agency based in Brisbane who are well known for their involvement and services within oil & gas and blue collar industries
• I was brought in to Stellar to build out their technology devision to service their existing clients with recruitment as well as bring new business in.
• Successfully launched Stellar Recruitments technology devision servicing new and existing clients whilst increasing market.
• Stellar is a blue collar recruitment agency based in Brisbane who are well known for their involvement and services within oil & gas and blue collar industries