Marina Romanova

International AI company with offices in Dubai, London, Malta; doubled in size over the course of a year (80 -> 160 team members).

Partner with stakeholders to support our combined success by delivering HR solutions to business problems. Some recent examples of solutions:

• Worked in partnership with leadership to transition the company from goals to OKR's to meet company business objectives and align on a vision
• Designed and delivered performance management process to increase employee feedback and foster a high performing culture
• Managed the annual Employee Survey from implementation to data analysis to actionable planning with leaders
• Design and drive employee experience through people operations programs, communication process, systems and tools, ensuring scalability and efficiency all the way
• Launched an employee recognition platform to increase engagement
• Partner in creating, implementing, updating, and interpreting company policies and procedures
• Manage e2e people operational services, focusing on simplified, compliant and optimized process to stakeholders
• Investigated and resolved complex employee relation issues.

Partner with founders to build a robotics startup from scratch:

• Develop overall strategy for organizational evolution, future state structure, talent development and engagement initiatives
• Partnered with executive leadership to create vision, mission and values
• Develop foundation of HR structure (i.e. employee value proposition, compensation/job architecture, onboarding process, performance appraisal) to create a strong People Team and foundation for startup organization.

• Role objective: Partner with BU management teams to attract and retain the best talent, develop and implement effective HR strategies and plans, deliver HR programs and services in order to support employees' engagement and development.

HR Site Lead for Russia R&D Center and Baltic countries.

• Key HR partner for the Site Leadership Team with responsibility for: advising people leaders, roll out of global HR programs, workforce management & transition, employment engagement and community involvement
• Responsible to implement People Operations Shared Services Model in Russia and Baltic countries.

• Lead the HR activities for St. Petersburg R&D center in the wide scope that includes workforce planning, hiring, talent development, succession planning, performance management, compensation & benefits and employee relations
• Act as the first contact for the management and employees in HR related matters and facilitate communication between operations and human resources.

Full HR support for the M&A process.

Full HR support for the M&A process.

Full cycle recruitment process.