Federica De Cillis

Lead and mentored a high-performing team of 4 People Partners across the US, India, Dubai and supported a distributed workforce of 500+ employees; Developed and implemented the first company-wide People Strategy, aligning talent priorities with business goals across all regions and functions, defining OKRs forthe People organisation; Designed and rolled out a new performance management framework, including goal-setting practices, feedback culture, and calibration processes; Builtthe first levelling and compensation architecture forthe company, introducing consistentjob families, pay bands, and ESOP; Drove sensitive and high-impact employment relations cases across EMEA; Partnered with C-suite leaders to create competency frameworks tailored embedding them into development, and performance cycles; Acted as a trusted advisorto senior leadership on org design, talent planning, and culture transformation during a time of rapid workforce shifts and business shifts.

Head of People & Talent EMEA (Oct 2024 - Apr 2025)

Set and lead the People Strategy and agenda for EMEA organisation (200 people) covering UK, Netherlands, Lithuania, France; UAE and

Israel;

Partner with EMEA GM and 8 Divisional leads on all things people

Lead on complex ER cases across all regions;

Lead the EMA People & Talent team (6 people);

Sr People Partner EMEA & Global HR Program Manager (April 2023 - Oct 2024)

Coach managers and deliver innovative team coaching sessions (via Gallup Strengthsfinder) with the goal of nurturing a high

performing and collaborating culture

Designed and implemented all functions’ competencies and career frameworks;

Provide rigorous data analysis and reporting solutions based on business needs;

Develop and deliver talent management strategies to support teams’ growth and individual development plans;

Manage and facilitate the twice a year Performance Cycle and employee engagement surveys;

Drive OKRs and planning for the P&T function globally, designing the strategy and key programs to translate the business goals into a

targeted People roadmap;

Partner with the CPO on designing and driving the key talents strategy, talent mapping and succession planning;

Partner with global People colleagues in the Recruiting, Learning & Development, Compensation teams to implement solutions and

help scale the business;

Global owner of the EMEA DEI strategy which I built from the ground up upon joining the team.

Achievements: the culture and people development programs I designed and delivered at Airwallex have been recognised by Best

Companies with the award “Outstanding” Place to Work for 2024. We were also shortlisted as top 100 “UK’s 100 Best small companies to

work for 2024” and Top best 20 companies in the Regional and Fintech sector. Moreover, the Business Culture awards has recognised AWX as

one the “Best Coaching and development program” featuring us as case study for outstanding work.

People & Talent Partner to the Strategy & Analytics function within Stripe Operations globally (60 people)

Developed the People and Talent Strategy to accelerate effectiveness of the function (which saw 3x growth globally in less than 12

months);

Designed and implemented new competencies and career frameworks and partnered with the Recruiting team to translate them into

interview frameworks;

Provide rigorous data analysis and reporting solutions based on Operations business needs;

Develop and deliver talent management strategies to support team’s growth and individual development plans;

Coached Managers on people related matters including talent assessment, development, organisation effectiveness, and high-

performing team characteristics (via Gallup Strengthsfinder);

Program managed cross functional work streams to solve internal communication and OKRs alignment.