Taryn Louise Bonugli

Senior Talent Acquisition Leader with 20+ years building and scaling recruitment functions at Microsoft, Meta, Yahoo, Zalando, SumUp and Kinsta. I work with tech startups and scale-ups as a fractional TA partner - delivering enterprise-grade hiring leadership without the full-time cost.

I set strategy at board level and deliver hands-on. That means I can build your hiring function from zero, lead your TA team, close critical roles, or fix what's broken - with the commitment of an internal partner.

I specialise in:

→ Search and hiring (Individual Contributor to Executive level)

→ Fractional TA leadership (embedded, 1–4 days/week)

→ 0→1 hiring function builds

→ ATS implementation and optimisation

→ Executive and technical role delivery

→ EVP and employer brand strategy

→ Hiring manager coaching and enablement

Who I work with: Seed to Series B startups. Scale-ups entering EMEA. Tech companies that need senior TA leadership without the overhead.

Strategic TA delivery for Microsoft’s Customer & Partner Solutions (MCAPS) commercial sales organisation

across EMEA, while supporting a major enterprise ATS and career systems migration.

Kinsta is a modern cloud hosting company, with a growing club of 25,000+ customers including startups, e-commerce stores, and Fortune 500 firms. We're motivated by excellent quality, and proud to have received a 97% satisfaction rating from our customers. At Kinsta, we offer a remote-first and flexible environment. We're a highly-driven team that loves making an impact, and we trust in each other so much that we don't need to be tied by spaces or borders to build a brighter future together. As Director of the People Team, I lead and manage core human resources (HR) services, including talent acquisition, employer branding, team member lifecycle management, leadership development, company-wide training, payroll, benefits, compensation, and culture.