Maria Dimitriu
Bucharest,Spain
Summary
Tech recruiter with product company experience, focused on high-bar global hiring for engineering and product teams. Top-performing recruiter trusted by senior leaders, known for scrappiness, strong agency, and detail-driven execution that consistently improves pipeline and process quality and exceeds hiring goals.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior Technical Recruiter | EMEA
Stripe
Bucharest, Romania
2025.06 - 2026.05
- Scale Stripe’s engineering presence in Bucharest and expand product hiring across EMEA, supporting regional growth.
- Own and manage complex interview pipelines, keeping candidates highly engaged throughout the process and delivering a best-in-class experience that drives strong offer acceptance and successful closes.
- Act as a gatekeeper for high-quality hiring decisions and pass through rates, and develop robust software pipelines of qualified candidates for near-term and future hiring needs.
- Utilize multiple tools and approaches to identify and source top talent across EMEA.
- Develop strong partnerships with engineering managers and business leaders, act as a SME and advisor for all stakeholders.
- Maintain an expert level understanding of all recruiting processes in an environment that frequently changes.
- Focus on providing a positive candidate experience at every opportunity.
- Partner within cross-functional recruitment programs working group to deliver market intelligence insights, re-engage silver medalist candidates.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Fortis Games
Remote
2024.11 - 2025.06
- Roles covered: Staff & Senior Backend/Frontend/SDET/DevOps Engineers.
- Spearheaded first-of-their-kind global talent searches across Canada, Brazil, Spain, Romania, and Portugal to identify, engage and secure top-tier, product-minded engineers.
- Co-designed and implemented a competency framework for SDET roles in collaboration with engineering leadership, defining core and craft competencies, interview structure, and alignment with company values and engineering standards.
- Defined new role documentation, including structured intake sessions, calibration guides, and market-aware sourcing strategies for emerging and critical technical roles.
- Maintained strong stakeholder alignment through regular syncs, providing updates on pipeline health, challenges, bottlenecks, and iterative learnings from ongoing and past processes.
- Leveraged data insights, Gem automation, and AI agents to optimize sourcing, enhance candidate targeting, and adapt hiring strategy based on business goals.
- Committed to continuous improvement, reflecting after each hiring cycle on how workflows, signal quality, and stakeholder experience could be refined for more efficient, inclusive, and outcome-driven hiring. Implemented efficiency-focused initiatives - automated templates and follow-ups to save time, and smart prospect search for nurturing.
- Ensured a best-in-class candidate experience through transparent communication, constructive feedback, and tailored preparation at each stage of the process.
- Tools and technologies: Notion, Greenhouse, Gem, Workday, Slack, GSuite, LinkedIn Recruiter, Zendesk, AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini).
Senior Technical Recruiter
Bolt
Bucharest
2022.01 - 2024.08
- 360 recruitment for Romania, Germany and Estonia across different business verticals (Delivery, Platform, Mobility) of: back-end software engineers, engineering managers, cybersecurity engineers and data analysts.
- Candidate experience: design, improve the interviewing process and onboard interviewers to increase recruitment capacity.
- Stakeholder management: building relationships that last and bring value, from people team members to directors. Trusted advisor for hiring managers.
- Advocate of company's operating principles, data and DEI.
- Sourcing best tech talent everywhere on this planet.
- Direct contributor to defining and influencing C&B decisions.
Lead Technical Recruiter
Revolut
Bucharest
2021.02 - 2022.01
- Promoted to Lead before departure
- Hiring technical A-Players (Java, Scala, Blockchain) for backend teams across Revolut - Romania | Portugal | Spain | Poland | Hungary | Germany | UK | Ukraine
- Own the full cycle recruiting process including sourcing, interviewing and closing candidates
- Work directly with Revolut technical experts and stakeholders to bring the best candidates to the pipelines
- Contribute to the development of interview, on-boarding and training processes
- Build and own the strategy to recruit at a high volume and fast pace
- Mentor and coach technical sourcers
IT Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
Bucharest
2020.09 - 2021.02
- PM for the initiative of data archival from SAS server to EAP lake.
- Deliver projects and applications for RCA
- Plan and manage all activities required so the projects are delivered against their objectives, in time, in budget and at required quality
- Manage the project resources during the entire project life cycle
- Identify, monitor, mitigate and report the risks and issues for your projects
- Adapt to change and manage the unexpected events that could impact the project delivery
- Constantly communicate with the entire spectrum of stakeholders and ensure that the same understanding about the project deliverables, timeline and scope exists across the entire project team at any moment during project lifecycle
- Create a climate of trust and open communication inside the team
- When needed, participate and contribute to operational sessions with senior management, and the business lines connected to the project
- Deliver reports and present proof of concept solutions to senior management
Senior IT Talent Acquisition Specialist
Deutsche Bank
Bucharest
2019.07 - 2021.02
Lead IT Recruiter & People Partner
Stefanini EMEA
Chisinau
2018.03 - 2019.07
Education
Master's degree - Economics
Universidade da Coruna
A Coruña, Spain 2017.09 - 2018.06
Master's degree - Diagnostic & Evaluation and Business Consulting
West University of Timisoara
Romania 2016.10 - 2018.07
Bachelor's degree - Management
West University of Timisoara
Romania 2013.10 - 2016.07
Skills
- Candidate sourcing
- Resilience and tenacity
- Stakeholder management
- Technical recruiting
- Talent acquisition strategies
- Job market insight
- Global hiring
- Project Management
LANGUAGES
Romanian
Native
English
Fluent
Spanish
Fluent
Timeline
Senior Technical Recruiter | EMEA
Stripe
2025.06 - 2026.05
Senior Technical Recruiter
Fortis Games
2024.11 - 2025.06
Senior Technical Recruiter
Bolt
2022.01 - 2024.08
Lead Technical Recruiter
Revolut
2021.02 - 2022.01
IT Project Manager
Deutsche Bank
2020.09 - 2021.02
Senior IT Talent Acquisition Specialist
Deutsche Bank
2019.07 - 2021.02
Lead IT Recruiter & People Partner
Stefanini EMEA
2018.03 - 2019.07
Master's degree - Economics
Universidade da Coruna
2017.09 - 2018.06
Master's degree - Diagnostic & Evaluation and Business Consulting
West University of Timisoara
2016.10 - 2018.07
Bachelor's degree - Management
West University of Timisoara
2013.10 - 2016.07