Saskia van den Ende

Associate Partner

2024 - Current

Senior Director

2022 - 2024

In my current role I oversee our Scouting and Marketing functions. I am also a business partner to our 45+ portfolio company CEO's, to support them with their HR and Recruitment strategy. Lastly I help with coaching portfolio companies, with a spike in WorkTech.

Scouting Director Europe

2020 - 2022

Antler is the investor backing the world’s most driven founders, from day zero to greatness. In my role as Scouting Director Europe I am responsible for defining and optimizing our Scouting strategy for our six locations in Europe, making sure we attract the best talent out there. I am also responsible for our People & Culture strategy in Amsterdam, including designing HR processes, onboarding and offboarding employees, payroll and contract management, compensation and benefits. Lastly I support our portfolio companies with their Talent strategy.

Advisory Board Joint master Entrepreneurship (UvA/VU)

2022

Advisory Board Position

2021 - 2022

I'm proud to be supporting the Tech Nation Visa team to ensure we attract high calibre tech talent to the UK from across the world. We are looking for individuals with exceptional talent or exceptional promise. I know how important a diverse workforce is in technology and working alongside Tech Nation I know we will be able to ensure more diversity and at the same time narrow the digital skills gap.

Head of Talent Europe (Director) - OYO Vacation Homes

2019 - 2020

OYO Vacation Homes (OVH) is one of the leading vacation rental companies in Europe, and we are active in all segments of our industry: from full-service providers Belvilla and DanCenter to the online marketplace Traum-Ferienwohnungen. As the Head of Talent I was responsible for overseeing all our hiring needs across Europe. I managed a team of 20+ sourcers, recruiters and coordinators across multiple countries in Europe. I designed our hiring processes, which resulted in the company hiring and onboarding >800 FTE's in 6 months time.

Head of Talent Europe

2018 - 2019

OYO is South Asia ’s largest and fastest growing tech company that builds a global hotel chain, founded with a single mission at heart –to help people find an affordable place to stay on every trip. We are backed by the world ’s top investors such as SoftBank, Airbnb, Sequoia, Lightspeed, and others. OYO is expanding its business in Europe. As the Head of Talent I was managing a team of 9 people and overseeing our overall people processes and strategy. Setting up entities, creating a compensation and benefits strategy, a hiring strategy. Within 9 monhts we hired and succesfully onboarded over 150 people in Business Development, Operations and Transformation teams as well as our Corporate functions across Europe (Spain, Italy, France and Germany).

Talent Acquisition Manager

2015 - 2018

Responsible for the growth of our Corporate teams in our International HQ and our hub offices throughout EMEA. Focus on senior leadership roles across Legal, Finance, Product and Marketing teams.

Research

2013 - 2015

Egon Zehnder is a leading global management consultancy and the largest privately held search firm in the world with 68 wholly-owned offices in 41 countries. The firm specialises in senior level executive search, leadership strategy, board consulting and director search, management appraisal, and talent management.

Recruiter

2012 - 2013

Marketing Intern

2011 - 2012