Overview

Global{M} partnered with the People team at Seqera Labs. 

Global{M} onboarded as an ‘onsite’ Talent Partner to the project, working closely with Seqera Labs’s People & Culture Manager to hire across Technology and other key roles. Within 10 months, we placed 18 candidates into the business. 

Seqera Labs are the creators and leading providers of the open-source workflow orchestration software Nextflow. They connect data pipelines and cloud infrastructure and enable collaboration across life sciences, healthcare, imaging, and machine learning. Nextflow is used by thousands of organizations of all sizes — from startups to large enterprises — to manage their data analysis and get results fast. From personalized immunogenic vaccines to sequencing-based diagnostics, Seqera’s customers are performing the most critical work on this planet. They believe in a future where scientific applications and massive datasets join forces to deliver incredible outcomes.

Why Global {M}

Global{M} was well suited to Seqera Labs’s project, understanding the needs of the Hiring Managers, and the niche market in which they operate and providing expertise to bring new ideas and ensure a great hiring experience.

Challenge

The Talent Partner integrated with the existing team, ensuring the culture and values of this fast-growing company were matched and collaborated with Hiring Managers to get positive results on the candidate process. 

The company is the spin-off of an open-source project, with a niche product. The challenge was to engage tech and non-technical roles in this specific technology. These factors made the search particularly challenging and exciting at the same time.

Approach

The Talent Partner did an initial diagnosis of the talent acquisition processes, to understand the EVP of the company and propose the best candidate experience journey (considering hiring funnels, communications through the different stages and the moments of truth).  

Then, the talent partner met with the hiring managers to work on the expectations and ideal profiles. Kick-off meetings for each role and retrospective session has been organized to keep improving the process with the key stakeholder of the company. 

The talent partner assessed culture engagement from the beginning and made sure that candidates understood the product and business model at every step of the hiring process. 

Close contact with the candidates with a robust candidate experience journey was key to finding and keeping the right talents engaged for this company.  

Results

23 offers, 18 placements in 10 months (November 2021 – September 2022).

Roles Include:

Backend Software Engineers (Java), Frontend Software Engineers (Angular), Backend HPC Engineer, DevOps, QA Engineer, People Operations Specialist, Developer Advocates, Head of Finance, Head of Marketing, Technical Writer, Bioinformatics Engineers, Customer Support Engineer, UI/UX Designer.