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Anna (Nikitina ) Lytvynenko

Senior HR Generalist / Senior IT & Digital Recruiter / People Operations
Manager / Team Lead

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Location: Ukraine, Montenegro
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Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist & HR Manager with 10+ years of experience in HR, recruitment,
and people management, primarily within the IT industry.

I have 8 years of experience in IT Recruitment, covering the full recruitment cycle, headhunting,
executive search, and hiring professionals from Junior to Top Management level. I have successfully
recruited both technical and non-technical specialists and worked closely with hiring managers to
meet business needs.

I also have around 5 years of experience as an HR Generalist, where I was responsible for building
and improving HR processes, including onboarding and adaptation, employee engagement,
performance reviews, retention, conflict resolution, internal communications and offboarding.

Additionally, I have 2+ years of experience in Digital Marketing in a senior role and 3+ years of
leadership experience as a Team Lead and HR Manager.

My key strengths are strong communication and people-management skills, empathy, a
results-oriented approach, initiative, attention to detail, and the ability to build effective relationships
with both candidates and employees.

Work experience

NDA, Podgorica, Montenegro, full-time

January 2025 - March 2026

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibility:

● Full stack recruiting (tech, non‐tech)‐ from sourcing till Job Offer and pre onboarding.
● Working with social networks and specialised sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, DOU, djinni and
others).
● Active sourcing.
● Conducting the competences and cases interviews (using STAR).
● Actively participate in the implementation and optimization of the recruiting process.
● Identify new channels to attract applicants.

● Participation in onboarding.

Vacancies that were hired: Sales Manages (18 positions), Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Sales
Department, Senior Recruiters (2 positions), HR Manager, Head of the representative office (Romania
and Montenegro), Assistant to CEO, SMM and PPC.



Raxel Tech, remote, part-time

August 2024 - January 2025

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Responsibility:

● Source and recruit IT candidates for technical positions in the EU market, utilizing a variety of
sourcing and recruiting tools.
● Actively participate in the implementation and optimization of the recruiting process.
Identify new channels to attract applicants.
● Engage with potential candidates on social media and job boards.
● Assess candidate’s relevant knowledge, tech skills, soft skills.
● Offer negotiations.

Vacancies that were hired: Senior .Net Developer, Tech Lead .Net Developer.

PASV, online IT school, remote, part-time

April 2024 - June 2024

Senior HR Generalist

Responsibility:

● Analysis, description, automation, design & development of company HR processes.
● Employee lifecycle.
● Recruitment and talent acquisition.
● Contract management.
● Tracking vacation schedules, days off, etc.
● Interacting with managers and CEOs.

Vacancies that were hired: Sales Manager (2 positions), Assistant to CEO, Student Coordinator,
Teachers in disciplines: Machine Learning, Java, General QA, UI / UX Design.

Panda Team, remote, full-time

June 2023 - February 2024

Senior HR Generalist / Lead Talent Acquisition Manager

Responsibility:

As a Senior HR Generalist:

● Providing a full cycle of HR service to the teams, including adaptation, team reviews,
performance appraisal, retention tools.
● Consulting business leaders on creating efficient people management environment; •
Responsible for internal communications.
● HR branding activities.
● Event management.
● Providing support to employees in various HR‐related topics such as leaves and
compensation, gathering feedback and resolving any issues that may arise.
● Being responsible for managing, editing, collecting the information for all employees in the HR
system.
● Production and submitting reports on general HR activity
● Planning and organizing different events of the company.
● Coaching and conflict management, 1:1 meetings.

As a Lead Talent Acquisition Manager:

● Lead and mentoring team of steel recruiters (2 people).
● Recruiting IT and Digital specialists.
● Conducting the full‐cycle recruitment and selection process for different roles.
● Providing job market analysis and reviews.
● Sourcing potential candidates by using different resources.
● Working on job descriptions in cooperation with the Hiring Managers.
● Interviewing candidates for assessing skills and suitability for the position.
● Collecting, inputting and reporting recruitment data and metrics.

Vacancies that were hired: Middle PHP (2 positions), Senior Project Manager, Middle JavaScript
Developer (4 positions), Middle QA (2 positions), Lead Generation Specialist (6 positions), SMM (4
positions), DevOps, Recruiter ( 2 positions).



P-Product, hybrid, full-time

March 2021 - April 2023

Head of Human Resources & Talent Acquisition

Responsibility:

As a Head of Human Resources & Talent Acquisition:

● Design and execute a talent acquisition strategy aligned with business and operational
objectives.
● Manage a team of 2 recruiters & 2 HR assistants.
● Develop strategies to target both active and passive candidates using a variety of tools and
techniques including external market knowledge, job boards, networking sites, recruiting fairs,
industry, social networking etc.
● Oversee the sourcing and selection process i.e. needs definition, creating job ads, sourcing
and screening candidates for current and future opportunities, assessing and presenting
qualified candidates to hiring leaders and facilitating the offer and delivery process.

● Establish recruiting requirements by studying organisation's plans and objectives;
● Meeting with Leads to discuss needs.
● Development HR team (mentoring).

As a Human Resources Leader:

● Implementing and improving HR process: onboarding, adaptation, one2one meetings,
performance reviews, retro, evaluation process.
● Conducting various types of meetings and communications according to human resources
policy of the company: welcome interviews, adaptations meetings, one 2 one and personal
review meetings, evaluation and salary questions, retro, exit‐interviews, etc.
● Supporting employees in solving problems and conflict situations.

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager:

● Full cycle recruiting process for candidates of different levels (Junior/Middle/Senior/Lead):
sourcing, communicating, screening, interviewing, giving feedback, drafting job, offer
negotiations, hiring.
● Cooperation with CEO & Head of R&Ds, Leads and PMs during the recruiting process;
Providing feedback and follow‐ups to candidates.

Vacancies that were hired: DSP, Embedded Engineers, Backend (Java, PHP, .Net), Frontend
Developer, DevOps, QA Manual and Automation, PM, Sales and Marketing, Recruiter, Talent Sourcer.


Telesens IT, Kharkiv, Ukraine, full-time

December 2020 - February 2021

Talent Acquisition Team Lead

Responsibility:

● Design and execute a talent acquisition strategy aligned with business and operational
objectives;
● Manage a team of recruiters responsible for various projects ( 4 recruiters);
● Develop strategies to target both active and passive candidates using a variety of tools and
techniques including external market knowledge, job boards, networking sites, recruiting fairs,
social networking etc.
● Oversee the sourcing and selection process i.e. needs definition, creating job ads, sourcing
and screening candidates for current and future opportunities, assessing and presenting
qualified candidates to hiring leaders and facilitating the offer and delivery process.
● Establish recruiting requirements by studying organization plans and objectives; meeting with
Leads to discuss needs.
● Development recruiting team (mentoring).

Vacancies that were hired: Head of Marketing, Head of Infrastructure, PHP Developer, General QA,
Business Analyst, UI / UX Designer, Recruiter, Talent Sourcer.



Fevernova, recruitment agency. Freelance project, full-time

September 2020 - November 2020

Talent Acquisition Team Lead

Responsibility:

● Design and implementation of overall recruiting strategy.
● Mentoring new team members: Junior Recruiter, Researcher.
● Running a full cycle recruiting process.
● Implementation of automation in the recruiting process.
● Preparing recruitment materials and posting jobs to appropriate job boards.
● Sourcing and recruiting candidates using databases, social media etc.
● Screening candidates resumes and job applications.
● Assessing applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitudes.
● Monitoring and applying HR recruiting best practices.

Vacancies that were hired: 3 Recruiters.

AutoDoc, Kharkiv, Ukraine, full-time

March 2020 - September 2020

Senior Recruiter / HR Generalist

Responsibility:

● Managing the full cycle of the recruitment process.
● Maintaining a complete hiring cycle (from drafting a job vacancy to carrying out all the stages
of selection and making the offer).
● Recruiting, executive search and headhunting of IT specialists of different levels; Providing
feedback to candidates at each selection stage.
● Providing conditions for development and retention of employees.
● Conducting onboarding, retention, one‐to‐one meetings etc.

Vacancies that were hired: PHP Developers (5 positions), JavaScript (4 positions), Manual QA (2
positions), NOC (2 positions), Customer Support (2 positions), DevOps (3 position)


WhiteBIT. Freelance project, Kharkiv, Ukraine, part-time

December 2019 - September 2020

Technical Recruiter

Responsibility:

● Full cycle of recruitment process.
● Direct sourcing and utilizing all available sourcing tools to identify passive and potential
candidates (LinkedIn, job boards, various IT groups and forums, employee referrals, internal
database, etc.);
● Sourcing, screening and evaluating candidates;
● Recruit and select IT specialists of all levels of difficulty according to the requirements
(headhunting, direct search, job sites, creation of job descriptions, presentations of projects
for job applicants);

● Communication and active collaboration with job applicants, clients.

Vacancies that were hired: PHP Developers ( 3 positions), Account Manager, Sales Manager, QA (2
positions), DevOps.



Partida, Kharkiv, Ukraine, full-time

April 2019 - December 2019

IT Recruiter / HR Generalist

Responsibility:

● Managing the full cycle of the recruitment process.
● Maintaining a complete hiring cycle (from drafting a job vacancy to carrying out all the stages
of selection and making the offer).
● Recruiting, executive search and headhunting of IT specialists of different levels; Developing
policies from scratch and maintaining them.
● Providing feedback to candidates at each selection stage.
● Providing conditions for development and retention of employees.
● Conducting onboarding, retention, one‐to‐one meetings etc.
● Participation in HR processes (adaptation, motivation etc.).
● Staff motivation, team building and creation of a good atmosphere.

Vacancies that were hired: Chief Account Manager, Chief Customer Support, CPO, Project
Manager, UI / UX Designer, PHP Developers ( 3 positions), DevOps (3 positions), Front-End Lead,
JavaScript (3 positions), QA (3 positions), Account Manager (4 positions), Sales Manager (2
positions).

A-listware, Kharkiv, Ukraine, full-time

December 2018 - April 2019

Technical Recruiter

Responsibility:

● Managing the full cycle of the recruitment process.
● Working on daily job requirements.
● Understand the skills necessary for open job requirements.
● Sourcing and screening profiles according to the job specifications.
● Screen and Qualify candidates.
● Technical recruiting.
● Maintains an internal database of future candidates and follows the process to maintain the
internal database.
● Prepare resumes for client presentation.
● Present job opportunities to candidates and negotiate contract terms.
● Build and maintain excellent relationships with contract employees.

Vacancies that were hired: Java, NodeJS, Senior Manual QA.

NDA, Kharkiv, Ukraine, full-time

Apr 2016 - Nov 2018

IT Recruiter & Business Assistant to CEO

Responsibility:

● Writing description for vacancies.
● Screening candidates.
● Interviewing candidates.
● HR: onboarding, one 2 one meetings, retro, exit interviews.
● Office management.
● Contract management.
● Tracking vacation schedules, days off, etc.
● Interacting with managers and CEOs.
● Travel support.

Vacancies that were hired: PM, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, .Net, Java, QA.

Education

National Aerospace University 'Kharkiv Aviation Institute', Kharkiv, Ukraine

Master's degree in Project management

2010 - 2011

National Aerospace University 'Kharkiv Aviation Institute', Kharkiv, Ukraine

Bachelor's degree in Management

2006 - 2010

Additional education

Hotspot 2017

International IT HR Forum (conference) 2019

Languages

Ukrainian Russian English

Native Native Upper-intermediate

Achievements

Managed the full HR function as the sole HR professional for an 80-person office, supporting
employees and managers across the entire employee lifecycle.
Led and developed a recruitment team, training recruiters from scratch and helping them build strong
sourcing, interviewing, and candidate management skills.
Successfully scaled teams from 3 to 50 employees, building HR processes to support rapid business
growth.
Managed end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, employee development, performance management,
and offboarding.
Developed and implemented HR processes and policies, partnering with managers to improve
employee experience and support business goals.

Hobbies

Drawing and creative Beauty and shopping Traveling and outdoor Cinema and movies
activities activities with my dog