Mahmoud Aly

Talent Acquisition @ Semrush | Tech & GTM | Recruiting Community Founder | Sneaker Collector

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Semrushex-High Returnex-Partner & More

Talent Acquisition Lead with over a decade of experience recruiting for some of the biggest brands around the

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I've scaled teams across various functions, including but not limited to Tech & Product, G&A, and Go-To-Market (Sales, Marketing & Customer Ops), and have worked across several industries such as FMCGs, Engineering, and, prominently, I'm also the Founder & Community Lead of ERC (Egypt Recruiting Community), Egypt's first and biggest People & Culture community. What am I passionate 360 Recruiting | Talent Sourcing | Talent Assessments | Employer Branding & Talent Attraction | Facilitation | Artificial Intelligence | Public Speaking | Basketball | Rapping | Dad Jokes | Collecting Sneakers👟Reach out if you want to Views expressed on my LinkedIn profile are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

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GTM Index

  1. SEMRUSHJOB
    1. Lead - TA Business Partner…
      1Y 6M
  2. EGYPT RECRUITING COMMUNITYJOB
    1. Founder and Community Lead
      3Y 4M
  3. NIKEJOB
    1. Tech Recruiting - EMEA
      2Y 11M
  4. MOBIQUITY INC - EUROPEJOB
    1. Technical Recruiter - EMEA…
      8M
  5. ELSEWEDY ELECTRICJOB
    1. Group Talent Acquisition L…
      9M
  6. TALENCEDJOB
    1. Technical Recruiter - Europe
      1Y 5M
  7. PARTNER & MOREJOB
    1. Recruitment Specialist
      6M
  8. HIGH RETURNJOB
    1. Recruiting Lead
      1Y 11M

Time in market 9Y 11MOpen 5Closed 6Stints 11

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  1. Job: High Return — Recruiting Lead · 2016-09 – 2018-08 — High Return Group is a leading Recruitment & HR Consulting firm that serves top clients in the Middle East region. I started as a TA Coordinator and was appointed as the agency's Recruiting Lead after 1.5 years. • Led recruitment for the agency's whole portfolio and managed key accounts such as Samsung, Cargill, ExxonMobil, Mountain View, Vodafone, Etisalat, and others. • Assigned for special HR Projects. (Training / Consultations)
  2. Job: Partner & More — Recruitment Specialist · 2018-09 – 2019-03 — Partner & More is a specialized Recruitment & Consulting Agency that serves top clients in the MENA region. • Led Recruitment for Key Accounts in the FMCG and Consumer Goods industries. • Was in charge of the agency's employer branding activities
  3. Job: Elsewedy Electric — Group Talent Acquisition Lead - EMEA · 2020-08 – 2021-05 — Early Talent Division Lead • Led the Recruitment & University Relations activities for the first Early Talent program across the group and hired the first two batches of our Graduate Development Program (49 Graduates) in different teams for Q1 & Q2 in 2021. • Helped design the program's recruiting process group-wide and supported with onboarding and other HR Ops tasks. Corporate & Industrial Divisions - TA Lead • Led Global Talent Acquisition activities end-to-end for our Corporate & Industrial businesses and managed roles up to VP level across the EMEA region. • Elected as the Recruitment Process Owner for our ATS onboarding & implementation and worked on the Recruitment Process Unificati…
  4. Job: Mobiquity Inc - Europe — Technical Recruiter - EMEA & APAC · 2021-06 – 2022-02 — Mobiquity provides digital consulting services for the world’s leading brands. We are a young, dynamic and fast-growing tech company operating in five cutting-edge areas: Creative Design, Consulting, Technology, Cloud Services, and Analytics. As a Tech Recruiter, I was responsible for end-to-end recruitment for Medior, Senior and Principal engineering roles for Amsterdam, Cape Town, and Sydney offices.
  5. Job: Nike — Tech Recruiting - EMEA · 2022-02 – 2025-01 — During my time at Nike, I was the Lead Recruiter for our Enterprise Data & AI business (~450HC) covering Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Data/Software Engineering, Analytics, Product, Data Governance and more in the EMEA region. I've also been assigned for various support roles hiring for our Partners (Sales) & Retail teams. Next to my Recruiting role, I worked on several side projects, including but not limited to organizing Nike's Tech Meetups in the Netherlands & Belgium, working on a Hiring Manager Training project, and several Talent Market Research projects for several areas, most recently a Generative AI talent research
  6. Job: TALENCED — Technical Recruiter - Europe · 2019-03 – 2020-08 — Talenced is a fast-growing international Recruitment firm that helps top tech companies across the globe find and hire the best techies in the market! I specialized in tech recruitment & talent sourcing for Junior, Senior, and Lead tech talents with different tech stacks around Frontend, Backend, and Fullstack
  7. Job: Semrush — Lead - TA Business Partner - GTM · 2025-02 – present — [Acquired by Adobe] Semrush is the leading brand visibility platform for the AI search era, trusted by millions of marketers worldwide. I'm part of the global Go-To-Market (GTM) team and partner directly with C and VP-level on recruiting & sourcing strategies for several functions (Marketing Analytics, Product Marketing, Digital Marketing, Owned Media, Demand Generation, and Customer Operations & Support) I also lead several strategic TA projects and initiatives across different areas, such as an Interviewers Upskilling Program, Interviewing Process/Workflow Revamp, and AI in TA.
  8. Job: Egypt Recruiting Community — Founder and Community Lead · 2023-04 – present — Founded ERC for the purpose of creating the first Talent community in Egypt where People professionals connect, learn, grow and network! Check our LinkedIn page for the most recent updates and upcoming events🙏🏻
  9. School: University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business — Human Capital Management Diploma
  10. School: Arab Open University - Egypt — Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Management Major
  11. School: The Open University — Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Management Major

Skills

RecruitingTalent SourcingRappingHuman ResourcesEmployer BrandingHeadHuntingApplicant Tracking SystemsInterviewingTalent AssessmentBoolean SearchResume/CV WritingJiraProject ManagementMicrosoft OfficePublic SpeakingLeadershipPresentation SkillsCommunicationCoachingCompetency Based Interviewing

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