Management · people · technology
For leaders of IT and service businesses
I help decide who to hire, how to distribute responsibility and what to change in how the team works.
First conversation · 30 minutes
Hiring
Who to hire
Changes
What to change
Technology
What to delegate to AI
Bring a specific situation. We'll examine it together and identify what needs to change.
You approve routine matters, settle disputes between managers and get tasks back on track. It's unclear which decisions the team can make on its own.
We examine actual responsibilities and decision-making authority. We clarify who is accountable for the outcome, who makes each decision and when your involvement is needed.
A responsibility map and decision-making rules
Roles are open and interviews are underway, but the team is still waiting for the people it needs. Or it's unclear who to hire to address a business need.
We clarify the requirements for the role. We check the pipeline, technical assessment and the work of hiring managers. We find where time and candidates are lost.
A clear role profile and a plan to improve recruitment
Workload keeps growing, employees are busy, new tasks require expanding the team. First it's worth understanding where the time actually goes.
We break down the work step by step: what to remove, simplify or automate, and where a person is actually needed. For AI, we pick a specific task and a way to check quality.
Priorities for change: where a person is needed, what to automate and which tasks to remove
I investigate your challenge using evidence from conversations with the team, data and working documents
What needs to change, what has already been tried and how we'll measure the result
Where decisions get stuck, expectations diverge or candidates are lost
Priorities, clear responsibilities and a way to assess whether the changes are working
I help implement changes and assess the results. We agree on how we will work together and the level of support your situation needs
Four challenges: what we examined, what we did and what the team gained.
IT company · Consulting projects
Prepared
Connect HR work with business objectives and clarify management roles.
We audited the HR function and prepared a development strategy. In the next stage, we worked with owners and managers to clarify decision-making authority, shared decisions and how to review what had been agreed.
Digital agency
Prepared
Understand how the agency works and prepare practical changes.
We compared employee interviews, delivery processes and time-tracking data. We prepared a change strategy, operating procedures, checklists and a tool for calculating internal hourly costs.
IT company
Prepared
Determine what to change in recruitment and in what order.
We studied the candidate journey and how teams worked together, comparing interviews with recruitment pipeline data. We prepared a strategy, tools for calculating recruitment metrics and an implementation plan.
Technology company · Consulting project
Launched
Turn a team development plan into an ongoing practice.
I prepared a change plan and supported its implementation together with managers. The team launched a knowledge base, employee profiles, seniority levels and transitions between them, 360° feedback and regular meetings.
Experience working inside companies
Alfa-Bank
Head of IT Recruitment and External Staffing
I built an IT recruitment and external staffing division. I developed the recruiting team, hiring processes, analytics and relationships with external partners. Together with managers, I determined where to hire in-house and where to bring in external specialists.
15 000+
IT specialists hired by the team
60+
recruiters in the division
Hiring capacity grew from around 100 to 700+ hires per month.
UTS Group
HR Director
I rebuilt the HR strategy and the performance management and career development system. I developed the employer brand and employee engagement tools, and scaled remote work.
55%
reduction in employee turnover in the first year
Reviews, recommendations and a letter of appreciation
Review
«Vladimir helped us surface problems in product teams and in UX/UI management, and develop a strategy for employee growth and motivation.»
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Yuri Solodovnikov
Alfa Laboratory
Appreciation
«Our joint work on process optimization and developing partner collaboration made a significant contribution to improving the quality of specialist recruitment and strengthening our companies' reputation as attractive employers in the IT market.»
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Maxim Morozov
Aston · CEO
Recommendation
«He can quickly bring order to areas that have worked inefficiently for years, set up collaboration, and make processes transparent and effective.»
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Yulia Pushkaryova
Alfa-Bank · Executive Search
Recommendation
«Vladimir is one of those HR leaders who speaks the language of business. He understands precisely why and how to build recruitment in large technology organizations.»
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Andrey Ganin
MTS · Chief Quality Officer
Recommendation
«I've known Vladimir for many years and can say he is a very attentive professional, deeply immersed in the market.»
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Evgeny Chernov
ROKIS · co-founder and CEO
Recommendation
«Vladimir is an experienced and responsible leader. He is excellent at setting up processes and always suggests great alternatives that make life easier and save money.»
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Nikolay Revin
UTS Group · lead developer at the time of our collaboration
I'm Vladimir Demchenkov. At Alfa-Bank, I built an IT recruitment and external staffing division with 60+ recruiters. At UTS Group, I led HR, including performance management, employee development and retention.
Before HR I managed digital projects and teams. In consulting I work with how businesses are structured: management accountability, hiring systems, people development and work organization. I help make decisions and implement changes together with the team
More about meStart with a specific challenge or ongoing support through change.
There's a problem, but it's still unclear what's causing it and what decision to make.
We agree on the issue to address, review the available data and examine how the team works. We assess the causes, possible solutions and priorities.
Findings and a plan for next steps
Changes need to be implemented and complex decisions worked through along the way.
I help leaders make decisions, prepare changes and assess what happens after implementation. We revisit the plan as new information emerges.
Agreed decisions, priorities and regular progress checks
We'll agree on the scope of work, timeline, cost and my role in implementation before we start.
First conversation · 30 minutes
Tell me what's happening in your company, what you want to change and what you've already tried. In our first meeting, we'll work out whether I can help and how we could work together.
Prefer email? Write to hi@vdem.ai