About Us
Our Founder
Natalija Ulemek
Natalija founded Themis after spending the last decade building transformational teams, and TA functions at high-growth technology companies.
Natalija was most recently leading all of Talent Acquisition at Thrasio. She joined the company as the 200th employee and was instrumental in helping the company scale to 1300 employees in less than one year! Her team was focused on strategically growing Talent Operations and put the right programs in place that propelled the company to raise 3 rounds in less than 18 months.
Prior to Thrasio, Natalija was the Global head of Talent Acquisition at a Global SaaS product company, Deputy. She was the first TA hire, and built the Talent Acquisition strategy and function from the ground up, allowing the company to scale from 50 to 350 employees in under two years. During this time the company raised it’s series A and B rounds.
Prior to Deputy, Natalija was the Manager of Talent Acquisition with Rakuten, one of the largest e-commerce companies globally. She built the U.S. Technical Recruiting function that supported 28 different departments distributed throughout the US.
Natalija currently partners with VC firms to help build out early stage talent for the portfolio companies.
Cara Hendley
Cara has 10+ years of full cycle recruiting experience at startup and midsize companies. Most recently she managed recruiting operations and tech recruiting at CPG startup, Thrasio during a period of extremely high growth. Previously she hired engineers and products designers Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company. She has also recruited for healthcare, higher ed, finance, and travel companies and has built tech teams in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. She cares deeply about DEI hiring and the importance of building these practices into recruitment processes from the start. When she's not working she enjoys cooking, traveling, learning how to sail, and going to the beach with her dog.
Why We Exist
Themis Talent was founded to help early stage and high-growth technology companies hire their teams. Most companies, no matter how brilliant, find themselves stretched thin by the many challenges that growing businesses face. That’s why we built Themis with the partnership and expertise of an in-house team and the focus and speed of a search firm. Yes, the best of both worlds!
Building Unique Partnerships
We find ourselves with the unique ability to invest alongside our clients. As former People Operations leaders at start-ups we understand that bringing on external search resources is never an easy one. We approach talent the same way as investors. As a small team we are very selective in who we work with and are directly involved with our client throughout the whole process.
Themis was founded on the premise that great companies are built by great people.
Even the world’s most revolutionary idea is nothing without the right team to drive and build it.