Lead IT Recruiter in Romania
Diana Bragă is the Lead IT Recruiter in Romania at Alcor, helping US and European tech product companies build specialized senior-level engineering teams across Romania’s tech market. With 10+ years in IT recruitment, Diana has guided startups and scaling tech businesses alike – building teams from 5 to 50 engineers, with an average time-to-fill of 8 weeks and a consistent focus on long-term fit.
Main expertise
- End-to-end recruitment process management;
- Sourcing and hiring senior engineers across AI/ML, Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, C#/.Net, Ruby, and Swift stacks;
- IT executive search and C-suite hiring;
- Romanian IT labor market expertise, including talent pools, salary benchmarks, and hiring trends;
- Recruitment metrics, analytics, and performance management;
- Team building: assembling engineering teams from 5 to 50 members for US and European tech product companies;
- Recruitment team leadership, mentoring, and career development.
Diana developed her recruitment expertise through progressive roles at Deloitte and Stefanini EMEA, before joining Alcor in 2022. She holds an MBA in International Economics and a CIPD Foundation degree in People Practice. At Alcor, she specializes in sourcing and placing top-10% Romanian engineers – including specialists with rare, in-demand tech stacks – for US and European tech product companies building R&D centers in Romania.
Under Diana’s leadership, her recruitment team achieved a 100% retention rate over four years and raised its average NPS score from 8.9 to 9.6 between 2024 and 2025. Beyond Alcor, she’s a regular speaker at industry conferences on recruitment strategy, emotional intelligence, and leadership.