United States , March 2026 — Certinia has appointed Darien May as Head of Global Talent Acquisition, strengthening its people leadership as the company continues to scale its teams and capabilities globally. In this role, May will lead Certinia’s global talent acquisition strategy, focusing on building hiring programs that support business growth, workforce planning, and a consistent candidate experience across markets.
May joins Certinia after four years with Eventbrite, where he most recently served as Director, Global Talent Acquisition (April 2024 to March 2026). In that role, he led global recruiting initiatives and supported hiring across functions in a fully remote environment. Prior to that, he was Senior Global Recruiting Manager at Eventbrite (April 2022 to April 2024), further deepening his experience in scaling talent programs and strengthening recruiting operations.
Earlier, May worked in Talent Acquisition (Engineering) at Twitter (February 2019 to April 2022), supporting engineering hiring in the San Francisco Bay Area and building expertise in highly competitive technical talent markets. He also served as Technical Recruiter at Google (June 2017 to February 2019), where he contributed to technical hiring for one of the world’s largest and most complex talent ecosystems.
His earlier career includes recruitment and business development roles with Randstad Technologies US and ettain group, building a strong foundation across talent sourcing, stakeholder partnership, and client-facing hiring delivery.
About Certinia
Certinia is a global provider of Professional Services Automation (PSA) software, helping technology and services organisations deliver customer value across the services lifecycle—from opportunity to renewal—built natively on Salesforce. Certinia’s platform includes predictive, generative, and agentic AI capabilities to support improved revenue, margins, and resource utilisation. The company is trusted by more than 1,400 organisations worldwide and is backed by Haveli Investments, Salesforce Ventures, TA Associates, and General Atlantic.
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