Frédéric Bruce

Payplug is a French fintech company that provides an omnichannel payments platform for merchants, e-tailers and fintechs, enabling online, in-store and omnichannel acceptance, conversion optimization, fraud protection and unified payment flow dashboards. In 2017, it became part of Groupe BPCE to create a stronger French-based payments player, serving about 20,000 clients and processing over €12 billion in transaction volume annually. Payplug is now expanding across Europe and aims to become the leading payment infrastructure partner for SMEs and larger merchants in the EU.

Pennylane is a French fintech company that provides an all-in-one platform for accounting and financial management, used by over 350,000 SMEs and 4,500 accounting firms. Founded in 2020, the company has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs, recently raising €75 million from Sequoia, CapitalG, and Meritech at a €2 billion valuation. Pennylane is expanding across Europe and aims to become the leading financial OS for small and medium-sized businesses. 𝘼𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 🎯 -Recruited 8+ talented people for the Product & Support department on complex positions for the Accounting,SME & Connectivity Tribes. 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 : Senior Product Manager, Senior Product Designer,Product Design Manager, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Technical Support Engineer, General Manager. 💻 Stack recruitment : ATS: Lever ; LinkedIn Recruiter ; Dust (AI) ; HireSweet

Luni is a mobile studio that publishes mobile apps across fitness, wellness, productivity, and entertainment. With millions of users worldwide and a portfolio that includes category leaders that are all subscription based apps such as Fitness Coach, Scanner App, and Shorts. The company is one of the most impressive examples of independent growth in the ecosystem, scaling profitably without external funding. Its apps dominate the Utility & Entertainment categories. 𝘼𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 🎯 - Recruited key positions for the Growth, Product & Tech teams such as : Luni's new CPO, Senior UA Manager, Frontend Developer for W2A Funnels + An E-commerce Manager for a new brand acquired by Luni. Also worked on creative positions : Marketing Artist & AI Video Creator.

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads, after Google and Meta. The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL. From January 2024 to March 2025, I was working within the Voodoo TA team as a freelance Talent Acquisition Manager (RPO) focusing on all positions related to the Growth team (User Acquisition, Ad monetization) and the creative team (Lead Creative Manager, Unity Marketing Developers, Marketing Artist's). 𝘼𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 🎯 - Scaled the creative & UA team for the new app division in charge of BeReal and Wizz --> Hired multiple Marketing Artist's, UA Managers and Lead Creative Managers for the team. - Recruited multiple Playable ads Developers & Marketing Unity Developers for the Growth & Creative team working on Voodoo's hybrid-casual portfolio. 💻 Stack recruitment : ATS: Lever ; LinkedIn Recruiter ; Sensortower; Appmagic,Data.ai

Decathlon Technology is at the core of what Decathlon do, from building new ways to empower athletes with connected sports products to securing teammate's smartphones. They engineer software, data, security, and robotics solutions to provide a seamless ecosystem of sports products and services to our 400 million clients worldwide while empowering our 100 000+ teammates. From January 2023 to May 2023, I worked within the Decathlon Digital TA team as a freelance Tech Talent Acquisition Manager (RPO) focusing on all positions related to the Mobile (iOS & Android),IoT, Software & Ops Teams. 𝘼𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 🎯 -Recruited 10+ talented people for the tech department on complex positions for the IoT, Mobile, SAP & X-commerce teams. 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 : Senior Staff Engineers, Tech Lead SAP ABAP/Fiori , Engineering Manager, Tech Lead android, iOS Tech Lead, Node.js Software developers, Java Software Engineers. -Contributed to other topics related to the Engineering TA Team: Implementing Agile Methodologies within the TA team, creation of salary benchmarks for niche positions and improving the candidate recruitment process experience. 💻 Stack recruitment : ATS: Greenhouse ; Github ; StackOverflow ; LinkedIn Recruiter ; Welcome to the Jungle ;

PrestaShop was founded in 2007 with a mission to provide world-class e-commerce software through open source innovation. Today more than 300,000 e-commerce stores run on PrestaShop technology. The company provides software that enables users to have an online store at the lowest cost possible. The PrestaShop open source community includes 1,000,000 merchants, developers and web agencies from around the world. From January 2022 to December 2022, I was working within Prestashop's TA team as a freelance Tech Talent Acquisition Manager (RPO). 𝘼𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 🎯 -Recruited 45+ talented people for the tech department, helping the company grow from 300 to 400 people. 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 : Fullstack & Backend Developers, QA analyst & QA automation Engineers,Devops,Data Engineer,Data Analyst,Lead Agile, Scrum Master -Contributed to ameliorate the company's employer branding for the tech department and contributed to the high performing recruitment process hand in hand with the key stakeholders (CTO,VP Engineering,Head of TA) -Contributed to other topics related to Talent Acquisition and Talent Retention: establishing partnerships and managing relationships with engineering and business schools, and improving the onboarding process. 💻 Stack recruitment : ATS : Lever ; Github ; 50inTech ; StackOverflow ; LinkedIn Recruiter ; Welcome to the Jungle ; Komunity ; RecruitersClub ; Klara

Sidetrade is a leading Global software solutions technology company with a vision to help companies unlock value from their customers using Artificial Intelligence. ✅Consistently delivered opportunities to support Sidetrade revenue targets. ✅Build the perfect pipeline; maintain a high volume of productive daily activities (e.g. outbound calls, emails, social selling) to build a strong, sustained pipeline. ✅Delivering a compelling value proposition to decision makers and influencers. ✅Consultative sales approach while initiating conversations with senior executives in multinational companies to identify pain points that Sidetrade solutions can solve. ✅Define and implement sales strategies. ✅Maintain high level of industry knowledge, best practices and developments within our target markets.

Winning Money Transfer Provider of the Year at the 2020 MoneyAge Awards, Currencies Direct stands out in the foreign exchange industry for its unique combination of payments technology and personalised support from a team of experienced professionals. ✅Building and managing relationships with clients, advising them on strategies in order for them to meet on agreed goals. ✅Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of partnership achievements as well as opportunities to improve revenue performance moving forward. ✅Guide new partners threw the exchange process, negotiate rates and advise on the best time to trade.

Volt is a global workforce solution provider that propels businesses and careers forward with expert momentum. A Fortune 1,000 company with 35,000 employees across 85 offices worldwide, Volt provides workforce management solutions to businesses and job placement services to talent. ✅Working on high volume Engineering & IT recruitment in France for world leading Automotive,Aerospace and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. ✅Building and managing relationships with hiring managers, advising them on recruitment strategies in order to meet agreed goals. ✅Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, Headhunting, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy and offer process. ✅Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.