Jean de Colombel

Head of Growth

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Ruby on RailsRubyTypescriptSQL QueriesJavascriptSEOMarketing StrategyFinanceSales Strategy

Languages

EnglishSpanish

About me

Intro

I worked at Qonto as a full stack developer in the growth team during 1,5 years and 3,5 years at Pennylane as Head of Growth and #4 employee. I'm available for long-term missions such as maternity leaves, transition management, project management and product growth. My expertise scopes : Fintech, SMB Acquisition, Marketing Costs Audit, Marketing Stack Audits, Rebranding.

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Work experience

Co-fondateur

Ilicompta

Feb 2024 - Present

2 years 9 months

Paris, France

Ilicomtpa is a website connecting entrepreneurs and accountants in France.

Head of Growth

Pennylane

Jan 2020 - Jun 2023

3 years 6 months

Paris et périphérie

Employee #4 - Worked directly with the CEO Implemented the growth engine from 0 to 10M€ ARR (full inbound) Created a team of 5 people and a handful of providers (paid marketing agency, seo agency, freelance developers) to scale the function. Led 2 rebrandings Main successes - Maintained a steady growth of inbound leads with a limited budget - Launched free trial and self-service subscription - Trained people to follow up me when I left

Full Stack Developer - Growth Team

Qonto

Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

1 year 6 months

Paris et périphérie

Growth Marketing Consultant Intern

DEUX.IO - Growth Hacking / Marketing Agency

Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

4 months

Paris Area, France

Product Manager Intern

Homeloop

Dec 2016 - May 2017

6 months

Région de Paris, France


Education

KEDGE Business School

Master in management (Programme Grande Ecole)

2014 - 2018

5 years

Le Wagon

Full Stack Developer, Web Development

2016 - 2016

1 year

Attended Le Wagon Paris (Batch #30). 9-week intensive coding bootcamp learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, git, GitHub, Heroku and Ruby on Rails. Designed, Implemented and Shipped to production a clone of AirBnB and a Rails prototype of Higher ( http://higher.business ).

Lycée Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix - Le Mans

Prépa ECE

2012 - 2014

3 years

Activities and societies: Two-year intensive preparation courses for entrance exams to the top French Business Schools.

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