Julien Simoes

After over a decade in recruitment, empowering startups to major corporations across Canada and the EMEA region to assemble dream tech teams I've decided to launch my own business as a freelance recruiter. My focus? Product 📱, Data 📊, and Engineering 🔧 roles. 𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀: • 𝗥𝗣𝗢: Quick, quality hires and process improvements on a 2-3 day/week basis. I integrate with your team to streamline recruitment, ensuring efficiency and excellence 🌟. • 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀-𝗙𝗲𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Specialized in filling challenging tech roles. I leverage my extensive network to deliver the right candidates for those hard-to-fill positions, ensuring a perfect match for your team 💼🎯. • 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀: Offering bespoke advisory services, I guide early-stage startups through the essential steps of structuring a robust talent foundation, focusing on organizational design and strategic role planning for long-term success 🛠️💡. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁: • 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: A decade of success in tech recruitment, demonstrating a deep understanding of the industry and its challenges 🏆. • 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: With recruitment projects in various countries, I bring a unique blend of global talent acquisition strategies coupled with local hiring insights. 🌐➕🏠. • 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲: My expertise in product, data, and engineering ensures candidates not only meet technical requirements but also fit your company culture 🔍✨. Let's chat! 📧 [email protected] | 📲 +33 7 66 40 26 76 | 💬 LinkedIn DM

1st recruiter at Wave, brought in to build the recruitment function from scratch. Reporting to the VP People. When I joined we had no website, we were operating in an invite-only mode, had no press articles, no blog, nothing...but I do love a challenge! 🎉 Main achievements in 2022: - Helped the team grow from 20 to 35+. - Increased diversity of origin within the team by 20% in 2022. - Doubled the size of our Coaching Practice Team. - Implemented a new ATS (Lever). - Spread recruitment best practices across the company (structured interviews, scorecards). - Designed a hiring manager training. - Built a candidate kit. - Increased Wave's employer brand (WTTJ, Jobgether, Linkedin...). - Created a partnership with a relevant hiring agency (Stakha.io) to support our hiring effort. - Turned into a SDR when we paused hiring. Set up all tools and launch B2B prospecting.

During Stuart's hyper-growth phase 📈, I played a pivotal role in expanding our tech and leadership teams, contributing to an increase from 315 to 750+ talents, with a trajectory to hit 1100 by the end of 2022. Stuart's vision: To redefine urban delivery 🚚 with speed, affordability, and sustainability 🌿. Achievements: - High-Impact Hiring: Directed critical hires, including Stuart's first Head of Product 🎯, significantly bolstering the product team with talents across all levels. My efforts were central to the CPO's strategy to scale and innovate. - Elite Talent Recruitment: Partnered with the CDO to recruit senior Data Scientists 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬, predominantly PhD holders in rigorous fields, enhancing team diversity in both origin and gender—underscoring our DEI commitment. - Influential Leadership: Revolutionized our TA approach by introducing advanced practices and tools 🔧, doubling the TA team's size within a year, and fostering a culture of excellence and growth. - Strategic Partnerships: Built strong, strategic connections with senior stakeholders (CPO, CDO, CTPO, Head of Security, etc.), ensuring alignment with Stuart's growth and innovation goals 🌱. - Comprehensive Expertise: Excelled as a full-stack recruiter, managing all facets from sourcing to coordination, and mentored the TA team in sourcing, DEI, and interviewing techniques 📚. - Global Scope: Supported recruitment for offices in major European cities 🌍, furthering our mission in urban delivery.

I lead recruitment for Design, Product, Enterprise Innovation, and Digital Analytics at Scotiabank's Digital Factory finding top talent that will change the way Canadians bank. • Design (UX and UI Designers, Design Strategists/UX Researchers, Visual designers, Interaction Designers) • Digital Analytics (Data Scientists, Data Engineers) • Enterprise Innovation (FinTech, InsurTech, WealthTech, RegTech Senior Managers) • Product (Director Digital Product Management, Product Owners, Product Managers)

● Hired top talent for Internship, Co-op, and New Graduate Opportunities for multiple business units (Hybrid Cloud/Analytics, Global Markets, Corporate Headquarters, Transformation, and Operations). ● Led recruitment for IBM's Elite Internship Programs, Summit (Sales), and Extreme Blue (Product management) and increased female hiring by +30% for both programs.

● Subject matter expert and point of contact in difficult case assistance to team members in relation to delivering on the below: ● Responded in a prompt and satisfactory manner to queries related to the Bank's HR policies, services, and processes. Ensure the full confidentiality of all employee and client information. ● Took responsibility for the resolution of all employee or client-related inquiries received through various channels. ● Assisted in the growth and the development of HR through trending mechanisms by: - Identifying and escalating trends or issues in training, communication, and system limitations - Identifying opportunities where there is a need for policy review - Efficiently performing: Fiscal 2015 cost avoidance +$4,500 (target $250) - Acting as a mentor for new hires to onboard to processes and policies - Auditing data and utilizing SAP and Horizon systems through investigating inquiries

● Performed requirement gathering and translating business requirements to execute full-cycle recruitment from resource sourcing, selection, pre-screening, pre-employment tests, telephone and face to face interviews, formal offer/contract & feedback, and improvement. ● Practiced direct recruiting via head-hunting/ phone sourcing from competitors and e-recruitment via social media (LinkedIn, job-boards, Boolean search, Twitter). ● First 150 days - Generated revenue of $47.3K with permanent and contract placements and in a newly learned technology space.