Pierre-Arnaud Bouyer

Depending on your size and objectives, I am either: - An Individual contributor: recruiter, (tech) talent acquisition expert, headhunter, consultant - A Manager: talent acquisition manager, head of talent acquisition, or doing change management - A recruiter of recruiters With more than 10 years of experience in the tech sector and references such as Doctolib, Ubisoft, & Platform.sh, you can count on me to scale your company via: - Sourcing and recruitment of tech, business or C-Level profiles (350+ hires) - Hiring AI-focused profiles: SREs, AI solution architects, research engineers, AI scientists, NLP engineers, AI ethics & Fairrness engineer, software engineers, etc - Talent acquisition strategy - Implementation of processes: choice of ATS, negotiation of service provider contracts, hiring/scaling a TA team, reporting, structured interviews and documentation, productivity boost via AI, remote implementation, operational excellence, growing a new tech hub, etc - Trainings, such as "non-discrimination training for hiring" (7 hours) - Coaching individuals & companies regarding successful offboardings - Current clients: tech companies, AI-focused companies, Tier 1 companies - Geography of recruitment: France, UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, US, Emirates, South Africa, Japan, Vietnam - Sourcing: US, LATAM, EMEA, APAC I am a DEI-certified Head of Talent Acquisition, tech recruiter, and former C-Level headhunter, passionate about national and international recruitment, the RecOps function, training and creating sustainable teams to scale qualitatively.

Velvet Consulting is the leading consulting firm in assisting organizations in their customer orientation. Velvet Consulting joined the WPP Group and Wunderman Thompson Network in July 2020 to enrich our marketing transformation expertise, with the multichannel excellence of the worldwide communication leader. Our vocation: generate value at all steps of customer experience. Our obsession: results, nothing but results. Our commitment has been driven by 3 values: excellence, innovation, enthusiasm. Some of my missions at Velvet Consulting: - Processes: creating scorecards + technical tests to build up our assessment center - Market mapping + Tech profiles sourcing - Practical work: full-cycle recruitment for France & Morocco, both for long term contracts and freelancers - Employer brand: ensure that we attract people who want to help our clients (CAC 40 focus) - Strategy: reinforce the company's TA activity on the tech side for the Technology & Digital BU - Data: salary benchmark Results: hiring new collaborators + freelancers for CAC 40 key accounts & the public sector

We're Back Market, the leading marketplace for refurbished devices. Our mission? To fight e-waste by giving expertly restored devices a second life. Some of my missions at Back Market: - Strategy: lead the company's global recruitment activity and strategy across the entire TA cycle for 9 countries, including the growth of a tech hub in Barcelona (dedicated sourcing + implementation of self-training for the recruitment team with a dedicated budget) - Employer brand: ensure that we attract people who want to contribute to an impactful company - Representation: support underrepresented groups and be one of the voices of our brand at various events, podcasts, interviews - Management: manage a team of 13 recruiters, including 1 Senior Lead, several tech recruiters, generalists and 1 Recops profile - Practical work: full-cycle recruitment + conversion of freelance profiles into permanent contracts - Negotiation/purchasing: selecting, testing and negotiating software tools with third-party providers (basket from 7 to 200k)

My missions @Platform.sh: - Drive the company's full cycle global recruitment activity + strategy across 39 countries - Create, lead and animate the company's diversity program (DEI), committee and dedicated teams - Support under-represented groups & be the voice of our brand at various international events and interviews such as the Sourcing Summit (SOSU), Tech Changers Club, BFM Business, UNESCO, French Ministries, etc - Hiring top talent such as C-Level profiles, our Strategy team, Cloud Software Engineers, DevOps/SRE, Strategic Account Executives & follow their impact - Talent attraction + talent retention - Results: from 200 to 400 in 2 years, scaling the team from 1 to 4 TA members, helping close some RFP, scaling a DEI initiative up to 25 members, hiring 3 C-Level, successfully pitching our company to investors and French officials, revamping the interview process by creating 700+ behavioral interview questions, etc Platform.sh is a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for responsibly building, running and scaling fleets of websites and applications. The teams have been working fully remotely for 13+ years, with flexible hours, because we believe in personal responsability and ownership.

My missions @Wynd: - Talent Acquisition strategies & hiring plans - Lead employment branding initiatives - Take steps to ensure positive candidate experience - Assist in employee retention & upskilling - Recruiting for the scaleup : Seniors Key Account Managers, Software Engineers, PO & PM, C-Level Exec, you name it :) - Use metrics to create reports and identify areas of improvement

My missions @Ubisoft : - Recruiting for Paris Mobile Studio : Software Engineers, Gameplay Programmers, Artists 2D/3D, Art Directors, Technical Directors, Producers, Game Designers, Community Developers, Data Analysts.. - Helping with tech events : meetups, hackathons, masterclass, video game contests - Managing a team of talent acquisition specialists / tech recruiters

My missions @Doctolib : - Recruiting for the International HQ : Software Engineers, DevOps, PlatSec, Engineering Managers, etc. We scaled from 320 to 1200 in less than 2 years - Managing some tech events : Medidays hackathon, meetups, contests, cultural team buildings during an acquisition, design thinking sessions, creating a video game room, M&A post event, etc - Branding : culture videos with our CTO - examples of video I helped make are down below - tech & talent teams and post M&A events

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." Leo Burnett I'm in charge of some of Nova's French entity delivery. Which means whether you want to hire talents, gain traction on your market through innovation workshops, work on your brand or look for strategic partnerships, then let's grab a coffee. Project: leadership teams of high growth startups + events, A+ profiles only. About Nova ? It is the one meeting place for top talent and one of the world’s most progressive companies, with 10.000 international members.

Launched in 2008, AMUSEMENT is the first lifestyle magazine on digital culture. AMUSEMENT explores the digital tools that are redefining creativity- questioning their inventors and meeting with the digital-natives putting them to use in the most original ways. You can find it at Colette : http://www.colette.fr/ - Results : interviews with a wide range of gaming professionals, key executives and politicians to take a spin on the latest news regarding their field

Like Leo Burnett said : "Don't tell me how good you make it ; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.". I like international 360° campaigns adapted to local markets. - Hiring Manager & Partner for the Ko-op agency

- Results : 38K sales monthly per store + website & community growth + US partnerships

miLibris is a Paris-based company providing digital distribution services and software tools designed for the book and newspaper industry. miLibris is a technologic answer to the challenges of digital reading. Neither a publisher nor a sales portal, but rather a service provider to stakeholders of the digital publishing chain. - Missions : exploring key new markets opportunities such as pharmaceuticals, luxury hotels, tourism, and offshore activities - Results : successfully tested each market before acknowledging that the company focus should stay on worldwide expansion and having a faster & more reliable platform than the competition

- Headhunting for the Pharmaceutical & Real Estate industries - Talent sourcing & talent management - Results : placing key candidates for companies working with products such as automated serological analyzers, and others in the fields of virology, defibrillation and neurosurgery.

- Creating & organizing premium venues for CEO & managers + MICE - Results : executive business trips for clients such as Boston Scientific, Norton Healthcare, Microsoft, etc

- Luxury Tourism & Fashion, Extreme Sports : CEO interviews & photoshoots - US : Washington DC, Los Angeles, Aliso Viejo - France : Paris, Lyon

- Europe 1 Journalist, Safari Creator, HR, PR & Event Consultant

- For the Heroes of Might & Magic Franchise, in a worldwide team of 6, for more than 80 people - Heroes of Might & Magic 5 sold more than 2 millions units

- 3, 4 & 5 Stars Hotels on site reviews & surveys in London for the ACCOR group

- Also worked on key Telethon operations every other year

Skills: Problem Solving · Interviewing · Easily Adaptable · C-Level Relationships · Business Acumen