
Pierre-Jean Hillion
Senior Growth Marketer
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Growth Manager with proven expertise in scaling digital products and driving revenue growth. Successfully grew a new insurance product from 0 to €1.3M ARR in under a year at BlaBlaCar and built a 7,000+ subscriber newsletter focusing on growth strategies. Specialized in full-funnel optimization, from acquisition to monetization, with deep experience in SEO, Product Growth, paid channels, and CRM strategies.
Work experience
Fractional Growth Lead
The Growth Mind 🤖Freelance
Feb 2025 - Present
1 year 9 months
Paris, France
I help product-led startups design scalable acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization systems to drive predictable revenue and long-term growth. I can help you with: 🔹 Product-Led Gowth & Sales (PLG + PLS): Implementing the right mix between self-serve growth & sales-assisted conversion. 🔹 Acquisition & Organic Growth: Scaling demand through SEO, content loops & paid marketing. 🔹 Activation & Retention: Improving onboarding & product engagement through experimentation & lifecycle marketing. 🔹 Monetization & Pricing: Optimizing pricing & conversion paths for revenue growth. 👉 If you’re a startup looking to structure your growth strategy and scale, let’s chat.
Senior Growth Marketer
Rayon.design
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
9 months
Paris, France
Rayon.design is the fastest tool to create perfect architectural drawings. My mission was to structure and scale Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Product-Led Sales (PLS) strategies to drive sustainable growth and optimize conversions. Some key achievements: 1. Product-Led Sales Funnel: Scaling high-quality demo bookings • Developed a PQL (product-qualified lead) scoring system to segment users into PLG (self-serve) vs. PLS (sales-assisted). • Built automated CRM campaigns to engage high-value leads and drive demo bookings. • Results: 5–6 fully automated demo bookings per week with ICPs. 2. Organic Growth Engine: +130% traffic on SEO pages & 2M+ monthly Pinterest views • Built a scalable content engine repurposing templates into SEO pages, Pinterest pins, and blog articles. • Launched 30+ SEO landing pages targeting strategic keywords (use case, persona-based, “alternative to” pages). • Pinterest Growth: +4,900% impressions in 6 months (40K to 2M+ views), publishing 3,000+ pins and driving a regular flow of sign-ups. • SEO Traffic: +130% organic traffic in 6 months, with a system designed for long-term growth. 3. Paid Acquisition & Growth Experiments • Managed Google Ads and Meta Ads campaigns targeting architects and interior designers with an LTV/CAC > 3. • Built and optimized campaigns and creatives to target ICPs while reducing CAC. 4. Student Referral Program: From MVP to viral loop • Designed and tested a referral program MVP to validate the concept. • Scaled the program with tech integration, creating a viral acquisition loop. • Results: Boosted student sign-ups and drove continuous low-cost acquisition.
BlaBlaCar
Oct 2021 - Jul 2024
2 years 10 months
Growth Manager - WE Carpool Marketplace & Insurance
Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 7 months
I'm currently working in the Western Europe Carpool Growth team. My main day-to-day tasks are: • Create and execute Growth & Revenue strategies • Define the right Growth levers and channels (Pricing, Virality, CRM, Paid, Product touchpoints) to acquire, activate and retain users • Work hand-in-hand with Marketing, Product and Tech teams to implement those strategies • Analyze and report on Growth KPIs • Experiment to find new growth levers Over the past few months, I: 👉 3.5x the share of drivers we redirect from BlaBlaCar to BlaBlaCar Daily, thanks to the implementation of a redirection flow composed of in and outside product bumpers 👉 Led a cross-team growth task force (product/marketing/data) to 2.5x the number of successful drivers volumes on BlaBlaCar Daily 👉 Built Pricing projects & and tests to either maximize revenue or member's success 👉 Led a Steering Committee on improving BlaBlaCar & BlaBlaCar Daily drivers' funnels conversion 👉 Collected 40k+ feedbacks from our community to improve BlaBlaCar meeting points quality and member's experience
Growth Manager - Insurance
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
1 year 4 months
Paris, France
I grew a new car insurance product from 0 to 3,000 customers - 1.3m€ of ARR value in < 1 year: 👉 Designed from scratch the full funnel Growth Strategy, playing on marketing & product levers (User flow and landing pages CRO, CRM, Social Ads, SEA, SEO) 👉 Managed acquisition, activation and retention 👉 Launched a fully automated and personalized CRM strategy bundled with ads retargeting, making 1⁄3 of our growth engine on autopilot 👉 Increased conversion rate of optional carpool insurance product by 20% by improving opt-in app screen 👉 Built and implemented the tracking plan and website/app analytics 👉 Reporting to C-levels and partners on Growth KPIs
Member - Growth Series + Consumer Growth programs
Reforge
May 2023 - May 2024
1 year 1 month
Skills: Marketing · Product · Revenue · Growth
Growth
Blocs et Compagnie
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
10 months
Paris, France
Launch of Geowallet, a new SAAS designed by Blocs & Compagnie : • Set-up of Acquisition & Sales stack, Tracking plan • Enrollment of first users (beta test) and customers • Feedback loop build with the engineering team to improve our product during the beta test and find product market/fit • Users researches • Closing first partnerships • Paids Ads (Facebook + Google) • SEO, content creation (landing pages, blog, calculators), website management Tool stack : ⏩ CRM : Hubspot ⏩ Google Suite : Analytics, Search console, Tag Manager, Ads ⏩ Facebook Ads ⏩ CMS : Wordpress + Umso ⏩ Automation : Zapier & Phantombuster ⏩ SEO : SEMRUSH & SimilarWeb
Business Developer
Lifen
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 3 months
Paris, France
I worked at Lifen in the Inside Sales team, whose goal is to help liberal doctors to digitalize their communication and modernize their activity : • Prospection, closing and account management of doctors, through an email & call strategy • Growth strategy : creation of emails & calls cadences, writing of email templates, design of sales content (videos, presentations, commercial offers) • CRM : Key User Salesforce for the Inside Sales team
Growth & Partnerships Manager
Koala Insurance
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
1 year 9 months
Paris Area, France
Koala designs innovative travel insurance products, sold 100% online. I set up a Growth/Partnerships B2B strategy with 0€ of Marketing : • Creation of the entire acquisition/sales funnel • Lead generation : emailing + content from a pipe of contacts created from scratch ➡️ +50 meetings booked and thousand of contacts created into CRM • Set up of partnerships with European airlines and travel agencies ➡️ 1 airline - 700k passengers/year, and 2 travel agencies - +50k passengers/year closed
Marketing & Communication
Endeavor México
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
5 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Endeavor works to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs worldwide. I worked in the Digital Marketing department, where I participated to the development of a new Content Marketing strategy : • Benchmark of high-impact entrepreneurs and promotion of their activities (videos, cases studies, success stories) • Newsletters writing • Researches on different topics to support the Marketing team
Trainee Marketing
Editions Législatives
Feb 2016 - May 2016
4 months
Marketing Internship in the "Editions Legislatives", famous French legal editor: • Participation in a customer investigation (appointments, realization and analysis of reports ) • Presentation of the HR service to the customer relationship service • Case studies on HR and professional social networks • Campaigns of phoning
Education
Emil
Tracking & Product Analytics
2022 - 2022
2 months
Growth Tribe
Immersion Growth Marketing | 6 Weeks
2021 - 2021
2 months
IPAG Business School
Master 2 (M2)
2014 - 2019
5 years 2 months
Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor's degree
2017 - 2017
2 months
Lycée François 1er
Baccalauréat
2011 - 2014
3 years 2 months
Licenses & certifications
Consumer Subscription Growth
Issued: Feb 2024
Growth Series Program
Issued: Nov 2023
Hubspot Champion User
Issued: Apr 2020
Fondamentaux du Marketing Numérique
Issued: Oct 2019
Google Analytics pour les débutants
Issued: May 2018
Portfolio

Boosting BlaBlaCar new drivers’ success with pricing
