Pierre-Jean Hillion

Senior Growth Marketer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

CROCRMGrowthSEOCMSGo-to-marketLinkedIn AdsHotjarWebsitesNo-code AutomationsZapierWebflowFramerContent StrategyMeta AdsYouTube AdsGoogle AnalyticsAhrefsFigmaSEAWeb AnalyticsGoogle AdsSEMrushGoogle Tag ManagerCustomer.ioMarketing StrategySocial AdsCopywriting

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)Spanish

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.

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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

Certified by Reforge

Growth Series Program

Issued: Nov 2023

Certified by Reforge

Hubspot Champion User

Issued: Apr 2020

Certified by HubSpot

Fondamentaux du Marketing Numérique

Issued: Oct 2019

Certified by Google

Google Analytics pour les débutants

Issued: May 2018

Certified by Google

Portfolio

Boosting BlaBlaCar new drivers’ success with pricing

Rayon organic growth engine: How I increased by 130% organic traffic

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