About Amélie
Recruitment leader with 10 years of experience in Fintech and tech scale-ups, building and scaling hiring functions and partnering with C-levels to hire high-impact talent across GTM, Operations, Risk & Compliance, Engineering & Product, Corporate, from individual contributors to executives, across Europe.
📍 Fintech · SaaS · Payments · Banking · Crypto · Insurtech
🎯 Executives & Leadership · Revenue & Go-to-Market · Risk, Compliance & Regulatory · Product & Tech · Operations
🌍 Europe-wide
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- Wild TalentFounder& Recruitment PartnerJanuary 2026 - Today (5 months)Paris, FranceFounded a recruitment and executive search firm focused on fintech, payments and tech scale-ups.
- Partner with startups to scale-ups to hire key roles (early hires → C-level)
- Advise on hiring strategy, org design and talent market positioning
- Deliver high-quality, targeted searches with strong focus on long-term fit and candidate experience
- SwanTalent Acquisition Team ManagerJanuary 2021 - November 2025 (4 years and 10 months)Paris, France
- Talent Acquisition Lead at a French Tech 120 fintech scale-up, built the entire TA function from scratch, growing the company from 30 to 300+ employees across 6 European cities.
- Led a team of 4 specialists, personally closing 30–60 hires/year (90–150 total/year) across all business functions - Tech & Product, Sales & Marketing, Risk & Compliance, Operations, G&A.
- Designed the full hiring infrastructure (processes, tools, reporting, employer branding) and partnered with founders/C-levels on workforce planning and org design.
- Led international expansion projects, delivering a 90%+ offer acceptance rate and 90% successful probation rate.
- PCN AmsterdamTEAM LEAD - SENIOR RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTJanuary 2017 - January 2021 (4 years)Built and scaled a fintech recruitment practice across Europe Delivered ~25 placements/yearacross GTM, Product, Operations and Risk roles Led end-to-end executive search processes, partnering with C-level stakeholders Developed a strong client portfolio across France and Europe Managed and coached a team of4 recruiters Drove business development and account growth Increased industryvisibilitythrough events such as Money20/20 and Paris Fintech Forum
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Education
- Master DegreeIAE LYON SCHOOL MANAGEMENT2016Human Resources Management