Lewis Evelyn

• Headhunt, engage, and close top 0.1% GTM, Sales, Product, and Engineering talent across EMEA and the US - specialising in passive senior and executive-level hiring within Fintech and SaaS markets
• Own end-to-end recruitment delivery across multiple concurrent mandates, from intake and role definition through to offer management and onboarding
• Deliver critical leadership and senior hires at key business inflection points, directly enabling revenue growth, product delivery, and international expansion
• Act as a trusted advisor to founders and executive teams, shaping hiring strategy, organisational design, workforce planning, and role structuring in high-growth environments
• Improve hiring outcomes through market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and candidate insight, increasing offer acceptance and improving speed to hire
• Build and maintain high-quality talent pipelines across GTM, Product, and Engineering, reducing reliance on reactive hiring and improving time-to-fill
• Embed employer branding and EVP positioning into delivery to improve engagement and conversion of senior passive talent in competitive markets

• High growth Fintech scaleup backed by Target Global (incl. Revolut, Rapyd), valued at $500m at exit; joined at Series A (~50 employees) and scaled to business 800+ employees across EMEA markets
• Operated as hybrid individual contributor and talent leader, personally delivering ~60 hires annually across GTM, Engineering, Product, and Executive Search, while leading and coaching a geo dispersed team of 4 recruiters with clear KPIs, ownership, and performance accountability
• Owned global Talent Acquisition strategy, workforce planning, and hiring forecasting, aligning hiring demand with commercial and strategic priorities from early careers through to executive leadership
• Delivered 700+ hires, building and scaling a lean, data-driven, AI-enabled in-house TA function supporting rapid high growth across new expansion markets.
• Delivered executive hires including CFO, CMO, and Head of Engineering through targeted outreach campains, market mapping, competitor intelligence and emotions based candidate closing (selling the role to candiates emotions & goals).
• Built a fully in-house, direct hiring model underpinned by AI, recruitment analytics, and talent intelligence, eliminating reliance on external agencies
• Reduced external agency spend by £2.5m annually through transition to in-house hiring capability and strengthened sourcing infrastructure
• Improved hiring quality plus talent density and consistency through structured scorecards, interview frameworks, and hiring manager capability training, driving better decision-making across all functions
• Increased offer acceptance rate from 92% → 99% and improved quality of hire from 90% → 98%, supported by enhanced candidate experience and structured hiring design
• Reduced time-to-fill from 45 → 32 days through process optimisation, recruitment analytics, and improved candidate pipeline density and sourcing efficiency
• Increased employer brand strength and inbound candidate flow by 45% through careers site optimisation, LinkedIn employer branding strategy, and EVP positioning
• Embedded high perormance culture, DEI, onboarding, and 90-day onboarding experience design into the hiring process, aligning interview frameworks and leadership hiring standards with values-led behaviours and guiding principles.

• Joined at Series B as employee ~20 and founding Talent Acquisition hire, building the hiring engine and systems from the ground up across the UK and US.
• Operated as a hybrid individual contributor and People Operations lead, owning full-cycle recruitment, workforce planning, and talent strategy, while also leading People Operations including onboarding, compensation & benefits, reward frameworks, and employee relations.
• Scaled the organisation from 20 → 200+ employees across the UK, Canada, and US, supporting rapid international growth and organisational expansion.
• Led org design, workforce planning, reward, compensation, and salary frameworks, improving consistency and market alignment.

Acheievments

• Designed and implemented scalable hiring frameworks and recruitment playbooks, while leading DEI, employee engagement, and employer branding initiatives to support growth and retention.
• Owned and managed core HR and TA systems and AI tech stack (Greenhouse, PeopleHR, Meta View, LinkedIn Recruiter), improving operational efficiency, data visibility, and hiring workflow consistency.
• Delivered £1.5m annual agency cost savings per year through building a fully in-house, direct hiring model while maintaining key PSL agency relationships for executive search where required.
• Reduced time-to-fill to 32 days and increased quality of hire from 90% to 99% through structured hiring frameworks, assessment design, and hiring manager capability development.
• Improved employee engagement by 20% through implementation of AI-enabled HRIS systems and optimisation of people processes.
• Improved candidate and employee experience (cNPS 30 → 50) by enhancing hiring processes, onboarding experience, and hiring manager alignment.
• Increased employer brand strength (Glassdoor 3.0 → 4.5 stars) through structured employer branding initiatives and improved candidate experience.
• Standardised global recruitment operations and people programmes through scalable HR and TA systems, ensuring regional alignment, regional regulatory compliance and employment law.

• High-growth SaaS AI scale-up backed by Sequoia Capital (Apple, YouTube, Airbnb, Reddit, Figma, Klarna).
• Joined at Series A and enabled growth to a $1B valuation, joining as employee ~50 and founding Talent Acquisition hire.
• Designed and scaled a global talent acquisition operating model from the ground up, scaling the organisation from 50 → 800+ employees across the UK, US, Canada, and China.
• Owned global workforce planning, TA strategy, and TA operations, building and leading a lean, high-performing recruiting function in a fast-scaling environment.
• Operated as a hybrid individual contributor and TA leader, delivering ~70 hires per year across GTM, Product, Technology, and Executive Search in a highly hands-on capacity.
• Built real-time talent dashboards and hiring analytics frameworks, reporting directly into senior leadership to drive hiring prioritisation and decision-making.

Acheiments

• Delivered ~400 hires annually (including ~60 as an individual contributor) by building a scalable, data-driven in-house talent acquisition operating model.
• Generated $3m agency cost savings through full transition to a direct sourcing, in-house hiring model supported by KPI-led TA operations.
• Reduced time-to-fill to 31 days and increased quality of hire to 98% through structured interview frameworks, scorecards, and hiring manager capability development.
• Increased offer acceptance rate to 99% through hiring manager training, structured decision-making, and defined offer SLAs.
• Improved Glassdoor rating from 2.6 → 4.5 by strengthening employer branding, EVP, candidate experience, and referral programmes.
• Embedded structured feedback loops across the hiring journey, enabling rapid identification and resolution of candidate and hiring friction points.
• Developed scalable hiring capability through hiring manager training, graduate programme design, and repeatable hiring playbooks.
• Led employer branding and EVP strategy, launching multi-channel recruitment campaigns across LinkedIn, careers site, Glassdoor, and social channels.
  Embedded structured feedback loops across the hiring journey, enabling rapid identification and resolution of candidate and hiring friction points.

• Employee #10 and first Talent Acquisition hire in a Goldman Sachs backed fintech; scaled business from 10 → 250+ employees and supported £150m exit acquisition
• Built Talent Acquisition function from scratch, owning end-to-end hiring strategy, systems, and scalable recruitment infrastructure
• Progressed through 3 rapid promotions (TA Partner → Senior TA Partner → TA Lead) while operating as a hands-on full-cycle recruitment leader
• Owned hiring across Tech, Product, GTM, Sales, Corporate Functions, Early Careers, and Exec Search, embedding structured, data-driven hiring processes
• Delivered £1.2m annual agency cost savings through transition to fully in-house recruitment model
• Improved core hiring KPIs including Time to Hire, Quality of Hire, Offer Acceptance Rate, and Candidate/Hiring Manager NPS via process optimisation and ATS implementation (Workable)
• Redesigned interview and assessment frameworks using structured scorecards, improving consistency, fairness, and hiring quality
• Partnered with Marketing to build Employer Brand strategy, improving candidate attraction and market positioning
• Implemented data-led sourcing and recruitment analytics to improve efficiency, forecasting, and hiring decision-making

• Agency side recruitment. Built GTM, AI and Engineering teams for leading FinTech and SaaS scale-ups across Europe.
• Hired across Sales (Enterprise & SMB), Account Management, SDR, AI/ML and Product roles.