Innovation & Technology
For several years, the demand for recruitment in the fields of innovation and technology has become exponential. This phenomenon is now global and affects almost all companies.
Finding talent with rare and specific skills is a critical challenge for supporting the emergence of new projects and the growth of organizations.
Key Industry Challenges
Key Industry Challenges
By 2030, some projections indicate a shortage of over 85 million professionals in the technology sector alone to meet global demand, which would represent a net revenue loss exceeding three trillion euros. All economic, state, and institutional actors have taken up this issue. Initiatives are multiplying in terms of training and attractiveness to try and meet this immense challenge and push back against a talent war that will inevitably cause inflationary pressures and exacerbate imbalances. As innovation is tomorrow’s growth, investment in human intelligence is also crucial. Moreover, it’s no coincidence that public authorities are focusing their efforts on attracting investment in this area.
Impacts On Organisations
Impacts On Organisations
Over the past few decades, tech and innovation companies have given rise to new organizational models in the wake of startups and scale-ups, characterized by greater verticality, decentralization, or delegation through outsourcing. With the acceleration of cycles in these sectors, transitions have become supersonic. Organizations must constantly rethink and adapt to the talent shortage. These essential evolutions offer no respite to organizations, which are under constant tension. This is the paradox of sectors requiring highly specialized skills—where training is often long and develops solutions that take time. Tech and innovation are, by nature, trendsetters. The solutions and models that emerge will be scrutinized and analyzed before being duplicated.
Major Recruitment Challenges
As projects increasingly require high-precision expertise, there’s been a phenomenon of hyperspecialization of roles, whether in technical, business, or client support functions. The emergence of new technologies like the Cloud has fostered a new economy with new professions, particularly in infrastructure. Furthermore, cybersecurity needs and associated expertise are still underestimated. The exploitation and use of data have created a new category of roles and profiles with data scientists. Automation also impacts internal company operations, with management via platforms or tools requiring the evolution of skills in traditional fields like finance, purchasing, and more.
Our Expertise & Approach
Our Expertise & Approach
As projects increasingly demand high-precision expertise, there’s been a phenomenon of hyperspecialization across various roles, including technical, business, and customer support functions. The rise of new technologies like the Cloud has fostered a new economy, introducing new professions, especially in infrastructure. Furthermore, the needs in cybersecurity and the associated expertise are still underestimated.
The exploitation and utilization of data have given rise to a new category of roles and profiles, notably data scientists. Automation also impacts internal company operations, as managing through platforms and tools requires the evolution of skills in traditional professions like finance and procurement.
Business cases
Chief Product Officer(M/F)
Marketplace • Scale Up • France / Paris
Our client, a leading French specialized marketplace scale-up with European reach, approached us to create a Chief Product Officer (CPO) position. In this context of rapid growth, the main challenge was to identify profiles with a genuine affinity for our client’s sector, experienced in managing significant teams, and possessing a real strategic dimension to lead the company to €1 billion in sales. This role required a strategic vision for the product coupled with a genuine capacity for innovation, aiming to develop the product beyond mere sales.
Lead Data Innovation IA (M/F)
Communication • Consulting • France / Paris
For a major player in the communication sector, our mission was to recruit a Lead Data Scientist capable of spearheading innovation and artificial intelligence projects within their agency. The desired profile needed to possess advanced expertise in data science and marketing, along with a deep understanding of the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, including the fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs). We focused our search on candidates who combined solid data science experience with a proven capacity for innovation, notably those with a PhD, although this criteria was not exclusive.
DSI France (H/F)
Insurance• Large Company • France / Paris
For a key player in the insurance sector, our intervention involved recruiting their Chief Information Officer (CIO) for France. The main challenge of this role was to manage the transition from local IT to the group’s global IT. This entailed decommissioning local IT systems and business tools in favor of implementing the group’s standardized tools, all within the framework of transforming the IT function into a matrix organization. The objective, therefore, was to find a candidate capable of not only supporting this information system transformation but also of driving organizational change within our client’s structure.
Data Strategist (M/F)
Luxury • Large Company • France / Paris
In the context of implementing a global unique customer repository, the Data Innovation department chose to recruit a Data Strategist. Their goal was to progressively identify various business use cases, then analyze and develop them within the Data Innovation department. We stepped in to identify the profiles best suited to lead this mission—that is, candidates possessing a combination of understanding the luxury sector’s codes, technical mastery of Data, and a strong grasp of marketing business needs.