Elena Kayayan
Analytically-minded professional T-shaped expertise across graphic design, project management, healthcare, specialising in life science work.
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About
Currently working as a recruitment consultant while also building an indie game studio.
Experience
2025 – Present | FREELANCE RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT | AK EXECUTIVE SEARCH
- Manage end-to-end candidate assessment pipeline
- Produce structured client-facing reports and job descriptions for clients in the business services sector looking to hire executives
2025 – Present | PROJECT LEAD & ART DIRECTOR | CRESCENT BLUE (INDEPENDENT GAME STUDIO)
- Collaborating with a cross-functional programming team to build an independent game studio
- Led art direction and delivered 1,000+ 2D and 3D assets in the span of 7 months across Figma (UI design), Blender (3D modelling), & Medibang Paint Pro (illustration)
2023 – 2025 | PANGAEA DATA | PROJECT MANAGER / BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIST
- Analysed health AI performance data across 8 concurrent client projects; identified trends, surfaced risks, and presented data-driven findings to pharma and hospital stakeholders
- Contributed to data interpretation and written synthesis of results for a peer-reviewed publication evaluating LLM capabilities in clinical settings (GPT-4, LLaMA)
- Presented data and analytical findings at SantExpo (Paris), HLTH Europe, and HIMSS24 in English and French
- Authored abstracts on health AI research for conferences such as ASCO and SCWD 2023
- Built reporting infrastructure including SOPs and workflow templates, which reduced project iteration times by ~10%
2023 | REDLINE STRATEGIC | RESEARCH ANALYST (CONTRACT)
- Conducted structured qualitative analysis of clinician interview transcripts using Dovetail and Pulsar (social listening tools) to generate insight reports for pharma clients
- Synthesised findings into client-facing reports with actionable, evidence-based recommendations
Education
Biosecurity – Bluedot Impact (Apr. 2026)
MSci (BSc + MSc) in Cell Biology – University College London (Sep. 2018 – Jun. 2022)
A-Levels – Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, British Section (Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2018)
