Paul Bevan

Recruitment Leader with a background in web development, 10+ years experience scaling high growth startups and enterprise organisations across EMEA. Proven track record of building repeatable search functions, attracting elite talent and providing world class candidate experiences. Able to have technical conversations and build instant credibility with tech talent and business stakeholders.

Founder at Meet The Team (2024-11 – Present)

• Boutique talent partnership working with stealth mode startups across Fintech, PropTech and HealthTech.
• Built a new highly differentiated candidate experience to attract elite international talent.
• Partnering with founders to define priorities and role scope.
• Over 70% connection rate with Founding Engineers.

Customer Success Manager at UpdraftPlus (2023-04 – 2024-11)

• Onboarded customers and managed relationships to drive adoption and reduce churn.
• Produced technical documentation to improve self-serve support.
• Acted as point of contact for complex technical issues.
• Supported customers across the product ecosystem with over 1.5 million installations.

Paternal leave (2020-11 – 2023-04)

Head of Recruitment at Devpeople (2012-04 – 2020-11)

• Recruited technology talent for teams across Europe and the UK for global organisations, SMEs, and startups including KPMG and WTS Global.
• Owned full-cycle recruitment from sourcing to stakeholder engagement and offer negotiation.
• Managed a team of 4 consultants.
• 1 in 3 interview to hire ratio.

BSc in Computing – BCUC