Chief Platform Officer

IPEM is a fast‑growing entrepreneurial company (€20M revenue), founded a decade ago and now the world leader in private capital events. It has 30 employees mainly based in Paris and London, organizes five major international events each year with up to 6,000 participants per event. Through its flagship events in Paris, Cannes, and London, IPEM connects General Partners, Limited Partners, and wealth management professionals worldwide.

IPEM sits at the intersection of events, data, and services, with a bold ambition: to transform its events and community into a scalable data and business platform, enabling new products and growth opportunities.

As Chief Platform Officer (CPO), you join the Executive Committee (CODIR) and play a key role in transforming IPEM’s business model. You are responsible for designing, building, and deploying the IPEM platform – the central system that orchestrates operations, structures data, supports business teams, and enables the development of new revenue streams.

Your mission is to turn data and product into tangible levers of operational performance and business value, both internally and for clients. You work closely with the CEO, COO, Sales & Marketing leadership, and co‑lead technical execution with development teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Platform & Data Ownership

• Define and drive the vision for the platform as IPEM’s central operating system.
• Structure, prioritize, and ensure the quality of key data (events, CRM, marketing, community).
• Set governance rules and decide what data is critical versus optional.

2. Operations & Workflow Orchestration

• Ensure smooth operations and seamless data flow across teams and tools, making the business scalable and events flawlessly executed.

3. Product & Delivery with Impact

• Lead the product roadmap aligned with business strategy.
• Deliver tools and features quickly, focusing on utility and measurable results.
• Prioritize operational impact and adoption over technical perfection.

4. New Data‑Driven Business Development

• Identify and structure opportunities to monetize data and the platform.
• Build scalable products and services for clients and partners.
• Contribute to the strategic evolution of IPEM’s business model.

• Lead and develop product, tech, and data teams.
• Serve as a strategic partner in the CODIR: challenge, arbitrate, and align stakeholders.

Hard Skills

• Engineering or technical background.
• 10–15+ years in product, platform, data, or technology leadership, in B2B, SaaS, data, or service environments.
• Experience building and scaling platforms as central operating systems.
• Strong product mindset: vision, roadmap, prioritization, delivery.
• Deep understanding of data: collection, enrichment, quality, API/tool integrations.
• Solid technical fluency (backend, data, APIs) (CRM – HubSpot).
• Experience managing internal and external tech teams.
• Fluent in English.

Soft Skills

• Strong business orientation and understanding of complex value chains.
• Highly execution‑focused: deliver quickly, measure impact, adjust.
• Natural leader, able to mobilize multidisciplinary and international teams.
• Comfortable at the executive level: decision‑making, arbitration, influence.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Energy, velocity, and resilience in a demanding environment.

Interview Process

• HR interview.
• Interview with manager (Antoine Colson – CEO).
• Case study with Antoine & Matthew.
• Culture fit interview (Claire Villaudy – COO).
• Meeting with Board & the tech team.