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Esme Bradshaw

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Co-founder & COO at Crest AI · HR software · sales, payroll

Works at
Crest AI
Location
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
Experience
12+ years experience
Education
Imperial College London
Languages
English, Spanish
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Overview

Building Crest AI in London - HR software. Grew the team to 54 people across 2 countries. Before that: AIB and AstraZeneca. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
HR techSaaSpayrollsales

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Crest AI · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
    • Took Crest AI from zero to $12 million ARR.
    • Signed 219 paying customers, 17 of them enterprises.
  2. Product Manager
    Oct 2021 - Jul 2024
    AIB · 2 yr 9 mo · Contract · London, UK
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new AI products customers from 21 days to 4.
    • Launched the AI products product in 8 markets.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
    AstraZeneca · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Took AI products activation from 20% to 53% in three quarters.
  4. Group Product Manager
    Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
    Accenture · 2 yr 1 mo · Contract · London, UK
    • Grew logistics revenue from $1 million to $57 million ARR.
    • Took logistics activation from 21% to 50% in three quarters.
  5. Group Product Manager
    Apr 2015 - Jun 2017
    BBC · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Took platform activation from 27% to 49% in three quarters.

Projects

HR software benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing HR tech and SaaS on real workloads.

Write-up: HR software in practice
2022

A long-form guide to HR software for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Imperial College London
    MEng, Engineering
    2011 - 2013
  2. London School of Economics
    BSc, Engineering
    2006 - 2009

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