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Where talent is the brand.

The intelligence behind your hiring decisions.

CONCÉ gives luxury, fashion, beauty, and premium consumer brands relevant talent access, evidence, and context to decide who comes next. Match. Decide. Remember.

AI informs. Humans decide. Every hiring decision builds knowledge for the next.

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Candidate 0417
VP of Retail Experience · New York
CONCÉ VERIFIED
Matched
Initial screening
First round
Decision
92Match alignment
Brand fit0
Workstyle alignment0
Role match0
Insights by CONCÉ
Ran a 14 door region at a comparable maison. Direct fit on scale and market.
Clienteling language in the interview matched your top two performing store leads.
Retention signal is strong. Median tenure 3.8 years across four roles.
Gap: no wholesale exposure. Probe in round two.
12 interview signals4 prior roles verified2 references on file

Illustrative product view. Sample data.

Founder placement experience includes
LVMH·Hermès·Kering·Tiffany & Co.·Victoria Beckham·Makeup by Mario

Founder placement experience. Brand names shown for reference only. Confirm media credits and permissions before publishing.

The problem

Your next search should inherit what the last one taught you.

Teams invest time defining the role, meeting candidates, and deciding what matters. Too often, that knowledge remains in individual inboxes and memories. Every search starts over.

Role opens. Search starts from zero.

The brief, the market context, and the standard live in one person’s head.

Feedback lives in inboxes.

Interview notes scattered across threads, with no shared structure.

Role closes. Learning disappears.

Who you met, what you learned, and why you decided — gone.

What it is

The intelligence behind your hiring decisions.

CONCÉ provides relevant talent access, evidence, and context to help your team decide who comes next. Intelligence means structured information — role criteria, professional profiles, preferences, interview feedback, and recorded decisions — interpreted with industry expertise and human judgment. It is not a guarantee of a correct hire.

01
Role signal
What great looks like for this role, at your brand, in this market.
02
Human signal
Service behavior, brand storytelling, presence and voice.
03
Intent signal
What a person wants next, and when they will actually move.
04
Outcome signal
Who you hired, who stayed, who was promoted.
CONCÉ Match Score
92%
One score. Every input visible.

Every evaluation opens.

You see the evidence behind it, the gaps, and the questions worth asking, before anyone spends an hour on a call.

Calibrated on your standard.

Role requirements, brand standards, and team expectations brought into a clear brief.

Your layer is yours.

Your hiring context is never pooled with another brand. Opted in, never scraped.

Discovery

Relevant, opted-in talent access.

Every professional joins CONCÉ by choice and consents to be considered. Nobody is scraped. The network gives your team relevant access to people who may not be on a job board this week.

Opted in by choice

Every professional joins and consents to be considered. Nobody is scraped.

Profiled for hiring

Career impact, leadership experience, preferences, and ambitions. More than a résumé.

Reached warmly

A CONCÉ introduction gets answered, because the person asked to hear from brands like yours.

3,000+ opted-in profiles.

100,000+ professionals reached over the founder’s career, not active membership.

Shortlist quality

Six people worth your time beats sixty who are not.

The point of structured evaluation is subtraction. Everyone who reaches your shortlist has already been measured against your standard.

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VP of Retail ExperienceHighest match score
96
Candidate 0417 · VP Retail Experience
14 door regionclienteling
New match
94
Candidate 0902 · Regional Director
LVMH maisonopened 6 doors
In review
91
Candidate 1188 · Boutique Manager
Madison Avetop quartile NPS
In review
88
Candidate 0455 · Client Advisor
high jewelrytrilingual
New match
86
Candidate 1301 · Area Manager
beauty6 direct reports
Requested

Illustrative product view. Sample data.

The platform

Six modules. One connected workflow.

Talent matching, Build-a-Bench, the CONCÉ Index, and more.

01

Talent matching

Relevant, opted-in professionals surfaced for the role, with shared criteria applied.

02

Build-a-Bench

A brand-facing saved pipeline, so future roles have a head start.

03

CONCÉ Index

Career snapshot, career impact, role match intelligence, and questions worth asking.

04

Brand Hiring Playbooks

Interview feedback captured, structured, and searchable, instead of scattered.

05

Team collaboration and access

Shared scorecards and role-based access for HQ, regions, and stores.

06

Interview and outcome intelligence

Decisions and supported follow-up outcomes, kept for the next search.

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How it works

Four steps, from the brief to the lesson.

1
Define what matters
Bring role requirements, brand standards, and team expectations into a clear brief.
2
Understand the person
Explore relevant experience, career impact, preferences, strengths, and questions worth asking.
3
Decide together
Use shared criteria and structured feedback. AI informs. Humans decide.
4
Retain what you learn
Keep candidate context, interview feedback, and hiring rationale for future decisions.
Coverage

From the floor to the boardroom.

Retail leadership

Store, area and regional

Boutique, counter, area and regional leaders, where client experience and team performance are decided.

Wholesale and commercial

Sales and account leadership

Wholesale sales, account management, and commercial leadership across premium consumer brands.

Corporate

HQ and brand functions

Marketing, merchandising, e-commerce, finance and HR. Specialist fit, found with context.

Start with one priority role. The system learns your standard on that search, then applies it to the next.

The founder

Approximately twenty years of pattern recognition, now a platform.

Meghan Houle, Founder and CEO

Former top-ranked executive recruiter specializing in luxury, fashion, beauty and consumer brands.

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Career hires
$0M+
Lifetime agency billings
0 yrs
Founder experience
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Professionals reached over career
“A résumé cannot tell you how someone will greet a client.”

Meghan Houle, Founder and CEO, CONCÉ

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For brands

Hire on evidence, not instinct.

See a shortlist scored against your own standard, with the reasoning behind every evaluation.

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For professionals

A place for your experience. Access to what's next.

A private professional community for people shaping luxury, fashion, beauty, and premium consumer brands. Share your story and get considered for roles that may not be publicly advertised. Free, always.

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Implementation

Realistic onboarding, without an IT project.

You keep your ATS. CONCÉ improves the decision layer. Initial matching is distinct from setup and calibration.

01
Day 1 · Kickoff
Pick one or two priority roles and the locations they sit in.
02
Days 2 to 5 · Role setup
Success signals defined with your leaders. Manager training takes 30 to 45 minutes.
03
Days 6 to 10 · First role live
Calibrated shortlists, each candidate scored against your standard with the reasoning shown.
04
Week 2 · Rollout
Additional stores, regions and role families, on the standard already set.

You keep your ATS. CONCÉ improves the decision layer.