Benoit Cotte
Mobile Prototyping
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Design Engineer
amo
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Member
FrenchCPO
Nov 2017 - Present
9 years
Product Engineer
Nollie Studio
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
2 years 1 month
Exploring various projects as a Product Engineer with @Nicolas Duc-Dodon. Find out more on my bento profile: https://benoitcotte.com Three main directions: mobile consumer apps, video editing, and micro-communities. - Reddit marketing analysis: https://www.unbundlingreddit.com/ - Audio messages for landing page roasting: https://www.vero.fm - Journal app for surfers: https://invite.stokeclub.life - Skateboarding challenge for skaters aged 30+: https://www.oldskaterstrickschallenge.com Also, I write about video editing and community building on Medium: https://medium.com/@ben_cotte
Partoo
Apr 2015 - Jan 2022
6 years 10 months
Paris, France
Lead Product Manager
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
Product Manager
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 7 months
Chief Product Officer
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
1 year 5 months
Paris Area, France
Description: Partoo is a SAAS company which helps business owners managing and syncing their location data and other critical client-facing info (open hours, description, photos, promotions and more) over a curated network of the best apps out there (Google My Business, Apple Map, Waze, Uber, Foursquare, and 20 more). Results: • Delivered Partoo product roadmap along with monthly presentations • Set up Partoo analytics stack with dashboards weekly used for specifying stories and monitoring KRs • Organized Partoo design system which drastically diminished time to conceive mockups • Led 50+ user tests to increase user adoption and retention over 2 products
Chief Technical Officer & Cofounder
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
2 years 8 months
Paris Area, France
Results: • Led technical development of Partoo from scratch to 1M+ euros of annual recurring revenues to over 100 brands • Managed a technical team up to 3 developers into building 2 key products (Presence Management and Review Management) • Scaled infrastructure on AWS - Python Pyramid - Mongodb - Reactjs • Recruited the best CTO to take over the role :)
Regional Online Marketing Analyst
Lazada
Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
6 months
Bangkok, Thailand
Description: Lazada is Southeast Asia’s fastest growing online department store, with operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Role: Affiliate marketing analyst assisting Guillaume Castagne, regional head of affiliate marketing. Managing partnerships with publishers - Launching and managing the Lazada Affiliate Program - Managing local affiliate managers over the 5 countries. Results: • From scratch to 13,000+ affiliates in 6 months. Up to 10% revenue share in Indonesia • Gradually automated internal processes by building up tools and tutorials (VBA-automated analytic reports, VBA-sales validation reports which included automated click-chain analysis, Youtube tutorials to process the sales validation report and weekly performance reports) • Automated QA tests for integrating third-party platform for managing affiliates (data-feed availability and compliance tests automated on PowerShell) Learnings&Challenges: Operate and manage over 5 countries. Step up on VBA to quickly provide useful tools to the team. Strategic and Operational support in online marketing to the team or to partners.
Member of the Hosting Team
Impact HUB
Oct 2010 - Jun 2011
9 months
Madrid, Spain
Description: Impact Hub Madrid is a coworking space and a unique ecosystem of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities to grow the positive impact of your work. Role: Member of the hosting team - Community building: create connections between members - Space hosting: be responsible for a suitable environment which fosters creativity - Curious (hold various strategic tasks from each department) Results: Helping the world wide Impact Hub community to grow over 11,000 people. Learnings&Challenges: This experience was a real eye-opener toward entrepreneurship and a great multicultural experience. Oriented my education choice towards ESSEC Business School to learn more about entrepreneurship.
Education
Community College - by Greg Isenberg
Community Building
2021 - 2021
1 month
How to build a community-based product. Learn the tools to convert your audience to a community and build products they care about. Find information here: https://maven.com/latecheckout/communitycollege
Thiga Academy
Lead Product Manager, Product Management
2020 - 2020
1 month
Agenda available here (FR): https://www.academy.thiga.co/fr/formation-lead-pm
Université Paris Cité
2nd year completed, Computer Science
2016 - 2017
2 years
While CTO at Partoo, I committed to pass Computer Science Bachelor 2nd year exams. Subjects covered included: - Language and Automata - Group and Arithmetic - Elements of Algorithms - OOP (final project available @ https://github.com/BenCoDev/kolor_lines)
ESSEC Business School
Master of Science (MSc), Business/Commerce, General
2012 - 2015
4 years
Harvard Extension School
CS50 Introduction to Computer Science, Computer Science
2014 - 2014
1 year
The syllabus of the course can be found here: http://cdn.cs50.net/2014/spring/lectures/0/w/syllabus/syllabus.html It includes 7 weeks of C programming, 2 weeks of web development, and the submission of 8 problem sets (workload of around 20 hours each). While being an extension school diploma, this course clearly changed my professional life, and I consider it to be the best course I have ever attended. Final Project: http://youtu.be/6RLuTXhdq4A
University of California, Berkeley
Silicon Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program
2014 - 2014
1 year