Benoit Rey

Head of Product at Freelance

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementScrumAgile CoachingProduct OwnershipDesign ThinkingAmplitudeConfluenceJiraA/B TestingAsana

Languages

English (Fluent)Italian (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Head of Product with 15+ years experience driving strategic growth in tech and AI sectors. Proven track record of enhancing product portfolios across B2B environments, with achievements including 60% client base growth and 200% reduction in time-to-market. Specialized in cross-functional leadership, product strategy, and optimizing workflows to deliver measurable business results that exceed client expectations.

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Work experience

Head of Product

Sonio

Jan 2024 - Oct 2024

10 months

Paris, France

Assessment of the existing product portfolio Deployment of the solution at Pediatrix, largest US OB/GYN Clinical network (100+ Practices) and 1st US customer Projects done: Stabilization of the Reporting Solution, to facilitate the US Rollout Product-market fit definition for the US 1st, and for Europe in Q3 (official launch in 09/2024) Tracking of User behavior on BI Stack, KPI definition and implementation management of 8 People : 3 PM, 3 Product Specialists, 1 Product Design, 1 Data Analyst Acquisition by Samsung 09/24: Roadmap analysis and adaptation to maximize the added value

Head of Product

Evermaps

Nov 2019 - Jan 2024

4 years 3 months

Paris Area, France

Assessment of the existing product portfolio New product offer built with sales and marketing teams : Standardized pitch around the Evermaps Platform to reduce the Sales Cycle Reduced time to go live by 200% Reduced maintenance costs, time to repair Analyzed and optimized the Internal Workflow between Sales, Operations, R&D teams to communicate on projects Implemented a new workflow in ASANA, with an agile consultant Set up new routines and reporting format between teams Completed projects: Improved visibility of project deliveries to CSM, Sales and Clients Set up customer feedback program New QA process of product releases to improve quality Deliveries : Google Posts, Google API synch, Apple Business Connect, Competition Benchmark tool, UX revamp, SSO, API

Head of Product

Qobuz

Jan 2018 - Dec 2019

2 years

93500 Pantin, France

Built the product team (8 people): Set up roles, priorities, responsibilities Driving the Global Qobuz Roadmap Build the Qobuz positioning and Product identity vs. its competitors Defining the quarterly objectives for the Qobuz R&D (25 developers) Business achievements: Opened the US market (Tech deployment, Closed beta, Client Support) Increased client base by 60% Helped get funding from North American telco Completed projects: Graphical/UX charter overhaul across all assets (Apps and Web) New website, Offers Pricing iOS and Android reengineering (including CarPlay, Android Auto) ROON, SONOS, Chromecast, and Alexa Newsbrief integration DATA Quality projects (metadata, music recommendation)

Senior Product Manager

Criteo

Aug 2010 - Dec 2017

7 years 5 months

Paris, France

From June 2015: Head of Email Product at Criteo Led the Global Email Roadmap, defining quarterly objectives for a team of 20 developers, resulting in a 25% increase in email engagement. As product owner, using Agile/Scrum methodology: Front End (advertising.criteo.com) WebServices to be consumed by SEM platforms (Marin Software, Kenshoo, etc.) Dynamic Creative Optimization team HPC functional management As product manager: Strategic partnerships (Geolocation, Flight/travel solution, 3rd party data integration (Weather, CRM)) Technical partnerships (Tag containers, feed management solutions)

Product Integration Manager

Emailvision

Sep 2008 - Aug 2010

2 years

In charge of integration and followup on developmental team on WebAnalytics (Omniture, Google Analytics, CoreMetrics,...), Salesforce.com (Appexchange plugin) API Management Marketing relational Database Business analysis, clients requirements gathering, briefs, Functional and technical specifications.

IT Architect

CapGemini

Feb 2005 - Oct 2008

3 years 9 months

Technical lead at Direction Générale des Impôts (French National Treasury) : Data migration batch conception in J2EE/SOA environment. Developments lead, technical memos redaction on Opale project (professional portal access). Software Architect at STET-ITS (French Banks Joint Venture) (Paris): inter-bank exchange platform GUI conception and code in J2EE Websphere. Story-boards, detailed specifications, development. DB2 schema design. PL/SQL & SQL queries. SOAP Webservices design, coding and deployment. Consulting project for RTE-France: Architecture and deployment of a VPN-SSL access solution Production engineer for all Front-Office servers hosted by France Telecom

Operations Engineer

Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking

Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

2 years 1 month

European Cash Trading Floor: first and second level user support-full cycle development, installation and support of the trading application (C++ homemade software, running over Sybase and Oracle DB) Reporting and liaising with the developer team located in Bangalore, India

Software Engineer

Invisible Hand Networks Inc.

Jan 2000 - Jan 2003

3 years 1 month

Monitoring tools developer, using various technologies like Java, PHP and Oracle. Java agent developer on a real-time bandwidth trading software. Traffic based feedback mechanism for the automated trading agent. XML/XSL development for agent configuration. Operations engineer. Server monitoring, upgrade plans, client provisioning and troubleshooting for the StreamingHand (Burlington, MA) hosting and collocation service provider. Pre Sales engineer for ISPs and exchange facilities.

Software Consultant

Winch Communications

Jan 1999 - Jan 1999

1 month


Education

Université de Technologie de Troyes

Ingénieur

1998 - 2000

2 years 6 months

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