Fabien Saulier

Competitor product matching and pricing tool for the french DIY market leader ● Led the development of back end repository services providing ○ Competitor products data to feed AI algorithm matching Leroy Merlin products and competitor products ○ Competitor prices data to pilot prices for Leroy Merlin products, benchmarked against competitor prices and following prices policies. ● Owned product backlog and roadmap for a squad of 5 engineers within a 20-person cross-functional team, coordinating dependencies across 3 interdependent squads on a Java microservices architecture. ● Influenced adoption across 7 Business Units by collecting business needs, prioritizing requests, and monitoring KPIs, ensuring alignment with margin optimization goals. ● Managed transition to a new competitor data provider, improving freshness, data quality, and SLA compliance which increased BU’s trust in AI-driven matching and pricing decisions. ● Conducted data analysis in Kafka, MongoDb, BigQuery for validation ● Scaled competitor product and price to 3.5M daily prices (+20% YoY) and 20M monthly products over 20+ competitors.

Sustainability One Stop Shop platform for european cities ● Launched a One Stop Shop platform providing tools to European cities to reduce their carbon emissions. ● Aligned stakeholders (city officials, researchers, EU consortium partners) by facilitating workshops, showcasing prototypes to balance tradeoffs and define roadmaps. ● Coordinated cross-functional teams of domain experts, UX designers, and engineers to design and deliver high-impact modules. ○ Private social network: Monthly Active User reaches 2,500 city officials and researchers within the first year. ○ Financial tool simulation: 80% of task completion for registered cities ○ Transition planning tool: 70% of feature adoption ○ Custom Knowledge repository: 300 documents written by researchers and city officials ● Selected, configured and customized Hubspot CRM to meet specific organizational requirements. ● Owned backlog management: Scrum, Jira, agile at scale with Nexus

Second-hand selling funnel ● Redesigned the second-hand selling funnel for rakuten.com, supporting 100k+ adverts/month with an increase of +28% on release. ● Built and launched an AI-driven product detection, achieving 85% classification accuracy. ● Validated product features and funnel design through user research (interviews, surveys, journey mapping, interactive prototypes) and analytics (BI tools, traffic analysis, A/B testing), ensuring alignment with user needs. ● Conducted competitive analysis (market research, SWOT) to guide strategic positioning and product differentiation. ● Built a business plan outlining market opportunities, key challenges, innovative solutions, and financial projections to support executive decision-making. ● Managed product backlog using Scrum and Jira, defining user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization.

Veterinary chatbot startup ● Drove strategic pivot from B2C freemium model to B2B white-label chatbot, aligning product with market opportunities. ● Aligned diverse stakeholders: veterinarians, marketing team, end-users and professional clients to build the roadmap ● Balanced tradeoffs between startup resource constraints and customer requirements by applying Lean Startup principles, ensuring focus on high-value features. ● Implemented agile delivery practices (Scrum, CI/CD) instilling a culture of experimentation and iterative releases. ● Oversaw end-to-end product development including frontend UX, API design, NLP AI chatbot.