Ghislain Youdji

Product & Business Strategy - Defining the product vision for the cloud transformation of the data infrastructure, aligned with the company's strategic objectives - Building the product roadmap with prioritization based on business impact and user value - Establishing the business case and expected ROI for technology investments - Designing product OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) cascaded from the company's business objectives Product Discovery & Validation - Conducting the discovery phase: user interviews, identification of jobs-to-be-done and critical pain points - Analysis of the cloud solutions market (archiving, analytics, data governance) with comparative evaluation of value propositions - Discovery & Evaluation of AI models: benchmarking of cloud solutions (AWS & GCP) including search and matching services; validation of AI solutions for rapid video creation; launch of a matching system (textual & audio); analysis of the relevance of results in a context of uncertainty (confidence rate, false positives) - Optimization of matching and data quality systems: definition of transformation and validation rules to ensure data reliability during cloud migration to GCP; modular architecture to manage heterogeneous formats; implementation of systematic tests to measure the performance of multimedia content identification and matching algorithms - Defining success criteria and key metrics to measure the product-market fit of a new product Product Development & Delivery - Product management of two internal applications (ticket management, backlog management) developed with a lean and no-code approach - Defining the MVP of a B2B product - Working closely with the tech team to arbitrate trade-offs - Continuous validation of developed solutions through user testing Product Impact & Adoption - Management of internal go-to-market strategy with customized adoption plans - Design of initial onboarding and internal training program (Coursera, Datacamp, Google Cloud) - Tracking and analysis of metrics for launched B2B product: new passive revenue generation - Iteration of product roadmap based on data insights

Pan-African organization of over 200 researchers and intellectuals. Teams distributed across France, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Africa. Vision & Product Strategy - Defining the digital strategy and identifying opportunities - Building a roadmap aligned with the co-founders' strategy - Establishing the impact measurement framework (OKR, North Star Metric, KPI) - Pitching and validating the vision with strategic stakeholders Product Discovery & User Research - Conducting two discovery programs with researchers and users (interviews, reports) - Segmenting and creating personas to inform decisions - Identifying key jobs-to-be-done and formulating hypotheses - Competitive analysis of academic platforms Product Management & Execution - Recruitment and management of a cross-functional product team of 5 people (design, dev, content, data) - Product Management of the institutional website: value proposition, architecture, feature roadmap - Prioritization using the MoSCoW and RICE frameworks - Launch and Product Ownership of the newsletter in compliance with GDPR (EU) and the Malabo Convention (AU) - Facilitation of agile ceremonies (dailies, reviews, retros) Data & Product Analytics - Creation of product dashboards (Excel & Tableau) to track key engagement, retention, and satisfaction metrics; implementation of complex SQL queries to extract and reconcile user data from multiple sources; data-driven analysis to validate hypotheses and identify opportunities for optimization - Academic data research and reconciliation: design of a matching system to identify and deduplicate researchers' publications from multiple sources; implementation of complex SQL queries with text normalization; 60% improvement in repository quality Scaling & Change Management - Design and execution of a migration to Google Workspace - Communication strategy to generate adoption - Co-creation workshops with users - Measuring the impact of change (adoption rate & NPS) Stakeholder Management & Business - Managing relationships with users, researchers, co-founders, and donors - Regular communication via presentations and reports - Change management and AI adoption - Participation in fundraising with articulation of strategy and demonstration of ROI

Program Management & Strategy - Framing digital projects by gathering and analyzing stakeholder requirements - Building roadmaps and defining OKRs and milestones - Developing a Data Management Plan (DMP) in accordance with CNRS standards - Creation of Excel dashboards for performance monitoring and executive reporting Product Ownership - Product Owner for the redesign of the institutional website in partnership with OSUNY: definition of the product vision, functional specifications, and technical coordination - Launch and ownership of the Mailchimp newsletter with GDPR (EU) and Malabo Convention compliance (African Union) - Defining product architecture and prioritizing features according to user needs Change Management & Communication - Leading change management with multi-stakeholder communication of transformation initiatives - Developing strategic communication plans to promote the adoption of new digital products (spaces, podcasts) - Deployment of a multi-channel digital strategy to maximize engagement - Implementation of collective survey data management plans based on the CNRS PGD model Data analysis & Impact measurement - Monitoring of the “Global Racial Inequality Dashboard” project in collaboration with Data Pop Alliance (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Connection Science) - Definition of impact metrics and dashboards to measure results and communicate value created to donors

Lector au département d'études françaises : - Enseignement de français et culture générale à des étudiant·es de Licence 1 à Master 1 - Accompagnement à la recherche des doctorant·es - Co-animation du Yale French Film Club, invitation et modération d'une rencontre avec la réalisatrice Alice Diop (César du court-métrage, 2017) - Membre du jury du Yale Africa Film Festival