
Harry Knowlman
Senior Product Manager | AI-Powered Solutions
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Builder with a strong track record in launching, growing, and structuring early-stage projects. I have co-founded ventures and led complex initiatives, working across product, brand, go-to-market, growth, and team leadership. I thrive in fast-paced environments, turning ideas into real, useful, and market-ready products or businesses. I am hands-on, strategic, and comfortable taking ownership or supporting existing teams.
Work experience
Co-founder
SEMPI
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Berlin, Germany
AI-Powered Concierge, that makes second-hand selling effortless. Leveraging AI, Sempi handles the entire resale process for its users, from creating and optimizing listings across multiple platforms (Vinted, eBay, Leboncoin, Kleinanzeigen...) to managing customer interactions and closing sales. • Raised 100k€ pre-seed from Antler (Day 0 VC). • Reached 100k€ GMV in 5 months. • Built MVP leveraging Claude 3.5 Sonnet for multimodal vision and text workflows. • Designed user experience for seamless item onboarding and multichannel management. • Led product strategy, operations, go-to-market and brand development. • Part of Climate X and Fashion Forward climate accelerators
Entrepreneur in Residence
Antler
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
5 months
Berlin, Germany
Masteos
May 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years 6 months
Director of Amastas 🏺
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 9 months
Leading French rental investment platform (€60M raised) Co-founder and project leader of Amastas, the brand dedicated to tenants. Despite tenants being an essential cog in the rental investment equation, they are often overlooked. As the final users of all Masteos projects, we decided to give tenants their own user-centric brand, based on three main pillars : • Modern, fully equipped, well decorated flats • A digital and easy booking experience • A fun brand and lively community
Head of Partnerships & Launcher of Amastas
May 2021 - Mar 2022
11 months
Paris, France
🏛️ Masteos is the one-stop shop for rental investment - 60M€ raised
Co-founder & Project Lead
Amastas
May 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years 6 months
Paris, France
🏺Amastas is the new generation of long term rentals • 0 to 25k visitors per months • 0 to 60k followers on social media • 0 to 45% of direct tenant acquisition • Helped +2000 tenants find homes • Managed 10 people (developer, designer, content, social media, booking team, project managers) • Part of Masteos Leadership team
Co-founder & CEO
Firsty
Jun 2017 - Jan 2021
3 years 8 months
Région de Paris, France
Nightlife subscription app that gets its members one free drink a day in the best bars, restaurants, and events in Paris. Becoming a member costs 9.99€ a month. Up to 30 drinks for the price of 1🍹 • Built a network of over 100 partner venues in Paris. • Signed B2B deals with global spirits companies (Pernod Ricard, Campari, Bacardi...) • Conducted 130k€ fund-raising with Business Angels and Seed Investment Fund. • Led user acquisition : 20k users, 3k paying subscribers, 48k followers, 30k newsletter subs, 35 events (+5M people reached). • Generated +200k€ revenue. • Managed +30 people of various backgrounds (sales, communication, development, design...). • Part of the first promotion incubated at Station F
Head of Partnerships
Matera
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
9 months
Région de Paris, France
🏡 Saas company for co-owned property management (50M€ raised) • Developed new partnerships with real estate companies à from 0,14% to 9% of leads generated. • In charge of specialized brokers: x2 leads generated in 3 months. • Overall, partnerships represented 40% of leads generated in June 2020. • Project management : launch of API to automate lead generation from partners.
Co-Founder & CEO
SoundGrabber
Sep 2015 - May 2017
1 year 9 months
69340 Francheville, France
Social music app: - Discover the music listened to by others around you - Meet people sharing a passion for music - Listen to music curated by artists and experts especially for you • Conducted development of the app on iOS & Android (team of 5 to 10 people). • 12k users in Paris in 3 months. • Partnerships with +50 music brands • Won multiple startup competitions ( MIDEM, Creative Startup, MaMa Event...). • Managed +20 people overall (developers, designers, and marketers, freelancers, interns, agencies...).
International Development Project Manager
Deezer
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
6 months
Région de Paris, France
Global music streaming service • Day to day management of the regional teams in the Nordics, CEE, Asia, and Africa. • Monitoring of marketing campaigns: affiliation, display campaigns, SEM, partnerships... • Liaison between technical team in Paris and Country Managers
Education
ESSEC Business School
Master of Science (MSc) - Diplôme Grande École
2012 - 2016
4 years 1 month
Royal Holloway, University of London
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
2008 - 2011
3 years 1 month