Isabelle Rucho

Product Manager | Product Marketing - Freelance

Salary / Daily rate

74110 Morzine, France

Mobility: Geneva

Freelance

Remote only

Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyProduct MarketingHubspotCRO

Languages

English (Native)French (Native)Spanish

About me

Intro

I'm a product management and product marketing leader with more than 20 years of experience across B2B SaaS, AI, gaming and consumer technology. I help software and AI companies build the right product, sharpen how it is positioned and create sustainable growth. As a fractional or freelance Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager and Product & Growth Partner, I can lead a defined project or become a senior, hands-on extension of your team. My work spans product strategy and discove

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Work experience

Product Management & Product Marketing | Freelance

Scale Smarter

Jul 2026 - Present

4 months

Remote

Independent consultant specialising in senior product leadership, product marketing and customer communication systems for founder-led B2B SaaS and AI companies. https://scalesmarter.io

Founder

CampaignPath

Jan 2026 - Present

10 months

Remote

Building an AI-assisted B2B SaaS product that helps solo marketers and small teams move from campaign context to strategy, positioning, channel priorities and activation plans. • Identified an opportunity to improve fragmented marketing-planning workflows through customer, competitor and community research. • Own the complete 0→1 product lifecycle across vision, ICP, roadmap, requirements, UX, AI design, testing, pricing and go-to-market. • Designed a staged AI workflow connecting brand context, market intelligence, positioning, channel strategy and campaign activation. • Built user-control and governance mechanisms including editing, regeneration, approval, versioning and quality validation. • AI-assisted development across React, TypeScript, Supabase and Vercel, moving the product from concept to working SaaS.

Tidio

Mar 2024 - Jul 2025

1 year 5 months

Lead Product Manager

May 2024 - Jul 2025

1 year 3 months

Developed vision, strategy and led Connet Tribe (two squads) including an SPM. Owned AI Agent capabilities, integrations, APIs, SDKs and automation workflows, aligning the roadmap around resolution, adoption and revenue. • Built a 0→1 AI Product Recommendation Engine from customer research and conversation analysis, defining the experience, positioning and product proposition. • Created go-to-market positioning, messaging, customer cohorts, launch communications, lifecycle education and sales enablement. • Increased AI metered revenue and conversation resolution by 25% through feature gating, upsell design and product-adoption improvements. • Improved WordPress and WooCommerce activation by 12% through funnel analysis improvements • Introduced in-product messaging, changelog and public roadmap to scale customer education, product updates and product feedback.

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2024 - May 2024

3 months

Owned Tidio’s Email Campaigns product across strategy, activation, audience data, integrations, feature access and customer experience. • Increased Tidio's activation by 10% by introducing Entri.com domain-verification within the first month. • Assessed the market, customer needs, competitors, product gaps and revenue potential, recommending investment move toward Tidio’s AI-first strategy. • Planned the product sunset and led end-of-life communications across customer notices, FAQs, timelines and sales and support enablement. • Defined CRM and CDP data requirements to improve Tidio's users' audience targeting and lifecycle communication.

SureSwift CapitalFreelance

Jul 2020 - Jul 2023

3 years 1 month

GM/ Product Lead

Dec 2022 - Jul 2023

8 months

Owned product strategy, roadmap, P&L, growth and a six-person team for a B2B2C reference-checking SaaS platform. • Used customer interviews, competitor analysis and market sizing to refine the ICP, positioning, messaging and enterprise product strategy. • Grew ARR from $850k to $1.1m within six months through enterprise focus, pricing optimisation and clearer product-market alignment. • Took a Greenhouse integration from discovery through launch, partner go-to-market and customer communications, contributing to 6% month-on-month growth. • Improved G2 ranking from 13th to ninth through customer advocacy communications, while consolidating HubSpot, Chargebee and Apollo across acquisition, billing and renewals • Defined revised pricing and managed the customer experience surrounding billing, subscription changes and international expansion.

Product Lead

Jun 2021 - Dec 2022

1 year 7 months

Owned product strategy, delivery, growth, revenue and a four-person team for a B2B2C affiliate and partnership platform. • Increased ARPU from $41 to $53 and MRR by 12.5% through customer insight, pricing, packaging and feature-led monetisation. • Increased onboarding completion from 45% to 85% through funnel analysis, experimentation, segmentation and lifecycle communications. • Shipped two-way merchant and affiliate messaging, improving the product proposition and increasing weekly active users by 40%. • Designed upgrade, downgrade, cancellation, retention and failed-payment journeys across the product, email and CRM.

Product Manager (Growth)

Jul 2020 - Jul 2021

1 year 1 month

Owned product growth, monetisation, positioning and lifecycle strategy for a document-workflow automation SaaS product. • Used customer research, competitor analysis and market sizing to reposition the product and clarify its messaging across the website and product journey. • Grew MRR from $110k to $140k and visitor-to-trial conversion from 15% to 35% through improved proposition, website journeys and activation. • Increased ARPU by 15% through a price increase and grandfathering communication strategy while keeping associated churn below 3%. • Built experimentation and lifecycle programmes across onboarding, trial conversion, retention, upsell and referral, improving activation by 6%.

Head Of Marketing

Laundrapp

Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

10 months

London, UK

Led marketing, growth and customer engagement across acquisition, activation, retention, revenue and referrals. • Combined customer research, product priorities and market analysis to define the company’s first cohesive positioning and marketing strategy in two years. • Reduced CAC from £35 to £21 within three months through proposition, targeting and channel optimisation. • Reactivated 13% of churned customers through segmented email, push-notification and retargeting journeys. • Implemented Braze and defined the customer data, segmentation and lifecycle communications required across email, push and SMS.

Digital Marketing Lead

Clyde & Co

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

1 year

London, UK

Led digital marketing, MarTech and customer-facing platform strategy for a global B2B law firm across more than 40 offices. • Created the firm’s first digital marketing and platform strategies, connecting customer needs, business development and digital experience. • Built a three-year roadmap spanning website, CRM, analytics, content operations, email and sales enablement. • Led positioning, information architecture, SEO and content strategy for a multilingual corporate website. • Defined firmwide email and digital communication practices and scoped a multimillion-pound CRM transformation.

PokerStars

Sep 2010 - Aug 2016

6 years

London, UK

Head of Team Pro Marketing

Oct 2014 - Aug 2016

1 year 11 months

London, UK

Led global ambassador, influencer and sponsorship strategy across more than 35 markets, managing a $5m budget and over 40 ambassadors. • Defined audience strategy, positioning, talent proposition and activation plans across content, community, product launches and live events. • Adapted global messaging and campaign frameworks for regional acquisition and customer-engagement teams. • Introduced OKRs and ROI dashboards, increasing measurable programme impact by 28%. • Launched PokerStars’ first Twitch channel and developed customer experiences connecting ambassadors with online and live-event audiences.

Marketing Manager

Sep 2010 - Oct 2014

4 years 2 months

London, UK

Led product marketing and integrated campaigns across desktop software, mobile products, online games and live events. • Contributed to customer research, positioning and go-to-market for launches including PokerStars Mobile, Home Games and Spin & Go. • Developed customer communications across CRM, product, web, social, PR, television and live-event channels. • Created tournament and customer-experience initiatives that generated more than $100k in additional annual revenue. • Delivered digital experiences covering website, intranet and games, defining UX, content, SEO and CRM integrations and achieving top-three Google rankings within six months.

Product Marketing Manager

GVC Group

Oct 2009 - Oct 2010

1 year 1 month

London, UK

Led positioning and go-to-market for new gaming products within an international direct-to-consumer portfolio. • Launched Circus, the product line’s most commercially successful slot-game release at the time. • Defined the proposition, campaign narrative, launch plan and customer acquisition journey. • Developed a supporting free-to-play Facebook experience and coordinated PPC, affiliate, display, social and remarketing communications. • Built acquisition websites from strategy through branding, development, partnerships and SEO.

Audience Development Manager

London Metropolitan UniversityFreelance

Jul 2009 - Oct 2009

4 months

London, UK

Led audience development for exhibitions, events and membership programmes. • Developed campaign positioning and communications across PR, advertising, email, web and social media. • Helped deliver the organisation’s second-most successful exhibition launch at the time for visitor numbers and press coverage. • Built membership acquisition and retention activity across events, newsletters and digital content.

Marketing Campaigns Manager

Youth Media (UK) Ltd.

Aug 2008 - Jul 2009

1 year

London, UK

Planned and delivered audience-focused campaigns for clients including the RAF, Royal Navy, CNN, Financial Times and Fitness First. • Translated client objectives and audience insight into campaign propositions, channel plans and delivery briefs. • Managed campaign websites, content, digital assets and cross-functional delivery. • Reported on campaign performance, audience response and customer insight.

Public Relations Communications Officer

Department of Health and Social CareFreelance

Nov 2006 - Apr 2007

6 months

London, UK

Delivered stakeholder and public-facing communications for public-sector and education audiences. • Produced web, campaign, PR and editorial content. • Coordinated internal contributors, external partners and delivery schedules.


Education

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Essentials

2022 - 2022

5 months

The Open University

BA (Hons), Humanities (2.1)

2008 - 2010

3 years

The British School of Paris

Business Studies, Design & Technology, French

1998 - 2000

3 years


Licenses & certifications

Product Management for AI & Data Science

Issued: Jan 2024

Certified by Udemy

Advanced Product Managment : Vision & Strategy

Issued: Oct 2023

Certified by Udemy

Inbound Marketing

Issued: Jul 2023

Certified by HubSpot Academy

HubSpot Sales Software

Issued: Jul 2023

Certified by HubSpot Academy

HubSpot Marketing Software

Issued: Jul 2023

Certified by HubSpot Academy

Revenue Operations

Issued: Jun 2023

Certified by HubSpot Academy

Inbound

Issued: Jun 2023

Certified by HubSpot Academy

Agile Scrum Product Owner

Issued: Jan 2020

Certified by Udemy

Product Management

Issued: Jan 2020

Certified by Udemy

AdWords Search Certification (Google)

Issued: Aug 2019

Certified by Google

AdWords Fundamentals (Google)

Issued: Jun 2019

Certified by Google

Masterclass : Strategic Marketing

Issued: Oct 2015

Certified by CIM | The Chartered Institute of Marketing

Masterclass: e-CRM

Issued: Jan 2015

Certified by Econsultancy

CIM Associate (ACIM)

Issued: Aug 2014

Certified by CIM | The Chartered Institute of Marketing

Usability & User Experience

Issued: Feb 2014

Certified by Econsultancy

Masterclass: Analytics & Optimisation

Issued: Jul 2013

Certified by Econsultancy

Mobile Marketing Campaigns

Issued: Feb 2013

Certified by Econsultancy

People Managers Bootcamp

Issued: Apr 2012

Certified by PokerStars

Prince II & Agile Project Management

Issued: Feb 2012

Certified by PokerStars

Certificate in Marketing Communications

Issued: Jan 2005

Certified by Mary Ward Adult Education

Portfolio

Docparser: Repositioning That Helped More Than Double Trial Conversion

Tidio: Turning AI product discovery into +25% revenue & resolution

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