Laurent Billon

Skills: Product Marketing · Product Strategy · Competitive Intelligence · Go-to-Market Strategy · Product Management

Consulting Roles in Product Management & Leadership (CPO, Head of Product, PM) I can help your SaaS company: - Structure your engineering and product teams - Integrate GenAI into your products - Create a strong alignment with Tech - Product - Business - Mentor and coach product managers to become effective leaders In addition to my full-time positions, I love delivering 1-1 mentoring to Product Managers who want to strengthen their management skills to become an effective Head of Product. Tailored training in : - Leading and Managing teams of PMs - Prioritization and Delivery - Product Tools and Processes - Interviewing for PM role

Led the Product Department of Combo as a member of the Executive Committee : - Built the organization and scaled development processes around 5 empowered squads - Hired and developed a team of 15 high-impact Product Managers and Designers - Achieved strategic product successes : Switch to tiered and usage-based pricing, launch of a new premium plan, roll-out of a full Design System, new mobile app...

Led the development of the Air Support software platform from scratch, enabling our very first clients to order drone services and analyze their data in only 2 months. • Created and implemented a product management process involving sales, marketing, operations and engineering, enabling the team to gather knowledge, assess opportunities, and deliver better products more efficiently. • Developed the roadmap of our product portfolio, prioritizing new features and product enhancements for maximizing the value created for our customers.

Drove a major evolution of a software managing Total relationships with communities. • Analyzed the needs and behavior of key users in 15+ subsidiaries located worldwide, identified areas of improvement, specified and prioritized new features, wireframed the critical user interfaces. • Defined the product roadmap and managed the project in collaboration with the engineering contractor, solving 250+ issues and implementing changes in a timely manner. • Refined the product vision and strategy for upcoming years, created a successful proof of concept for business data analysis (Qlikview, ArcGIS, Python), researched and proposed plans for a mobile version of the software.

• Identified strategic business opportunities for contactless smartcard-based services. (Market and technical research) • Prepared commercial and technical documents for supporting our response to a Request For Proposal for the French Government. (Specialized Cloud Hosting)

• Managed the organization of 2 editions of a sports and music festival. (50 000+ participants annually) • Led a team of 60 volunteers, managed 220 000 € annual budget. • Launched 10+ new projects, obtained 10 000 €+ grants to implement them.