Maxime Champoux

Head of Product | Banking & API Platforms

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementProduct OwnershipDesign ThinkingStrategy & ConsultingUser Research

Languages

EnglishFrenchSpanish

About me

Intro

Building banks & complex systems. Product strategy and team scaling.

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Work experience

Qonto

Oct 2018 - Present

8 years 1 month

Head of Product Management

Nov 2021 - Present

5 years

Head of Business Banking products (All payment methods: cards, wire transfers, direct debits, incl local rails..) Financial Big bets: Account Payables and Receivables launch Credit offering launch Platform & System: 100 integrations in Connect marketplace

Senior Lead Product Manager

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

5 months

Paris, France

Invoicing offering launch

Lead Product Manager

Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

11 months

Paris, France

Connect Marketplace Integrations Financing products Bookkeeping products API products Payments capabilities: Transfers, Checks, Direct debits

Product Manager - Core Banking System

Oct 2018 - Oct 2020

2 years 1 month

Paris Area, France

Built Core Banking infrastructure SWIFT connectivity

Investor

Djamo

Apr 2021 - Mar 2024

3 years

Djamo is the Mobile Banking for French Speaking western Africa (8 countries, 120M People). YC21.

Lead Product Manager (API)

Mailjet by Pathwire

Nov 2017 - Oct 2018

1 year

Paris Area, France

- Managed a team of 3 Product Managers - Ensure API services are working in a coherent and performant way, with an eye towards a single platform serving all geographies. 100k+ users over 200+ endpoints under management. - Apply Product Management, industry, and market expertise to champion APIs as a business enabler, leading efforts to translate business and functional requirements into API User Stories. - Work with key stakeholders to identify and prioritize product enhancements, while simultaneously crushing technical debt.

Head of Product, API Evangelist

iBanFirst

May 2012 - Oct 2017

5 years 6 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

Core-Banking Platform & API for FIs: - FX liquidity provider integration (360T API + several Bank Fix API) - Core-banking messaging networks integration (SWIFT Alliance Lite 2 + STET2) - Correspondent-bank provider integration (integrated Top3 French bank + Top3 Belgian Bank) - IBAN account generation for clients - Payments service provider integration (integration of 3 APIs – including Earthport). - Designing a Core-Banking platform including the tools for all banking management stacks (support, business development, sales, dealing, middle office, compliance) - Designing the Rest API for Corporates & FIs : https://api.ibanfirst.com/APIDocumentation/IbanfirstAPI/Endpoints/#!/External_bank_account/get_externalbankaccounts Front-End Banking Platform for SMEs: - International payment platform for SMEs including Real-time rates, IBAN accounts and cross-border payment engine. - Financial services platform for SME, with the possibility to integrate all Fintech Service under the same roof, a unique bank account. Banking-as-a-System business model. 1st neobank to launch in Belgium + France. - Automatic B2B onboarding process, allowing SMEs to open a bank account online in 2 minutes. 1st financial institution able to provide professional IBAN accounts with an online application. See my Medium post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disrupting-european-b2b-banking-onboarding-process-maxime-champoux?trk=prof-post

Business development & Broker assistant

Currency Solutions - Forex brokerage & financial institution (PSP)

May 2011 - Oct 2011

6 months

London, UK

Business development on B2B French speaking global market.


Education

CY Cergy Paris Université

Engineer’s Degree, Research in Risk Management in Finance and Insurance

2012 - 2013

1 year 2 months

ISC Paris

Master's Degree, International Corporate Finance

2010 - 2013

3 years 2 months

ITEC Boisfleury European School

Scientific HEC Preparation Class, Mathématiques

2008 - 2010

2 years 2 months

Pierre Termier

Scientific Baccalaureate

2009 - 1900

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