Mégane Le Palud
Senior Product Manager - tech/product
Salary / Daily rate
Nantes, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
With 10+ years of experience in the digital industry (Startups/Scale-ups), I’ve grown from Software Engineer to Senior Product Manager. I’ve led complex products combining technical, business, and regulatory challenges (food industry, robotics, API integrations). Today, I support my clients on missions that blend strategy and execution ; from product vision, discovery, roadmap management, and to value analysis ; with a structured, clear, and impact-driven approach.
Work experience
Akeneo
Apr 2020 - Present
6 years 7 months
Nantes, France
Senior Product Manager
Sep 2022 - Present
4 years 2 months
Nantes, France
Currently leading the Shared Catalogs and building a new B2B sales platform from scratch to streamline the sales process for retailers and distributors: enabling them to access, share, and collaborate around product data directly with their buyers. • Partner closely with engineering, design, customers, sales, and product marketing to shape the roadmap, align strategy with business goals, and deliver impactful solutions. • Drive product discovery through market feedback and customer insights, leveraging Amplitude (adoption analytics) and Datadog (performance monitoring) to inform decisions and track outcomes. • Consistently translate complex requirements into clear, actionable roadmaps that balance technical feasibility with business impact.
Product Manager
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 7 months
Nantes, France
Owned the connectivity experience (APIs, authentication, App Store) to: • improve developer adoption. • Expand ecosystem growth. • Enable seamless partner integrations. • Increase API usage and marketplace activity by making integration smoother and more accessible.
Product Owner
Stanley Robotics
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Product owner for the storage part of our service. • Build the roadmap with managers and the VP Engineering • Organize product seminars • Work with the storage team to achieve roadmap goals: breakdown the features, prioritize then and monitor progress • Synchronize storage work with other teams • Animate retro and demonstration sessions
KEENDOO
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
3 years 4 months
Nantes Area, France
Product Owner
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
1 year 3 months
Nantes Area, France
- Product reference for technical support and product development teams (new features prioritization, use cases definition, UX/UI, test scenario...) - Functional and technical specifications writing - Development tracking and deadline monitoring - Backlog management (Jira) - Definition and prioritization of future features - Product demo for prospects / leads - Prospects audits (evaluate company needs to find a better way to manage their data) - Manual regression and acceptance testing
Software Development Engineer
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
2 years 1 month
Nantes Area, France
- Development of a data extraction tool (Java : read XLS file, detect fields and create a CSV file to import data in a PostgreSQL database) - Development of the packaging feature for K.Retail software (used by Carrefour Belgium) (Java, JavaScript, Nuxeo Studio) - Development of a new calculation method for ingredients list (Java) Lead developer : development of a packaging feature within the PLIM software (based on K.Retail soft) - Project leader and developer : development of a new Quality management module (customers complaints, non-conformances, audits, control plan and laboratory tests management) - Functional and technical specifications writing - Test scenario and documentation writing
Software Developer
Crédit Agricole Technologies et Services
Sep 2013 - Oct 2015
2 years 2 months
Vannes Area, France
(MASTER - Sandwich course) - Bug fixing (Software : Remedy then RTC (IBM)) and features development (Java - mobile app "Ma - Banque" back office / Java & JavaScript / JSON - "Get in touch with" and bank loan features) - Functional and technical specifications writing - Test scenario writing - User documentation writing - SoapUI test writing - Manual regression and acceptance testing - Planning and costing of corrections
Software Developer
VIF
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
5 months
Nantes Area, France
- Market studies of mobile CRM applications - Sales, consultants and clients interview - Work with designers on UX and UI - Development of a software model - CRM mobile app (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery) - Oral presentation during the annual company event
Education
Nantes Université
Master's degree
2012 - 2015
4 years
Lycée La colinière
BTS (two-year technical degree)
2010 - 2012
3 years