Mo El Hoss

Senior Product Owner | API & DesignOps

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Salary / Daily rate

2 people recommend

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product Management

Languages

ArabicEnglishFrench

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About me

Intro

API Product Owner with a proven track record in developing and deploying digital financing and e-commerce solutions at a European scale. Specialized in managing complex projects, translating business needs into technical solutions, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams in international banking and tech environments. Delivers tangible results through innovative products, process optimization, and leading change in fast paced environments.

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Work experience

API Product Owner - IT Consultant

BNP Paribas Personal FinanceFreelance

Oct 2024 - Present

2 years 1 month

Paris, France

A the heart of Personal Finance As a Service, Product owner of the BNPP PF Connect-1 central squad.

Senior Product Manager R&D

Emeria

Jul 2022 - Oct 2024

2 years 4 months

Paris, France

Leading the Proptech product innovation for the largest real estate group in Europe. The mission are product discovery, to align everyone on the product vision to transform the ERPs in production into scalable and user-centric software solutions. My efforts in operations led to the introduction of product usage analytics and the inception of the DesignOps team in a SAFe agile environment. - Strategic planning Assessed build vs buy for new features. Did competition analytics and contributed to the product roadmap. Compared and tendered tools and frameworks for adoption to enable high-performance collaboration between product, design, engineering, marketing, and customer success. Addressed the product security and vulnerabilities. - Promoting a Product management culture Guided, mentored, and hand-held Product owners (POs) on Product management best practices, lifecycle, user-centered research, and the prioritization of outcomes over outputs. The diffusion of knowledge is done via design thinking workshops, presentations, and the compilation of resources to build a knowledge base. - Analytics based data-driven decision making Introduced internal product usage analytics. Set up monitors and dashboards for reporting traffic sources, front-end error monitoring, and page performance. Visualized user flows, user segments, and interactions. Popularized the user session recordings and interaction heat maps to lookup the critical path of each application; then rearranged the workflows for a shorter time to value. - Kicked-off the DesignOps team Initiated inclusive designing in coalition with the Product team away from silos. Prescribed modern tools for collaboration and unifying the design system. Created playbooks for UX research and discovery. Facilitated deriving design hypotheses and A/B testing. Tool stack: Datadog RUM | Microsoft Clarity | Figma | Gumi onboarding tool | Miro | Confluence

Product Manager

DataHawk

Sep 2021 - Jul 2022

11 months

Paris, France

Took ownership and management of the Product, including but not limited to user experience enhancement, new feature development, team management, opportunity creation, and internal analytics. - Built a Product-LED Growth roadmap, strategized and ideated the product development, and innovated features and functionalities that increased customer success. - Established shared vision across product, data, engineering, business development, and customer success teams by building consensus on priorities and leading product ownership and execution. - Supported exploration and R&D activities by anticipating, identifying, and understanding current emerging trends. - Identified market opportunities with research and competitive analysis and integrated them into product requirements. - Developed and launched new features (Product Owner role) while enhancing the existing ones on a timely basis, and communicated product solutions and offerings effectively internally and externally. Collaborated with the design team to build intuitive user interfaces through wireframes and mock-ups. Tool Stack: Product Board | Jira | Delibr | Figma & Figjam | Miro | Notion | Amplitude | Intercom | Retool | GitHub | Makelog | Slack | Discord | Cummul | Jimminy | Gong | Chilipiper | Count.co | Hotjar

National Consultant - eCommerce Advisor for SMEs

International Trade Centre

Feb 2021 - Dec 2021

11 months

Geneva, Switzerland

Technical advisory for The World Bank program “e-Commerce and women-Led SMEs in Lebanon” Trained and mentored more than 15 Women shop-owner entrepreneurs on Shopify, WordPress/WooCommerce, Prestashop, Webflow, Drupal, and other CMS. Troubleshoot their tech stack, improved their conversion rates, and optimized their growth spending. Lead the implementation of CRM (Hubspot) and experimented with Growth hacking techniques such as SEO and SEA.

Ebusiness Consultant

180 Degrees Consulting

Mar 2021 - Oct 2021

8 months

Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Skills: Digital Technology

CloudSale

Mar 2017 - Oct 2021

4 years 8 months

Beirut, Lebanon

Co-Founder

Mar 2017 - Oct 2021

4 years 8 months

Beirut, Lebanon

360° product manager for Cloudsale, a technology platform that creates and operates B2B and B2C marketplaces with a Fintech twist. Led strategic and business initiatives to successfully grow revenue in the pilot phase from $0 to $265000+ in less than a year, 100% growth MoM, and 15000+ active sessions. CloudSale SaaS offered SMEs a DeferredPayment Solution (BNPL)to finance their purchases. Raised pre-seed investments and been through local and global accelerators and incubator programs, notably in Silicon Valley. Led product discovery initiatives, employing market research, user interviews, and prototyping to identify and implement innovative solutions, contributing to successful product launches and improved user experiences.

Product Manager

Mar 2017 - Jul 2021

4 years 5 months

Beirut, Lebanon

• Built productive relationships with industry partners and competitors that supported leveling the playground between SMEs and trading Tycoons in Wholesale • Led strategic and business initiatives to successfully grow revenue in the pilot phase from $0 to $60000+ MRR in just 9 months of operations leveraging performance marketing • Drafted a Deferred Payment Solution for SMEs to finance their purchases Among Tasks and Duties: - Developed the concept, designed the Product, then pivoted - Steered the startup at Accelerators, Incubators, international competitions, and exhibitions. - Converted Organic and Paid Customers SEO / SEM / SMM and optimized CRO - Transformed a Data-centric approach into Data-driven decision making

Startup Manager

RiseUp

Dec 2019 - Dec 2019

1 month

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Startup Manager

World Youth Forum

Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

1 year 2 months

Sharm El-Sheikh, Sharm El Sheikh 2, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt

Startup Manager

TechCrunch

Sep 2019 - Oct 2019

2 months

San Francisco, CA, USA

Startup Manager

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab

Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

3 months

San Francisco, CA, USA

Startup Manager

Seedstars

Sep 2017 - Oct 2017

2 months

Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Business Development Manager

Alpha Household Trading

Apr 2012 - Mar 2017

5 years

United Arab Emirates - Dubai - Al Quoz industrial Area 4

Assistant Procurement Manager

Meico Power Generators

Mar 2010 - May 2012

2 years 3 months

Baabda, Lebanon

Sales Specialist

Homeware Establishment

Jun 2004 - May 2010

6 years

Beirut, Lebanon


Education

Ecole de la Qualite Logicielle

Consultant AMOA / Product Owner / Chef de Projet Digital

2024 - 2024

5 months

ESA BUSINESS SCHOOL

Master's degree

2020 - 2021

1 year 1 month

HEC Paris

MSIE - Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship MasterTrack

2020 - 2021

1 year 1 month

Université La Sagesse - ULS

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

2006 - 2008

2 years 1 month

Saint Joseph University of Beirut

Informatique de Gestion

2004 - 2006

2 years 1 month

International College

Lebanese baccalaureate

1990 - 2004

14 years 1 month

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