
Mo El Hoss
Senior Product Owner | API & DesignOps
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Salary / Daily rate
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Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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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.
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