Olivier ROLAND

CPO @ Alien Intelligence · Building AI Data Infrastructure & MCP Connectors | AI Product Leader

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Product StrategyLLMs / Large language modelsProduct ManagementAIScrumData VisualizationCRMChange ManagementRisk Management

Languages

English (Fluent)German

About me

Intro

I build AI infrastructure that gives humans control over their data in the age of AI agents. As CPO of Alien Intelligence, I'm developing a data streaming platform and MCP connectors for secure AI agent data consumption. With over 15 years in AI and data product leadership, I've led initiatives at companies like Shift Technology, Alten, and Zaion. I am an engineer by training and a product leader by practice, passionate about the intersection of AI, data sovereignty, and developer tooling.

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Work experience

CPO

Alien

Sep 2024 - Present

2 years 2 months

– Building Alien Intelligence, an AI data streaming infrastructure. – Designed and launched MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors enabling AI agents to securely consume external APIs and proprietary data sources – Defined product strategy and go-to-market across three customer segments: data/content owners, AI builders, and API providers – Built internal AI infrastructure (data pipelines, eval frameworks, LLM-as-judge methodologies) – Led product, tech, and commercial strategy as CPO – Stack & ecosystem: MCP, LLMs, data streaming, API monetization, AI agents

Teacher and Improvement council member

Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

Sep 2020 - Present

6 years 2 months

Paris, France

– Within the "Droit, économie et gestion mention entrepreneuriat et management de projet" Master. "Management de projet et d'affaires (MPA)" US Information system and digital projects

Senior AI Product Manager

Shift Technology

Jan 2022 - Aug 2024

2 years 8 months

Paris, France

– Led AI & GenAI product strategy within a fast-growing French insurtech unicorn. – Managed 4 multicultural squads (30+ people): PMs, designers, engineers, data scientists – Drove 100+ AI/GenAI initiatives from discovery to delivery across fraud detection and claims automation – Designed cloud-based document analysis pipelines (Azure & AWS) – Standardized reporting across the org: moved from hundreds of custom files to unified data visualization layer – Owned product positioning, pricing strategy, and OKR/KPI governance

Senior Product Manager

Zaion

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

5 months

Paris, France

– Established the Product department in a dynamic start-up environment, focusing on natural language processing technologies. – Led efforts to achieve product-market fit, implemented agile methodologies, and guided the team towards a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. – 1 PO direct report

Head of Product Owner Factory

ALTEN

Apr 2020 - Jul 2021

1 year 4 months

– Within the Stellantis PO Factory, I hired and managed 25 Product Owners while coaching about: – Product Discovery – User interview, collecting feedback – Implementing test and learn culture – Product Strategy – Define product vision and development strategy – Develop notion of Value – Manage stakeholders, understand ecosystem and interactions – Define relevant KPIs and OKRs – Product Delivery – Collect ideas, turn feature list in sorted backlog – Use several prioritization methods (ie WSJF & RICE) – Implement end-to-end tests – Implement agile ceremonies (sprint review, sprint retrospective), create DOD & DOR – Leadership – Speak for your client within the organization – Coordinate development and run for several products – Organize knowledge sharing – Ensure multiple teams alignment – Project Director

Project Director

ALTEN

May 2019 - Mar 2020

11 months

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

– Pre-sales, RFP/RFQ, tenders defense – Projects kick-off and delivery follow-up – Risk and margin management – Accountable for major industry projects (SNCF, Stellantis, ...) including development activities, externalization (nearshore and offshore), project management. – Activities were either workpackages or unit of work-based, in delivery or skill centers.

Product Manager

Réseau Canopé

Jan 2016 - Apr 2019

3 years 4 months

Paris, France

– From scratch to deployed platform with 100k+ users – Roadmap management – Responsible for 2 squads (8 dev/UX profiles) – Tender process (public market) for 7M€ over 3 years, candidates audition and winner selection. – Contractors (France & Brazil) operational management – Conception, development and test for a SaaS platform – Experimentation

Product Owner - service-public.fr

ACTIMAGE

Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

2 years

Paris, France

– Within OCTO teams at DILA: – Product Owner for service-public.fr redesign – Product Owner for service-public.fr, vie-publique.fr and interdepartmental directory MAΙΑ – IC for CAB and steering committees – First deployment of FranceConnect CAS

Deputy Director

ISTBER

Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

2 years 1 month

Yaoundé, Cameroon

– Creation of a technical university in Yaoundé, Cameroon – Industrial IT department manager (10 p.) – Executive Board member – Hired and managed the teaching staff (80 p. over 2 years) – Responsible for enterprises partnerships – Handled relationships with High Education Ministry

Consulting Project Manager

Capgemini

Oct 2010 - Sep 2011

1 year

14000 Caen, France

– Technical specifications – Application tests – Bug tracking

Project manager

Euris - Cloud CRM & CLM for Life Sciences

Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

1 year

– Technical specifications – Application tests – Partnerships and new clients management worldwide (China, Spain, Poland, France) – Change management and user training


Education

ENSIIE - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise

Ingénieur, Informatique

2007 - 2010

3 years 1 month

Lycée Malherbe

Prépa, MPSI-MP

2005 - 2007

2 years 1 month

Lycée Victor Hugo

Baccalauréat

2003 - 2005

2 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

Matrix Manager

Issued: –

Product Strategy Certification (PSC)

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Product-Led Growth Fundamentals Certification

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TOEIC

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Product Roadmapping Certification (PRC)

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