
Paul Tyan
Freelance Product Manager / Head of Product
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
⚡️ Freelance product manager with 10+ years of experience in startups and entrepreneurship 🤝 Coach on career development for product managers: https://bit.ly/paul_coaching 🚀 Ex-founder of a film music production company working in cinema, TV and advertising 🛠️ Ex-Google with an engineering and business background
Work experience
Head of Product, AI
Tiime
Nov 2024 - Present
2 years
Leading product strategy of GenAI and LLM initiatives to simplify accounting for entrepreneurs and streamline workflows for accountants. • Built roadmaps and prioritized opportunities, acting as a bridge between leadership, product, engineering, and business teams, to align on strategy, scope, delivery and stakeholder expectations. • Managed 3 PMs on AI products from scoping and prioritization to user testing and design reviews on several tools such as an AI agent for entrepreneurs and an LLM email generator for accountants. • Introduced data-driven prioritization by designing and tracking KPIs (revenue, time savings, etc.) • Oversaw strategic partnerships and vendor benchmarks (Dust, Artefact, Snowflake, Databricks). • Setup governance and knowledge-sharing practices such as team rituals and documentation standards.
Product Strategist
MozzaFreelance
Oct 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
Paris, France
Mozza is a crew of Product Managers & Product Designers helping entrepreneurs and startups to craft amazing user experiences.
Freelance Product Leader / CPO
Oct 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
Working with early-stage startups to define and execute product strategies that align with both user needs and business goals, from identifying opportunities to building innovative solutions. 👇 🌱 Clients & Partners - Veesion (RetailTech + AI) - Sales Scan (SalesTech) - Stancer (FinTech) - Harvestr (B2B SaaS) - Happy Hire (HR Tech) - Carbone 4 (GreenTech) - Apiday (GreenTech) - Alogia (HealthTech) - Dékuple / Ividence (AdTech + AI) - WeTransact (Marketplace Integration) - Karbonpath (GreenTech) - Ava (AI Dating) - Camb.ai (AI Dubbing) - Akuity Care (HealthTech) - MyTraffic (Data) - Napta (HR Tech) - Beem (GreenTech) - 🛠️ Product Development - Building and launching new products, apps, and features - Developing minimum viable products (MVPs) - Testing proofs of concept (POCs) - Auditing and redesigning products - Optimizing funnel conversion 🎯 Strategic Planning - Defining product vision and strategy - Planning and prioritizing roadmaps - Conducting market research and competitive analysis - Integrating customer feedback 🤝 Team and Process Management - Coaching teams on organizational challenges - Establishing user research processes and methods - Leading development teams through delivery cycles -
Lecturer
Le Wagon
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
8 months
Introduction to Product Management to 200+ participants from 4 cohorts
Interim CPO
GigiFreelance
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
2 months
Paris, France
Building a dating app (formerly called Ava) that uses artificial intelligence to match relevant people with one another (funding: Sequoia Capital, OpenAI) • Aligned team around company mission, vision, strategy and MVP, alongside with founder • Led team through short iteration cycles. Set up user research processes, and ran industry research • Established competitive landscape mapping, market research and user research processes
Senior Product Manager
Stuart
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 1 month
Paris, France
• Managed new squad using Shape Up method for discovery and delivery: framing, shaping, shipping • Expanded product team organization by defining 3 new squads to launch using 2022 budget • Built strong stakeholder relationships by getting regular buy-ins from COO and department heads • Revamped product onboarding process by gathering best practices from HR and leading tech companies • Defined and communicated Product Vision to engage team and identify product dependencies • Prioritised opportunities to validate hypothesis with continuous user research and quantitative analysis • Ran continuous competitive research in collaboration with operations and product team members • Applied Shape Up method for discovery and delivery: framing, shaping, shipping • Presented squad strategy, OKRs, research and roadmap at company all hands with +500 attendees
Lecturer
Noé
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
10 months
Paris, France
• Presented user research methodologies and their applications to 90+ participants • Coached participants on career reconversion to product management and product interview preparation
Lecturer
Entrepreneur First
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
2 months
Paris, France
• Mentored 6 early stage startups on product management practices and product strategy
Investor
Numeral
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
1 month
Numeral is a payment operations automation platform for tech companies across industries such as payments, insurance, lending, real estate, and transportation.
Lead Product Manager
Beem Energy
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
8 months
Paris, France
• Optimized purchase funnel of company online store reaching 23% growth target on solar panel sales • Defined product vision, strategy and goals for 2020; setup product processes for discovery and delivery • Conducted user research (user tests and interviews) and regularly communicated results with team • Listed problems, prioritized solutions with lead developer and implemented solutions with UX designer • Led a team of 3 developers and 2 designers through scrum sprints from backlog to feature delivery • A/B tested 4 purchase funnels, monitored performance and optimized best performing one • Analyzed and reported daily metrics for traffic, conversion rate, cost per conversion, ad campaigns (funding Alter Equity, 360 Capital, BNP Paribas développement)
Education
Noé
2020 - Present
6 years 4 months
• Product management bootcamp with Maïa Metz, ex-VP Product at Aircall
New York University
Film Scoring Workshop
2019 - Present
7 years 4 months
ESCP Business School
Master in Management, Grande École, Business Administration and Management, General
2008 - 2012
4 years
• ESCP Europe Consulting (Junior Enterprise) • Exchange semester at IMM Calcutta, India
McGill University
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
2004 - 2009
5 years
• Software development, computer science
Licenses & certifications
Learn SQL
Issued: May 2025