Paul Tyan

Freelance Product Manager / Head of Product

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementProduct OwnershipUser ResearchProduct MarketingSQL QueriesContent StrategyFigmaA/B TestingData Analysis

Languages

EnglishFrenchPortugueseSpanish

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

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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

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