
Benjamin Rodde
Lead Product Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I've been a Lead Product Manager for 15 years, mostly crafting Mobile experiences for Consumer and B2B services. Having worked in startups and scale-ups I have a wide range of skills adjacent to Product Management, Product Marketing/Support with a strong emphasis on measurement through analytics and BI.
Work experience
Freelance Lead Product Manager
Self Employed, Freelancer, Independent Contractor, Gig Worker, Entrepreneur, etc.
Apr 2024 - Present
2 years 7 months
Paris, France
Lead Product Manager @ Wizz
Voodoo
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
7 months
Paris, France
Lead Product Manager
Stuart
Mar 2019 - Aug 2023
4 years 6 months
Paris Area, France
Senior Product Manager
Zenly, Inc.
May 2016 - Mar 2019
2 years 11 months
Paris Area, France
Growth hacking stuff (consultancy)
PrestaShop
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
4 months
Paris Area, France
Growth Product Manager
Deezer
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
8 months
Paris Area, France
• Specified new features, A/B tests focussed on customer mobile/web onboarding (+5 percentage points), conversion (+2 pp) and retention (+4 pp). Proposed in-app push messages to boost app ratings (~4*). • Contribute to user-research activities with user-research specialist, tracking manager and data scientist to provide insights to Product, CRM, Acquisition and Support teams.
Product Manager at Work4 - The #1 Facebook Recruiting Solution
Work4
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
4 months
Paris Area, France
Work4TM powers social recruiting by making everyone a recruiter and everyone a candidate. We help thousands of companies, including many of the Fortune 500, find, engage, and hire top talent with our all-in-one recruiting solution for Facebook. Work4 allows employers to reach candidates through a Facebook Career Site and on mobile devices, take advantage of social networks to drive employee referrals, and target Facebook’s 1 billion users with intelligent recruiting ads and innovative search tools. Work4 brings cost-effective, efficient sourcing and hiring to the world’s top companies by leveraging the reach and scope of the world’s largest and most powerful social network. Established in 2010 and backed by top tier investors such as Matrix Partners and Yuri Milner, Work4 has offices in San Francisco and Paris. For more information, please visit www.work4labs.com.
Product Marketing Manager
Orange (Libon project : www.Libon.com)
Dec 2008 - Dec 2013
5 years 1 month
Paris, France
www.Libon.com is an OTT service that leverages your mobile communications and address-book to 'stay close to the people who matter'. Keywords: unified communications and address-book, mobile-centric, privacy. Mobile apps : • iOS : Libon • Android : Previously Libon Address book. Responsabilities : • Provide in-depth customer knowledge to CxO and product team through mobile/web/social analytics, Social-CRM tools and data-mining/BI. • Definition and implementation across all interfaces of an integrated helpdesk platform (Zendesk). • Benchmarking and negotiations for technical solutions (ex. recommendation engine, mobile/social analytics). • Contributor on Libon branded/non-branded social-media channels. • Management of online agencies (mobile-media, community-management). • Excellent abilities to work within the Users/Designers/Developers workflow. • Proven aptitude to understand and manipulate technical concepts. • Project Management with Agile (Scrum) methodology • Strong sensibility to UX. • Some limited but useful coding skills (SQL, HTML, CSS, js, bash, etc.).
Marketing Assistant
Adobe Systems
Jun 2008 - Nov 2008
6 months
• Writing and presentation of market-studies and go-to-market (Web Agencies/Local Gov). • Involved in the partnership design phase between Adobe France and key local Web Agencies. • Managed the community intelligence process (Pixelistes, EOS Numérique, Flex.org etc). • Booth manager at Adobe’s events (B TO B/B TO C/Networking).
VP & Co-founder
Fast Rennes (Student Association)
Sep 2004 - May 2007
2 years 9 months
• Founder member and vice-president. Management of 20 people. • In charge of online communication campaigns. • Involved in negociations with head accounts. • Achievement: Téléthon on the race track of “24h Du Mans”, 5 000 visitors, 11K€ donated.
Writer on french version of theinquirer.net
VNU
Apr 2006 - Sep 2006
6 months
- Writer - high-tech industry. (Avg. 20 news/month) - News translation from English to French. - Average audience: 7,400 visitors/day.
Sales & Marketing Intern
SAP
Jun 2006 - Aug 2006
3 months
Paris Area, France
• Experience with SAP’s ERP modules (CRM & R/3). • Involved in partnerships betwen SAP France and Computer Science Colleges. • Identified and qualified leads. • Designed and managed relational databases.
Salesman Intern
Nike EMEA
Jul 2005 - Aug 2005
2 months
Paris Area, France
• Retailer negotiations. Support of the sales team. • Lead identification and qualification. • Database design & management.
Education
Carleton University
Master of Arts, Business, Management of new technologies & innovation
2007 - 2008
2 years
Activities and societies: Carleton University International Student Association
Exchange year.
Rennes School of Business
Master, Business, Management of new technologies, Marketing
2004 - 2007
4 years
UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
DUT, Computer Science
2001 - 2004
4 years
Equivalence in the English education system : Associate degree in computer science.
Lycée Jules Ferry, Versailles
A degree, Sciences
1999 - 2001
3 years