Stéphane Delbecque

Chief Product & AI Officer

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementStrategy & ConsultingCoachingProduct OwnershipDesign ThinkingScrumConfluenceJiraAgile CoachingAsanaUI Product DesignUser ResearchUX Product Design

Languages

English (Native)French (Native)

About me

Intro

Chief Product & AI Officer | Startup & Product Advisor | FrenchCPO Member

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Work experience

T-Shaped CPO / Advisor

SD Consulting

Jul 2019 - Present

7 years 4 months

Paris, France

4 main activities: 1. Fractional and Interim CPO/VP Product. Transition Manager. - Manage existing teams. - Recruit exceptional talent and expand teams. - Define fundamentals (strategy, mission, vision, OKR) - Establish best practices (i.e. insights, feedback, research, prioritization, roadmap, data) 2. Advisor to CEOs and Product people. - Strategic decisions, positioning, sparring partner. - Team management, conflict resolution. - Operational discussions. 3. Product career and culture coach. - Product leaders mentoring. - Train and boost Product teams. - Organized and tailor-made bootcamps. - Drive career changes to Product Management. 4. Quick prototyping. - Define added-value use cases. - Create AI-assisted prototypes. - Go from idea to execution. - Validate assumptions. Verticals: SportTech, PropTech, Energy, Solar, FinTech, HealthTech, Home improvement, Identity management, Logistics

Chief Product & AI Officer

LeetchiFreelance

Sep 2025 - Mar 2026

7 months

Paris, France

- ExCom Member, team management, transversal leadership. - Wrote and shared Product vision and strategy. - OKR management, from the ExCom to the teams and back up. - Individual objectives based on soft skills to enhance employability. - AI strategy: from buzzword to reality, for the entire organization. - Jointly developed initiatives, anchored in measurable impacts. - Built business cases to justify the ROI of impactful initiatives. - Empowered autonomous product people, renewed confidence. - Centralized tools, maximized efficiency.

Chief Product & AI Officer

NomadiaFreelance

Nov 2024 - Jun 2025

8 months

Paris, France

- Shaped and led a new organizational structure integrating Product, AI, Data, Mobile, Design, and Documentation teams. - Developed and secured Board approval for Nomadia Group's comprehensive AI strategy. - Led cultural transformation through online training programs and AI Champions initiative. - Evaluated and implemented Generative AI tools to enhance operational efficiency. - Developed Generative AI prototypes to streamline internal workflows. - Prioritized rapid deployment of high-value Generative AI features.

Founding Member

Product Circle

Apr 2023 - Jan 2025

1 year 10 months

Paris, France

A circle of trusted product executives, with the mission to facilitate personal growth for each member, foster a culture of sharing business opportunities, and collectively deliver exceptional value to companies.

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Eldo

Dec 2020 - Feb 2022

1 year 3 months

Paris, France

Aptus Health

Feb 2017 - Jul 2019

2 years 6 months

Paris Area, France

Vice President Global HCP Univadis Product Management

Jun 2018 - Jul 2019

1 year 2 months

Paris Area, France

As VP Global HCP Univadis Product Management, I define, lead and deliver the global product mission, vision and strategy, based on user needs and pain points, business requirements and best-in-class product management approaches. Under this role, I'm also leading a global UX center of excellence whose mission spans across territories and products, for the whole Aptus Health Product portfolio.

VP International Product Management

Feb 2017 - Jun 2018

1 year 5 months

Paris Area, France

Member of the Executive Leadership Team. Leader of a team of 15+, including UX Designers, Product Directors, Product Owners and Project Managers. In charge of UX, Web, Mobile, Content and Commecial Products.

AXA

Oct 2013 - Feb 2017

3 years 5 months

Paris Area, France

Group Director of Digital Expertise (Mobile, UX, Social Media, Analytics) - Digital Agency

Jan 2016 - Feb 2017

1 year 2 months

Paris Area, France

Group Head of Mobile - Digital Agency

Oct 2013 - Feb 2017

3 years 5 months

Paris Area, France

- Writer of the AXA Group Mobile Strategy. - Leader of the AXA Digital Strategy's global Mobile Leadership stream, coordinating all global and local efforts on the matter. - Leader of the Agile transition within the AXA Group Marking Distribution team. - Builder of customer-centric mobile assets at the AXA Group level to turn them into internationally rolled-out successes. - Owner of AXA's mobile products on connected car and Telematics (AXA Drive and its UBI, PAYD and PHYD versions) - Sourcer of great mobile experiences in any of the AXA entities to prepare them for international roll-outs. - Manager of a team of 20 Agile-trained and hands-on people (project managers / product owners, mobile architect, consultants, topic experts). - Since April 2015: additionally responsible of the group's UX, Social Media, Analytics and A/B testing practices.

Director of Product Management, ESPN International Digital Media

ESPN

Dec 2011 - Aug 2013

1 year 9 months

San Francisco, CA, USA

Responsible for defining, driving and coordinating ESPN International digital products and ESPN FC mobile efforts, alongside 3rd-party contractors and vendors, handset manufacturers and internal stakeholders (Tech, Marketing, Content, Biz Dev, Legal, Customer Care, QA). International Product Lead on: - ESPN FC Mobile (iOS, Android and HTML5). - ESPN Hub for Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone 7 and 8), an exclusive application covering multiple sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Football, College Basketball, Soccer, Rugby, Cricket, Formula 1, Tennis among others), in 3 languages (English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese), based on local sports interests. - Nokia S40: ESPN FC, ESPN F1 and ESPN Cricinfo. - ScoreCenter Brazil (Android and iOS). - Other confidential projects. > ESPN Hub for Nokia Lumia is present in 185 countries, with millions of downloads and hundreds of thousands of daily active users. > ESPN apps on Nokia S40 platforms were downloaded more than 1 million times.

Director of Product Management, Mobile

Seesmic

Apr 2011 - Oct 2011

7 months

San Francisco, CA, USA

- Managed a team of remote mobile developers and QA managers (in Bucharest, Romania). - Transitioned development and QA teams to Agile methodology. - Released major updates to Seesmic Social on Android, iOS, WP7 and Blackberry. - Defined a new product line, Seesmic CRM for Salesforce: product specs (user stories), priorities, visual mockups, marketing messages and QA material, on both Android and iOS. - Handled the relationship with Salesforce.com, led a closed Alpha test with Motorola and HTC. - Occasionally served as spokesperson for Seesmic Mobile Social and Seesmic CRM. > Launched Seesmic CRM for Salesforce on Android, on-stage at Dreamforce’11, 3 months after project kick-off.

CEO & Co-Founder

Footbalistic

Feb 2009 - Oct 2011

2 years 9 months

San Francisco, CA, USA

Football, also known as soccer in the US, is by far the #1 sport in the world. To feed this global appetite for everything football, Footbalistic strived to offer the most comprehensive online database about each and every football game, team, league, competition and player in the world, from the origins of this sport to today. During my time at Footbalistic, I was responsible for "a few" things: - Raised Series A from business angels in the US, Europe and Asia. - Defined and ran product, strategy, marketing, business and corporate development. - Scoped HR needs and hired team members (developers, marketing, biz dev). - Launched Footbalistic.com, the premier destination site for everything soccer, in January 2010. - Signed promotion deals with RMC, the leading French sports radio and Sony PlayStation. - Got coverage on French prime-time TV and radio shows, Chinese TV, tech and sports-related blogs. - Represented Footbalistic at ChinICT (Beijing, China), Soccerex (Rio, Brazil) and LeWeb’10 (Paris, France). > Built a global community of 11,000 fans on Facebook and 2,800 followers on Twitter with no marketing budget.

Mobile Product Manager

Six Apart

May 2007 - Nov 2008

1 year 7 months

San Francisco, CA, USA

Establish Six Apart as the leader in the Mobile blogging world with Vox, TypePad, Movable Type and Blog It, in both the US, Europe and Japan. - Determine and drive Six Apart's Mobile strategy and roadmap. - Constantly analyze competitive landscape. - Define Product specification. - Coordinate Marketing, PR, Legal, Product and Engineering efforts. - Handle Business relationships with mobile carriers, handset manufacturers and third parties. - Be the Mobile voice.

Yahoo! Mobile Product Manager France

Yahoo!

Jul 2005 - Dec 2006

1 year 6 months

Paris, France

Being Yahoo! Mobile Product Manager means having the responsability for everything related to Mobile in France. The sentences below explain what my business week looks like: - Be the single point of contact both for french and european teams. - Determine local strategy (in touch with the global and european teams) and select best partners. - Manage the Yahoo! Mobile web site (integration, promotion, marketing, customer care, legal, providers, etc.). - Increase the Mobile Internet (WAP) offer and audience. - Create new SMS and MMS services. - Lead the discussions with mobile operators, MVNOs, retailers and OEMs. - Evangelize the product/marketing/sales teams. - Coordinate local activities for Yahoo! Go, Yahoo! Ready and FIFA Mobile. - Develop a mobile client offer (Yahoo! Messenger on i-mode). - Answer to journalists and participate to mobile events/conferences.

Mobile Product Manager

Avedya

May 2004 - Jun 2005

1 year 2 months

Paris, France

Project/product manager in charge of multi-modal (web and mobile) products dealing with community (blog, chat, etc.). - Orange Blog (Web, WAP, OML, SMS and MMS), - Orange Zapzone, teen community (Web, WAP, OML, SMS and MMS), - NRJ Blog (Web and i-mode), - EU program against cigarette (Web).

Senior Project Manager

AOL France

Jul 2000 - May 2004

3 years 11 months

Paris, France

Project Manager on various local and global products/services: - AOL Mobile on WAP, first non-operator portal in 2000, - AOL Mail on i-mode in Nov 2001, - AOL Premium Services billing system, an integrated payment methode allowing users to be billed on their AOL's bill, - 20 partners plugged to AOL Premium Services, - PC2SMS (from the AOL client to the mobile) and AIM2SMS (from AIM to the mobile, with the way back) services, based on AOL Premium Services.

Webmaster

Eolsys Conseil

Jul 1999 - Jun 2000

1 year

Sèvres, France

France Telecom: Maintained the Guyancourt Intranet. Eolsys: Developed the company's web site (static pages and Flash animations).

IT Consultant

Sema Group

Aug 1998 - Jun 1999

11 months

Sophia-Antipolis, France

Organic: Defined and implemtend the backup and antivirus solution and policy. EDF: Defined and implemented a new back-end infrastructure.

Sensible Points and Networks Manager (Military Service)

Secretariat General de la Defense Nationale - Cabinet du Premier Ministre

Dec 1997 - Jul 1998

8 months

Paris, France

Reporting to the Prime Minister and working in close liaison with the President of the Republic’s office, the General Secretariat for Defence and National Security (SGDSN, former SGDN) assists the Head of Government in fulfilling his/her responsibilities in matters of national defence and security. . Maintained a location-based visual database of sensible points and networks. . Trained Ministers' teams in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 1998 in France. . Kept Ministers' teams informed on available police and "gendarmerie" squads during the FIFA World Cup 1998.


Education

Novancia Business School Paris

MS/MSc - MA equivalent, Economics, Management, Information System Management

1994 - 1998

4 years

Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)

Physics

1993 - 1995

2 years


Licenses & certifications

Introduction to Large Language Models

Issued: Oct 2023

Certified by Google

Introduction to Generative AI

Issued: Oct 2023

Certified by Google

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