Sylvie Haas

Product & Platform Executive | Enterprise SaaS | A

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product ManagementCybersecurityUX Product DesignDigital TransformationData VisualizationCoachingAIProduct StrategyScrumBusiness AnalysisAgile CoachingCRMJavaTalent AcquisitionMachine LearningGrowthCustomer Service

Languages

FrenchEnglishSpanish

About me

Intro

I’m a product and platform leader with 25+ years of experience building and transforming digital products across enterprise software, SaaS, marketplaces and AI-enabled services. Throughout my career, I’ve worked at the intersection of product, technology and business. I enjoy taking complex products or organizations, finding what needs to change, and helping teams turn a clear strategy into products that create measurable value for customers and the business. I’ve led product strategy from vision through delivery and growth, built and coached international product teams, and helped organizations evolve the way they work through stronger product operating models, clear priorities and outcome-focused decision making. Some of the areas where I have spent most of my career: • Product and platform strategy • Enterprise SaaS and on-premise-to-SaaS transformation • AI-enabled products and shared SaaS capabilities • Product transformation and operating models • Growth, monetisation and customer experience • Product analytics, OKRs and KPIs • International and cross-functional team leadership • Executive stakeholder and commercial alignment At Adevinta, I developed the vision and roadmap for shared AI-enabled SaaS capabilities across marketplaces, covering search, personalization, recommendations and fraud prevention. I also served as Chief Product Officer for Adevinta Hungary, working with the executive team to connect product and technology strategy with commercial priorities. Earlier at IBM, I led the product evolution of Operational Decision Manager, including the transition from an on-premise product to SaaS and the strategy and delivery of four major product versions across large, distributed teams. What has remained consistent throughout my career is the importance I place on people. Great products come from strong teams: teams that understand the problem they are solving, have the space to make decisions, learn from what doesn’t work and stay focused on outcomes. I’m now interested in senior Product & Platform leadership opportunities where I can help shape product and platform strategy, accelerate AI-enabled capabilities, strengthen product organizations and turn technology investment into meaningful customer and business outcomes. MBA, INSEAD | Ingénieur, École Centrale Paris French & US citizen | French • English • Spanish

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Work experience

Director of Product Management

Decathlon

Jul 2024 - Present

2 years 4 months

Paris, France

Leading the digital transformation of the People/HR domain worldwide, with a focus on improving employee experience, increasing operational efficiency and providing reliable data to support management decision-making. Key areas of focus include: • Digital product strategy and transformation across the global HR domain • Improving employee-facing digital experiences and workforce efficiency • Strengthening product and technology practices across a complex international environment • Improving data reliability and access for management decision-making • Addressing cybersecurity and shadow IT risks across the People technology landscape • Working across product, technology and business stakeholders to turn transformation priorities into practical outcomes

Adevinta

Apr 2017 - May 2024

7 years 2 months

Paris, France

Product Expert - Trust and Transactions

Jan 2022 - May 2024

2 years 5 months

Paris, France

Worked with Adevinta's European marketplaces to accelerate the adoption of secure online transactions and improve trust throughout the customer journey. • Advised marketplaces on transaction journeys and product improvements • Identified and shared practices that could increase trust, customer satisfaction and transaction adoption • Worked across countries and functions to bring greater consistency to the transaction experience • Connected customer experience, product decisions and commercial objectives

Chief Product Officer, Adevinta Hungary

May 2020 - Jan 2022

1 year 9 months

Budapest, Hungary

Chief Product Officer for Adevinta Hungary, overseeing product strategy for Jófogás and Használtautó and working closely with the executive team and technology leadership. My focus was to increase the contribution of product to the company's growth and commercial objectives while changing the way product teams operated. • Co-created product and technology strategy with executive leadership • Shaped initiatives across user acquisition, mobile apps, CRM, personalization and monetisation • Led Product, UX and Customer Support teams of 20 • Introduced stronger product operating practices using Agile, OKRs, KPIs and Dual Track Discovery/Delivery • Connected customer needs, product priorities and technology modernization • Supported +20% growth in App DAU • Worked with commercial and technology leaders to turn product opportunities into measurable business outcomes

Chief Product Officer, Fincaraíz

Nov 2019 - May 2020

7 months

Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Interim Chief Product Officer for FincaRaiz, Colombia's leading real-estate digital platform, brought in to strengthen the product strategy, organization and operating model. • Worked with the executive team to define strategic goals and a roadmap focused on the most valuable growth opportunities • Reorganized, recruited and coached the Product and UX organization • Introduced stronger Agile, OKR and analytics practices • Changed product and development operations to improve team velocity and product impact • Helped establish the foundations for the platform's continued growth and strengthened market position

Product Director, IA-powered Global Marketplace Components

Feb 2018 - Dec 2019

1 year 11 months

Paris Area, France

Led product strategy for AI-powered shared SaaS capabilities used across Adevinta's international marketplace portfolio. The objective was to help marketplaces adopt AI-enabled technology faster while creating reusable capabilities that could improve customer experience and reduce duplication across markets. • Defined the vision and roadmap for shared SaaS capabilities across search, personalization, recommendations and fraud prevention • Built and led a product team working with seven international squads • Worked closely with marketplaces, technology teams and User Research to validate product-market fit • Developed a portfolio approach focused on reducing time-to-market and cost of ownership • Created stronger collaboration between local marketplaces and global product and research teams • Helped establish reusable platform capabilities that could scale across different markets and products

Product Lead - Fraud & Content Moderation

Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

1 year

Paris, France

Led product vision and roadmap for fraud prevention and content moderation capabilities serving Adevinta's international marketplace portfolio. • Defined the product direction for a multi-tenant SaaS service • Worked with three international teams to develop and deliver the capability • Focused on making fraud prevention faster and easier to adopt across marketplaces • Balanced user trust, marketplace safety, product requirements and scalability

IBM

Jul 2008 - May 2017

8 years 11 months

Paris, France

Product Team Lead - IBM Operational Decision Manager

Nov 2010 - May 2017

6 years 7 months

Paris, France

Led product strategy and evolution for IBM Operational Decision Manager, an enterprise platform helping organizations analyse, automate and govern business decisions. A major part of the role was transforming an established enterprise product for a SaaS model while continuing to evolve the product for complex global customers. • Led strategy, development and delivery of four major product versions • Managed and coordinated Product Management, technical and SaaS transition teams • Led the transition from on-premise software to SaaS • Worked across Product, Engineering, Sales, Support, Consulting and customers • Coordinated teams involving 80 developers and five product managers • Managed distributed teams across France, the UK, China and the US • Drove product evolution in a complex enterprise environment where integration, reliability and customization were critical

Product Team Lead - Operational Decision Manager

Jul 2008 - Dec 2010

2 years 6 months

Foster City, CA, USA

Product Management Team Lead for IBM Operational Decision Manager, responsible for coordinating product managers and setting the overall direction of the product roadmap. Worked across product strategy, roadmap development, customer needs and cross-functional stakeholder alignment in a complex enterprise software environment.

Product Lead, ILOG Business Rules Management System

ILOG

Dec 2001 - Jan 2009

7 years 2 months

Mountain View, CA, USA

Led product strategy for ILOG's Business Rules Management System, helping enterprises automate and manage business decision logic independently from their underlying IT infrastructure. Worked across product strategy, customer needs, UX and development to evolve a complex enterprise software product for demanding international customers. The experience became the foundation for my later work at IBM following its acquisition of ILOG and the evolution of the product into IBM Operational Decision Manager.

Product Manager - J2SE

Sun Microsystems

Oct 2000 - Dec 2001

1 year 3 months

Product Manager for J2SE client technologies, including Java Web Start and Java Plug-in. Worked on product direction and evolution for Java client technologies within Sun Microsystems' software organization.

Product Manager - Visualization

Inxight Software, a XEROX PARC company

Sep 1998 - Oct 2000

2 years 2 months

Product Manager for visualization products at Inxight Software, a Xerox PARC company. Worked across product direction, customer needs and product development in an emerging technology environment.

Product Marketing Manager

Scitex Europe

Sep 1994 - Oct 1996

2 years 2 months

1410 Waterloo, Belgium

Product Marketing Manager working on technology products and market positioning in an international environment.


Education

CentraleSupélec

ENGINEERING

1988 - Present

38 years 10 months

INSEAD

Master of Business Administration - MBA

1993 - Present

33 years 5 months

Cooper

Interaction Design Practicum, User Interaction Design

2005 - 2005

1 month

http://www.cooper.com/

Pragmatic Marketing

Product Management, Product Marketing

1998 - 2000

2 years 1 month

INSEAD

MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

1992 - 1993

1 year 1 month

CentraleSupélec

Ingenieur

1986 - 1988

2 years 1 month

CentraleSupélec

ENGINEERING

MBA - INSEAD | Ingénieur CentraleSupélec

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