Thomas Sales
Former CPO BlaBlaCar - Product Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Bordeaux, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Experienced product leader with 14+ years experience in start-ups and scale ups. Highly creative and analytical individual who combines an in-depth understanding of product, design and technology with business growth. Product experience includes consumer, fintechs, B2B2C and SaaS with a particular focus on early-stage and 0-1 product development.
Work experience
Pixel Creed
Jun 2015 - Present
11 years 5 months
Bordeaux, France
Interim CPO
Oct 2022 - Present
4 years 1 month
Bordeaux, France
Founder
Jun 2015 - Present
11 years 5 months
Bordeaux, France
Pixel Creed is a consulting, studio and investment company. Specialized in product management and building tailored platform and apps. ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฌ includes: Edenred, Qonto, Loom, Poiscaille, Selency, Decathlon, JobSeason, Bottled, BlaBlaCar, Travelex, Cmonjardinier ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ https://dismiss.io https://www.selogerdans10ans.com https://www.torget.io ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ Sept. 2023 / July 2024 - CPO @Edenred Electric Vehicle Solutions S1 2023 - CPO @Poiscaille ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ https://dotprod.ai/, https://www.join-jump.com/ ,https://www.kulipa.xyz, https://www.futurail.com, https://www.alinea-invest.com, https://www.loom.fr
External CPO - Edenred eMobility
Edenred
Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
11 months
Building the tech team, software & infrastructure to allow customers to charge their electric vehicles on-site, on roads and at home.
Co-Founder & CPTO
MemorizerFreelance
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 9 months
Paris Area, France
Memorizer is available on iOS and android. It's the next gen to-do lists to make sure you donโt miss out on great books, must-see movies or amazing places recommended by your friends. Say goodbye to painful to-do lists, messy notes and lost screenshots. Memorizer stores everything you want to do and remember in a single place. Memorizer rised 2Mโฌ from Kima ventures and 20+ tech entrepreneurs. We have 500.000 users and 1000+ ratings (4.7 stars averagely) on the app store.
VP Product Marketing
Finalcad
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
1 year 10 months
Paris Area, France
I've been at Finalcad from the Serie B to the Serie C transforming the company from a consulting company to a SaaS Product with more than $10M ARR. FINALCAD is now a next40 company! A member of a group of the 40 most valued tech company in France. We run & design Mobile apps, Data & IA layers for the construction industry. To change the way we build.
VP Product & Experience
SlimPay
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
9 months
Rรฉgion de Paris, France
SlimPay is a Payment Service Provider specialising in Direct Debit. With clients ranging from EDF to TripAdvisor, we offer solution for businesses of all size. The team is composed of +75 fintech passionate in 6 offices: Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Madrid and San Francisco. SlimPay has raised 15Mโฌ in 2015 to be the European leader in recurring payments. As member of the board of directors I mainly focus on: . leading the product vision, roadmap & delivery . creating the best experience for our customers and end-users . managing the product team and work closely with the sales team . growing the company and keeping company culture
Co-Founder and CEO
Solved - Effective Software Training
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
1 year 8 months
Rรฉgion de la baie de San Francisco, รtats-Unis
Solved is a SaaS company launched by Thomas Sales and Jean-Baptiste Escoyez and backed by eFounders to create a new effective software training method to connect employees using any software with a crowd-sourced software experts in live via Web-RTC. Solved is an app providing employees of our clients with access to: on-demand training sessions (e.g.: how to make a pivot table in Excel) and on-demand answers for any questions when using software.
BlaBlaCar
Dec 2011 - Aug 2014
2 years 9 months
Chief Product Officer
Aug 2012 - Aug 2014
2 years 1 month
Led the product team to create a new transportation network across the world with a user-centric and data-driven approach. Inside a world-class team that grew from 15 to 500+ passionates. Achievement: - From 1 to 50 millions active users in 10+ countries - From 0 to 2 millions monthly payments - With direct report to the CEO I've created, grown and managed the product team to a team of +10 people including PM, Designers, Data Analyst, QA and Internationalization Manager - Led the design and development of iPhone & Android apps, a new website and back-office tools, with local and remote development teams using Scrum method. Specialties: - Lead the product vision, roadmap and delivery - Recruit and manage a product team and a data team - Support Growth and country launches via product-communication and product-marketing features, acquisition funnels and internal tools - Monetize the product and support global internationalization of the company for +50 millions users - Contribute to the hiring of 50+ people and 10+ company acquisitions
Product Manager
Dec 2011 - Aug 2012
9 months
As the first product manager of the company, I was in responsible for building a new product and specifically: - specifying, testing & delivering a new website, back-office and mobile apps used by +10 millions of users across the world - creating & delivering the roadmap - working closely with a team of engineers and designers to deliver new features in an agile development environment. Key responsibilities include feature prioritization, product specs, wireframes, UX guidance, data analysis, user research & testing, and facilitating engineering productivity and daily deployments as scrum master.
Senior Financial Analyst
Alten
Feb 2007 - Mar 2011
4 years 2 months
Paris, France
M&A Analyst - Belgium & Netherlands (2009-2010) โข Acquisition: Valuation and Due diligence coordination โข Post-acquisition: integration and organization of administrative teams โข Relation third parties: auditors, lawyers, tax advisors Corporate Finance - Germany, Czech Republic & Poland (2007-2008) โข Creation and analysis of reporting, budget and statutory closing โข Following of invoicing and recovering, IFRS, cash flow, working capital and DCF
Intern in Efficiency Department
Veolia Environnement
Mar 2007 - Oct 2007
8 months
Paris, France
โข Monitore a cost reduction program and study cross-division efficiency projects โข Redesign the Information System of the subsidiary Gespace
Intern in Diversification Department
Total Egypt
Feb 2006 - Mar 2006
2 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
โข Marketing, Sales and monitoring diversification activities
Education
MBS School of Business
Master's degree, Corporate finance
2003 - 2007
4 years 2 months
Aarhus Business College
Bachelor's degree, Finance
2005 - 2006
1 year 2 months