Global Product Manager
2015 - 2019UNICEF- Acted as product manager, business analyst, and partnerships manager.
- Defined the product vision and guided the direction of the Internet of Good Things (IoGT) globally (product, brand, content coordination) and on a country level.
- Scaled IoGT from three countries in Eastern and Southern Africa to 66 countries and territories globally and grew the reach of the mobile product from a few thousand in 2015 to more than 32 million users in 2019.
- Led product development, including prioritizing features, building the product roadmap and managing relationships with engineering and software development teams, strategic partners and more than 50 UNICEF regional and country offices.
- Prepared commercial launch and zero-rating of Internet of Good Things in 60+ countries with external private companies and partners.
- Defined reach and engagement success metrics, managed the integration of analytics solution and led Monitoring and Evaluation work, including user research.
CEO and Co-Founder
2012 - 2017Amplibook- Acted as CEO, product manager, and business developer.
- Coordinated team efforts and crafted strategy, product vision and action plans (included leading the product and business model research).
- Recruited, trained and managed team members (developers + designers + comms).
- Built and managed the product roadmap: listed and prioritized features with Pivotal Tracker for the MVP, V1 and V2 of cross-platform (iOS + Android) tablet and smartphone applications.
- Designed, planned, and implemented plans for product building following agile methodology (from mockups to prototype building to product development and market launch).
- Evangelized the product and raised funds. Funds raised from business incubator BUSI for prototype developing + winner of Innovation prize.
- Attended leading industry fairs and built relationships with media, other startups, and companies, government bodies and societies in the Industry (TISP, Digital Europe, Groupement pour le Livre Numérique (GLN), Numa, Labo de l’Edition, Le Transfo).
- Led B2B business development. Amplibook customers included major French publishers (Editions de La Martinière, Editions Plon and publishing arm of Franco-German TV broadcaster (ARTE).
Digital Strategist
2014 - 2015UNICEF- Acted as product manager, knowledge manager, and UX analyst.
- Gathered and edited content as needed to support country offices while growing in-country capacity to maintain/update mobile websites.
- Created online collaborative tools to localize the content of websites distributed through Internet.org.
- Built local capacity and provided training to 14 UNICEF country offices.
- Designed screens and mockup of Version 2 of UNICEF mobile websites improving user experience.
Market Research Executive
2010 - 2011Xerox Global Services- Acted as a market research executive, market analyst and strategist.
- Supported go-to-market strategy by providing insights and assisting in developing industry-aligned market entry plans for Europe, North America, and emerging countries.
- Analyzed synergies and supported marketing to integrate newly acquired ACS ($6.5 billion) offering in the Xerox portfolio.
- Delivered in-depth marketing research on emerging trends in targeted industries and main customers' KPIs, to develop value propositions and build customer-facing material.
- Mapped customer journey and developed recommendations on how to articulate marketing messages to specific industry B2B audiences (telecoms and high tech, financial services, manufacturing, and oil and gas).
- Presented key findings to the board of Xerox Europe and industry vice presidents and general managers of financial services, manufacturing, and telecommunications.
- Managed relationships with consulting companies and held regular meetings with analysts and Xerox global account managers.
Strategic Marketing Analyst/Project manager
2007 - 2009France Telecom R&D/Orange Labs UK- Acted as a market analyst, product marketing manager, and project manager.
- Reported on and gave an in-depth analysis of new product launch strategies, business model, market entry strategy, positioning matrix, market potential evaluation, and benchmarks.
- Produced competitive analysis on "disruptive" trends i.e. evaluating the threat to the business, assessing Orange positioning, and making recommendations.
- Project-managed the delivery of marketing studies for a large R&D project. Planned, reviewed, and oriented the work of a team of 9 analysts and designers based across international locations in Europe and Asia.
- Managed innovation scouting and idea generation process, steering monthly committees and transferred new concepts and services into the group. Key research areas included: gaming, TV (mobile, connected), digital health, and SMS services for development.