Yves Mahe
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Grenoble, France
Toptal member since June 24, 2021
Yves has spent the past 15 years managing software products and driving many product roadmaps to success in the real estate, healthcare, construction, business process management, and content management domains. As a product owner within scrum teams, he's delivered outstanding products and built effective product strategies via his careful examination of markets, customers, and the competition. With a strong focus on UX, Yves also designed many products in close partnership with end-users.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Backlog Management
- Customer Discovery
- Design Thinking
- Feature Backlog Prioritization
- Lean Startups
- Product Roadmaps
- Product Strategy
Work Experience
Product Manager
La Poste
- Drove the internal adoption of the real-time data management software of La Poste, the French postal service.
- Built and implemented the product communication strategy.
- Created and presented a standard presentation for business stakeholders.
- Developed and presented the case studies to business stakeholders.
Product Marketing Manager
Map In Action
- Worked for Map In Action, a startup that provides territorial project management software for local authorities. Designed the most appropriate market approach for the product—specifically, created a marketing plan to address these prospects.
- Trained the sales team in a solution-oriented, not product-oriented, approach.
- Identified the most interested prospects: sector and personas.
Product Manager
Memo Bank
- Set up a new banking product—free instant payment for all customers—for Memo Bank, a new French bank specializing in high-growth SMEs.
- Worked with large institutions for the regulatory back end: Banque de France, European Bank, and EBA Clearing House.
- Led the definition of the product scope with the sales teams and the CTO.
- Created the user stories, worked in Kanban mode with the devs team, and collaborated with the designer.
Product Manager
Arlynk
- Built the product definition from the ground up for several modules of Arlynk's flagship product: a type of CRM for real estate companies.
- Researched user needs while going over iterations with the CEO and the CTO.
- Conducted research about regulatory constraints as real estate is a very regulated market.
- Designed the user workflow for each module, including wireframing the flow in Balsamiq.
- Specified user scenarios for a remote technical team.
- Iterated with the technical team when they had questions.
Product Manager
Agence Qualité Construction
- Designed—from a feature and UX viewpoint—a web and mobile application for construction crews. The goal of the application is to manage quality controls and delivery inspections.
- Implemented a design-thinking approach to requirements and UX scope gathering.
- Gathered user requirements via onsite visits of users, user interviews, and story mapping workshops.
- Defined from the ground up the features set and product user workflow along with several iterations with stakeholders and users.
- Created the mobile and web application mockups in Balsamiq for user testing and user feedback.
Product Management Director
Axway
- Managed a portfolio of products for managed file transfers and analytics for large corporations in the banking and insurance industries. The portfolio was composed of several products and components.
- Helped the company to transition from a product-centered approach to a platform-centered approach where each product was a part of the company-wide platform.
- Built the product to platform the transition strategy for the whole portfolio.
- Interacted with customers to elicit feedback, gather requirements, and test transition scenarios; also gathered requirements from internal stakeholders and salespeople.
- Worked closely with the engineering team to facilitate the transition to the new platform.
Chief Product Officer
Seiitra
- Managed the flagship product of Seiitra, the largest real estate software company in France.
- Defined and implemented the new generation of a real estate management solution for our customers, real estate agencies, both large and small.
- Constructed from the ground up a team of ten product managers, two product designers, and one tech writer; this included recruiting and training them (a mix of insiders with real estate expertise and external product managers with product management expertise).
- Built the product strategy and vision that drew upon my insights (garnered from listening to customers, researching and understanding the real estate market trends, and examining the competition).
- Established a design-thinking methodology with customer onsite visits, customer interviews, holding story-mapping workshops with customers, and customer-tested mockups.
- Set up a lean startup methodology to quickly come with an MVP and put it in the hands of customers as fast as possible to gather feedback. The first MVP was up and running with customers in six months.
- Worked closely with the CTO and the engineering team to bring people up to date with the best Scrum practices.
Product Management Director
BonitaSoft
- Managed the BonitaSoft products (business process management suite) roadmap by gathering requirements from customers and building the roadmap and user stories.
- Built the product strategy which covered the vision, markets, and the go-to-market strategy.
- Led and managed the product roadmap which included the backlog, stories, sprint planning, and sprint demos.
- Oversaw the feedback product collection process.
- Managed the product committee which was made up of leadership team members.
Business Unit Manager
Documentum
- Managed a software business unit that delivered a solution—a metasearch engine for pharmaceutical R&D departments—for customers like Pfizer, Novartis, Sanofi, and so on.
- Worked locally with my team and remotely with the rest of the Documentum team that was based in California.
- Defined the solution which included customer interviews, requirement definitions, and a solution strategy.
- Managed a cross-functional project with the rest of Documentum which included country sales and marketing teams.
- Led business unit (profit & loss) which covered budgeting, tracking, and so on.
Project History
Complete Redesign of Real Estate Agency Management Software
http://www.seiitra.comLed the complete redesign from the ground up of a new generation of real estate agency management—from a legacy system to state-of-the-art, user-friendly SaaS software.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble - Grenoble, France
Skills
Tools
Zoom, Slack, Confluence, Jira, Trello, Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Balsamiq Mockups
Paradigms
Agile, Design Thinking, Agile Project Management
Other
Product Roadmaps, Backlog Management, Product Strategy, Business Strategy, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Customer Discovery, New Product Development, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Startups, Lean Startups, Technical Product Management, Integration, User Experience (UX), Pitch Decks, Google Meet, Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Programming, Computer Skills, Notion, Microsoft Teams, Interviews, User Stories, Business Unit Strategy, Solution Portfolio Management, Team Management, People Management, Product Discovery, Product Vision, Roadmaps, Marketing, Leads, User Requirements, Business Requirements, Feature Roadmaps, Artificial Intelligence Product Manager, Datasets
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