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Alessandro Costa

CPO | Chief Product Officer | Head of Product PLG

€960/day
Toulouse, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Alessandro

CPO | Chief Product Officer | Product Strategy | Product-Led Growth (PLG) | Churn SaaS B2B | NRR | SaaS | saas metrics | Product Audit | Audit | M&A

Some results:

Spliiit
  • Retention expert, CPO.
  • Supporting a SaaS in reducing churn.
  • Product Strategy, onboarding; complete user journey + emails...
  • Result: -35% churn in a few months.
Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) - Eldo:
  • Product strategy after a merger-acquisition (M&A), aligning the roadmap, development, and Go To Market (GTM) strategy + OKRs, saas metrics...
  • Scaling the tech/design/product/data team: from 5 to 20 people
I help SaaS companies structure their Product strategy, reduce churn, and accelerate their growth.

I work with your teams to identify the levers that will have the most impact on your business, then I transform them into concrete and measurable actions.

After more than 10 years in Head of Product, VP Product, and CPTO roles, I act as a Fractional CPO or on targeted missions.

I intervene notably on
✔ Fractional CPO
✔ Product Strategy
✔ Product Discovery
✔ Product Audit
✔ Roadmap prioritization
✔ Product-Led Growth (PLG)
✔ Churn reduction & ✔ Retention & loyalty
✔ Onboarding optimization
✔ Activation
✔ Feature adoption
✔ User journey analysis
✔ Structuring Product teams
✔ OKR implementation
✔ Head of Product

I have held Product leadership positions in SaaS and I understand the challenges faced by leaders: making quick decisions, aligning teams, delivering value, and supporting growth.

Why work with me?
• 10+ years of Product experience
• Former Head of Product, VP Product, and CPTO
• B2B, B2C, and B2B2C SaaS expertise
• Business results-oriented approach, ROI / Impact.
• Directly actionable recommendations
• Occasional support or Fractional CPO

Let's chat for a few minutes to clarify your needs.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Italian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Toulouse (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Spliiit
    Freelance Chief Product Officer
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    September 2025 - September 2025
    Bordeaux, France
    Freelance Chief Product Officer (CPO) | Retention | Churn | NRR | Growth | Onboarding and User Flow | Email Management | Acquisition | Product-Led Growth (PLG)

    Net monthly churn (retention) decreased **from 13.8% to 9% in 3 months**, a **35% reduction**, without touching the acquisition budget.
    Intervention within days.

    A retention mission conducted on six product levers to understand attrition causes, improve activation, and strengthen perceived value.

    A net monthly churn of 13.8%, with poorly documented causes.
    At the start, net monthly churn was 13.8%. Departures were measured, but their real causes remained unclear: some were due to user choice, others to payment failures, and still others to a perceived value that was too low in the early stages of use.

    Understanding where, when, and why accounts drop off.
    The investigation focused on actual user journeys rather than assumptions: analysis of cohorts and drop-off points, separation of voluntary and involuntary churn, review of the first billing cycle, and qualification of departures through exit surveys.

    Each finding guided a concrete action lever.
    The objective was not to produce a report, but to link each identified cause to a measurable correction, carried out in parallel on six fronts.

    Six fronts worked on in parallel, from day one to recovery.
    • 01 Onboarding & Activation
    • 02 Voluntary Churn & Exit Surveys
    • 03 Win-back & Risk Moments
    • 04 Involuntary Churn & Payments
    • 05 Emails & Lifecycle
    • 06 Referral & Growth
    Churn Reduction Customer Retention SAAS CPO Chief Product Officer
  • Churn hacker
    Chief Product Officer with 14+ years scaling B2B, B2C, and B2B2C SaaS, product-led growth (PLG).
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    Toulouse, France
    Fractional CPO, B2B SaaS, retention, churn, growth, NRR, M&A, Head of Product, SaaS growth (NRR expansion), OKRs & KPIs, roadmap prioritization, product-led growth (PLG)

    Supporting SaaS companies with growth, retention, organization, monetization, and/or post-M&A challenges.

    Interventions
    • Aligning roadmap / business goals,
    • Optimizing pricing & expansion revenue,
    • Structuring product teams,
    • Improving delivery & prioritization,
    • Product / Sales / GTM collaboration.

    Results
    • Churn reduction / Retention improvement
    • NRR improvement,
    • Accelerated product execution,
    • Reduced organizational friction,
    • Better roadmap & KPI visibility.

    Expertise:
    • PLG
    • Retention
    • Monetization
    • Discovery
    • Leadership
    • Retention
    • Churn
    • Growth, Scale
    • Interim CPO
    Software as a Service (SaaS) Customer Retention Growth Strategy Product management B2B
  • Eldo
    Chief Product & Technology Officer
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    April 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 8 months)
    Toulouse, France
    Leading product & tech strategy in a post-M&A context.

    Interventions
    • Implementing product strategies (Growth, retention, business)
    • Redesigning the product roadmap,
    • Improving delivery,
    • Structuring product processes,
    • Scaling organization,
    • Coordinating engineering / product / business.
    • Aligning product x business
    • Connecting product & Engineering team objectives with company OKRs.
    Results
    • Reduced technical debt,
    • Accelerated time-to-market,
    • Improved team collaboration,
    • Optimized user experience.

    Expertise
    Product Strategy • SaaS • Product Ops • Delivery • Team Scaling
    B2B SaaS Software as a Service (SaaS) Growth Strategy Loyalty Team Management

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Certifications

  • Creating a Product-Centric Organization
    Linkedin
    2021
    Product management product culture Team Organization product organization

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