About Bertrand
I'm a seasoned product leader with 10+ years experience building SaaS products and driving product orgs - mostly in B2B fintech / risk.
I have a solid track record in scaling products to millions of users, growing revenue to XXM€ ARR, and structuring product teams across multiple entities and geographies.
I'm a strategical thinker with a strong business mindset and a hands-on approach. I get to the bottom of problems and implement solutions with patience and grit. Also, I have excellent writing skills.
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There are 3 ways I can help:
1. Flash audit with actionable recommandations (5-10 days):
- Product strategy review, challenge and re-focus - when your strat feels more like an addition of generic objectives than a laser-focused battleplan with an empowering story
- Product discovery and GTM sync - when new features are barely used and new products generate too little revenue (and you don't know if you should stop or double down)
- Product org structuration - when unclear ownership and cross-team dependencies hurt your ability to commit and deliver rapidly
2. Me as a member of your team (3-6 months, 3 days a week)
- Strategic project - when you're launching a new product or a complex internal project and you need a seasoned expert to make sure it's on the right track
- Temporary Head of Product - when you're swamped, haven't found the perfect candidate, and just need a solid backup to help on pretty much everything
- Find the problem and solve it - you feel like there is something going with a team or a product, but you're too far to figure out. I'll find the problem and implement solutions.
3. Expert writer (on demand)
- Product marketing material - when your product sales deck, whitepapers and linkedin posts need extra soul to stand out (only fintech and regtech / legaltech)
- UX writing - when you have complex features that need simple explaining
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- PowensChief Product OfficerSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGMay 2021 - May 2025 (4 years)Paris, FrancePowens is a leading Open Banking and Embedded Payments SaaS API, powering the financial innovations of 300+ customers including global banks (BNP, SocGen, BPCE...) and hyper-growth scale-ups (Qonto, Alma, Pennylane, Agicap...).
- Led Powens’ overall product vision, strategy, positioning & roadmap across EMEA and LATAM markets for Open Banking and BaaS portfolios. Excom member. Managing 8 product people across 7 squads
- Spearheaded product europeanization from 2 to 12 countries. Launched data science teams & products, led the adaptation of (acquired) BaaS products for the FR market
- Led core platform industrialization and stabilization. Killed poorly performing products and features.
- Supported M&A due dilligence and integration of acquired company; prepared and deployed a common group organization with Engineering, from 5 to 10 PM, 30 to 50 dev
- Maintained regular conversions with customers’ product & business leaders; supported marketing efforts, including public speaking
- PowensHead of ProductNovember 2020 - May 2021 (6 months)Paris, France
- Took the management of the first (new) PM team and structured it. Clarified roles and scopes, implemented individual and team objectives, built career plans and training programs. Hired 5 PMs
- Improved product organization to increase team autonomy, velocity and business ownership
- Industrialized discovery & user research, deployed product analytics, introduced prototyping & A/B tests, outcome-based roadmaps.
- Provided a common framework for prioritization, PRDs and iterative delivery.
- Deployed product culture / communication. Public demos, release rituals, regular feedback loops with GTM teams, roadmap alignment.
- Scaled RiskHead of ProductNovember 2015 - November 2020 (5 years)Île-de-France, FranceScaled Risk was a real-time big data platform that radically transformed the way financial institutions and regulated corporates managed and analysed their transactional data. Scaled Risk enabled risk, finance and compliance teams to make better and quicker decisions, across a variety of mission-critical use cases:
- Intraday financial performance
- Real-time risk management
- Customer analytics , inclusing KYC and financial security
- Master data management
- Regulatory reporting
- Data science
From first Product Manager to Head of Product with a team of 4, I was responsible for product vision, strategy, delivery and marketing:- Defined product vision, strategy and positioning jointly with the founder/CEO.
- Initiated the discovery and launch of new industry verticals for mid-market in ESG, quantitative finance and regulatory reporting
- Industrialized delivery and prioritization methodologies to account for new platforms, hosting and verticals.
- Owned product marketing; drafted white papers, solution briefs, blog posts.
- Hired and managed 2 PMs, Data Science PO and Product Designer.
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Education
- Master of LawsEuropacollege2014Master of Laws (LLM)
- Master's degree, European LitigationUniversité Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas2011Master's degree, European Litigation