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Carole Longe

Product & Project Manager | Business + Product

€750/day
Bordeaux, FR
15+ years

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About Carole

👇 Discover my packs from Audit to Product 👇


I am Carole Longe – Senior Product Manager
I have 20 years of experience (10 Business + 10 Product)

I help leaders transform their opportunities into digital products that customers crave.

What I do for my clients:

  • Explore : I identify needs and opportunities
  • Clarify : I secure the project from the start
  • Transform : I build a clear vision
  • Deploy : I move from plan to action

My Packs: from Audit to Product

🔹 Pack 1: Flash Audit

→ 1 week to validate or invalidate an idea before investing
→ Savings in time and budget: you avoid funding a shaky project
→ Clear customer and market insights to guide your decisions

What I implement:
✓ 1 to 2 workshops (2–3h each)
✓ Quick analysis of needs, market, and risks
✓ Deliverable: summary document + 3 concrete paths + prioritized recommendations

🔹 Pack 2: Vision & Roadmap

→ 3 months to structure a digital product from business opportunities
→ Concrete results on your revenue and customer relations
→ A clear and shared vision (sales, dev, leaders)
→ A 3–6 month roadmap ready to execute

What I implement:
✓ User needs study & market analysis
✓ Identification of the real problem to solve
✓ Building a business + customer vision
✓ Definition of a simple plan: brief, calendar, roadmap

🔹 Pack 3: Express MVP

→ 6 weeks to go from plan to a functional product tested on the market
→ Save several months of development and get your first customer feedback
→ An MVP ready to evolve according to your KPIs and feedback

What I implement:
✓ Translation of vision into user stories and prioritized backlog
✓ Writing functional specifications
✓ Design & development management until launch
✓ Operational monitoring with success KPIs
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • Macif
    Product Manager Design System
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    September 2023 - Today (2 years and 9 months)
    Niort, France

    Product Manager Design System

    • Management of the product vision & strategy 2024-2026 aligned with business and technical challenges
    • Construction of the cross-functional roadmap, prioritization arbitration, and multi-team coordination
    • Budget monitoring and reporting → cost optimization and deadline control
    • Contribution to digital transformation (progressive integration of AI and automation)

    🎯 Results: +5000 users impacted, 30% reduction in delivery costs, accelerated component adoption

    Product Owner Design System

    • Operational management: backlog, refinements, prioritization, and arbitration
    • Development monitoring, user testing organization, and bug fixing
    • Cross-functional coordination of design, dev & QA to ensure deliverable quality
    🎯 Results: adoption of the first DS modules by project teams, improved internal user satisfaction (+70%)
    Design System Agile Methodology (SAFe) Product Strategy change-and-transformation-management digital-transformation
  • Arkea
    Head of Mobile Department – Banking & Insurance
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    July 2022 - April 2023 (10 months)
    Bordeaux, France
    • Management of a department of37 employees across multiple sites (Bordeaux, Brest)dedicated to the development and maintenance of multi-brand hybrid & native mobile applications
    • Transformation fromProduct Component teams to Features teamsand support forscaled agile
    • Management ofservice qualityissues and continuous delivery oversight
    • Cross-functional management: developers, QA, product, design
    Mobile Application Team Management Budget Management change-and-transformation-management agile-project-management
  • Ecole Superieure du digital
    Lecturer – École Supérieure du Digital (ESD Bordeaux)
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    January 2021 - December 2023 (2 years and 11 months)
    Bordeaux, France
    (2021 – 2023 · occasional assignments)

    • Leading3 teaching sessionsfor Master's students (M1 & M2)
    • Workshops onDesign Sprint, website redesign, and mobile application projects (M-Commerce)
    • Teaching agile methodologies (Scrum, Sprint Vision, Jira) and practical tools
    • Supervising groups of **20 to 50 students**: scoping, facilitation, presentation, and deliverable evaluation.
    🎯 Results: very positive feedback from students and the school, toolkit provided and reused in subsequent courses
    Training Pedagogy Instructional Design Educational Content Creation

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Education

  • Master's in ESC Business Management
    Kedge Business School
    2015

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