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Fabien SellesFS

Fabien Selles

Product Owner

€700/day
2 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Fabien

🎯 Passionate about marketing, digital innovation, product development, and collaborative leadership.

With over16 years of experiencein strategic project management, I have led various initiatives in Product Ownership, digital marketing, and process digitalization.
Founderand CEO of Fanswaves, the first all-in-one platform dedicated to organizing event fans,recognizedfor its innovation with the **prestigious Janus for Digital Experience**.


🚀 Key Skills:
  • Product Management: Agile/Scrum methodologies, backlog management, user story mapping, interactive workshops.
  • Innovation & Marketing: Digital strategy, CRM, UX optimization, automation tools, and AI.
  • Leadership and Networking: Committee facilitation, fostering startup ecosystems, and managing multidisciplinary teams.

🌍 Polyglot (French, English, Spanish), I have worked in complex international environments, with a results-oriented vision. My goal is always to create value, inspire teams, and transform ideas into concrete solutions.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • Leroy Merlin
    Business Owner Content Factory - Gen AI & Transformation
    RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
    January 2026 - Today (7 months)
    Lille, France
    Mission

    Lead the transformation of the Content Factory towards a more industrialized, data-driven, and AI-augmented model, with two objectives: increase production capacity and standardize AI usage to improve quality, governance, and adoption.


    Content Factory Transformation
    • Design end-to-end workflows integrating GenAI, from brief to production, validation, and distribution.

    • Clarify roles, responsibilities, and validation circuits, and contribute to a more scalable model based on data and asset governance.


    Generative AI, Product & Automation
    • Lead the integration of GenAI solutions into the existing stack (Pencil AI, Asana Enterprise+, DAM, Gemini-based assistants).

    • Prioritize use cases based on ROI, feasibility, and risks.
    • Design AI agents, contextual assistants, and automated workflows to industrialize recurring tasks on image, video, text, and audio content.


    Acculturation & Change Management
    • Facilitate the activity of a dedicated training consultant within the Content Factory.

    • Support workshops by maturity level, field enablement, prompting best practices, and team adoption.



    Governance & Transverse Impact
    • Arbitrate decisions related to AI tools, workflows, and uses; coordinate a multidisciplinary expert board; and contribute to governance and escalation rules.

    • Create synergies with marketing, e-commerce, and internal communication teams through cross-functional AI experiments and best practice sharing.


    Strategic Contribution
    • Contribute to broader discussions on generative AI adoption, organizational transition, and inter-brand best practices.
    Product management Generative AI Workflow Automation Change Management Stakeholder Management
  • Institut Français du Design
    Product Manager — International platform interconnecting design schools
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    **Mission**: Design a platform connecting design schools internationally, allowing students to apply for jury projects and showcase their work.


    • **Scoping & Vision**: Brainstorming/co-creation workshops, Product Vision Board, OKR/KPIs.
    • **Discovery**: Interviews (students, teachers, jurors), multi-stakeholder Customer Journey & Service Blueprint.
    • **Delivery**: User story mapping, PRD/specs, acceptance criteria; MVP aligned with partners/investors.
    • AI & Automation: Integration of AI-assisted workflows and no-code automations (notifications, juror assignment, status & reporting), continuing my role as Innovation Advisor at IFD.
    • **Result**: Demonstrable MVP (landing page + submission + jury workflow) to activate funding & partnerships.


    Stack: Figma, Miro, Notion, Google Suite, Airtable, Jira/Trello.
    Product management Marketing Strategy Project Scoping MVP Customer Journey
  • Institut Français du Design
    Strategic and Digital Project Manager – Janus Startups Initiative
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    August 2024 - Today (1 year and 11 months)
    Paris, France

    Context:

    I lead the steering committee for this Label creation project for tech startups.

    Team & Methods

    I supported the IFD team in its digital transformation by deploying digital tools to meet business challenges, particularly through web marketing and automation solutions. To achieve this, I:
    • Collected stakeholder needs and scoped the project
    • Organized workshops to explain and train the team on the tools and strategies to adopt in the future.
    Leveraging my knowledge of the startup ecosystem, I also played a leadership role by establishing a strong network with key stakeholders (Business France, regional incubators, CES Las Vegas).

    Missions

    1. Strategic Project Management:
    • Development of a global strategy to position the Janus des Startups as a benchmark in the technological innovation market.
    • Proposal and evaluation of several strategic alternatives in collaboration with key players (Business France, CES in Las Vegas, French regions).

    2. Stakeholder Management:
    • Connection with regional and international startup ecosystems.
    • Organization and coordination with Business France, regional incubators, and selected startups.

    3. Digital Tool Creation and Event Management:
    • Design and implementation of a dedicated platform (landing page, online forms).
    • Organization of process steps: application reception, jury invitations, deliverable management.
    • Creation of communication materials to promote the initiative to target audiences.

    4. Networking and Steering Committee Facilitation:
    • Active participation in the steering committee, proposing innovative solutions and monitoring progress.
    • Development of a collaborative dynamic among stakeholders to maximize synergies.
    Product management Project Scoping MVP Artificial Intelligence Automation

Reviews

5.0

Out of 1 rating

M

Michael

Leboncoin

Reviewed on 6/14/2021

Fabien has good soft skills in facilitating a multidisciplinary group and also in influencing external teams to align with the common objective. He is a serious and autonomous PO, who can be relied upon, and who will organize himself to achieve the objective set for him.

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Education

  • Master 2 (5 year degree)
    INSEEC
    2008
    https://masters.inseec.com/
  • Master 1 (4 year degree)
    Université de Cergy-Pontoise
    2007

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