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Romain DucroisetRD

Romain Ducroiset

Product Manager | AI & Automation

€620/day
5 projects
Lyon, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Romain

Need to replace your Product expert on the fly during a leave, absence, or to strengthen your team?
I take on the role ofProduct Manager / Product Ownerto keep pace with deliveries and ensure continuity.

What I offer:

Prioritization & Roadmap

*Prioritizationof opportunities

*Structuringinto epics, features, MVP

*Planningof releases and milestones


User Stories & Functional Specifications
  • Breaking down epics intoactionable user stories
  • Business rules andacceptance criteria
*Maintaining a clear and prioritized backlog


Delivery

*Managingsprints and tracking progress
  • Facilitatingagile ceremonies
  • Functionalacceptance testing
  • Monitoring **usage metrics**, post-release iterations

Product & Delivery Governance

*Structuringyour boards and activity (JIRA, Notion, etc.)

*Automatingreporting and dashboards using automation and AI tools.
  • Challenging youragile practicesto make them more impactful
  • ImplementingAI agentsto improve and standardize your Product deliverables (US/specs/acceptance testing) + accelerate delivery

Why work with me?

*10+ yearsin Product Management (PO/PM)
  • **Technical background**: fluid collaboration with development teams, quick decision-making.
*UX/UIsensibility: focus on usage, clarity of journey, quality of details.
  • **Former Scrum Master**: rituals, continuous improvement, setting up an effective framework.
  • **ex-Head of Product / CPO**: vision, roadmap, prioritization, stakeholder alignment.

My goal:to bring you peace of mind by ensuring that tasks move forward and decisions are made at the right time.

Need a Product expert?
Feel free to contact me.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Grenoble (up to 50km), Genève (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Vivlio
    Malt logoOn Malt
    Product Owner
    ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
    February 2026 - Today (5 months)
    Lyon, France
    Vivlio is a French company in the digital book sector, selling e-readers B2B2C.
    Vivlio has over 2 million users in France, Germany, Spain, and Belgium, and more than 1,000 points of sale.

    Objectives:Keep pace with delivery in the absence of the regular POs for 2 teams.

    Team:
    • E-reader Firmware: 7 developers (lead, embedded).
    • Mobile & Web App: 7 developers (lead, frontend).
    • 3 Product Owners, 2 Product Designers, 1 Product Manager, 1 Head of Product.

    Actions:
    • Structuring complex needs into actionable batches with shared understanding.
    • Writing clear and unambiguous specifications/user stories.
    • R&D alignment: clarifying scope and business rules.
    • Facilitating refinement and sprint planning workshops.
    • Automating reporting via Make.
    • Automating Jira to improve tracking and productivity.
    • Structuring the Product team's AI agents.

    Results:
    • Shift from short-term visibility to +6 months visibility.
    • Scoped, estimated features integrated into the roadmap.
    • User stories ready for development.

    Skills:Delivery, user stories, roadmap, GenAI, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Figma, Scrum.
    Product Management Automation Atlassian JIRA Make Functional Specifications
  • MarCom Global
    Malt logoOn Malt
    Structuring Marketing Management on Monday
    TECH
    April 2026 - April 2026
    Lyon, France
    Assisting a Marketing team in transitioning from Excel-based management to a full organization on Monday.com.

    Objectives:structure activity, centralize campaign tracking, ensure reporting reliability, and reduce manual workload.

    Actions:
    • Structuring needs from an initial brief, with reframing and proposing more suitable organizational methods for usage.
    • Designing and implementing Monday.com from end-to-end: boards, statuses, workflows, fields, formulas.
    • Creating automations to streamline flows (assignments, reminders, status changes, notifications).
    • Building management dashboards (progress, workload, priorities, deadlines) for shared visibility.
    • Ensuring consistency in nomenclature and business rules for reliable long-term tracking.
    Results:
    • Replaced Excel with a single, centralized system usable by the entire team.
    • Clear visibility on progress, priorities, and deadlines through dashboards.
    • Reduction of manual tasks and improved responsiveness thanks to automations.
    • Clearer work framework, facilitating alignment and daily decision-making.
    • Centralized dashboard with all KPIs for CMO overview.
    Skills:Monday.com, process structuring, dashboards, automations, workflow management, reporting, team organization, delivery.
    Monday Delivery Management Marketing Automation CRM
  • Wattsense (Siemens)
    Product Manager
    INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
    October 2024 - December 2025 (1 year and 2 months)
    Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, France
    Wattsense is an IoT and Smart Building company that develops a B2B solution (SaaS + embedded) to connect and control building equipment. The company has over 300 clients, around 30 employees, and its solution has connected over 5,000 buildings.

    Objectives:cover the interim Product Manager role, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and improve the SaaS and embedded experience.

    Team:
    • 10 developers (lead, front, back, embedded).
    • 2 Product Managers, 1 Product Designer, 1 Product Director.

    Actions:
    • Prioritization of the backlog by business value and user impact. Trade-offs and clarification of dependencies.
    • Discovery: interviews, field feedback, synthesis of pain points and opportunities.
    • Co-creation of user journeys with Product Design (wireframes, iterations, validations).
    • Writing user stories and complete specifications (business rules, acceptance criteria, edge cases).
    • Facilitating agile rituals: refinement, planning, tracking.
    • Synchronization of stacks: firmware, backend, frontend.
    • Stakeholder coordination and securing trade-offs.
    • Validation of deliverables through functional testing.
    • Release notes.
    • Post-release management (KPIs, pain points, corrective actions).
    • Implementation of AI agents (product delivery).

    Results:
    • Discovery and delivery pace maintained throughout the replacement period.
    • Reduction in support requests related to equipment status due to better user visibility.
    • Faster equipment configuration and reduced onboarding friction.
    • Implementation of adoption and usage KPIs to guide decisions and prioritize iterations.

    Skills:prioritization, discovery, user interviews, UX journeys, delivery, user stories, functional specifications, agile rituals, functional testing, release notes, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Figma, Miro, AWS, Kafka.
    Product Management Agile Method Atlassian JIRA Artificial Intelligence Technical Product Manager

Reviews

5.0

Out of 3 ratings

NatashaN

Natasha

Global Marketing Communication - MarCom Global

Reviewed on 4/19/2026

Excellent collaboration with Romain. He quickly understood the needs, was responsive, and proposed solutions. Very professional, reliable, and pleasant to interact with. Quality work delivered seriously, respecting the delivery date. I recommend Romain and would gladly work with him again.
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Simon

Product owner - Vivlio

Reviewed on 3/5/2026

Romain quickly acquired new skills and delivered the backlog, enabling the development team to ramp up. He took ownership of the topics and sought information from the right people to create a clear and structured backlog.

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Education

  • Polytech Paris-Sud Engineering School Master's Degree
    Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)
    2007
    Ecole d'ingénieur Polytech Paris-Sud Bac+5
  • University Diploma in Technology (DUT), Computer Science
    Université Paris Descartes
    2004
    DUT, Informatique

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