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Sarah Davila

Senior Product Manager I Payment & AI I ex X-HEC

€1,100/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Sarah

My experience:
- 8 years of experience as a senior PM & right-hand to CEO in early-stage startups
- Expertise in fintech (payment, crypto, banking-as-a-service, KYC) & AI (machine learning, LLM, data)
- Graduate of HEC and X (X-HEC)

Types of missions carried out:
- Product launch
- MVP design and launch
- Product strategy: audit, analysis, roadmap design
- Discovery: user interviews, focus groups, tests & audits
- UX & product design: wireframes, Figma, interactive prototypes
- Product marketing: pricing, messaging & sales arguments
- API integration (Treezor, Firebase)

The + of my profile:
A versatile, "Swiss Army knife" profile: product expertise, but also general project management skills, entrepreneurship, marketing, web development, and no-code.


Sectors of expertise:
- Fintech & proptech: launch of a neobank, creation of a B2B payment system, split payment, KYC/KYB flow, lending & factoring (Matera, Fipto, Kaliz, Faktus)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): launch of a data SaaS leveraging a data prediction algorithm (machine learning & LLMs) (Heuritech, Gigi)
- Legaltech: CEO's right-hand, product launches, subscriptions, churn (Legalstart, Reverso)
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

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

Experience

  • Freelance en fintech
    CEO & Product Manager
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    January 2022 - Today (4 years and 7 months)
    Paris
    Launch of products in fintech and crypto, from scratch.

    👉🏼 Design and implementation of a B2B crypto-fiat payment platform (onramping and offramping) (startup: Numias) - 6 months
    👉🏼 Design of a cryptocurrency & launch strategy for a top crypto influencer (Les cryptos de Caro)
    👉🏼 MVP launch and communication strategy (development of a newsletter and a video media) in the M&A field (startup: MergerCircle)
    Product launch Go-to-market Strategy MVP User Experience Design Product Design Product management
  • Entrepreneur First
    Founder in Residence
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    April 2021 - December 2021 (8 months)
    Entrepreneur First is the world's leading talent incubator, backed by Reid Hoffman (founder of Linkedin), Mosaic Ventures, Greylock Partners, Founders Fund and Lakestar.
    Entrepreneurship Product launch Go-to-market Strategy Product management MVP Lean management Scrum
  • Matera
    Senior Product Manager - Fintech
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    May 2020 - April 2021 (11 months)
    Matera is the leading European SaaS that helps co-owners of a building manage it without the help of a trustee.
    👉🏼I developed an internal neobank from scratch for Matera, their first fintech product: from understanding user needs, to defining the MVP, defining the product roadmap, and daily implementation with the team (designer and developers).
    👉🏼I was also in charge of defining and testing the product pricing, defining and producing marketing content for the product, selling the first subscriptions to the first clients, etc.).
    Product launch MVP Product management Roadmap Go-to-market Strategy

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Education

  • Msc in Management - Grande École
    HEC PARIS
    2017
    Msc in Management - Grande École
  • Master of Research
    École Polytechnique
    2018
    Master of Research in Innovation - Major in SaaS start-up innovation

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