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Youssef Dhaoui

Product Ops | Senior Product Manager

€650/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

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About Youssef

Senior Product Manager and Product Operations Manager with 10+ years of experience in scale-ups.

Double expertise: I build products AND I structure product organizations to scale effectively.

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
→ Discovery: FOCUSED methodology, user interviews, needs analysis
→ Delivery: Scrum/Kanban, offshore team management
→ GTM: Definition and execution of Go-To-Market strategies

PRODUCT OPERATIONS
First Product Ops at Believe: deployment of a complete Product Operating Model across 23 squads.

→ Product Insights: Structuring of user insight collection and processing processes
→ Product Process: OKR cascade, RICE prioritization, FOCUSED discovery, Quarterly Planning
→ Tool deployment: Productboard, Confluence
→ Team Coaching: agile practices, discovery methodologies
→ Strategic alignment: Coordination of multiple product teams on a common strategy

RESULTS:
✓ 100% adoption of frameworks (OKR, RICE, FOCUSED) across 23 Product Managers
✓ 100% of product initiatives aligned with strategy (full OKR alignment)
✓ +40% roadmap visibility (Productboard centralization)
✓ -30% of quarterly roadmap preparation time

MASTERED TOOLS:
Productboard, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Miro, Trello, LucidChart

CERTIFICATIONS:
PSPO I | PSM I | FOCUSED Discovery Discipline

LANGUAGES
English: C1 (fluent)

Available for long-term assignments (3-12 months).
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

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

Experience

  • BELIEVE
    Product Ops Manager
    January 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    Structuring and deployment of a complete product Product Operating Model for 23 squads (23 Product Managers, ~20 Engineering Managers) reporting directly to the CPO. Implementation of frameworks, tools, and rituals to improve strategic alignment, roadmap predictability, and operational efficiency.

    Key achievements:

    *100% adoptionof RICE (prioritization) and FOCUSED (discovery) frameworks across all product teams – 23 PMs certified FOCUSED
    • **100% product initiatives aligned with strategy**: complete alignment of all initiatives with team and company OKRs through a structured OKR cascading system
    *-30% quarterly roadmap preparation timethrough the establishment of standardized Quarterly Planning rituals

    *+40% roadmap visibilitythanks to the centralization of initiatives in Productboard, eliminating inter-team silos
    • Significant reduction of the "black box effect": improved transparency and communication around product decisions.
    *Standardization of product documentationvia Confluence: decision templates, discovery process, retrospectives
    • Overhaul of the product incident management process
    *Coaching of product teamson agile practices (Scrum) and discovery methodologies
    • Collaboration with Finance for tracking Product & Tech costs (Capex/Opex)
    Product Ops Product management agile-ceremonies-facilitation Scrum Product Discovery
  • BELIEVE
    Product Manager
    May 2020 - December 2022 (2 years and 7 months)
    Paris, France
    Design and deployment of an internal advertising management product centralizing campaign briefs and automating the creation of advertising campaigns for marketing teams.

    Key achievements:
    • 3,000 campaigns/year processed with a lean team of 6 Media Buyers
    • -80% of advertising campaign processing time thanks to automation
    • In-depth discovery (user interviews) and delivery using Scrum methodology with an offshore team (Bangalore)
    • Management of Scrum delivery and facilitation of agile rituals
    • Definition and execution of the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy
  • ADUX
    Product Manager
    September 2016 - April 2019 (2 years and 7 months)
    Paris, France
    Building the product roadmap aligned with local needs and the international strategy of a B2B adtech platform. Discovery through user interviews and market analysis. Delivery using Scrum with technical teams.
    Key achievements:Management of technically complex products in an international multi-market adtech environment

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Education

  • Master 2
    IAE
    2004
    Master 2

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