Pierric Descamps
Barcelona
Summary
15+ years of product management experience in both B2B and B2C, in companies from 30 to 11,000 people in size
Top things that matter:
- Evidence-based processes (data analysis, continuous discovery)
- Strategic alignment (directionality & vision, identifying leverage, focus on value delivered as well as captured, setting coherent OKRs at every level)
- Experience in line management of other PM
- Long-time remote work experience (7 years without an office)
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Group Product Manager
Hurdle (Chronomics)
03.2022 - Current
- Expanded the B2B customer interfaces (APIs and web interfaces)
- Improved the core platform processing test results received from labs
- >95% discrepancies in results now flagged automatically (time saving in human reviewers)
- Critical results escalation flow implemented across labs for compliance in case of life-threatening results
- Test life cycle refactored into a more maintainable state machine (reduction in development times and bugs)
- Line manager of an associate PM, whom I supported into becoming a full-fledged PM
- Large stakeholder base including nearly everyone in the company and many providers, prospect customers and converted customers
Senior Product Manager
Secret Escapes
02.2018 - 03.2022
- In charge of all products related to flights within this hotel company
- Led the end-to-end revamp of the dynamic packaging flow, resulting in +8% conversion
- Back-end considerations around sourcing and scalability
- UX rework through rigorous discovery and iterative validation
- Flight attachment up significantly, proven by final A/B test
- Strong data analysis support role inside the product team
- Extraction of insights by building powerful queries, dashboards and simulations using data from the data warehouse
- Also intervened as part-time PM for the data science team in charge of ML-powered recommendation algorithms (key conversion metrics impacted beyond my dynamic packaging area)
Product owner
eDreams ODIGEO
01.2015 - 02.2018
- In charge of connectivity to providers of flight content (GDS, aggregators, ad hoc APIs...) for flight search results, airline ancillary products, and booking flow
- Strong emphasis on truly agile delivery
- Training by David J. Anderson
- Continuous improvement of KanBan processes within a fairly mature team
- High stakeholder exposure
- Point of contact in the product area for our main GDS provider
- Closely collaborating internally with the owners of the GDS and airline relationships
- Regular reporting to the exec team
- Led a key initiative end-to-end: provider-agnostic seat selection flow
- Multi-provider connectivity
- Front-end experience
- Impacted metrics: margin per booking and attachment rates (measured by A/B tests)
Portfolio Manager
Amadeus
02.2013 - 01.2015
- Co-crafted the vision around mobile in travel (enterprise start-up)
- Managed relationships with large providers and customers
Product Strategy Analyst
Amadeus
05.2011 - 02.2013
- Participation in transversal strategic studies
- Coached by senior strategy consultants
PM / Product Line Manager, shopping area
Amadeus
02.2006 - 05.2011
- Functional expert supporting many of the largest airlines and other customers from the travel agency world
- Customer relationship and roadmap ownership in a dual business model area: a community product and custom development for large customers.
Intern
Accenture
08.2005 - 12.2005
Education
Ingénieur en informatique -
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
01.2005
Student exchange - computer science
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
01.2005
Vordiplom - Computer science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
01.2002
Skills
- Product analytics
- Product requirements documentation
- Product performance metrics
- Data-driven decision making
- Technical acumen
- Stakeholder management
- Product discovery
- Product vision and strategy
- OKR-driven alignment
- Outcome-driven empowerment
Spoken languages
Native: French
Fluent: English, Spanish, Catalan, German
Basic: Italian, Mandarin, Russian
Hobbies and Interests
Technology (homelab, coding), Photography, Nature, Modern history, Political philosophy
I care about
- The climate crisis
- Fairness to people
- Corporate integrity
- Work/life balance
Product evangelists
Teresa Torres, Itamar Gilad, Marty Cagan, Rich Mironov, John Cutler
Timeline
Group Product Manager
Hurdle (Chronomics)
03.2022 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Secret Escapes
02.2018 - 03.2022
Product owner
eDreams ODIGEO
01.2015 - 02.2018
Portfolio Manager
Amadeus
02.2013 - 01.2015
Product Strategy Analyst
Amadeus
05.2011 - 02.2013
PM / Product Line Manager, shopping area
Amadeus
02.2006 - 05.2011
Intern
Accenture
08.2005 - 12.2005
Student exchange - computer science
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Vordiplom - Computer science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Ingénieur en informatique -
Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Lyon
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