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Syn Shanon

Chief Product Officer / Engineer /Head of Products

€750/day
Geneva, CH
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Syn

I help companies structure, launch, and scale Product & Data organizations in complex environments.
As a Fractional CPO / Head of Product & Data, I support tech companies from early-stage MVPs to large-scale transformations by :
- defining product strategy and roadmap,
- building and coaching product & data teams,
- turning data into concrete business and product decisions.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Geneva (up to 50km), Lausanne (up to 50km), Zurich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Aware
    Chief Product Officer
    February 2022 - Today (4 years and 4 months)
    Brussels, BU, Belgium
    As Head of Products at Aware, reporting directly to the CEO, I led the product strategy and execution, driving end-to-end product development while ensuring alignment with business goals.
    I built and scaled a strong, high-performance product team, enabling the delivery of innovative solutions that directly addressed customer problems.
    • Product Strategy & Execution: Defined and executed product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and market trends. Applied Lean practices to prioritize high-impact features and streamline delivery.
    • Team Leadership & Collaboration: Built and scaled a high-performance product team, driving cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, and marketing to deliver impactful, user-focused products.
    • User-Centricity and Discovery : Led user-centered product development by prioritizing user needs and behaviors, using market and competitive analysis to refine product features. Continuously optimized the feedback loop to enhance product iterations and align with customer expectations.
    Key Achievements :
    • Launched 4 profitable products, contributing significantly to revenue growth.
    • Increased customer retention by 80% and enhanced time-to-market and feedback loop eiciency.
    • Gained critical learnings from challenges faced during scaling, enabling more eective pivoting and decision-making in future projects.

    Machine learning
  • Groupement les mousquetaires
    Lead PM and Data Domain Manager
    March 2021 - February 2022 (11 months)
    Paris, France
    Responsible for leading and developing Finance-related use cases within ITMAI in collaboration with internal and external teams.
    Key Achievements :
    • Led and motivated cross-functional teams, driving product vision, roadmap, and execution, including the construction of the data factory.
    • Oversaw end-to-end product development, ensuring high-quality increments, seamless technical integration, and the successful implementation of the data factory.
    • Built and scaled a high-performing team, fostering collaboration and ensuring the delivery of valuable product features, while supporting the data factory initiative.
  • Leboncoin
    Machine Learning Lead Product Manager
    August 2019 - March 2020 (7 months)
    Paris, France
    Product Strategy & Execution: Aer analyzing user behavior, I identified key insights that helped build a strong business case for an internal recommendation system, aligning with overall business goals. Following a presentation to the C-level team, we secured funding to develop and launch an MVP to validate our hypotheses. With the success of the MVP, we scaled the solution, expanded the team, and secured further investment to drive continued growt

    Key Achievements:
    • Successfully launched and deployed two versions of a machine learning-based recommendation system for passive search on iOS and Android, with real-time predictions and 600 requests/sec.
    • Increased user retention and average visit rate per listing by 20%.
    Tech Stack: Word2Vec, AWS (S3, EC2, EMR, SageMaker, EKS), Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka.

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Education

  • Engineering Degree
    Polytech Angers
    2011
    Computer Science

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