Thibaut Valez · Product & transformation · Lyon

Turning ideas into products that matter.

Three levers to align: value, execution, team buy-in.

Two offers

Product management

Product performance, driven by business value.

It all starts with value, and value isn't guessed: I help it surface. I run workshops to gather and qualify the need, with end users and management whenever possible. When disruption is called for, I set up creative formats to reimagine how things are done. Then value gets calculated: I start from personas - who, which problem, what business stake behind it - to turn intentions into quantified business value, then I prioritise on the value / complexity match, WSJF, not on gut feeling. What we build, what we cut, in which order.

From discovery to launch, I deliver in steady increments and I measure the outcome - ROI and adoption against the initial estimates. When a feature misses its target, the numbers say so, and that steers what comes next. Once shipped, further workshops secure onboarding, adoption and improvement: a regular touchpoint, not a one-off. That's what anchors continuous improvement.

Change management

Bring teams along, continuous improvement and adoption of change.

Management and coordination of cross-functional teams. I carry the narrative both ways: to leadership to hold the course, on the ground to give it meaning. I bring people on board through skill-building and autonomy, not through pressure - and I anchor new practices in teams' daily work, so the change holds after I leave.

One conviction guides my work: as artificial intelligence and automation reshape jobs, the challenge stops being purely technical and becomes human. In tech, change is constant, and it's accelerating. You don't slow it down, you make it a lever. A successful change is an adopted change.

Approach

A strategy is only worth it once it ships.
Shipping matters less than shipping what matters.
A transformation isn't imposed, it's embraced.

My two offers answer these three pitfalls. The common thread: make every trade-off concrete, and look the result in the eye rather than a generic ROI no one ever checks. When a bet pays off, we know it. When it doesn't, we know that too - and we adjust.

At a glance

13yrs In product Several years as an engineer. I design and I build what I design.
8 Direct management Cross-functional teams, up to eight people managed directly.
7squads Coordination Run in parallel inside a large regulated banking group.
3continents International Cross-country team collaboration and sync across EMEA, Asia and the US.

Certifications Certified Scrum Product Owner · Certified Scrum Master · SAFe Practitioner

01
Onliz
2023 - 2025

Fintech · Crédit Agricole group

Time-to-market -40%. Predictability ≈ ×2.

A leasing platform. I drove the product from discovery through to customer analysis and adoption, with steady delivery throughout. Prioritisation on the value / complexity match - WSJF -, decisions made on data. We ship faster, we hold our dates, and the product team runs on its own after I leave.
02
CATS
2022 - 2023

Regulated banking · Competence centre

7 squads in parallel · 4 scaled up.

Agile transformation at scale in a large regulated banking group. A dual stance: hands-on with the squads - delivery, product performance, buy-in - and contributing to the competency centre, including relaying DevOps practices on the ground. 6 people certified PSM1 along the way. A shared delivery framework, without breaking each squad's autonomy.
03
Kering
2017 - 2018

Luxury · International (via Keyrus)

Pilot validated, then 5 countries · 3 continents.

As proxy PO, prioritisation with WSJF: value first, gut feeling never. Two products with high business stakes. The first, launched as a pilot in Hong Kong, then validated in the field and rolled out across 5 countries and 3 continents: an operational success, a client won over by the way it was run and the work delivered, users won over who became advocates. That win earned me the second. Up to 15 people coordinated on the rollout.
04
Aktome
2019 - 2020

SaaS · Built from scratch

From framing to shipped product.

A SaaS taken from framing through to a shipped product. Commercially, the market didn't follow. What I took from it, and what sharpens my discovery today: challenge the business assumptions before the first line of code, not after.

Also L'Oréal · SNCF · Michelin · METRO · PepsiCo

Labs

I don't just advise: I design, I build, I ship. Two labs to stay at the state of the art and prove it. They are not offers.

Inès

AI SaaS · Property management

A volunteer building manager carries a legally heavy responsibility on their own, with no training and no back office. Their real fear isn't losing time, it's getting it wrong. Inès doesn't just answer questions, it executes - meeting notices, minutes, funding calls, compliance - while they keep control through an autonomy slider: what they delegate, what they validate. An isolating, risky responsibility becomes covered, executed, under control.

Designed and coded from scratch, solo - the agent that executes and the autonomy slider at the core of the product. From discovery to market.

avec-ines.fr

Vagabond

Crypto lab · On-chain leasing

Financing what others can't read. A self-employed professional or a tradesperson whose wealth sits in crypto is stuck between two bad options: give up the equipment they need to work, or liquidate it - capital gains tax, and exiting an asset they believe is still climbing. Traditional financers can't read that wealth as collateral, so they refuse by default. Vagabond breaks the dilemma: the wealth becomes readable collateral, the equipment is financed with no sale and no taxable event, and the risk is managed behind the scenes. The client leaves with both their equipment and their wealth, untouched.

What makes that "yes" viable: a risk and compliance layer banks don't have, built on Morpho and within the MiCA framework.

vgbd-site.vercel.app (demo, fictional data)

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