Senior Project & Product Manager · 18 years of international experience across Web3/DeFi, SaaS, AdTech, IoT, Gaming & Mobile. Trilingual: French, English, Japanese.
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Senior Product Manager with a track record of delivering high-impact digital products from discovery to launch. I specialize in aligning cross-functional teams around a shared roadmap, driving execution excellence, and leveraging A/B testing and experimentation frameworks to optimize outcomes.
I bring strong expertise in stakeholder management, data-driven decision making, and building scalable products that balance user needs with business goals.
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18 years of international experience across Web3, AdTech, IoT, SaaS and mobile.
Led deployment of the first IBC inter-chain bridge (Eth & BnB), delivered in 12 months with 0 critical incidents. Defined 12 & 24-month roadmap, wrote 90+ user stories, coordinated 3 teams across 2 timezones. Reduced time-to-market from 6 to 3 weeks.
SmartNews · Tokyo (Remote)Managed 2 global Ads product programs with +$2M/year revenue potential. Rolled out PDLC, DACI/RAPID and OKR processes across 5 teams (18 people), boosting velocity by 25% in 2 quarters. Cut onboarding time from 4 weeks to 10 days.
Hakuhodo I-Studio · TokyoLed Pechat (connected IoT toy): vision, KPIs, roadmap. Managed ¥100M R&D budget and 5-person offshore team. International expansion US & Europe, feature delivery time −40%.
Rakuten · TokyoCoordinated local and offshore teams. Led development of the Rakuten Mobile SDK integrated across all Rakuten apps. Managed Agile/Scrum processes, budgets, deliverables and stakeholder reporting.
Wargaming · TokyoSupervised publication cycle for World of Warships, World of Tanks and World of Warplanes. Coordinated between HQ and regional teams (marketing, PR, support). Represented the company at Tokyo Game Show, PAX and Gamescom.
Managed multicultural dev teams (Square Enix, Ubisoft, GREE). Created and led an international indie game licensing division. Developed intranet tools and internal software (.NET, SQL).
Games and products I've shipped across an 18-year career - as Producer, Product Manager and hands-on builder.
Full-stack web app to centralize, automate and pilot a job search with AI as co-pilot. Gmail OAuth sync, AI-parsed emails, STAR generator, adaptive CV rewriter, Google Calendar integration, Firefox extension, and more. Built to manage 15-50+ concurrent applications without friction.
Free, open-source Android car launcher for head units and phones. Seven dashboards in a free-placement grid (drag/resize, undo, templates), 30+ built-in widgets in 60+ designs, OBD-II telemetry with an AI mechanic that explains fault codes, in-app MapLibre navigation with Google Maps/Waze turn-by-turn, a companion phone app for calls and messages, system split-screen, 14 themes across 4 full skins, and over-the-air updates from GitHub Releases.
Native Android app that watches stocks and ETFs and alerts on significant price and volume moves. Local portfolio with live P&L and BoursoBank import, interactive charts, technical analysis, and AI market briefs, 1-month/6-month outlooks and a risk radar. Ships with a Python/Telegram alert service and CI-built in-app updates.
Scans a Gmail inbox (read-only), downloads every attachment, reads its content and files it automatically by document type and company, with consistent renaming and de-duplication. Local Flask web UI with live scan, gallery and built-in viewer; AI classification and summaries via Claude, an OpenAI-compatible model or a local Ollama model.
First production IBC inter-chain bridge connecting Ethereum & BNB Chain. As Product Owner / Scrum Master: defined the 12 & 24-month roadmap, wrote 90+ user stories, and shipped in 12 months with 0 critical incidents.
Connected IoT button-speaker that lets parents talk and play sounds through a child's plush toy via a mobile app. Owned vision, KPIs and the 3-year roadmap - grew it from 0 → 120K units, launched in the US, and won a Good Design Award.
Shared mobile SDK integrated across every Rakuten app (50M+ users). Coordinated local and offshore teams (12 people) to ship 5 major releases with 100% of deliverables on time.
AAA free-to-play naval-combat MMO. Supervised the Asia-Pacific publication cycle - regional launch, localization and live-ops between HQ and local teams. Presented the title at Tokyo Game Show 2014.
The flagship AAA tank-combat MMO with tens of millions of players. Coordinated Asia-Pacific publishing, marketing, PR and community operations across 5 countries.
AAA aerial-combat MMO. Owned regional release coordination, PR and player-support alignment between the global HQ and Asia-Pacific teams.
Turn-based strategy card game spin-off of World of Tanks. Supported the regional launch and cross-team coordination.
Managed the social/online development (Server⇄Client) and the relationship between Square Enix and the dev team - scheduling, milestones and specs.
Project Manager on this (later cancelled) Ubisoft mobile title. Managed the client-server dev team: scheduling, milestones and client consulting.
Project Manager - milestones, scheduling and client relations.
2D/3D action-RPG. Managed the full pipeline from game licensing to overseas publishing - marketing, contracts, localization and publisher research.
3D rail-shooter for PC.
Android puppy-simulator game with social features.
Managed multicultural dev teams (up to 10) on game projects with partners including Square Enix, Ubisoft and GREE. Founded and led an international indie-game licensing division - 15 titles licensed in 3 years.
Built intranet tools and internal software (.NET, SQL) for studio operations - reporting, workflow and data management. Still in production 5 years after delivery.
As a PM who also ships, I use AI as a daily co-pilot - from spec to production. SmartJobTracker, Dashwheel, MarketTracker and SmartDocManager were all designed, coded and shipped solo using the stack below.
My primary build agent - scaffolding, refactors, debugging and multi-file changes straight from the terminal. Built most of SmartJobTracker this way.
In-editor AI pair programming for fast inline edits, tab completion and reasoning over the whole codebase.
Powers SmartJobTracker's email parsing, STAR-story generator and adaptive CV rewriter - prompt design, structured outputs and cost-aware model selection.
Hosting, serverless functions and CI previews. From git push to a live URL in minutes, with zero infra to manage.
Source control, branching, PR workflows and Actions - the backbone connecting code to automated deploys.
Comfortable reading and shaping a modern JS/TS stack - enough to direct the AI, review its output and ship production code.
My full resume detailing experience, skills, and accomplishments.
Selected external coverage and academic references linked to products I worked on.
Press coverage of the World of Warships presentation at Tokyo Game Show 2014, where I represented Wargaming as Producer for the Japanese market. Coordinated the booth, press interviews, and regional launch strategy.
Academic publication from the Japanese Cognitive Science Society referencing Pechat, the connected IoT toy I led from 0 to 120K+ units sold. Demonstrates the product's reach into research and education communities beyond consumer markets.
Pechat, the connected IoT button speaker I led as Product Manager, received the prestigious Good Design Award (グッドデザイン賞) - Japan's most recognized design prize. Recognition for innovation at the intersection of hardware, software, and child-centered UX.
Recommendations from managers, peers, and collaborators across my career.
"You can count on Alex to follow through and figure things out. Alex started as the first and only program manager in Japan for the ads product pillar. He worked across functional teams such as engineering, product, and sales to craft the initial product operations processes. Alex built up the various work streams and found ways to reduce overhead."
"Alex and I have been working together at SmartNews. He established Q planning process, product review process and OKR planning from scratch. Not only the process itself but he is capable of creating the management framework for those processes."
"Alexandre is a serious and a skilled person, which you can put your trust on. I recommend to whoever wants a job done with quality."
"Tant sur le plan personnel que professionnel Alexandre sait se montrer à la hauteur des attentes. Professionnellement toujours présent et réactif, c'est un atout positif dans toute équipe qui se veut efficace et dynamique. Je recommande Alexandre sans hésiter."