Product Manager · Growth · Nantes

Antoine Berthaud

Senior Product Manager · Growth, PLG & B2B SaaS
Nantes, France 15 years in digital · 10 in Product Management Open to Senior / Lead PM roles · B2B SaaS · Nantes, hybrid or remote

Senior Product Manager, 10 years in product, in B2B SaaS (AB Tasty, Everysens) and enterprise settings (SNCF Connect & Tech), engineer by training, with four years on the technical side before product. My specialty: growth for SaaS products, from onboarding to self-serve monetization. At AB Tasty, I lead the shift from a Sales-Led to a hybrid model: business case and roadmap with leadership, two PMs led, a self-serve funnel shipped behind a feature flag. I decide with data (SQL, Metabase, Mixpanel) as much as with user interviews.

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Portrait of Antoine Berthaud, Product Manager in Nantes, France

What defines me

Problem first

No feature without a quantified user problem.
  • Discovery every week: interviews and user tests.
  • When interviews are impossible, in a station in the middle of an epidemic, I go get the signal elsewhere: a daily extraction of tweets.

Data decides

Intuition starts the test, data validates it.
  • I build my own dashboards: churn, retention, activation, Time-to-Value.
  • An external benchmark before investing: that's what showed our activation was falling behind.

Small first, then big

Continuous learning on the way to Product-Market Fit.
  • A "Fail Fast" culture with short delivery cycles.
  • Delivery in steps rather than a big bang, and progressive rollout when the risk is high.

Leadership

PMs and teams to move forward, a course held with leadership.
  • Two PMs led on AB Tasty's self-serve workstream: splitting the plan, scoping trade-offs.
  • Elected lead of SNCF's 100+ people Product Management community, re-elected for a second term; mentoring 2 to 3 people.
  • Business case and roadmap carried to leadership; squads of up to 15 developers.

Experience

AB Tasty

Nantes, France
1,000+ client organizations · 5,000 monthly active users · €50M ARR
Total3 years

Senior Growth Product Manager

May 2025 — Present · 1 year 4 months

Mission: open the platform to self-serve alongside enterprise sales, within AB Tasty's Growth pillar (Experience Optimization SaaS: A/B Testing, Personalization). International team, English as the working language.

Key achievements
  • Self-serve funnel shipped to production behind a feature flag, ready to launch: public sign-up, limited freemium, Hyperline billing scoped end to end (payments, subscriptions, feature access by plan). Launch put on hold after AB Tasty's merger with VWO.
  • Business case and roadmap for the hybrid model carried to leadership: moving from a 100% Sales-Led model to one where large accounts stay with Sales and everyone else signs up and pays on their own.
  • Led 2 Product Managers on the workstream: splitting the plan, scoping trade-offs, overall consistency.
Methodology — Scrum Team — 4 developers, 1 tech lead, 1 QA, 1 Product Designer
Product-Led GrowthSelf-serve monetizationProduct StrategyRoadmappingStakeholder ManagementCross-functional Leadership

Product Manager

Sep 2023 — May 2025 · 1 year 8 months

Mission: the "Product eXperience" of the Experience Optimization platform (A/B Testing, Personalization): onboarding, activation, retention.

Key achievements
  • +15% activation rate, -20% Time-to-Value: a qualification engine at sign-up, then a personalized onboarding for each user profile.
  • Mandatory 2FA rolled out to 100% of the user base in successive waves, paced so Customer Success Managers could support their clients: no activity loss, near-zero support impact.
  • Churn, retention, activation and Time-to-Value tracked automatically: built the product data infrastructure (SQL, Metabase, Mixpanel).
  • Product vision refocused on retention and engagement: "Make our users fall in love with our product, repeatedly".
Methodology — Scrum Team — 3 developers, 1 tech lead, 1 QA, 1 Product Designer
Onboarding & activationRetentionA/B testing & experimentationProduct AnalyticsDiscoveryFeature Flagging / Progressive Rollout

Everysens

Nantes, France

Product Manager

Apr 2022 — Sep 2023 · 1 year 5 months

Mission: the "Execution" module (waybills, trains of 30+ wagons) of a SaaS platform for managing and tracking rail freight, serving the modal shift from road to rail. English as the working language with the team.

Key achievements
  • -50% entry time, +20% user satisfaction: technical and functional rework of the entry module, secured with leadership and delivered incrementally, MVP shipped in under 2 months.
  • User adoption and data reliability as the module roadmap's priorities: transport entry, waybill validation, real-time tracking.
  • User research and UI/UX mockups done on my own (Hotjar, Heap) before a Product Designer joined the team.
Methodology — Scrum Team — 4 developers, 1 QA, later 1 Product Designer
DiscoveryUser ResearchRoadmappingPrioritizationStakeholder Management

SNCF Connect & Tech

Nantes, France
Total7 years 3 months

Product Manager

Sep 2020 — Apr 2022 · 1 year 7 months

Mission: the online store generator for transport tickets (Transilien, TER), then in parallel, from October 2021 to April 2022, the Prêt à Voyager health-pass platform (up to 40,000 visitors a day), where travelers self-checked their health pass and ticket during Covid-19.

Key achievements
  • +100% conversion rate on the first step of ticket retrieval on Prêt à Voyager: journey reworked from traveler feedback collected on Twitter (daily extraction via Zapier), platform rebuilt in-house.
  • A shared product mission and vision for the online-store stakeholders and the marketing team, formalized and communicated.
  • 2021 strategy held by OKRs: delivery roadmap, backlog prioritization, discovery relaunched (user surveys, mining the available data).
Methodology — Scrum, Kanban Team — 3 developers, 1 Scrum Master, 1 Delivery Manager (stores) · 4 developers, 1 Engineering Manager (Prêt à Voyager)
User ResearchOKRRoadmappingPrioritizationStakeholder ManagementDiscovery

Junior Product Manager

Aug 2016 — Sep 2020 · 4 years 1 month

Mission: digitizing B2B group-ticket sales (SNCF sales staff, travel agencies), where I had been test lead on the consumer side, then the web services (APIs) distributing regional (TER) and urban tickets to the sales channels.

Key achievements
  • From business need to delivery: workshops and high-level sizing with business teams, roadmap and Story Mapping, User Stories and BDD scenarios, acceptance of delivered features.
  • Elected lead of the company's Product Management community of practice, 100+ people: first to hold the role, re-elected for a second term (2 × 5 months). Practice insights, workshops, mentoring 2 to 3 people.
Methodology — Scrum Team — Up to 15 developers, 2 Product Managers, 1 QA, 1 Scrum Master, 1 Delivery Manager
APIs & integrationsUser Stories & BacklogStory MappingBDDAgile / ScrumMentoring & Coaching

QA

Jan 2015 — Aug 2016 · 1 year 7 months
ESN

Eurogiciel · Sigma Informatique · Virage Group

Nantes, France

Java developer, then functional analyst (IT consulting)

Feb 2011 — Jan 2015 · 3 years 11 months

Four years on the technical side before moving into Product Management.

Key achievements
  • Development (Java), functional analysis and specification writing for clients such as Thales Alenia Space and several major retail chains (Gileco / E.Leclerc group).
  • Project management (planning, dashboards) and QA/testing.
Methodology — V-Model, Scrum Team — Up to 5 people depending on the engagement
Project ManagementFunctional Analysis

Case studies

The problem, what I ruled out, what I did and what came out of it.

Skills

Growth & strategy
Product-Led GrowthSelf-serve monetizationOnboarding & activationRetentionA/B testing & experimentationProduct StrategyOKRRoadmappingPrioritization
Discovery & data
DiscoveryUser ResearchProduct AnalyticsSQLMetabaseMixpanelSegment
Leadership
Stakeholder ManagementCross-functional LeadershipMentoring & Coaching
Delivery
Agile / ScrumUser Stories & BacklogStory MappingBDDFeature Flagging / Progressive RolloutProduct OwnershipProject ManagementFunctional Analysis
Technical
APIs & integrationsLLM integration (Gemini API)Generative AI
Everyday tools

Jira · ProductBoard · Figma · Miro · Zapier · Flagship · Akeneo · Postman · Looker Studio · Matomo · Hotjar · Heap

Education, languages & certifications

Education

  • Engineering Degree, Computer Systems, Software & Networks
    Polytech Nantes · 2006 – 2011

    Languages

    • FrenchNative
    • EnglishFluent · working language since 2022 (TOEIC 925/990)

    Certifications

    • AB Tasty — Fundamentals Certificate
      Internal certification on mastering the AB Tasty platform (Experience Optimization: A/B Testing, Personalization).

    Side projects

    Tour de Growth

    A free growth check-up tool (AARRR framework), designed and launched to size up a growth strategy in three minutes. In plain language rather than jargon, it shows where it already holds up and where it doesn't yet. The in-depth mode runs on the Gemini API.

    Product-Led GrowthUser ResearchLLM integration (Gemini API)Generative AI
    LinkedIn recommendation

    “Antoine is a caring, committed and demanding product manager, driven by real enthusiasm. He knows how to structure his team's collaboration time intelligently and loves bringing out the best in each person. I can only recommend him to strengthen an ambitious, collaborative team.”

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    Alix Paoli
    CX Designer at Decathlon · Former colleague at AB Tasty

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