Gildas Frémont — Product Director

Independent Product Director, I step in when product work stalls under the weight of complexity. My approach is to ground the conversation in stable principles, strip back unnecessary rules and flows, then align product, engineering and go-to-market on a deliverable sequence. I'm particularly comfortable with the cross-cutting concerns of multi-product suites: interface convergence, shared design systems, and consistent user experience across a growing portfolio.

27 engagements in 3 years

Product audits, strategic repositioning and executive coaching on shorter formats (CPO on demand). Diagnosis, refocus on core value, delivery of mockups and prototypes to unblock execution. Sectors include industry, retail, healthcare and publishing.

Lucca

200+ days engagement covering four business suites (payroll, time, training, talent). Unblocked product decisions stalled by organisational friction, working directly with BU heads across a 13-module HR suite serving 7,800+ clients. Systematically simplified business rules and user flows. Advised on the adoption of a shared design system to drive cross-product consistency.

Synaxe

Product framing, reporting to CTO and CEO, 6 months at 2 days/wk. Reshaped a construction-sector compliance tool into a proper management product, with no PM or designer in place. Scoped workstreams, sequenced delivery, and held the line between commercial commitments and technical feasibility.

Guinet-Derriaz 1912

Product & internal tooling, reporting to founder and CEO, 1 year at 2 days/wk. Formalised the product catalogue and built internal sales/ops tools for a heritage stone manufacturer (~€10M revenue, 14 quarries, international operations).

Earlier roles

Lucca

First UX Designer, 2011–2014

Designed HR and time-management products. Reduced onboarding time by streamlining administrative flows in a product-led growth model.

Ornikar

First Product Manager, 2014–2016

Grew a regulated-market product from zero to 15,000 paying users in 18 months. Focused on friction reduction over acquisition. The company later raised $120M and joined France's Next40.

monbanquet.fr

Head of Product, 2017–2019

Cut acquisition churn and built sales tooling that produced quotes in minutes rather than the days competitors required. Margin and lead-time tracking. Grew the product team from 2 to 8.

zoneadsl.com

Head of Product, 2019–2020

Redesigned acquisition funnels and CMS. Drove analytics-led decision-making. Contributed to shifting a monolithic system toward a product-oriented architecture and organisation.