About Xavier
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🚀 I'll combine my technical & managerial expertise to help you transform your idea into a product that truly aligns with your customers' needs & your company vision.
🎯 I can support you through the whole validation lifecycle: from idea to prototypes, from prototypes to MVP & from MVP to a final product.
About Me
As a startup founder, I have 10+ years of experience in building, validating & marketing digital products across multiple industries.
With a technical background (MSc, EPFL/ETHZ) & management experience, I combine data-driven execution, agile leadership & creative problem-solving to bring digital ventures to life.
Key Competencies
✅ Customer Research & Problem Discovery
Conducting in-depth user research to uncover key pain points & opportunities.
✅ Fast Product Validation & Iteration
Leading agile teams through designing mockups, prototypes & MVPs to refine problem-solution fit through continuous feedback.
✅ KPI-Driven Execution
Tracking & reporting key metrics to demonstrate tangible progress to stakeholders.
✅ Business & Financial Acumen
Assessing digital business model viability through data-driven financial projections including fundraising to finance future growth & developments.
I work in French & English.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- FreelanceFreelance Product Manager & Web DeveloperSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJanuary 2014 - Today (12 years and 5 months)Lausanne, SwitzerlandLed the development & execution of multiple digital initiatives, ensuring 100% client satisfaction with on-time, on-budget delivery.
InDesign → WordPress Automation Pipeline (2024)
🔹 Client: Print media company publishing digital articles🔹 Solution: Built an automated pipeline that converts InDesign documents into web-compliant HTML using XSLT & PowerShell🔹 Budget: CHF 1,500 | Delivery: 3 months | Iterations: Weekly (aligned with publishing schedule)HR Document Sorting Pipeline (2024)
🔹 Client: Corporate HR team managing 500+ employees in SharePoint🔹 Solution: Developed PowerShell scripts to tag, rename & move HR documents automatically across SharePoint libraries🔹 Budget: CHF 2,000 | Delivery: 4 months | Iterations: Bi-weeklyRent Your Car (RYC) - P2P Luxury Car Rental (2017)
🔹 Developed a peer-to-peer (P2P) luxury car rental platform, focusing on user-centric design & validation🔹 Hired & managed a frontend designer to create mockups and validate product requirements🔹 Recruited & coordinated a backend developer for high-quality implementation (Symfony, JavaScript, HTML & CSS)Pixels - Creative Fundraising Platform (2016)
🔹 Designed & launched a fundraising initiative inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage for a nonprofit🔹 Developed & deployed the platform using PHP, JavaScript, HTML & CSS🔹 The funds raised financed the production, editing, distribution & promotion of two nonprofit awareness films.Freelance Web Developer (2014-2020)
🔹 Designed, developed & delivered dynamic web solutions for multiple nonprofits🔹 Built & launched projects using Laravel, Vue.js & Tailwind CSS🔹 Provided end-to-end development, ensuring scalability, usability & maintainability - FleepsCo-founder & CEOTRAVEL AND TOURISMJuly 2021 - Today (4 years and 11 months)Berlin, GermanyFleeps is a travel content aggregation platform that curates high-quality recommendations from travel blogs, delivering personalized travel insights to users.Key Accomplishments
- Led a team of 7 through bi-weekly sprints, delivering a functional MVP from scratch in just 3 months.
- Designed & executed structured business experiments to refine problem-solution fit & product positioning, conducting 120+ user interviews, numerous prototypes, and data-driven tests.
- Developed a KPI-driven execution strategy, aligning team efforts with stakeholder expectations & enabling faster, data-backed decision-making.
→ We built an organic go-to-market strategy, attracting 200,000+ unique users while keeping acquisition costs at only 10% of the industry’s average.→ We secured CHF 400,000 in pre-seed funding from private investors, despite being pre-product and pre-revenue. - PindexCo-founderTRAVEL AND TOURISMFebruary 2015 - June 2022 (7 years and 5 months)Saint-Imier, SwitzerlandPindex developed multiple digital travel services, including Pindex Tours, a self-guided city tours app. Originally launched as a school project when I was 17, Pindex later evolved into a profitable business.Key Accomplishments
- Successfully delivered a CHF 100,000 project from scratch in 9 months while coordinating 5 external providers.
- The product generated a total CHF 200,000 in revenue within 1.5 years.
- Secured CHF 100,000 in non-dilutive funding to finance product development.
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Education
- Innosuisse Business Creation Advanced Engineering Business Creation ENGINEERINGInnoSuisseInnosuisse Business Creation Advanced Engineering Business Creation ENGINEERING
- Startup Board AcademyStartup Board AcademyCorporate governance, risk analysis, board matters & administration