Fractional CPO / AI Product Creator
Rémi
Buczek-Pasquier
12 years delivering value to my clients by framing, building and leading their top-tier products.
What's my core expertise?
Strategy & Discovery
Frame it before building it.
Process
AI & Product Stack
Building
Build fast, prove value.
Process
AI & Product Stack
Leading & Scaling
Industrialize and scale.
Process
AI & Product Stack
Ops
Make the org run.
Process
AI & Product Stack
Growth
Build the audience, scale the brand.
Process
AI & Product Stack
How do I operate?
Strategy consulting rigor, operated independently.
Diagnosis
Understand before recommending.
Framing
Align on the right battles.
Execution
Operationalize on the ground.
Transition
Build autonomy.
Where have I operated lately?
EPEX SPOT SE
Product Leader & Product Ops
European intraday power exchange. 300+ market participants. Real-time, latency-critical, regulated environment. €2.5M budget, 4 teams coordinated across FR/DE.
What I delivered
- Rebuilt the operating cadence and governance between EPEX (business, FR) and the DBAG provider (tech, DE) within a SAFe train
- Owned product strategy and €2.5M budget on the M7 program
- Led API and messaging architecture evolution (WebSocket, RabbitMQ, Protobuf)
Outcome
Givaudan
Product Leader, AI Product (POC → 100+ users)
World leader in fragrance R&D. AI tooling for 100+ perfumers worldwide. Cross-functional team of 10+ data scientists, engineers, designers.
What I delivered
- Scaled an AI product from a 2-3 user POC to 100+ daily perfumers
- Installed story mapping, discovery ceremonies, and cross-functional rituals as recurring disciplines
- Orchestrated data infrastructure across Dataiku, datawarehouse and datamarts to support AI model deployment at scale
Outcome
Pierre & Vacances
Head of Product (Transition), Product Transformation
Major European hospitality group. Transition leadership at Head of Product level with C-level advisory. Product, marketing, design (15+) and tech teams (20+ developers, 5 tech leads).
What I delivered
- Redesigned the product operating model and governance — project-based to product-based organisation
- Restructured squads, roles and business interfaces across product, marketing, design and tech
- Advised the C-level on product and organization transformation
Outcome
What have I built?
Fragrance AI Suite
Global fragrance leaderPerfumeMaker
AI-generated perfume formula library.
ScentGuesser
Olfactory description model from ingredients and concentrations.
RoboFragrance
Robotized perfume creation without lab cycle.
Industrial AI Suite
European agro-industrial groupMaltHelper
Malting formulation assistant (IoT + historical data).
FlourMaker
Mill operations management.
BakingHelper
Bread quality scoring.
QualityChecker
Automated quality control in malting plants.
Creator Suite
Creator economy venturePhotoMate
Automated photo editing pipeline (n8n).
VirtualMuse
Automated video generation (ComfyUI).
Meta Ads Advisor
Ad performance analysis and recommendations.
Which sectors do I know?
What are my other capabilities?
Beyond AI products, ~30 digital products shipped across B2B marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile apps, public service portals and hospitality platforms.
ManoMano
2021–2022Product Manager, Data & CRM
Tech unicorn · large-scale CRM data reconciliation, internal data tooling rework.
Yves Rocher
2019–2020Product Manager, iOS App & E-commerce
iOS app (300k+ users) and e-commerce platform (2M+ customers).
EDF
2019–2020Product Manager, B2C Digital Services
B2C retail platform · legacy IT, regulated environment.
Sécurité Sociale — Assurance Retraite
2017–2019Product Manager, Public Portal
National portal redesign (millions of users) · first Agile project in the organisation.
ENGIE
2016–2017Product Manager, B2C Customer Experience
NPS & Qualtrics, verbatim and session analysis, exec reporting.
La Fourche
2021Agile Coach & Product Organisation
Product org design, governance and Agile methodology for a 15-person cross-functional team.
Cluutch
OngoingFounder · Venture studio
Product & e-commerce venture studio (Shopify).
Soir Agency
ONGOINGFounder · Creator Economy Venture
Creator economy agency · founded and led, now team-run. AI agents in production (content, ads, editing).
About
I'm a competitor. I like a challenge and pushing my limits, which is why I practice Hyrox and boxing.
I value intensity and loyalty: I've held a PSG season ticket for 15 years.
Curious and adaptable, I explore cultures through food and aesthetics, as an amateur photographer and food critic.
Passionate about politics, I run a geopolitics account on X.