NAME
Aziz Ghariani
ROLE
Product Manager / Product Owner
LOCATION
Paris, France
EXPERIENCE
8+ years
CERTIFICATION
PSPO I
LANGUAGES
French (native) · English (fluent)
STATUS
Open to freelance opportunities
Product Manager with 6+ years of experience, I support tech and product teams across product definition, Agile delivery, and digital transformation engagements.
Most recently, I led high-volume, complex platform delivery for a Media Company (MAM, 1M+ assets, 500+ users) and spearheaded the optimization of their search infrastructures (Elasticsearch).
Bridging strategic vision and technical depth — bilingual French / English, available fully remote or in the Greater Paris area. PSPO I certified.
Product Manager Freelance — Plateforme OTT · Paris
- Led the transformation of a legacy desktop tool into a SaaS MAM platform (1M+ assets, 600+ daily users, 10+ European markets): Ingest (Import/Record), Search, Edit, Metadata, Logging, Export
- Managed the Product Backlog: RICE prioritization, User Story writing, end-to-end release management (Dev → QA → Production)
- Continuous QA and load testing: proactive incident detection, 30% reduction in regression bugs
- Change management: product demos, training sessions, newsletters, and release notes
- User research: user interviews and usability studies to guide product iterations
- Search engine redesign (1M+ videos): quick filters, Elasticsearch relevance, admin panel for boost and metadata weight configuration, Excel-style column filtering
- Close collaboration with technical teams to optimize SaaS infrastructure performance
Product Owner API · Paris
- Managed data ingestion APIs
- Led stakeholder workshops
- Defined interface contracts
Product Owner · Paris
- Coordinated the rollout of a car configurator web app
- Managed AWS migration
PRODUCT
Product Discovery | User Stories & Functional Specifications | Roadmapping | Prioritization (RICE, MoSCoW) | Stakeholder Mgmt
MEDIA / OTT
MAM Systems | OTT Platforms | Broadcast workflows |
Video metadata | Metadata Mgmt | Search & Discovery
TECHNICAL & TOOLS
OpenSearch | Elasticsearch | BM25 | k-NN Vector Search |
Semantic search |
JIRA | Confluence | Postman | SQL |
Python | REST APIs | Kafka basics | Git | Grafana | Claude Code
AI-POWERED MAM — RAG & SEMANTIC SEARCH (PERSONAL PROJECT)
Work in progress / Proof of Concept
What I built:
► A basic custom MAM to ingest and manage video assets
► An automated transcription pipeline converting audio to searchable text
► Vector embeddings to enable semantic search across assets
► A RAG pipeline allowing natural language querying over the media library