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Lead Product Designer · Paris

Victor Soussan

Lead Product Designer working on B2B and B2G SaaS and complex business interfaces. I frame with a PM and deliver with a developer, and I prototype myself when the question calls for it. I design the journeys and I lead a team's design practice.

years
15+
users impacted
500K+
designers managed
5
apps shipped
50+
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My approach starts before Figma: vision workshops with leadership, problem framing with product teams, ideation with stakeholders, field user research. Then design, prototyping, design system and delivery.

References: the SQOOL suite (7 applications, 500,000 students, a team of 5 designers), Dailymotion's publisher tools (8,000+ users, Paris and New York), France VAE for beta.gouv, the PagesJaunes mobile apps (22 million downloads).

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Journey

From agencies to business products: the thread is designing dense, data-rich tools.

The main periods

A career that converges on business toolsA timeline from 2005 to today: from 2005 to 2016, agencies to consumer products; from 2016 to 2024, B2B and B2G business tools; from 2025 to 2026, independent; today, Lead UX France, running the design practice at a European professional information publisher.Agencies, consumer2005 to 2016B2B and B2G business tools2016 to 2024Independent, 2025 to 2026Lead UX FranceDesign practice, European publisher

Step by step

Sep 2026 - Present

Lead UX France, European professional information publisher

I run the design practice: I manage one designer (workload, budgets, reviews), set up user research with the customer community and carry design into quarterly planning.

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Together we design the journeys of a digital document library.

2025 - 2026

Victor Soussan Design

Product design and prototyping for B2B, B2G and growing startups.

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Recent engagement: first designer at Tessan (3 months, April to July 2026), with the patient mobile app rebuilt in 30 days, a design system, an AI assistant under regulatory constraints and a product management system an AI can query. Other engagements: search engine and conversion redesign for Banque des Territoires’ B2G marketplaces, V2 of Toolkit.ac, user research for FEPEM’s MonEmploiDirect. In parallel, Condamine Apps: 50+ prototypes deployed with Claude Code and Figma MCP.

Dec 2024 - Jul 2025

beta.gouv.fr, France VAE

Lead Product Designer of the collective VAE MVP: 10 user interviews, 2 days of design thinking workshops with decision makers and training organizations, company journeys and dashboards, delivery in batches with iterative validation.

Jul 2023 - Jul 2024

Toolkit

Sole product designer of a construction tech startup, from concept to launch, with the CEO and the CTO.

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Three versions in 12 months, visual identity, initial design system and investor pitch decks. 2,000 paying customers, Series A raised.

2018 - 2024

UNOWHY / SQOOL

Six years transforming SQOOL from an Android launcher into a SaaS suite of 7 applications serving 500,000 students across 465 schools.

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Senior Product Designer, then Head of Design, then Product Lead UI & Design Manager and member of the Executive Committee. Team of 5 designers hired and managed, design system unified across five applications that sped up delivery. Two applications added in 2023-2024: SQOOL Extend and SQOOL Protect.

Apr 2017 - Oct 2018

Dailymotion

B2B tools for premium video publishers: 8,000+ direct users, 50 to 100 publishers (CBS, ESPN, CNN, BBC, Canal+, Le Monde), 100,000+ videos processed per month.

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The company’s first Storybook UI Kit, coordination across Paris, New York and Marseille.

Sep 2016 - Apr 2017

Ogury

Analytics dashboards and programmatic campaign management for an AdTech platform, with complex data visualization in D3.js and Angular.

Apr 2014 - Sep 2016

PagesJaunes

PagesJaunes mobile app (22 million downloads, 300,000 daily users): homepage and onboarding redesign, Material Design, Android Wear, team of 4 UI designers.

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Before that, PagesJaunes.fr (15 million unique visitors per month) and the first cross-platform design system guidelines.

2005 - 2014

Louis 21, Hommell, Publicis

From creative origins to digital: UX/UI design in an agency for EADS (internal social network, 10,000 executives), Bouygues Immobilier, AFM Téléthon and Henner, after art directing Déco Loisirs Magazine (300,000 copies per month), freelance work for Galeries Lafayette, L’Oréal and Orange, and an internship at Publicis (Hermès, Leica, Helena Rubinstein).

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Testimonials

What my clients, managers and teams say about working together: 14 testimonials.

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Current Practice

Since early 2025, AI has been part of my toolkit. Most of the job stays with people: I lead, AI equips.

What I lead, what AI equips

Pick an area to see the detail

I lead

The craft: journeys, states, levels of fidelity.

AI equips

Production in Figma, variants, the design system.

Tools

  • Figma
  • Figma Console MCP

Where data security requires it, I set a frame of use: no customer data, human review, every case measured.

Education

  • Master Communication & Multimedia, ISCOM Paris (2001 to 2005)
  • UX/UI Design & Prototyping, UXcel/Udemy (2021)
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Resources

Templates, checklists and process docs I use in my day-to-day practice.

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Want to talk?

I hold a full-time role and remain available for short consulting and freelance missions.