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Lead Product Designer
Victor Soussan, Lead Product Designer
Professional Summary
Lead Product Designer, 15 years of experience in B2B and B2G SaaS and complex business interfaces. Framing with a PM, delivery with a developer, or directly with Claude Code and Figma MCP. SQOOL suite: 7 applications, 500,000 students, team of 5 designers. Dailymotion publisher tools: 8,000+ users. France VAE for beta.gouv. PagesJaunes mobile apps: 22 million downloads. Available for freelance engagements and permanent roles (Head of Design, Design Lead).
Professional Experience
Lead Product Designer (Freelance)
Victor Soussan Design
- Product design and prototyping for B2B, B2G and growing startups. Full cycle: framing, user research, design, delivery.
- Tessan, telemedicine in pharmacies (3 months, April to July 2026), first designer: design lead and product owner of the patient mobile app (iOS, Android), rebuilt in 30 days with a tech lead and two developers
- Same engagement: design system (React, shadcn/ui, nearly 90 components), conversational AI assistant under regulatory constraints, product management rebuilt in Notion and made queryable by Claude
- Banque des Territoires: redesign of the search engine and conversion optimization for the B2G marketplaces Aquagir and Numérique360. UX/UI audit, user research, improvement backlog, product recommendations
- Toolkit.ac (construction SaaS): V2, site dashboard, planning, multi-device navigation
- FEPEM: user research for the launch of MonEmploiDirect, team mentoring, roadmap recommendations
- Condamine Apps: 50+ working prototypes deployed with Claude Code, Figma MCP and Vercel
Lead Product Designer, France VAE
beta.gouv.fr
- MVP of collective VAE: a platform that lets companies manage the Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) of their employees.
- 10 user interviews with VAE candidates
- 2 days of design thinking workshops with decision makers and vocational training organizations
- Metrics, framing and launch with the product manager
- Company journeys: sign-up, candidate follow-up, dashboards
- Co-design of the Metabase dashboard tracking sign-ups
- Restructuring of product workflows and of the Figma architecture
First Product Designer
Toolkit (construction tech)
- Sole product designer of a construction tech startup, from concept to launch, working directly with the CEO and the CTO. 2,000 paying customers. Series A raised.
- All web and mobile journeys: onboarding, zone-based planning, progress tracking, site team coordination
- Three versions shipped in 12 months: funding prototype, working V2, mobile V3
- Visual identity and brand guidelines
- Initial design system: modular components, reusable patterns
- Investor pitch decks for the fundraising
Product Lead UI & Design Manager
UNOWHY (SQOOL)
- Led product design and design for the SQOOL suite: 7 web applications, 500,000 students, 465 schools in Île-de-France. Team of 5 designers. Member of the Executive Committee.
- Suite grown from 5 to 7 applications in 2023-2024: SQOOL Extend (virtual machines) and SQOOL Protect (parental control)
- Co-led 2 executive seminars: 2028 product vision, 2024 roadmap, manifesto
- Co-wrote strategic decks with the CPO for the CEO and the executive committee
- Hired, trained and managed 5 designers (3 product, 1 brand, 1 content)
- UX/UI supervision: Classe (real-time supervision), Partage (storage), MDM (device fleet management, data viz), Applications (catalog)
- Structured design operations: workflows, documentation, scaling
- Product demos for local authorities and institutional partners
Head of Design
UNOWHY (SQOOL)
- Design lead for the transformation of SQOOL: from an Android launcher to an ecosystem of modular web applications.
- Connect: React web dashboard for tablets and PCs (modular home, application catalog, analytics). Tested internally for a year, it redirected the company’s application strategy
- La Bulle: persistent floating interface concept for tablets (contextual shortcuts, screenshot, casting). Animated vision prototype
- Application catalog: app store style interface with ratings, pedagogical tags, search and back-office
- Visual identity of the SQOOL ecosystem: logos, app icons, typography and colors for 5+ applications
- Multi-library Figma design system (styles, tokens, layouts, components) with guidelines published on Zeroheight, which sped up delivery across the five applications
- Strategic design sprint, 10 framing workshops with the CPO on the post-launcher direction, 20 internal tests and field observations
Senior Product Designer
UNOWHY (SQOOL)
- Redesign of the SQOOL educational platform interfaces: Android tablets deployed in middle and high schools of Île-de-France (465 schools).
- Hi-SQOOL (2019): unified dashboard for high school students (sessions, cloud storage, application catalog, authentication). MVP shipped in 6 weeks with a PO and 2 developers, presented to the regional council
- SQOOL Séances: redesign of the web application for creating and broadcasting lessons (teacher to student tablets)
- SQOOL Manager: UI consistency on the desktop management tool
- Introduced component thinking: modular, reusable patterns, first component libraries and pattern documentation (Sketch)
- First coaching of junior designers
Senior Product Designer, Publisher tools & solutions
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.
- Video CMS, desktop and mobile upload (iOS, Android), livestream, Dailymotion player customization
- Animated interactive prototypes and interaction specifications for the engineering handoff
- The company’s first Storybook UI Kit, designed with Sketch and integrated in agile with developers
- Publisher admin dashboard: data visualization, audience metrics, content management
- Multi-site coordination: Paris, New York, Marseille
Senior Product Designer (Freelance)
Ogury (AdTech)
- Analytics dashboards and programmatic campaign management tools for a growing AdTech platform. Clients: major advertisers and publisher networks.
- Campaign management interface: creation, targeting, budget allocation, real-time performance tracking
- Complex data visualization (D3.js, Angular): time comparisons, drill-down, multi-criteria filtering
- UI components, interactive prototypes and specifications for front-end teams
- Reporting views: automated reports, data export, custom date ranges
Senior Product Designer, UI team lead
PagesJaunes (Solocal)
- New features for the PagesJaunes mobile app: 22 million downloads, 300,000 daily users. Team of 4 UI designers.
- Redesign of the homepage and onboarding journey (iOS and Android)
- Material Design evolution of the Android app
- Design of the Android Wear application
- iOS and Android specific design patterns: cross-platform consistency across the product
- UI mentoring: weekly reviews, tools and methods coaching, production organization
Product Designer
PagesJaunes (Solocal)
- Responsive design for PagesJaunes.fr: 15 million unique visitors per month.
- Sign-up and login system
- Co-branding and product partnership with TheFork (LaFourchette)
- Design supervision of the Renault R-Link application
- Contribution to the foundations of the PagesJaunes design system: first cross-platform guidelines (web, iOS, Android)
- Daily coordination between product owners, front-end developers and the design team
Art Director / UX Designer
Louis 21 (digital agency)
- Art direction and UX/UI design in a digital agency. Key accounts: EADS (Airbus Group), Bouygues Immobilier, Sony Music, AFM Téléthon, Henner.
- UX/UI design of EADS’s internal social network for senior executives: 10,000 users, desktop and tablet
- Bouygues Immobilier Android application: 5,000+ installs
- AFM Téléthon 2013 iOS and Android applications: 12,000+ installs. Marketing concept, user scenarios, prototyping, interface design
- Henner extranet: online management platform for insurance brokers. Business analysis, user journeys, quote creation
- Sony Music France intranet
Art Director
Groupe Hommell, freelance, Publicis Groupe (internship)
- Art direction in magazine publishing (2005-2009), freelance for fashion, retail and corporate brands (2009-2010), advertising agency internship (2005).
- Déco Loisirs Magazine: 300,000 copies per month, distributed with 10 major regional dailies. Covers, iconography, layout, print production
- Freelance art direction: Galeries Lafayette, L’Oréal, Orange, Celio, Reed Business/Stratégies, Ykone
- Publicis Et Nous (internship): luxury and fashion campaigns for Hermès, Audemars Piguet, Printemps, Helena Rubinstein, Leica
Key Skills
Product Strategy & Vision0-to-1 Product DesignDesign Systems & OperationsTeam Leadership (up to 5 designers)UX Research & User InterviewsHi-Fi Prototyping (Figma, Bolt, Lovable)AI-Assisted Design WorkflowsB2B SaaS & Enterprise SoftwareDesign-Dev Collaboration
Tools & Technologies
Figma, FigJam, Adobe Suite, Sketch, Notion, Slack, Linear, ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Bolt, Lovable, Storybook, HTML/CSS
Education & Certifications
- Master in Communication & Multimedia, ISCOM Paris (2001-2005)
- UX/UI Design & Prototyping, UXcel / Udemy (2021)
Languages
French (native) • English (full professional) • Spanish (professional working)