Thomas Chekaiban

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Co-Founder • Product & Game Design

Siwa Games

Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)

The platform and studio dedicated to word & puzzle games.
• Inventing, creating & designing games.
• Developing an online platform (web & mobile) to provide a seamless gaming experience.

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Head of Product • Freelance

Vizzia

Sep 2025 - Jun 2026 (10 months)

AI solution to help municipalities detect and reduce illegal dumping.

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Product & Design

Audion

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 (8 months)

Advertising & publishing solutions in the audio ecosystem
• Created new feature flows & improved current ones
• Designed ready-to-implement UIs (Figma files)
• Worked on a UX writing audit of the platform

Chief Product Officer

Roger

Jun 2022 - May 2024 (2 years)

Inter-company communication & collaboration tool
• Developed application from ideation to market launch & beyond | discovery, roadmap, conception & delivery.
• Created an application available on web, desktop & mobile (iOS / Android) | several hundred thousand messages sent through the tool & 7% growth month on month.
• Put in place a payment solution gateway for a multi-product subscription model.
• Led an agile team & managed iterations | Scrum ceremonies & delivery.
• Measured and analysed product metrics & usability data to take informed decisions.
• Designed the SaaS application on all types of devices | UX & UI.

Lead Product Manager

Jellysmack

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Company that develops the world’s most talented video creators
• Created a platform that connects freelance video editors to creators in order to complete editing tasks | in charge of user exploration, roadmaps & delivery.
• Worked on 2 operational tools for content managers & editors to ensure proper monetisation | thousands of videos edited, scored & added to catalogue
• Created & executed an interview process to hire new product managers.
• Led a team of product managers, designers & data analysts.

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Head of Product

WAW MUZIK

Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 (6 months)

Music streaming mobile application in Africa.
• Created a new roadmap & managed business-wide strategy alignment → currently averaging 7k+ new users/month.
• Led a cross-functional team & several POs throughout the iterations & created a new recruitment process.
• Worked on data bundle procurement through telecom operator APIs | enhancing app usage & micro-transactions
• Created a cost-effective UX research process to get feedback from users & understand customer pains.
• Interacted on a daily basis with external operational / tech teams to solve issues.
• Analysed app data to improve customer experience & and to lay out new opportunity hypotheses to investors.

Senior Product Manager

L'Atelier

Mar 2018 - Aug 2020 (2 years 6 months)

Product development studio committed to innovation
• Developed of 4 client products (JLL, Euler Hermes, Puissance Alpha & Infogreffe) from research & business strategy to execution, testing, API management & metrics analysis | 700k€ generated.
• Developed (from ideation to go-to-market) 2 standalone products (Washi & Keikiban) dedicated to consultants & IT companies, defined their roadmap rollout strategy | decreased warm lead generation time by 70% & payment processing time by several days.
• Led 6 cross-functional teams throughout the product development cycle.
• Worked on backlog management, feature prioritisation & user story detailing.
• Coordinated & implemented product workshops & Scrum ceremonies.

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Co-Founder • Product & Designer

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 (1 year)

Software design studio & UX consulting company
• Managed UX consulting missions for clients as Poîlane, Aulo, Wifood & Atelier des Cèdres | 90k€ generated.
• Conducted user research phases & usability tests among final users to understand pain points & provide actionnable insights relative to software design | 23% overall conversion rate increase
• Worked closely with business stakeholders to suggest metrics to analyse during iterations.
• Recruited developers & UI designers during conception stages to create prototypes & final designs.
• Developed proposals & managed administrative activities.

Research Assistant • Politics of Sports

American University of Beirut

Jul 2014 - Jul 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Intern • Supply Chain & Procurement

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Jun 2014 - Jul 2014 (2 months)

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Co-Founder • Product

Loop • private photo albums for friends and family

Jan 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 9 months)

Group photo-sharing mobile application
• Developed of the iOS & Android app from the prototyping phase to the MVP following an Agile mindset | 1500+ MAUs.
• Oversaw the go-to-market strategy through 2 successful marketing campaigns | 34% conversion rate.
• Created a product roadmap & defined OKR | fundraising process started following year 1.
• Defined the metrics to track & analyse via Mixpanel.
• Led a Scrum team of 3 developers & designers.

Intern • Right Hand to CEO

Payplug

Jul 2012 - Aug 2012 (2 months)

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