Nicolas Leroy Email & Phone Number

Grenoble Area, France

In October 2016, Kelkoo acquired LeGuide Group and became the European leader in eCommerce advertising and shopping comparison. The combined assets of Kelkoo and LeGuide group, comprising of LeGuide, Ciao, and Dooyoo, will create a unique base of over 31,000 merchants, and a network of 2,700 publishers, providing 40 million shoppers with 220 million offers in 20 countries worldwide.Responsible of the Kelkoo + LeGuide product lines, targeting consumers, online merchants & publishers.Member of the executive team & company board.

Grenoble Area, France

Responsible of the Kelkoo product lines, targeting consumers, online merchants & publishers.Instrumental in pivoting the company from a B2C to a B2B positioning.Instrumental in the definition of next-gen products (data stack to develop a data-driven culture throughout the company, ad tech stack…)Member of the executive team & company board.

Grenoble Area, France

Responsible of the overall consumer product and user experience for the Kelkoo Shopping vertical, including product direction, strategy and roadmap.Led the redesign of the Kelkoo websites, with a renewed focus on user experience while preserving business performance.

Grenoble Area, France

Program management: revamped the development process (roadmap management, project documentation, project reviews...), advocated and trained teams with agile methodology.Designed a next-gen Digimind product, gathering business requirements, defining product requirements and creating wireframes.

Grenoble Area, France

Product Manager for the Kelkoo backend systems.Lead the Kelkoo "product development team": take inputs from business teams and other teams (local teams, SEO, SEM, UED...) to define new Kelkoo products.Lead the Kelkoo "User Experience Design" Team: competitive analysis, design of new products, production of wireframes, prototypes, visual specifications.Lead the Kelkoo "Web Development / Front-end engineering" Team: development of the front-end code between UED and back-end engineering teams, following web standards and taking into account the constraints of modern web development (support of A-Grade browsers, non-obstrusive Javascript, clear separation between semantic and presentation, SEO...)Managed a team of ~10 people.

Product manager at Kelkoo.Worked on a collaboration project between Kelkoo European shopping destination, Yahoo! Shopping US shopping destination, and Yahoo! Search Marketing ; the goal of this project was to establish bridges between "sponsored links" and "shopping engines" business models, easing the management of campaigns on those channels for advertisers.Worked on the new version of Kelkoo front-end (released in Oct'07) as product manager, defining requirements, managing priorities, working collaboratively with interaction designers, web developers, engineering.

Engineering Manager on backend systems.Re-engineered the Kelkoo offer processing workflow, from the gathering of offers from merchants (through feeds) to the processing and enrichment of offers (including attribute extraction and matching technologies) ; acts as architect and project manager, taking into account scalability, I18N (internationalization), security aspects. Managed a team of ~10 engineers.

Built a "product database" backend, including data flow to insert product from partner feeds (with de-dupe algorithms, semi-automatic translations from one country to another...), and data flow to expose those products on the Kelkoo front-end (including matching of products with merchant offers).Managed a team of ~5 engineers

Worked at Kelkoo comparative shopping engine, from Apr 2003 to Sep 2003. Architecture, design and coding of a system to manage database of products: acquisition from database providers, storage, processing and display on Kelkoo front-end. Single developer, then tech leader in a team of 4 persons.

Specified, documented, and implemented tools to enhance productivity : website generators, generic tracking and profiling tools.Design and implementation of "Challenge Bibendum" (Michelin) website. Technologies : Java, Websphere, Oracle. Duration : 3 months.Design and implementation of BFMBiz.com (BFM radio), business information website. Technologies : Java, XML/XSL, PHP, Oracle, PDA. Technical design. Led a team of 5 developers. Duration : 8 months.Design and implementation of "Localtis.fr, le Portail des Acteurs du Monde Local" (Groupe Caisse des Dépôts) website. Technologies : Java, XML (OpenMarket content management system), Oracle. Functional and technical design. Customer relationship. Led a team of 7 developers. Duration : 9 months.