Locate Life

Hugo Manning

Technical Product Manager with 6+ years in startup product and engineering environments, the last three as the accountable product owner.

Paris, France · English (native) · French (B1, improving) · Mandarin (A2)

What I do

I work as a bridge between engineering, business, and operations. I am most useful where a product is technically complex, the path is not yet defined, and delivery depends on getting several groups of people moving in the same direction.

Product ownership of AI-assisted products

I am the sole product manager on THEIA at Spare Parts 3D, an AI-assisted product that reconstructs 3D models from 2D drawings. I own discovery, the roadmap, and feature specification, working directly with the CPO.

Prototype-to-production delivery

I took THEIA from an internal prototype to a production service, and I stayed accountable for what came after: release planning, quality, and the operational processes that keep it running.

Partner operations across time zones

I run THEIA's day-to-day partner operations, working directly with the COO: delivery quality, capacity planning, and work allocation across external partner teams in multiple time zones.

Hands-on Python, SQL, and backend

My foundation is hands-on backend development with Python, SQL, FastAPI, and Django. Today I build with AI-assisted coding tools; I adopted them early and use them heavily, so I have a practitioner's view of where they work and where they fail.

Experience

This site is a live case study

Locate Life is a product I own from end to end. I identified the need from my own house hunt, designed the data strategy and the architecture, built it, and operate it in production. It computes real public-transport travel times to help people decide where to live and where to meet.

Python / FastAPI PostgreSQL JavaScript Railway Mailgun
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What I'm looking for

Product management or technical program roles in Paris, ideally on products where the technology is complex and the value depends on making it usable. If that sounds like your team, I would be glad to talk.