Summary
Beatrice Mercier is a Senior Product Manager with seven years of experience building user-centric digital services across highly regulated and legacy IT environments in both the U.S. and France. She has a proven track record launching 0-to-1 products and scaling public-sector platforms—most notably growing France’s national transport API and leading AI strategy and accelerator initiatives at the CDC. A Shape Up practitioner and founding product lead at the federal venture studio 10x, she blends lean, multidisciplinary team building with rigorous privacy-preserving design for data interoperability. Her work spans product discovery, security-conscious engineering negotiation, and stakeholder coaching, and she has coached civil servants and peers into product roles while retaining high team retention rates. Based in Washington, D.C., she pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with deep public-sector domain expertise to uncover new market and policy-aligned opportunities. A multilingual humanities-trained analyst by education, she brings uncommon strengths in narrative, stakeholder diplomacy, and translating complex policy constraints into pragmatic product roadmaps.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Literature History Philosophy Modern Languages (German & Spanish Literature), Literature History Philosophy Modern Languages (German & Spanish Literature) at Lycée Henri IV
High School Humanities Track (emphasis Literature/Philosophy) with Bilingual American Option, High School Humanities Track (emphasis Literature/Philosophy) with Bilingual American Option at Lycee International de St. Germain-en-Laye
Master’s Degree Public Policy & Local Government (including Economics and Urban Sociology), Master’s Degree Public Policy & Local Government (including Economics and Urban Sociology) at Sciences Po
Bachelor's Degree English Language and Literature, Bachelor's Degree English Language and Literature at University of Oxford
MA Renaissance Literature French Language and Literature, MA Renaissance Literature French Language and Literature at Ecole normale supérieure
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish