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Danyang ZhangDZ

Danyang Zhang

UX Researcher | Product Management | QA

€399/day
Lyon, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Danyang

  • I’m a bilingual User Researcher and Product Consultant with 8 years of experience across fintech, SaaS, and digital services.
  • I help teams turn complex insights into actionable product decisions — from discovery to delivery.
  • My work bridges UX research, product strategy, and light project coordination, supporting product managers, designers, and founders in making data-informed choices.
  • I’m fluent in English (C2) and can comfortably read and draft documentation in French (B2). Most of my client work involves English-first communication, with deliverables in English or bilingual (EN/FR/CH).
Typical missions I take on:
  • Mixed-methods user and market research (interviews, surveys, usability tests, analysis, reporting etc.)
  • Product discovery & MVP validation, roadmap structuring, backlog support
  • UX documentation & QA validation, ensuring quality and usability across releases
  • Tools: Figma, Dovetail, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Power BI, Tableau, UserTesting, Maze.
  • Let’s discuss how I can support your next product or research project.
  • French

    Conversational

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Chinese

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Franco-Chinese Incubator Association (AIFC)
    Market & Product Research Analyst
    TECH
    August 2025 - September 2025 (1 month)
    Lyon, France
    Conducted bilingual market and user research (EN/FR/CN) for EU–China partnership projects.

    Produced strategic reports, sector mappings, and go-to-market recommendations for innovation programs.

    Coordinated cross-border stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment under tight deadlines.

    Delivered bilingual decks and briefings for high-level delegations and investor forums.
    User Research Market Research Agile Project Management
  • Outlier
    LLM Prompt Engineering & Evaluation Specialist
    TECH
    April 2025 - May 2025 (1 month)
    Lyon, France
    Designed multi-step prompts and reasoning traces in Chinese and English; framed hypotheses and test plans to compare model behaviors.

    Built scoring rubrics and acceptance criteria; selected “best-of” answers via structured evaluation to ensure consistency and auditability.

    Ran multi-round reviews (A/B and few-shot), logged failure patterns, and proposed prompt fixes and safeguards that reduced error rates across tasks.

    Partnered asynchronously with product-like workflows: ticketed issues, prioritized fixes, and reported insights that informed content policy and release quality.
    Prompt engineering rubric writing
  • self-employed
    Freelance – UX Research & Product Consultant
    TECH
    September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    Lyon, France
    Delivering English-speaking missions in UX research, QA validation, and product discovery for startups and SMEs.

    Conducting mixed-methods studies (interviews, surveys, usability tests) to guide MVP scope and product-market fit.

    Supporting PMs and founders on roadmap design, backlog refinement, and KPI definition.

    Deliver AI-assisted research and LLM evaluation: prompt design, rubric-based scoring, error taxonomy, and iteration plans that de-risk product bets before engineering time is spent.

    Tools: Figma, Dovetail, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Power BI, Tableau
    Microsoft Power BI Figma User Research Jira Trello

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Education

  • MBA (Bac+5)
    emlyon business school
    2021
    Stratégie digitale
  • Master (Bac+5)
    Université de Xiamen
    2016
    communication( sciences sociales)

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