--- title: Meet Victor, Product Manager at Syroco description: "Meet Victor Grosjean, Syroco’s Product Manager: engineer and offshore sailor building a routing tool captains trust, with one route and the reasons why." image: https://syro.co/hubfs/Fond%20image%20plein%20%C3%A9cran-3.png --- [Skip to content](https://syro.co/news/meet-victor-product-manager-at-syroco#main-content) [![logo\_syroco\_transparent-1](https://syro.co/hs-fs/hubfs/logo_syroco_transparent-1.png?width=150&height=33&name=logo_syroco_transparent-1.png)Homepage](https://syro.co) - PLATFORM - [Syroco Live](https://syro.co/syroco-live) - [Technology](https://syro.co/technology) - [Syroco Onwatch](https://syro.co/syroco-onwatch) - WHY SYROCO - [Benefits](https://syro.co/benefits) - [Results](https://syro.co/results) - WHO IT'S FOR - [Executives](https://syro.co/executives) - [Fleet managers & Ops](https://syro.co/fleet-managers-ops) - [Captains](https://syro.co/captains) - [NEWS](https://syro.co/news) - [COMPANY](https://syro.co/company) [BOOK A DEMO](https://syro.co/demo) - PLATFORM - [Syroco Live](https://syro.co/syroco-live) - [Technology](https://syro.co/technology) - [Syroco Onwatch](https://syro.co/syroco-onwatch) - WHY SYROCO - [Benefits](https://syro.co/benefits) - [Results](https://syro.co/results) - WHO IT'S FOR - [Executives](https://syro.co/executives) - [Fleet managers & Ops](https://syro.co/fleet-managers-ops) - [Captains](https://syro.co/captains) - [NEWS](https://syro.co/news) - [COMPANY](https://syro.co/company) [BOOK A DEMO](https://syro.co/demo) ![](https://syro.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Fond%20image%20plein%20%C3%A9cran-3.png?width=2048&height=1536&name=Fond%20image%20plein%20%C3%A9cran-3.png) # Meet Victor, Product Manager at Syroco ![Syroco](https://7528315.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/7528315/hubfs/raw_assets/public/mV0_d-cms-elevate-theme_hubspot/elevate/images/avatar-placeholder.jpg?width=48&height=48&name=avatar-placeholder.jpg) Syroco November 12, 2026 From military vehicles built for special forces to the routing tool captains use at sea, Victor Grosjean, engineer and lifelong sailor, has always worked for demanding users. Victor trained as an engineer at HEI in Lille. He spent three years in the automotive industry, where he gradually moved from mechanical work to electronics, learning largely on the job from experts in the field. He then joined the defence sector for four years, working on 4x4 military vehicles for special forces, from electrical integration to prototyping the wiring by hand. Those users taught him a lesson he still applies. A vehicle could meet every line of the specification and still be turned down. *“You can deliver a product that ticks every box in the specification. But if the user doesn’t feel safe in it, he won’t use it.”* So he talked with them, and adapted the vehicle and its electronic interfaces until it worked for them. Without knowing it, he was already doing a product manager’s job. His title at the time was electronics project lead. Captains are no different, he says: the best routing application in the world ends up ignored if they cannot use it. His prototyping experience brought him to Syroco as an electronics engineer on the sailing speed record project. He then helped build[Syroco Live](https://syro.co/syroco-live) with a small team, in a short time, around the needs of its first users: captains. He became Product Manager in March 2023. **What drives him?** Seeing the product used for real at sea. Syroco has already helped captains navigate between cyclones and keep their crews safe. For Victor, the aim is simple: help captains take the best decision for the owner and the crew, give operators the peace of mind that their vessels will arrive on time.   Sustainability matters to him too. Every tonne of fuel saved is CO₂ that is never emitted, and a faster voyage can even mean one fewer vessel needed to carry the same cargo. Victor has two children. They are the ones who will live with the choices shipping makes today The job also echoes his racing. As an offshore navigator, he analyses the weather to decide where to go, when, and how to finish first. At Syroco, the question becomes how to save fuel. Many captains are sailors too, which makes the conversation easier. **What matters most?** A tool captains will trust and use. As a navigator, Victor knows the problem from the other side of the screen. Routing software would offer him dozens of routes and a long list of weather models, with no clear answer. He would pick one and hope. At Syroco, the mission is the opposite: one route, and the reasons to trust it. He is careful not to design for himself, though. He is not the user, the captain is. Some captains analyse the weather in detail and will challenge the route. Others want only what they need to trust it, and then follow it. Rather than a compromise that suits nobody, the product serves both: simple by default, with expert features for those who know where to look. Every piece of captain feedback, whether it comes by email, through a satisfaction survey or via[Syroco Onwatch](https://syro.co/syroco-onwatch), is logged and reviewed by the product team. When a topic is picked up, the team goes back to the captains who raised it. Not every request becomes a feature, and that is a deliberate choice: the right feature in the right place, so the route stays easy to read for every captain. The same thinking applies to AI. For Victor, it does not replace the captain. It gives captains new ways to analyse the data, while the decision stays with them. **And beyond work?** Victor has sailed every summer since the age of five. 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