Purpose-driven Product Manager with 3+ years of experience in data-driven product development and delivery in a fast-moving environment, worked on products with millions of monthly active users and saved companies more than 200k EUR monthly.
Passionate about opportunities to deliver impactful projects and develop as a professional together with a growing team.
Skills:
Data-driven Decision Making and Analytics
Strategy & Roadmap
Global Initiatives
Product Life Cycle
Product Discovery & Delivery
User Experience Focus
Stakeholder Management
Communication Skills
Agile Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Product Manager at Gostudent
(EdTech startup, an international marketplace for matching tutors and students & providing education services, >100k MAU) 01/2022 to present
Product Life Cycle Management
Improved target metrics (user activation) by 27% (35% higher than the target OKR number) by leading end-to-end product life cycle: analysing users’ pain points through qualitative and quantitative user research, driving experiments, launching the optimisation features, measuring after-launch adoption rate
Global Initiatives
Reduced manual work time of the Support team by 3.6 FTEs/month by identifying and prioritising opportunities to optimise their processes, translating requirements into technical implementation and rolling them out for all markets (EU, UK, LATAM, North America)
Saved 2.5m EUR per year by replacing SMS with the web app notification system (backend services for the whole web app and frontend notifications for the user side of the web app), collaborating with multiple Product, CS, Sales, Marketing teams
Communication & Collaboration
Reached an average personal NPS of 86 (e.g. Google’s NPS Company Score = 58), collected from the cross-functional team I’ve been leading (UX Researcher, Product Analyst, Designer, Copywriter, Translation team, and Engineering team), and also various stakeholders (Sales, CS, Marketing, Tutor Enablement team)
Leadership Skills
Mentored PM Intern, that received a promotion to Junior PM in 6 months
Product Manager at OLX Group
(E-commerce/C2C, an international marketplace for buyers and sellers to exchange goods and services, >100m MAU) 07/2021 to 01/2022 (6-month limited contract)
Product Strategy, Roadmap and Delivery
Generated a monthly revenue uplift of 160k USD (20% of the total monthly revenue of the category of the market), by identifying the biggest revenue-impacted category and point in a paid activation funnel, building the middle-term roadmap and OKRs based on the analysis and data forecasting, validated improvements with user research, built MVPs and launched AB tests
Stakeholder Management
Saved the company ~6 months of 1 development team capacity by researching the initiative of unifying cross-brand location platforms (involving OLX Autos, Otomoto, and OLX Real Estate), collaborating with more than 20 stakeholders, identifying no need in that and presenting findings to the management
Jr Product Manager at Tenera
(B2B, ConTech, web app/platform for connecting and managing construction projects Project Managers and Contractors) 11/2020 to 06/2021
Product Launch and Development
Brought >50k EUR to the company by redesigning the Contractors page based on customer feedback and market analysis, which attracted the first big paying client (construction company) and the deal on the new co-creation project has been closed
User Focus
Decreased the total number of bugs by 70% (X2 of the target OKR number), which optimised the stability of the platform and increased customer satisfaction (from 30 to 64)
Processes Optimisation
Introduced new internal processes (analytics dashboards, prioritisation sessions, bugs and feature requests processes) that helped establish the product discovery and prioritisation processes
Product Owner/IT Project Manager at eNote
(SaaS, B2C, a mobile app providing AI-built digital musical sheets) 01/2020 to 10/2020
Agile Project Management
Scrum Master for up to 3 teams, including the HR department and external freelancers.
Other
Certifications
ICF ACTP/Level II - the world’s biggest and most recognised coaching certification
Languages
English (fluent), German (intermediate), Russian (native)
Projects
Proactively initiated and still leading the first “GoStudent Women in Tech” employee resource group, established monthly events with a 40% average participate rate (2022-present)
My Education
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Bachelor of Science. International Business Administration