Product manager

● Manage the Product Roadmap and Backlog and work on sprint planning
● Act as a Project Manager, Process Manager and Scrum Master
● Work closely with the architects and developers to design and build a solution
according to customer requirements
● Manage the full backlog for core backend, API, frontend and testing the application
end to end
● Lead the estimation and prioritization process
● Successfully work with all the stakeholders involved, internal and third parties
● Work within a global team and manage multiple projects concurrently

Key learnings:  Lean, multicultural environment, B2B, Startup, API, microservices.

● Successfully conduct functional and technical workshops to understand customer
requirements, business processes and the overall landscape
● Act as a liaison between the customer and various teams to realize the customer
requirements during project execution
● Manage the Product Backlog and work on sprint planning
● Work closely with the architects and developers to design and build a solution
according to customer requirements
● Lead the estimation process and successfully work with all the stakeholders involved
● Work within a global team and successfully manage multiple projects concurrently

Key learnings: TFS, CI/CD, BDD, Gherkin, Scrum, working with a complex architecture and both
internal and external partners, multicultural environment, microservices.

● Manage the online money transfer product strategy and road-maps including
prioritization and tradeoffs among features, user experience and performance.
● Research competition, industry trends and technological trends.
● Perform analysis of customer requirements versus potential solutions to identify
potential gaps.
● Define product releasing plan for new products or enhancements.
● Led the development of the product with development teams.
● Give presentations, demos and familiarization sessions to internal teams.
● Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders; facilitate
communication

Key learnings: Product development, UX and UI, stakeholder management, project management, BE
and FE, user interviews & testing, competitive analysis, Scrum, Kanban, Jira,
Confluence, Google Analytics, multicultural environment, web-based products, UAT.

● Responsible for new online payment solution. Responsibilities include market needs
analysis, business requirements, acceptance testing, product planning and
roadmap, positioning and messaging and product launch planning and execution.
● Partnered with development teams and project managers on scheduled releases to
understand requirements and test before set in production.
● Prioritize issues.
● Ensured effective reporting, communication and engagement throughout project life
cycle to internal stakeholders, Executive Leadership Team, project Sponsors,
project work streams and across the Business.
● Managed the integration of third party applications with online lending platform
(NETOPIA PSP).
● Collaborate with Digital Marketing to design and implement marketing campaigns to
drive customer adoption and engagement in digital lending channel.

Key learnings: Waterfall, MVP, Digital, E-commerce, UX and UI, business and technical requirements,
integrations, PSP, communication with the software developers, B2B2C, multicultural
environment.

● Analyze current customer database and propose a new product scheme depending
on the transactional behavior and competition’s offer.
● Planning and developing the commercial initiatives for growing and retention of the
customer portfolio and providing product training and support materials for the
sales force.
● Process improvements and requirements for a new application that allows loan
requests introduction and analysis.
● During the time spent on this job, I had responsibilities in the product
management area:
- managing and developing a portfolio of products during their whole life-cycle
- developing business cases
- monitoring market trends
- writing business requirements for the new products/features developments
● I was also responsible for all the marketing activities in the company, together with
the Head of Marketing and Product Development, as planning and managing
marketing strategy and budget, planning and delivering the advertising materials,
develop, implement and monitor specific campaigns.

● Manage new consumer loan products and enhancements to existing ones.
● Define voice of the customer and business requirements.
● Leverage cross functional teams to design, build and test new product capabilities.
Assist with user acceptance test plans, scripts and testing.
● Lead cross functional work teams tied to multiple concurrent product development
projects: IT, Operations, Customer Service, Approval Department, Sales, Product
Management, Finance and Accounting, Legal and Compliance.
● Coordinate with Marketing Manager to define marketing material content and client
communication needs.
● Directly involved in no. 50/2010 emergency government ordinance technical and
business implementation.

Accounting, Audit and Expertise

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