Position: Product manager / Product Owner / Lead Business Analyst
Category: Product Manager
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

- Improved the performance of a product in production without losing its usability via revisiting user needs and experience while using the most loaded pages.

- Managed the creation of a product that was sold to two clients even before the development was finished. Led the MVP scoping and defining the roadmap, supported the team during the development, and presented the product to potential clients.

- Grew up a team of 6 professionals from Intern/Junior level to Senior/Lead. Managed teams of business analysts as well as cross-functional development teams.

- 'Sell' the first education service to a commercial client (created pricing model, prepared a pitch, negotiated with the client, and led communication with internal finance and legal departments in order to create new processes and documents to organize everything properly).

- Launched and lead an internal business transformation initiative, managed to walk the team through a storming period, and left the team when it started performing and all the processes were set up.

- Created frameworks and launched new business analysis services related to solutions ideation and consultancy.

- Started a new service line (conducted market research, defined a business model, justified the idea, developed an implementation roadmap, and lead the implementation).
Last 1.5 years I have been combining Product Manager and Project Manager roles.
As a Product Manager was involved in development of 3 products (two in parallel in pre-launch stage and one in production):
- Defined needed features based on previous market research, expert judgments, feedback from potential and existing clients, and product data.
- Outlined products' visions and scopes, and prepared roadmaps, align development plans with related products plans.
- Created detailed backlogs, wrote user stories, and supervised development teams.
- Processed users' requests and analyzed product data.

Played a Project Manager role for 3 teams (up to 9 developers):
- Took part in the hiring process and composed the team.
- Facilitated project meetings and organized the team's internal and external collaboration.
- Conducted 1 on 1 meetings, discussed career paths, and resolved conflicts.
- Took part in business development activities.

Previously for 2.5 years was managing a Center of Excellence team (6 people) and was responsible for business analysis services: 
- developing new (from an initial idea framing, justification, and PoC till rolling out),
- providing,
- and scaling (including frameworks development, expert network training, and quality control).
Also, in parallel, led an internal business transformation initiative aimed to optimize all processes that serve an employee from hire to retire:
- Started the project: defined main goals, needs, and priorities.
- Gathered a team of professional business process analysts.
- Defined the project approach and framework and supervised the team's work.
 
Before that for over 9 years was working as a business analyst mostly playing a proxy product owner role on different projects. Was responsible for:
- communicating with product owners, requirements elicitation;
- creating product vision, scope and roadmap, defining design options;
- requirements analysis and specification: user stories and acceptance criteria writing, UML-modeling;
- collaboration with the project team: requirements communication, meetings' facilitation, and supporting team members during software development.
I WANT to have
Challenging tasks related to Consultancy, Product Management, Service Management, and Team leadership.
Bold initiatives that no one believes to be possible )).
Friendly working environment.