Position: Product manager
Category: Other
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 4

- TEDx UCU - fall 2019 speaker
- Woman of Ukraine, 2019 in category Business. Startup
- led the team of 6 and 150 volunteers within an NGO
- managed 100 volunteers at iForum
- organized over 60 events (10-50 participants)
- led soft skills training (80 hours), delivered over 60 public speeches
- 6 years of founder experience
- 4.5 years of work with IT projects
- building a VR/AR start-up from scratch as a co-founder
- ~1 year in IT projects management

Within the start-up:
Product:
- customer development – reached out and interviewed ~100 potential customers
- defined an MVP together with the team
- created content for product presentations (sales pitches, sales emails, investors pitches)
- managed site creation and  worked with media to create promotional articles
- collected feedback from existing customers to tailor the product

Business Development:
- presented team, product and use cases at pitch competitions, meetups and conferences over 30 times (won CDRF global grant, won participation in Estonian startup acceleration program)
- organized the company presence and took part in 7 international exhibitions (WebSummit, Slush, Mobile Beach Conference, Pioneers, Latitude59, CEE AllStars, The Wearable London)
- negotiated partnership deals with 10+ resellers
- searched for, negotiated discounts, and organized work with subcontractors – architects, designers, lawyers
- did sales and structured sales process
- investors lead generation and 1st meetings
- negotiations with the angel investor (Convertible Note)
- created a financial forecast for sales & marketing
- mentors management – finding and maintaining relations with mentors
- investigating the US market opportunities and defining the going to market strategy
- testing lead generation channels
- networking with potential clients, partners, other start-up founders, accelerators, mentors

Hiring:
- recruited marketers, designers, lawyers to the team
- structured terms of probation periods for employees

As a Project manager:
- Interviewed clients to define services vision, roadmaps, and requirements
- Created user stories, led the planning process
- Managed 9 projects (2-6 people teams)
- Created usability mockups
- Knowledge transfer
- Inspiring product
- Friendly co-workers
- Possibility to be mentored/learning opportunities
- Enough freedom to experiment, take a risk and make decisions