Position: IT Product Manager / Product Owner
Category: Product Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6

- More than 6 years of project and product management experience in EU and USA based companies
- Successfully managing projects for international clients, both small startups and companies like Philips, Lufthansa and English first
- In the busiest times successfully managing around 16 projects simultaneously (30+) people
- Experience in founding a tech startup in Austria myself
- Business Management degree with distinction achieved in top EU business school
Dear Hiring Team,

I am a Business and Technology enthusiast, specializing in Software Project and Product Management with solid experience in leading international software projects of startups (from the USA and European Union) as well as big companies (Philips, Lufthansa, and English First) through their full development life cycle. 

I have experienced product management not only on the development side but also as a client while I was building a FinTech startup in Austria where I was mentored by the founder of a major US startup – last.fm and was working with partners like BNP Paribas and SpeedInvest Studio. As a Product Manager, I was responsible for the product specifications and roadmap, as well as for leading the software team in the development of the first MVP and several subsequent releases, which brought us 150k EUR in funding.

I also deepened my Project and Product Management skills while leading IT projects through their full life cycle in Polish software agencies – 4Soft (Wroclaw) and Ideamotive (Warsaw), as well as in the biggest virtual software agency in the world – Scopic Software (US-based) and top software outsource players like Data Art.  Using Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall methodologies I successfully delivered Web, Desktop, and Mobile projects of different kinds (video chats, speech recognition, conversational AI, social networks, educational platforms, 2d/3d modeling, etc.).

In addition to successfully delivering software on time and within budget, I also helped my clients to deliver products of value (to the end-user) by conducting the product discovery (user interviews, market research, usability, and A/B testing) and then creating a product backlog + roadmap based on the research data. 

The principles of continuous improvement, that Agile was founded on, I use not only in my professional life but also personally. I am on the path of constantly getting better at the things I do while learning as quickly as possible. I am passionate about empowering my team to produce their best work and I achieve that by applying excellent communication skills, being a servant leader, and always focusing on finding solutions to any challenges on the way.

Sincerely yours,
Andrii Pidstrela
- International clients (USA, Western Europe etc.)
- Challenging projects (new technologies etc.)
- The organization that is focused on continuous improvement of its employees