Position: Product manager
Category: Product Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 7

I have built a team of 50 people and opened almost 60 locations from scratch. We started as 3 dreamers and know our company enrolls several thousands of students a year.

I have piloted a first Scratch-only competition for kids in 2019 and it gathered more than 1000 participants from all over Ukraine.

When I was engaged in marketing department of a business school we have been twice awarded as a “Best business school in Ukraine”.

I devote a lot of time to learning – I mostly read articles and watch online courses, but as well I studied in a number of business schools across the world: Adizes Institute, USA; Richard Ivey School of Business, Canada; BS of National University of Singapore; EMLyon BS, China; MIM-Kiev (Pre-MBA program).
In 2017 I became a finalist of IT education Awards (IT education nomination). 
In 2018 I was a speaker at iForum conference (Education/Future/Innovations section).
I'm an accomplished, insightful and result-oriented specialist in Project & Marketing Management with experience in different industries (IT and business education, startups, FMCG).

I'm now a COO of an NGO that runs one of the largest projects in IT education in UA. I am its co-founder and have been developing it for 4 years already. It started with only 3 people and a big idea and today I'm managing a 50 people team across all Ukraine. I'm responsible for strategic and operations management, business processes development, budgeting and communications. 

Previously I was engaged as a Strategic Planning Director for international advertising agency and was responsible for developing marketing strategies for existing and new products/services, market and customer research.

As well, I have experience of working as a Product Marketing Manager in an edtech startup - me and my friends launched a fully operational LMS that attracted almost 10 000 monthly active users with minimal advertising budget (unfortunately, it didn't become successful).

Before that I was working in one of the leading UA business schools on a number of marketing and project management positions. 

Product management is a desirable and deliberate (not a desperate :) career move for me. My professional experience and interests lie in spheres of marketing and management, but working in non-tech industries doesn’t drive me anymore. Startups, IT products and tech always caught my attention and I’m an early adopter of different tech solutions. Moreover, I am familiar with a role of PdM, despite my previous positions had other names. Being a PdM is an art of balance between tech, business development and design. It’s about knowing your product, users, market and constantly making decisions that would make your product better and your customers and stakeholders happier. One literally becomes a mini-CEO which is both challenging and inspiring for me.
I'm open to new challenges and that what drives and motivates me. I'm looking forward to working on a meaningful project that can have a real impact on the industry.