Position: Product manager
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Years of experience: 2.5

With the most recent product I was to kick off with a brand new team and almost immediately needed to launch a new big functionality from scratch, meaning we had to go through the whole path from understanding business perspectives, gathering the requirements, evaluating risks, etc. to design and development. In the meantime I was also to decide other bug fixes and improvements that we needed to squeeze into our backlog, so that both internal and external customers were happy with the outcomes, and the company is moving towards its business goals. In the meantime I had to cope with the onboarding process, people management and extreme lack of resources and data available.
The product that I worked previously was not the top priority one, still I managed to handle it's reorganization, movement to another platform, discovering new points of growth, so that the stagnating product started growing. I was involved on all stages, including close cooperation with datacenter operations, restocking, pricing strategy updates, SEO and PPC optimization, Marketing strategy update.
Have an experience of working in the established company (Namechep Inc., Hosting Product) and a startup (SanityDesk Inc., Marketing tool for small businesses). In-between worked as a business analyst to widen my skillset.
My duties and responsibilities were:
- understanding and monitoring and analysis of the market trends, drivers and competitors relative to where the Company is positioned; 
- continuous customer development, customer persona creation;
- leading a cross-functional team that included designer, engineers and data scientist;
- assisting in driving components of the product lifecycle from concept to phasing out of product(s);
- analysis of product pain points and improvements; 
- defining features through acceptance criteria and how features will behave as well as the business logic surrounding them; 
- development of documentation that supports the approval, design, development and launch of the product in tandem with stakeholders; 
- cooperation with a variety of internal stakeholders (UX, Design, Marketing, SEO, PPC, Technical and Customer support, Developers Team, other Product divisions), describing issues and product aspirations, elicitation and refining of requirements;  
- coordination of operational product activities/projects; 
- creation of different product-related reports

Being passionate about the result I deliver, I am always goal and detail oriented, have skills in customer relationship, product management, strong understanding of business analysis basics. I believe that any decision regardless of the task should be data-driven.

Since I was the connecting link between different departments including developers, designers, marketing specialists, technical support, I was to communicate the goals and ideas, to make them clear for all the stakeholders, validate the results and initiate following actions I developed strong soft skills such as communication, problem solving, adaptability, decision making.

Previously as a Product Manager I also was responsible for the hardware part to be ordered and utilized in time to minimize losses.