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

1. Launched Searchanise from zero to a stable, profitable service.
2. Launched the current product from zero sales to multiple thousand sales.
My first manager job was at a startup called Searchanise back in 2014. It's a search engine for online stores. I've joined the project at its earliest stages, wrote marketing materials, manually worked on user feedback, and worked closely with the development team. I've led the project up to the point of it becoming certified Shopify partner.

Then, I switched to technical writing for several years and went back to management in 2017, for the presidential elections 2018 web portal. It was such an awesome project! I've worked with amazing team and we created a great product together.

In early 2018, I was hired by my current employer, a US-based service for bookkeepers and tax preparers. I started as the sole product manager and project manager. When I joined the company, we had no sales or product that was ready to sell. Now, we have multiple thousand customers on board and the team has grown four times. We now have six product managers, each responsible for a particular product area. My areas include document sharing, email, secure messaging, and reporting. As the most experienced product manager, I also collaborate with all the other managers helping them with their areas.
I have three points I look on when evaluating an employer, ordered by priority from the most important to the least important:

1. Processes. I'm looking for a company that has established, human-facing processes. Think Basecamp with their Shapeup doctrine, this is perfect for me.

2. Money. I'm looking for a company with good pay and transparent salary increase algorithms. As a family man, I'm responsible for the financial security of my family, thus competitive salary is very important for me.

3. Usefulness. Ideally, I'd like to work for a company that does healthcare, education, agriculture, or something similarly useful to the humankind. I really want to do something to be proud of.