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Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Product People is the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. Our in-house staff helps you cover parental leaves, discover/deliver great products, and accelerate transformation by acting as bar-raising pacesetters. We empower our Product community of 50,000 members to share knowledge generously whilst managing the unglamorous.

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Switzerland

• Supported the alignment on a unified long-term product vision and mission by preparing workshops for the sessions with the leadership, fostering collaboration and setting the foundation for a product-led transformation.
• Introduced tools and frameworks to enhance product discovery and delivery practices, enabling teams to adopt continuous discovery habits, improve workflows, and focus on impactful prioritization and capacity planning.
• Helped establish a goal-setting framework by preparing workshop materials to guide leadership and teams in aligning objectives with measurable outcomes, creating a more strategic focus.
• Contributed to clarifying organizational structure and product roles, providing recommendations that enhanced accountability, reduced overlapping responsibilities, and streamlined decision-making across teams.

• Led the team of 8 engineers responsible for delivering a backend service for booking listings on the White Label platform, ensuring premium intermediary products were accurately applied to listings, resulting in.
• Directed and aligned the QA testing process across 4 different teams to maintain high-quality service delivery by ensuring optimal listing prioritization and correct front-end booking displays on Search Pages.
• Gathered and documented requirements to build reporting capabilities for a flagship visibility product, addressing gaps in product performance reporting to prevent customer churn and enhance client satisfaction.

Berlin, Germany

• Led the business logics harmonization initiative for 12+ features on 5 platforms across 3 countries with a projected revenue increase of 10% across all Aviv brands by 2025 by harmonizing the product suite to be built.
• Effectively managed dependencies and facilitated collaboration between 16+ cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and transparency throughout the White Label Program.
• Led the discovery for a new Flagship Commercial Product with the aim of enhancing agent visibility and upselling opportunities, supported by a comprehensive business case and competitive benchmarking.

• Supported the transition of Awin’s payment model from post-payments to pre-payments, with the goal of reducing the click-to-coin time and enabling faster payouts to Publishers.
• Supported the integration of a third-party payment provider into existing systems, ensuring a scalable, automated, and transparent payment solution.
• Supported the migration of users to a new platform post-M&A, ensuring a seamless transition while maintaining operational integrity and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (i.e. Finance, Credit Control, Accounts Receivable, Tracking, CRM) to design and implement self-service payment functionalities, giving advertisers full control over their.

Berlin, Germany

• Led the discovery and integration of a translation tool, and coordinated with third-party providers to enhance cross-departmental efficiency, reducing handling times and FTE requirements, resulting in saving hundreds.
• Conducted user research, identifying critical translation needs and gathering essential requirements to inform the selection of technology solutions.
• Developed a detailed business case for potential cost savings, effectively demonstrating the financial benefits and scalability of implementing translation tools.
• Evaluated and selected 3rd party translation tool providers, consolidating findings into strategic recommendations that aligned with organizational goals and stakeholder expectations.

England, United Kingdom

• Led the strategic planning & development efforts for two pediatric healthcare apps aimed at reducing patient anxiety and providing robust support to families throughout their clinical trial journey,
• Collaborated with experts in engineering, psychology, and regulatory compliance to craft user-centric digital solutions that adhere to regulations while enhancing patient engagement and improving the clinical trial.
• Led the User Acceptance Testing phase and coordinated with cross-functional teams to prioritize bug fixes, ensuring a seamless user experience within the app,
• Partnered with various cross-functional teams including design, content, engineering, and customer success to plan the launch of the app on both the App Store and Google Play Store,
• Initiated the creation and implementation of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the initiatives to enable data-driven decision-making and performance monitoring, fostering continuous improvement and goal alignment.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Led the project management efforts of the Go-To-Market stream for an industry-wide blockchain asset management platform, ensuring successful product launch and market adoption.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define the roadmap, deliverables, and milestones providing a clear direction and timeline for the deployment of the blockchain product.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Created compelling business proposals, contributing to successful client acquisitions and business growth.

I was responsible for developing visual identities for brands through the iterative Design Thinking process of empathizing, exploring, defining, designing, and testing. ​I also worked on the web & app design from the perspective of developing key visuals, gathering requirements, creating design systems, creating wireframes & high-fidelity mockups, as well.

Wroclaw, Poland

My main responsibilities included copywriting, as well as creating content for social media channels and websites for various clients. During my job I was also conducting meetings with the clients, moderating brands' social media channels and coordinating all the marketing-related activities.

Wroclaw, Poland

During my internship I had multiple responsibilities across various agency departments. I was responsible, among other things, for copywriting (for websites, social media, print materials, presentations), idea generation, content creation, naming, and research.

Master'S Degree, Media & Business

Highlighted projects: - Hey Siri, who are you? Evaluation of Siri's Underlying Algorithms - Image Recognition Challenge: Training the.

International Exchange, Communication And Media Studies, A

Activities and Societies: Global Ambassadors Program Member- Innovation & Design Thinking - 4D Art (Animation & Video Editing) - Photography

Bachelor'S Degree, Visual Communications Management, Spec. Branding

- Project Management - Design Thinking - Branding - Responsive Web Design - Brand Management - Media Planning - Brand Strategy.