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Berlin, Germany

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 hands-on work of a Product/Program Manager or Product Ops, on an interim/fractional basis (3+ months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes.

Berlin, Germany

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

- Product Roadmap Optimization: Collected and analyzed customer feedback from various channels to continuously refine and optimize the product roadmap.- User Experience Excellence: Partnered with Product Marketing and Go-to-Market teams to deliver top-tier experiences, presented product roadmap, and translated customer challenges into actionable features.- Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked closely with Sales, Marketing, and Engineering teams to integrate company strategy into product development.- Product Operations: Applied Product Ops philosophies in close cooperation with the Product Management, Marketing, and Customer support teams to streamline processes and improve outcomes.

London Area, United Kingdom

- MVP Planning: Led the discovery and development of a new dermatology mobile app in collaboration with a high-profile UK insurance partner.- Project Management: Executed the project timeline, ensuring on-time milestone delivery, meeting deadlines, managing frontend, backend, QA resources, and fostering cross-team communication and alignment.- Resource Planning: Identified project resources and built a cross-functional squad by onboarding external developers and designers.

Usa

- Metrics Development: Crafted a detailed metrics framework for the Enterprise Plan, applying the AARRR methodology and prioritized high-priority and secondary metrics.- Product Development and Process Enhancement: Conducted comprehensive interviews with internal stakeholders to compile an Organization Opportunity list, assessed and optimized existing product development processes, identifying and implementing improvements to enhance efficiency and product quality.- Roles & Responsibilities Framework: Developed and fine-tuned the RACI matrix and the product organizational chart, in close collaboration with team members.- User Research: Led a persona workshop to define end-user personas for the enterprise plan, crafted customer journey maps for diverse personas, and initiated surveys and interviews to deeply understand the problem space.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

- User Research: Conducted in-depth interviews and surveys with all personas.- Persona Identification and Journey Mapping: Conducted comprehensive workshops to identify all user personas and map their journeys within the application.- Design Sprint: Led a design sprint to establish the product vision, identify key pain points of the personas, brainstorm solutions, and prioritize them based on effort, user value, and business impact.- MVP Planning: Managed the creation of the MVP scope from the ground up, orchestrating collaboration among a diverse team comprising developers, psychologists, designers, researchers, content writers, and a compliance manager; Led the team to finalize the MVP within a 7-month timeframe, demonstrating effective leadership and project management skills.- User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Management: Directed the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process for multiple projects, ensuring that each met quality standards and user expectations before launch.- Workflow Optimization and Documentation: Implemented efficient workflows to boost team productivity and authored comprehensive documentation.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

- Roadmap Planning: Spearheaded the product development and roadmap strategy for Ratings and Reviews and Retail Media Ads initiatives, for both the website and mobile app by closely collaborating with design, engineering, and marketing teams.- Product Development and Process Enhancement: Led a strategic shift in the development methodology from Kanban to Scrum, successfully enhancing team efficiency, and project delivery timelines.- KPIs Development and Tracking: 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 within the team.

Zurich, Switzerland

- Product Discovery: Led the integration of continuous discovery into our product processes, establishing a product trio team, recruiting candidates for weekly interviews, engaging monthly calls with the customer advisory board, and preparing surveys; Developed Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) and ensured a user-centered product development cycle.- Agile Product Development: Managed Scrum events and crafted user stories and prototypes for a developer-facing SDK product, balancing the needs of both external and internal customers; Successfully initiated the transition from Scrum to Scrumban, enhancing our agile practices and optimizing the product development process.- OKR Development: Played a pivotal role in defining quarterly Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) for our team; Organized and facilitated workshops with the development team to align our goals with broader company objectives, and shared our OKRs with all stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and goal-oriented culture.- Roadmap Planning: Developed a comprehensive product roadmap by considering company and product outcomes, customer needs, technical constraints, required efforts, and market dynamics.- KPIs Development: Established a KPI Tree to effectively measure the impact of our team’s efforts and to visualize our contribution to the company’s overarching strategy. - Release Management: Orchestrated release management, defining release scopes and circulating beta versions to the customer advisory board for feedback; Prepared detailed release notes, ensuring transparency and communication with stakeholders about product updates and enhancements.

Zurich, Switzerland

- Community Management: Facilitated bi-weekly meet-ups for the product management community, creating a dynamic platform for the exchange of knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned; Developed a comprehensive checklist and workflow to foster community building across other disciplines, including development and design; Pioneered the creation of an educational program framework aimed at standardizing the knowledge base among product managers.- Roadmap Planning: Led the development of product roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives based on strategic importance and potential impact; Established KPIs and success metrics for each initiative, providing a clear and measurable path to achieving our objectives and ensuring alignment with overall business goals.

Geneva, Switzerland

- Product Development and Process Enhancement: Created a product management playbook tailored to WHO; Designed to guide the product team to align with stakeholders, refine the product vision & strategic initiatives, run agile events, and coordinate a release timeline.- Documentation Optimization: Built an organizational outline for product & tech documentation to scale across different initiatives.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Product Discovery: Conducted comprehensive user interviews with external and internal stakeholders, garnering crucial insights into their needs, pain points, and aspirations for the onboarding experience; Executed a detailed funnel analysis to pinpoint high drop-off points, leading to targeted improvements in these critical areas; Utilized the user story mapping framework to foster a unified understanding among stakeholders during the ideation phase and develop a seamless, self-service onboarding flow, aligning the team towards a shared vision. - MVP Planning: Innovated alternative user journey solutions for an automated onboarding flow; Collaborated closely with the designer to create the MVP design based on the user journeys, ensuring a user-friendly and efficient onboarding experience; Actively engaged with sales, operations, and customer success teams to communicate the MVP scope. Adapted the MVP based on their feedback, ensuring cross-departmental alignment and incorporating diverse perspectives for a more robust product outcome.

Ankara, Turkey

- Agile Product Development: Designed user stories and interactive mockups for new features; Conducted user testing interviews using these mockups to gather valuable feedback; Established a strong partnership with engineering teams throughout the agile development process, playing a key role in the seamless delivery of new features.- Release Management: Composed comprehensive internal and external release notes, performed feature testing in staging and production environments, and organized pre-release demos for support, sales, and marketing teams to detail the release scope.- Roadmap Planning: Assessed requests from customers, support, sales, and marketing teams, selecting those that aligned with our product vision; Integrated these selected requests into the roadmap; - Metric Analysis: Monitored weekly metrics, analyzing and identifying causes for any unexpected changes to maintain a strong understanding of our product's performance.- System Integration: Assisted the development team in integrating an open-source Ticketing System into our Remote Monitoring and Management application by selecting an appropriate solution, choosing launch features, and customizing features to fit our customer’s unique needs.

Manisa, Turkey

- Product Development: Managed the entire lifecycle of visual solutions products, overseeing stages from definition to launch, usage, and end of life, ensuring alignment with market demands. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Fostered collaborative relationships with sales, R&D, customer support, production, quality, procurement, marketing teams, international offices, and B2B customers for effective product roadmap execution.- Product Strategy & Planning: Conducted competitive analysis and monitored market trends to integrate essential market requirements into our product strategy.- Business Development: Actively contributed to business expansion by identifying new OEM customers and empowering the sales force through product demonstrations and comprehensive training.

Istanbul, Turkey

- Strategy & Planning: Orchestrated the development of annual investment and strategic plans, taking into account a variety of critical factors including coverage area, customer feedback, potential customer base, revenue, churn rates, and market share.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitated extensive collaboration with sales, finance, business, operations, regional teams, vendors, and even competitors to devise and implement investment plans for base stations.

Izmir, Turkey

Ankara, Turkey

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering And Technology Management, 3.43

Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 3.26

Activities and Societies: • Member of Ege University IEEE Society and Modern Dance Society

Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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