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Istanbul, Turkey

Paraşüt is Turkey's market leader B2B SaaS product in the field of pre-accounting for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). As of January 2024, there are over 70,000 active users. Paraşüt provides many services to support businesses to be managed more efficiently, such as invoicing, payments, bank integration, stock management (inventory), reporting, tracking income and expenses, and bid management. Paraşüt was featured in The Fintech 250 report published by CB Insights in 2017. Teamsystem acquired a 53% stake in Mikrogrup, the parent company of Paraşüt in 2023.My responsibilities:- Continuous planning and execution throughout the ongoing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Ensuring adaptability and responsiveness to evolving project requirements.- Utilizing the Scrum methodology to break down large projects into manageable, iterative phases. Ensuring agile execution and delivering results in a strategic, phased manner. Creating PRDs utilizing the Jobs-to-be-Done framework in Confluence.- Actively applying a user-centric approach, I collect and analyze user feedback, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data from NPS, user interviews, support, and sales teams to continuously refine product strategies and backlog.- Defining and monitoring KPIs using MixPanel, GTM, and SmartLook. Employing advanced analytics to gain real-time insights into user behavior for optimizing overall product performance.- Expanding the product portfolio and boosting market share through the formation of strategic alliances with key business partners.- Continuous managing product backlog to manage development efforts efficiently in Jira.- Being data-driven in all decisions.

İstanbul, Türkiye

PROYS is a PMIS for large enterprises in construction. It is used in several projects across three countries as of January 2024. PROYS digitalizes construction project management workflows, offering features like project progress tracking, employee and machine management, efficiency monitoring, subcontractor tracking, reporting, and stakeholder collaboration. PROYS includes three applications: - Field is a mobile app that allows field personnel (foremen and engineers) to provide data about production and resource usage via digital forms. - Panel is a web app that allows the personnel of PMO to manage data such as planning, progress, personnel, equipment, timecards, etc. - Reports is a web app that allows graphs like realized-planned progress, resource unit cost, etc. for the managers of the project and headquarters. PROYS software I worked on for 4 years taught me how to do an idea from scratch until it becomes a product that has space in the market. We developed MVP, Version 1, and Version 2 in 4 years. Key Responsibilities as Product Manager:- Launching the product from 0 to 1 and scaling it.- Preparing user stories and API Designs with strong acceptance criteria for mobile and web applications and transferring them to the technology team.- Specifying and improving go-to-market strategy, product roadmap, competitive strategy, and business model.- Creating, managing, and monitoring the team's work plans and backlogs in Jira using Scrum.- Continuously monitoring market needs and competitor products to develop new features for the product.- Creating multiple funnels to analyze user behavior and enhance both retention and conversion rates with MixPanel.- Creating prototypes in Figma and testing with real users (Also A/B testing) to evaluate their feedback.

Non-profit organization 3IK organizes various events to bring together successful university students and professionals. Apart from executing all visual media processes of the events, I also supported the operation. The greatest benefit for me has been significantly expanding my network.

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Co-coordinator of Sanalborsam 2016Co-coordinator of GOBI Organization Committee