Elena Leonova 🇺🇦 Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

As the leader of the global Product Organization at Spryker, I am currently focused on driving innovation and success across our product portfolio. With a dedicated team of over 35 professionals spanning Product Management, Product Design, and Product Documentation, we are poised to make a significant impact in the industry.At Spryker, my role encompasses leading the Product Vision and Strategy for our entire product portfolio, which includes the cutting-edge Spryker Cloud Commerce OS, B2B & B2C capabilities, Enterprise Marketplace functionality, and the App Composition Platform. By spearheading these strategic initiatives, we are shaping the future of commerce and empowering businesses to thrive in the digital landscape.To ensure we consistently meet and exceed customer and partner expectations, I prioritize a customer and partner-centric approach. By deeply understanding their needs and desires, we can tailor our solutions to deliver exceptional value and drive their success.In collaboration with industry-leading analysts from Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and B2B Paradigm, I actively engage in raising awareness of the Spryker Product Vision and Strategy. By working closely with these influential voices, we can position ourselves at the forefront of the industry and deliver best-in-class solutions.As part of my commitment to sharing knowledge and insights, I frequently present and speak at Spryker's customer and partner conferences, including the highly anticipated Spryker Excite event. These opportunities allow me to connect with our valued customers and partners, showcase our latest innovations, and foster meaningful collaborations.I am passionate about driving growth, fostering innovation, and shaping the future of commerce at Spryker. If you're interested in learning more about our visionary approach and how it can transform your business, let's connect and explore the possibilities together.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

United States

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Co-founded OneRank with the goal to solve continuous roadmap planning and prioritization challenges that happen in most technology companies and take a lot of time and effort from everybody involved.​At OneRank, we believe that product development teams' should channel all their energy into creative problem-solving. Product roadmap prioritization, planning, and tracking must be done with just a few clicks of the button.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

- Successfully managed a geographically distributed product management team across Austin, TX, San Francisco, and Kiev, Ukraine, fostering collaboration and ensuring effective execution of product strategies.- Facilitated the establishment of a development office in Kyiv, Ukraine, recruiting and onboarding over 20 talented individuals from the very beginning, significantly expanding the company's development capabilities.- Developed a comprehensive strategy to bring BigCommerce offerings to the Mid-Market segment, focusing on multi-store, multi-inventory, and multi-language initiatives. This expansion allowed us to tap into new market opportunities and cater to a broader range of customers.- Led initiatives to enhance the developer experience for BigCommerce, spearheading the implementation of Channel SDK, GraphQL APIs, and an API-first strategy. These initiatives improved developer productivity, flexibility, and integration capabilities.- Played an active role in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities, contributing to the acquisition of Feedonomics, which complemented BigCommerce's omni-channel offering and expanded its capabilities in serving merchants across various channels.- Engaged with industry analysts from Gartner, Forrester, and other prominent firms to stay abreast of e-commerce trends, leveraging their insights to inform our product strategies and ensure alignment with market demands.I also had the privilege of sharing my product vision, strategy, and roadmap with partners and customers through public speaking engagements. Additionally, I actively collaborated with industry analysts to remain at the forefront of e-commerce trends and advancements.

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

Leading product management team for Magento 2.x - the new generation of Magento e-commerce platform. Responsible and highly involved in the entire product development lifecycle, including: defining the product vision/strategy and the product roadmaps and tactical plans, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements/feedback, release(s) planning and preparation, Agile/Scrum product development, go-to-market initiatives from managing pre-released product stages to public release announcements.

Ukraine

Successfully built and managed the world class product management team, empowering them to create product roadmap and manage Agile/Scrum product delivery for Magento 2.0 - the new generation of Magento e-commerce platform, that enables innovations and unlimited flexibility for online retailers and shoppers.• Building and Leading Product Management Team: Successfully built the product management team fromthe beginning, including hiring the top talents, coaching and mentoring product managers to become world-class experts in product management, eCommerce, software development, community development etc. Established product management processes and practice within the company.• Building and Launching Products: Proactively collaborated with Magento ecosystem (partners, merchants, independent developers) by engaging them providing an early feedback, inputs as well as feature contributions and innovative ideas into the early stages of product development, that resulted in having thought-leaders among PHP and Magento community before the official product release.• Empowering Agile/Scrum environment: Established the close relationships between product, architecture, development, QA teams as well as customer success and product marketing teams, that resulted in creating the product roadmap and tactical requirements with the balanced business/ customer needs, technology trends and requirements, aligned with the product strategy and vision. It guaranteed the product success on the market with the merchants as well as development ecosystem.• Public Speaking: Presented Magento platform and participated in panel discussions at Magento and other eCommerce conferences across the world (US, UK, Denmark, Australia, Ukraine etc), as well as delivered product presentations online/offline for the new product launches and important product/company, that promoted a product across the audience.

Kiev, Ukraine

- Drive technical product strategy and execution for web-based software from product roadmap to requirements to released products as part of the product management team.- Develop product requirements that capture and balance business needs, customer needs and technological capabilities to create world class eCommerce applications.- Collect and analyze market data to create product roadmaps, business and functional requirements and technical specifications. The process will include significant interactions with partners, customers, and external developers.- Manage and deliver product requirements and functional specifications (PRDs).- Work closely with architecture, development and QA teams in providing technical direction along with detailed specifications designed to address various functional and operational aspects of Magento products.- Seek out to anticipate and mitigate interdependencies, bottlenecks and risks.- Provide clear best direction and prioritization of projects and tasks to development teams.- Communicate product status, key issues and launch plans to key constituents across the organization including product management as well as engineering, design and user-experience, sales, marketing and PR, editorial and customer support teams- Provide the voice of the customer for the developer and integration partner communities.- Maintain competitive product analysis in specific functional areas. Keep an open channel for news and information related to our business, our industry, new opportunities and new technologies relevant to the business. Communicate effectively on recommendation or changes needed for our product within the specific functional area.- Interact with our partners and affiliates to collect, analyze and incorporate feedback.- Coordinate the execution and delivery of features and capabilities through close collaboration with engineering teams using Agile methodologies.

Kiev, Ukraine

Preparing course materials under the supervision of a lecturer.Carrying out some of the educational activities.Keeping records of the students' results, activities and attendance.Keeping a record of each course, he/she participates in (homework, tests, and notes).Assisting in preparing and conducting examinations and preparing student counseling forms.Getting acquainted with techniques of delivering lectures and lessons.Offering assistance to low achievers.Carrying out any other tasks assigned by the head of center, department or section.

gathering and analysing the technical requirements;modelling the sketches of system and writing the system's content;preparation of functional/technical requirements.project planning.

• writing of business plans for business projects.• The editor of «the Bulletin of the Ukraine International marketing group».

Kiev, Ukraine

Projects• ICS Manager NG software to the production process of State Enterprise “The Ukrainian State Centre of Radio Frequencies” (telecom)• Development and deployment software for automated managing of workflow system in Testing Laboratory of State Enterprise “The Ukrainian State Centre of Radio Frequencies” (telecom)• Deployment software for automated evaluation of Numeric Resources of State Enterprise “The Ukrainian State Centre of Radio Frequencies” (telecom)Responsibilities• customer's interview;• requirement's gathering and analysis;• automatization process defining;• specification preparation;• enterprise’s business processes description.

Master'S Degree, Economics, Honor Degree

- Head of Student Group; - Head of Student Council; - Twice Winner of the chancellor’s nominal grant; - Winner of Telecommunication.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, Honor Degree

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Candidate - Unfinished, Economics