Head Of Development, A Team Of 31 Employees
Tasks:• Build product development and management methodologies, hire and develop a team• Test a business hypothesis with MVP and decide on further product development• Develop a solution to achieve the planned product success indicators, within the limitations from the investorResults and achievements:• Developed and implemented product development approaches based on industry best practice: lean design methodologies, custdev, UX research, design sprint, no-code A/B tests, RICE prioritization, HADI cycles, JTBD scenarios, Scrum, Spotify • Together with the team, developed the product architecture for the launch of an MVP, and sufficient enough for the further product development in Yandex cloud, K8S, Kafka, MongoDB, Spring, SCDF, ReactJS, S3• Together with the team, under funding constraints, launched the first product version in 3 months; a layer of integration adapters in 4 months; data factory in 5 months; digital customer journey in 3 months • Identified and monitored SAvR (System Avaliability Rate), MTTR (Mean Time to Recover), CBIP (Critical Bugs In Production), Unit Test Code Coverage, Auto Test Coverage, linking the team motivation to key service operation metrics• Having linked the team motivation to key service operation metrics, identified, monitored and determined the impact of the features developed on: Users, Conversion, Payments, AMPPU, CoGS, Profit, Acq CostsThe above allowed to:• Quickly test market demand for the product, decide on further scaling, and prove the need for a further funding for 2022 to the investment fund• Implement rapid scaling and the development of the solution without rethinking the initial architecture design• Provide an annual flow of 200K+ users, reduce CoGS by more than 2 times, reduce CPA by 60%, increase the average check by 10%, increase the CR by 23%, determine the leverage metrics and growth points for further product development and its reaching positive unit economics