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Biano is a furniture and decoration discovery engine operating in the CZ, SK, NL, RO, BR.Making furnishing discovery easily accessible with 3,000,000+ listed products organized in 2,500+ categories/filters from 900+ registered sellers for 1,500,000+ monthly users across 5 countries with the help of innovations in fields such as machine learning, computer vision, personalization, and big data.My Position:I joined Biano as a product and design manager among the founding team members at the beginning of the company to take responsibility for the entire user-facing part of the brand and product. I contributed with a team to shape the overall strategy and took ownership for leading, designing, and delivering all related initiatives from initial stages to releases into production.During my time at the company, Biano started from an investor's vision of market opportunity, through the launch of a minimum viable product and business model in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to pivoting the platform strategy and expanding into additional three countries across two continents, the Netherlands, Romania, and Brazil, with a growing team of over forty hardworking people.This involved:• Contribute to planning the overall product strategy and the roadmap with stakeholders• Own responsibility for the entire user-facing part of the product across all company areas• Collaborate across the company with business, marketing, content, and engineering• Participate in product backlog managing and sprint planning with engineering teams• Drive all aspects of design execution from initial discovery to final delivery into production• Oversee front-end engineering to make front-end scalable, performant, and reliable• Prioritize workload to meet target metrics, quality of outcomes, and multiple deadlines• Participate in the hiring process for product designers and front-end developers👋🏻 A portfolio of selected projects and case studies is provided on request.

Heureka is the biggest online shopping and price advisor operating in the CZ, SK.Providing the most reliable online shopping and price comparison across all segments thanks to 12,000,000+ listed products from 39,000+ registered sellers sorted smartly by a combination of algorithms and verified customer reviews from 3,500,000+ monthly users across 2 countries.My Position:I joined Heureka as a principal product designer to partner with six product managers under the director of product and take ownership for all product design initiatives in the company. I contributed to the team by constantly applying design thinking practices to the product development process for researching, framing, designing, and testing solutions across all product areas to fulfill Heureka's business vision.During my time at the company, Heureka archived eight years on the market with a team of ninety talented people who successfully exited the company from Miton to Allegro. A few years later, Heureka was acquired by a large investor Naspers to join the global group of online shopping advisors such as Brazilian BusCapé, SouthAfrican PriceCheck, Italian TrovaPrezzi, Polish Ceneo, and others.This involved:• Contribute to the long-term strategy and decision-making about product direction• Own the entire product design process across all company’s product areas• Cooperate cross-functionally with product, engineering, content, and support teams• Recognize and analyze assumptions with qualitative and quantitative research methods• Create and collaborate on user journeys, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals• Ensure quality and assistance in the shipping of experiments, features, and projects• Evaluate the performance of shipped work and continuously discover the next initiatives👋🏻 A portfolio of selected projects and case studies is provided on request.

Miton is an established investment group operating mainly in the CE region.Empowering founders and talented teams to build successful B2C companies through smart capital and experience. Over the last 20+ years, Miton founded or invested in 40+ companies such as Heureka, Damejidlo, Slevomat, Rohlik, Glami, Bonami, Biano, Twisto, Goout, Startupjobs, and many more.My Position:I joined Miton founders as a digital designer among the first dozen employees in the early stages of the company. Over the years, I contributed with a team to the planning, designing, and delivering dozens of online and offline solutions across various customer touchpoints for many clients, including local businesses, large enterprises, and internal projects.During my time at the company, Miton evolved from a client-driven digital agency with a couple of employees working in the attic, through the first successful exits of internal projects, to today's entrepreneurial group that helped to build dozens of companies providing hundreds of meaningful workplaces with a current valuation one billion euro.This Involved:• Drive the design process from initial meetings to final deliverables for various clients• Contribute to the project briefing in setting appropriate expectations and realistic deadlines• Design brand identities and visual ecosystems consistent across the entire customer journey• Design cross-channel campaigns covering a variety of online and offline medium formats• Prototype, design, iterate, and front-end code a variety of online experiences across devices• Ensure with the team that the delivered results meet the quality expected by clientsSelected Clients:T-Mobile.cz, O2.cz, HP.cz, IBM.cz, UPC.cz, Centrum.cz, Prima.cz, Europcar.cz, Century21.cz, Tesco.cz, Postovnisporitelna.cz, Makro.cz, Sportisimo.cz, Soare.cz, Avia.cz, Stahuj.cz, Heureka.cz, Hotel.cz, Stable.cz, and many others...👋🏻 A portfolio of selected projects and case studies is provided on request.