Sofia Gorinova Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Moscow, Russia

• Joined the team to help develop the monetization products of the platform:
• Improving user experience in payment method selection, the changes will affect growing number of monthly users, about 8000 at this moment;
• Control two product streams: payment process and notifications for the sellers;
• Analyze data and lead the discovery interviews to find out customers’ needs and pains regarding the monetization mechanisms of the platform;
• Researched marketing instruments of the main competitors with CPC/CPA/CPT monetization mechanics to make impact into the product backlog;
• Managed a stream of interviews with the users of different marketing instruments to define core functionality.

Moscow, Russia

• Had an experience as a product manager of the core skills of the voice assistant: weather forecast (12000 MAU), date and time (23000 MAU), alarm and timer (8000 MAU):
• Launched music alarm with songs or radio instead of the default ringtone. This feature required implementation of functionality by four separate teams, including my own;
• Enhanced the system architecture: reduced requests per second three times;
• Worked closely with product designers, data analysts, UX-researchers to define which functions should we improve or implement, analyzed data by myself to apply this knowledge to the roadmap.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

- Preparing business requirements for the new features - Project management - Preparing schemes and BPMN diagrams where needed - Communications with multiple teams to reach the goal of our product (a lot of cross-teams tasks are involved)

Moscow

• Worked on Rostelekom iOS and Android apps and mobile bank for small business for Otkritie Bank:
• Provided the team with functional and non-functional requirements, BPMN, UML diagrams;
• Worked alongside with the backend team on the client’s side and negotiated the required changes;
• Launched features for owners of small business in the Okritie mobile application;
• Controlled the workload and backlog of the design-analytics team (2 designers and 2 analysts);
• Mentoring of 2 junior business analysts;

Russian Federation

- Leading meetings (kick-offs, weekly status update meetings)- Working on FDS (including mock-ups and description of the functionality and expected system behavior)- Communications with the clients (email, Skype, slack. personal meetings)- Providing clear understanding of client's requirements to the team - Planning of the workload - QA to some extent.

- Leading meetings (kick-offs, regular weekly meetings with the client, demo of the system)- Creating functional design specifications (including mock-ups and description of the functionality and expected system behavior)- Creating block sachems of processes and architecture - Quality Assistance (creating check-lists for regression testing, manual smoke.

Ocean City, NJ

Great summer job to level up my language and communicative skills.