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Experience

Alfa-Bank, Alfa-Mobile, Moscow (remote) — Senior Product Manager, Digital Platform Services

Alfa-Mobile is the #1 mobile banking app in Russia according to Markswebb (about 8M MAU), built by Alfa-Bank, the largest non-governmental bank in Russia with more than 20 million customers

October 2021 – present

• Product manager of Alfa-Check (push- and SMS-notification service for card transactions, 1M users):
  • Scaled from pilot to production, led launch of new features, increased audience x3 times;
  • Conducted UX research to renew product conditions and avoid losing PMF in fast-changing environment;
  • Launched first in Russia notifications service via Telegram Messenger for significant reduction of SMS costs;
  • Product discovery, development and delivery, prioritization of backlog, management of tech debt and bug rate controlling
• Product manager of Fiscal-Banking integration (data collection, processing and enrichment of fiscal receipts for banking):
  • Led development of MVP, achieved PMF, scaled the product (mobile native, mobile web and desktop web)
• Cross-functional distributed multinational engineering team management incl. recruitment, onboarding and nurturing (10 members), stakeholders management (internal and external)

SAFMAR Pension Fund, Moscow — Senior Product Manager, Digital Products

SAFMAR Pension Fund (from June 2021 — Deserving FUTURE NPF) is one of the largest non-governmental pension funds with 4 million customers

February 2020 – September 2021

• Launched the new customer web-portal and native iOS/Android apps with integration of e-Government authorization, paperless personal data update via e-Government verification
• Increased the actuality of personal data x11 times without increasing costs
• Transition of more than 70% of applications for pension appointment to the digital channel resulting in significant reduction of costs
• Launched sales and customer service of a pension product in digital channels in an extremely limited time frame of 1 month

YouDrive, Moscow — Chief Marketing Officer

YouDrive (now — CityDrive) is a mobility startup in Russia. It was the second carsharing in Moscow since 2015

February 2018 – January 2019

• Led the expansion of carsharing services to the new region
• Contributed to launch of first kicksharing service in Russia (per-minute electric scooters free floating rent service)
• Contributed to launch of taxi cab sharing service

Otkritie Bank, Moscow

Otkritie bank was the largest non-governmental bank in Russia. In 2017 Otkritie bank was nationalized.

— Head of media communication division, Digital department

August 2017 – February 2018

• Developed and implemented the bank’s new digital brand
• Led community management and organized hackathons, conferences and meetups

— Head of live chat services division, Customer service department

September 2016 – August 2017

• Launched chat in mobile app as a support channel with user-friendly processes, modern service standards and efficient quality control

— Associate Product Manager, Digital department

May 2015 – September 2016

• Contributed to transition to agile and scrum in the largest non-governmental bank in Russia
• Launched direct communication channels between customers and dev team via AppStore and PlayMarket reviews and via Demo days

Education

Financial University, Moscow — Bachelor in Financial Management

September 2012 – July 2016

Thesis: Business reputation in the financial stability of the organization

Skills

Agile

Scrum

Kanban

Cross-functional

User-centered design

Coach management

MS Office

Jira & Confluence

Miro

Slack

Notion

Trainings

Coach management by certified ICU coach online course March 2022 – June 2022

Languages

🇬🇧 English — Fluent

🇩🇪 German — Advanced

🇷🇺 Russian — Native speaker

Hobbies

My corgi dog

Travelling

Gastronomy

Debates