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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