United Kingdom

Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

Social media writing

Master

Bachelor

Alex Kouchev

AI Agents & AI Product Consultant

My non-profit website

Relationship management

Prototyping

Critical-thinking

Product roadmap

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

GitHub

Miro

Workday

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Team player

Leadership

Problem-solving

Content pipeline

Content creation

Content strategy

LinkedIn writing

Product strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

On a mission to empower local communities and the future workforce by providing accessible, hands-on training in Generative AI

ProFinda’s mission is to help change the world of work.
Its proprietary AI is designed to find the optimal team or person for any work assignment in seconds.
🚀 Partnering with the Big Four organisations to launch the next-generation resourcing optimization platform.
Design and Implementation of Strategic Workforce Planning solutions in partnership with SAP Cloud (S4/HANA, SuccessFactors)

At SaltPay, my primary goals were to create a culture that attracts the right people, and then to develop through data, testing, and iterations, processes & retention strategies that went beyond flashy perks.

I joined the company when it had little more than 200 workers and scaled People Operations to support over 1000 employees by taking the lead on HR integrations for various business acquisitions. 

SaltPay is a payments company that’s different. UK Fintech unicorn, it was founded with the goal to create affordable, fast and secure payment solutions that can help small and medium-sized businesses to manage and grow their operations. It is home to over 1000 employees, located in 14 offices across 12 countries.

promoted Jan. 2020

Reporting to Head of People and Analytics, I worked directly with the leadership team to enable Digital transformation of the HR function. 

I led a DevOps team comprised of Data Scientists, HR Subject Matter Experts, and Software Engineers in the implementation of a variety of global HR process change and automation projects, resulting in savings of over $3.5M

Schlumberger is the leading provider of technology and services to the energy industry across the world. With over 100,000 employees, representing +140 nationalities and operating in +100 countries, it focuses on resolving challenging problems by investing in state-of-the-art technology and extensive research and development.

promoted Nov. 2017

I have been offered the opportunity to return to Malaysia to pursue the Digital Transformation of the HR Shared Services. In this new role, my core responsibilities covered:

• Identification and assessment of technology solutions to handle the HR needs of over 100,000 employees.
• Ensuring that a team of HR Analysts is effectively managing employee relations programmes such as salary and benefits, organisational growth, and training.
• Analysis of the costs/benefits of SAP Cloud platform.
• Supervise complete compliance of HR Tech with applicable data privacy laws and organisational governance.
• Conducting training sessions on Microsoft Power Platform, SAP, and SuccessFactors for the HR Center of Excellence.

In 2016, Schlumberger has announced the acquisition of Cameron. 
I've been asked to lead the integration of payroll operations in France as part of the M&A framework.
France, due to the legislation, is considered to be the most challenging country in terms of global payroll management. 

I was tasked to assure that regional legal requirements are met. In addition, I was in charge of:

•Developing procedures and conducting audits to ensure the integrity of data;
•Establishing agreements with labour unions and work councils;
•Leading the implementation of a supplementary pension plan for the acquired company (+700 headcount) in order to harmonise employee benefits across the group;
•Overseeing the implementation of the acquired payrolls into the primary SAP payroll system, in collaboration with ADP.

I've been given the opportunity to relocate to Malaysia and lead HR Operations for CEE and France at the newly opened Schlumberger Shared Services Center. 

My responsibilities included overseeing the continuous improvement of HR operational processes as well as coaching and mentoring a team of newly hired HR specialists.

In this role, I managed all HR transactions and ER activity for Schlumberger Tech centres in France (+2200 employees). In addition, I supported my HR colleagues with payroll and compensation processes, ensuring integrity and accuracy. 

↗️ Some key accomplishments:
• Collaboration with managers to develop growth paths for their teams.
• Establishing a more rigorous process for evaluating headcount in order to correlate hiring objectives with ROI and data. 
• Enhancing employee onboarding and development programmes
• Facilitating the biannual People Review Process (collecting data, soliciting feedback from managers, recommending salary/compensation/title adjustments)

Sourcing of candidates for the Field Engineer roles.
Development of the new recruitment strategy for Russia and CEI.
Organisation of Career fair events to promote company activities and talent attraction.

Translation of technical documentation and simultaneous translation for clients of a French Agricultural holding.

B2B exporting - promoted the company activities in Russia.

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