Germany

UX Design

Service Design

Product Design

Digital Marketing

Product Marketing

Project Management

Diploma of Education

Master's degree

Constantine Dranganas

Product Manager

Newsletter

Usability Testing

Statical Analysis

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Negotiation

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Market research

User research

Zapier

Adobe XD

Ahref

Asana

Balsamiq

Docker

Figma

Google Data Studio

Hotjar

HTML

Intercom

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Google Analytics

Framer

Jira

Mailchimp

Trello

UserTesting

UserZoom

Google Ads

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Typeform

WordPress

HubSpot

Mixpanel

Notion

Optimal Workshop

Optimizely

PowerBI

Sketch

Collaboration

Team player

Project management

Branding

Content research

Brand strategy

Community management

Content creation

Content strategy

Design systems

Product analytics

Prototyping

Qualitative research

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

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

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

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

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

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

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

Leveraging Product Analytics

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

Creating a product vision

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

⦿ Generate and evaluate ideas to enhance product offerings.
⦿ Oversee the development process from concept to launch.
⦿ Identify potential risks in the product development process.
⦿ Gather and analyze stakeholder feedback to inform product strategy.

⦿ Define the product strategy for IQOS troubleshooting.
⦿ Deploy product updates across 21 international markets.
⦿ Design the end-to-end troubleshooting user experience.
⦿ Conduct design reviews to increase product performance.
⦿ Monitor product KPIs to meet business goals.

⦿ Increased the UX program’s NPS score by 2 points.
⦿ Boosted student learning time from 10 to 20 hours per week.
⦿ Supervised a team of 20 UX students driving 90% course completion.
⦿ Built an updated course syllabus, using quantitative/qualitative research methods.

⦿ Led product marketing campaigns boosting lead generation by 30%.
⦿ Grew CEO PM newsletter from 0 to over 2.000 organic subscribers in 2 months.
⦿ Crafted year's worth of product management content, tripling brand exposure.
⦿ LinkedIn growth from 1.000 to 6.000 followers, with engagement of 11%.

⦿ Delivered a new value proposition dedicated to new investor partnerships.
⦿ Optimized product pages and content strategy against competition.
⦿ Drove million worth of investments in solar energy projects.
⦿ Increased product page CTR from 2% to 3,5% - reducing the bounce rate from 45% to 28%.

⦿ Initiated product marketing campaigns resulting in 6 new partnerships.
⦿ Co-managed ForumTalks, a series of live online expert panel events.
⦿ Drove paid and organic product subscriber growth through social media campaigns.
⦿ Implemented Hubspot - set processes for tracking website, marketing, and sales activities.

⦿ Managed global social media accounts growing engaged communities by 15%.
⦿ Translated complex tech jargon into compelling value propositions increasing revenue by 2%.
⦿ Worked in running display and search campaigns, continuously optimizing for CPA and CPC.
⦿ Conducted market research delivering 6 quarterly reports to inform marketing/sales strategies.

⦿ Developed and launched campaigns for 20 affiliate accounts.
⦿ Collaborated with industry leaders, including Hema, ING, Unilever, and Rabobank.
⦿ Implemented data-driven strategies to optimize product marketing campaign performance.
⦿ Analysed campaign metrics against KPIs, leveraging insights to refine targeting and messaging.

⦿ Co-established the online presence of the world's first virtual reality cinema.
⦿ Employed expertise in new media & emerging technologies to craft marketing collateral.
⦿ Worked on a series of brand and conversion campaigns doubling exposure and sales.

⦿ Led user research for a co-creation toolkit dedicated to museum-goers & museum experts.
⦿ Built hands-on experience with User Stories, Prototyping, Storyboarding & User Testing.
⦿ Literature Review "The Elements of User Experience: User-centered Design for the Web and Beyond." (2010) - Simon, Nina. The participatory museum. Museum 2.0, 2010.

⦿ Crafed an academic research paper on how gamification and digital media can enhance visitors' experience in cultural institutions.
⦿ Documented the interaction of museum visitors with digital means across major museums in The Netherlands - Behavioral analysis.
⦿ The project received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration under grant agreement no. 600851.

⦿ Built first-hand experience in researching, crafting, editing, and publishing articles.

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