Dr. Hakan Mutlu Sonmez🇹🇷

About Dr. Hakan Mutlu Sonmez

VP of Product Management at Insider

I am a focused IT manager who can identify opportunities for revenue growth and build high-performance teams to support company objectives and products. Broad management and leadership skills, with strategic planning, communication, organization, and decision-making to successfully direct concurrent projects and products.

Able to create a product/project/team/company from null. Responsible for setting up the efficient performing product management and development teams using the scrum (agile), LeSS framework, or Kanban systems.

Action-driven management executive with expertise in business and product development, cross-functional team leadership, and delivering positive outcomes with strong and sustainable gains.

Focus on “why” and set goals at the top level. Owning the strategic roadmap — making sure that the product/department initiatives support business growth. Ensure that, they focus on growing and scaling the team too.

Understanding of the market and product fit. Having a holistic view of what it takes to deliver a Complete Product Experience (CPE) — the accumulation of all customer interactions with a company or product. Regarding, developing teams, and talent. Hiring, training, and also mentoring the staff and encouraging the team environment for high levels of employee confidence and satisfaction.

I track the business performance KPIs across the product lifecycle, such as customer LTV, revenue, and market position. Perform cohort analysis to understand user engagement through the entire customer life cycle. Monitoring speed to market to ensure that the product team is shipping regularly.

Also able to identify and implement strategies to reduce costs, increase revenue, strengthen customer-product manager-team relationships, improve business and project management practices, and drive profitable growth within IT.

Have experiences in big data, hyper-personalization, e-commerce, marketing automation, and various cutting-edge technologies such as augmented and virtual reality.

CORE STRENGTHS AND SKILLS • Leadership • Product Management in IT • IT New Business Product Management (B2B, B2B2C) • IT Project Management • Strategic IT Planning and Development • Startup Development • Design Thinking and Innovation • Hiring / Onboarding / Performance Management of a Team • Business Development • International Business Management • Finance/Budget Management • Scalability, Interoperability, and Portability Analysis • Web-Mobile Development & High Load Product Building • Process Improvement / Automation • Efficiency Enhancement • Cost Reduction

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Sessions with Dr. Hakan Mutlu Sonmez

• General Mentorship Session (30 min)