Serbia

Growth Product Management

Dusan Kolenovic

Head of Product

Quantitative research

Monetisation

Public Speaking

Partnership

Product analytics

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Business intelligence

Community management

Market research

Whitepaper/ebook Writing

User research

Product roadmap

Optimizely

Typeform

Unbounce

Zapier

Amplitude

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Crazy Egg

Figma

Hotjar

Jira

Mailchimp

Miro

Mixpanel

Monday

Notion

Confluence

UserTesting

UserZoom

SurveyMonkey

Blog writing

Conversational AI

Content research

Negotiation

Chatbot

Deal strategy

Information architecture

Machine learning

Usability Testing

Typography

Sales plan and process

Relationship management

Newsletter writing

Prototyping

Product strategy

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

General mentorship

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 maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

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

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

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

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

Choosing metrics and team goals

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

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

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

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

Conducting good user research

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

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Staffing, mentoring and assessing 40 PMs in implementing a single Product Vision. Owning the Competency model - positioning Product role as a recurring revenue driver in the organization.
 Unlocking a minimum of $2M one time and $1.5M per quarter, in 9 expansion revenue opportunities, by diligently applying product principles and partnering with Sales.  Owning field-tested guidelines on how everyone in the company can engage in upselling.

• Sound track-record of ramping up SaaS products (and internal processes) for rapid scaling within Retail, HR, Medical, FinTech industries.
• Delivering simple solutions to more than tens of millions of users, with trust-based partnerships        in tech teams, as leaders of innovation.
• Using qualitative, quantitative metrics and Customer Discovery for identifying future dynamics in users' needs and products' Value proposition.
• Focusing on the retention curve by pushing products to become Lovable and achieving Product-Market fit.

• Engaged the developing start up ecosystem by providing knowledge base and access to capital.
• Organized first regional investor conferences and pitching events.
• Provided training on entrepreneurship to students and entrepreneurs. 
• Promoted regional startup scene in foreign press/media.

Part of the team who won several long term development/consulting contracts, by owning:
• Proposal phase: MVP Feature Scoping, Technical Feasibility Analyses and Budgeting.
• Product kickoff: Value Proposition definition, North Star metrics identification/tracking and Roadmap ownership.

• Developed marketing strategy and created accompanying collateral with Design team.
• Managed the Content plan and analytics thus raising long-term brand awareness. 
• Presented HTEC at industry conferences and fairs.

• Represented KPMG in National Bank of Serbia as a speaker at an international Financial conference. 
• Supported top of the funnel recruiting efforts of the internal team within a Job Fair.

• Grouped similar projects within a single workflow in order to derive synergy.
• Established and maintained strong relations with the NGO Sector.

• Founded the project and assembled a 5 person team.
• Arranged cooperation with centers for children without parental care, institutions for people with 
   disabilities and elementary schools.
• Coordinated 23 local and 4 foreign volunteers.
• Agreed cooperation with companies, local municipality, Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of 
   Economics of the Belgrade University. 
• Organized donations and end-of the project convention (including media-coverage).

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