Cyprus

Generalist Product Management

Customer Experience (CX)

Growth Product Management

Digital Marketing

Growth Hacking

Direct Marketing

Product Marketing

Evgeniy Romanov

Senior Product Manager - Growth

Usability Testing

Monetisation

Product analytics

Product strategy

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Email marketing

User research

Product roadmap

Airtable

Jira

Miro

Confluence

Google Analytics

Time management

Conflict resolution

Analytical skills

Viral marketing

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

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

Managing people

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

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

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

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

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

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

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Driving the growth and retention at Ultimate Guitar - the world's largest community of musicians paired with an extensive catalog of tabs and video courses. 

200M users a year, 53M app downloads, 1.6M tabs.

Rabota.ru - one of the leading jobs classified sites in Russia 
Insider - internal startup at Rabota.ru, social network for experienced professionals (iOS/Android app)

As Head of Product at Insider I am responsible for the full product development cycle starting from product vision and strategy to grow-to-market strategy. 

Key results: 
- Developed product from scratch and grew it up to five-digit number of registered users from zero with good behavioral metrics (retention/activities)

Responsibilities:
- Led the strategy, road mapping, and prioritization 
- Led fully independent product team of 15 members - developers, designer, marketers, analysts and researchers
- Owned product discovery process - market, competitors and user researches, UI/UX, in-depth interviews
- Developed go-to-market strategy 
- Day-to-day work with backlog prioritization, product efficiency metrics, hypothesis  
- Stakeholder management (C-level), managed the budget

Skyeng - the largest EdTech in Europe with 150k+ active students.

Main KPI: revenue growth from new and existing customers through direct marketing channels (email, push, sms, in-app), special projects and webinars. 

Key results:
- New customer share in marketing mix through owned channels increased by 30% 
- Growth of area of responsibility - started with 5 people on the team and came to manage 4 departments and 13 employees. 

Responsibilities:
- Team management - hiring and letting go, team development (PDP, mentoring, performance reviews, 360-degree feedback)
- Planning: budgets, KPI and OKR, projects – annual and quarterly planning based on performance forecasts, available resources, cross-team collaboration.
- Analytics – performance metrics control and factor analysis

TechnoNICOL - producer of building materials and systems with 54 production sites in 7 countries and annual turnover of more than 1.2 billion Euro.

Key results:
- 30% brand awareness growth for b2c products line.
- Launched 2 branding campaigns (OLV, TV, programmatic banners, ppc) with a reach of 30 million customers.  While maintaining the budget, the overall campaign reach KPI was exceeded by 13%, the volume of impressions - by 40%, views by 56%.

Responsibilities:
- Global marketing projects leader: branding and performance (UA) campaigns, retention campaigns (CRM marketing, social media), content marketing
- Developed digital products from scratch – websites, mobile apps (iOS, Android).
- Management – budget, internal processes, people management.
- Market and user research.

Key results:
- Launched several websites and special projects with more than 500k MAU.
- Created Android app "Heat insulation calculator" with 3 different building calculators and heat insulation catalog. 
- Email-marketing: build lead generation strategy, implemented new ESP (Expertsender). Grew subscribers list to ~50k in a year.
- Social media - strategy, content planning and creation, analytics. 
- Re-launched Youtube channel and got 3 times growth in views from search and recommendations.

AgilelMail is a SAAS solution that helps email-marketers to increase efficiency of email marketing using real-time content which is dynamically changes based on the context of a particular open - e.g. based on time of the day, geo-location, weather and temperature, OS.

Key result: launched public version of a product, created successful cases with e-commerce companies - 4lapy.ru, Vse Instrumenti and Butik.ru.

Responsibilities:
1. Define the product strategy and roadmap
2. Product, market and competitors analysis
3. Control of the development process, leading team of developers, designers.
4. Creating product UI prototypes.
5. Budget planning and costs control.
6. Analyzing potential partner relationships, communication and pre-sale process with potential customers

ExpertSender - marketing automation platform with HQ at Gdynia, Poland.

Key responsibilities:
- Key customers support: MediaMarkt, The Body Shop, Mothercare, Starbucks, etc (up to 30 customers at one time)
- Integrations of customer's CRM/CMS with Expertsender marketing platform.
- Deliverability control and problem solving on the ESP level, communication with ISP anti-spam departments (Mail.ru, Yandex).
- Analytics and email campaign optimization.

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