Italy

Magistrale in Scienze dell'Economia

Bachelor's degree

Giacomo Poggiali

Senior Product Manager

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

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

Creating a product vision

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Last programs as a Product Mentor:
- Egypt Seed Bootcamp Batch 3
- 500 Eurasia Batch 6
- Egypt Scale Up Batch 2

500 Global (ex 500 Startups) is the most active early-stage global venture capital firm. Notable investments in 500's portfolio include Canva, Reddit, Solana, Twilio, Udemy, Mural, Superhuman and Sendgrid. 

500 runs incubation and acceleration programs worldwide, emphasizing the importance of working on Product, UX and distribution.

INSKIP is an innovation firm assisting strategic innovation processes. I act as a Product EIR to assist the leaders of a home appliances multinational in innovating as startup founders would.

Product EIR and Lecturer for Starta's Pre-acceleration program, on topics such as:
- Validation
- User research
- Growth Product Management

I work as a:
1. Product EIR or Coach (Early-Stage Product / Product Discovery), for startups and innovation/(pre-)acceleration programs;

2. Fractional Product Manager for startups that need hands-on support for winning product challenges;

3. Freelance Venture builder for innovation teams, (Corporate) Venture Builders and Startup studios who want to take an idea from 0 to 1;

4. Workshop host for (pre-)acceleration programs, corporate, startups and scaleups.

More about me here: https://bit.ly/aboutgiacomo

Cubbit is a Series A startup on a mission to bring the Internet back to its roots: a distributed network crowdsourcing in the net all the resources and services needed to work (and not the backyard of a few tech monopolies). Cubbit is building the world's largest distributed data centre.

I joined Cubbit as the company's first Product Manager after their seed round. 
My main contributions have been:
- JTBD and customer discovery, generating insights used to scale the crowdfunding campaign (>€1M) and deliver the beta version of Cubbit
- Established and led cross-functional teams in charge of the end-to-end product development
- Led the 0 to 1 phase of 3 new products: identifying and exposing problems, collecting product ideas, testing these ideas, designing and testing wireframes, and iteratively delivering.
- Owned the product roadmap to engage the teams around user needs with a problem-first mindset, using Opportunity-Solution trees and OKRs

SmanApp is a bootstrapped startup on a mission to make roads safer thanks to gamification and rewarding through their mobile app and partners network

I joined SmanApp as the company's first Product Manager. 
My main contributions have been:
- Owned the product roadmap by finding patterns in quantitative (Data Analytics) and qualitative data (interviews).
- Created and led cross-function product squads, engaging the teams around JTBDs and user-related OKRs. The squads took care of the full cycle from problem identification to delivery.
- Together with my team I designed and launched a new app through UX research, Design Sprint and pretotyping. This app, with its gamification dynamics, is now the company's flagship app.

ShippyPro is now a Series B startup, born to help small and big online vendors manage logistics as e-commerce giants do. ShippyPro achieves this mission through a shipping SaaS for integrating sales channels with logistic partners.

I joined ShippyPro with the initial kernel team (we were 3 people).

As Founding PM and Head of Growth I:
- Aligned our marketing and product efforts to customers JTBD
- Ran experiments that got systematic acquisition channels and a strong Product-Market fit, taking our B2B users to 5,000 in 18 months
- Created and designed Easy Return, one of ShippyPro's flagship products thought for managing reverse logistics
- Designed the new UI (still online)

During the second year of Msc, I managed the Multiverso Valdarno coworking, organizing courses about coding and digital marketing.

University internship where I learned the basis of data analytics by running KPI Analysis on mobile subscriptions in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina markets.

While in the first year of university I side worked as a TV Journalist. I filmed, wrote and recorded 50+ TV news reportages for local television.

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