United Kingdom

Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

Product Marketing

Business Transformation

Gonzalo Sáenz

Senior Product Manager

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Product roadmap

Amplitude

Jira

Notion

Linear

ChatGPT

Empathy

User 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

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

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

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

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

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

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

Currently unavailable for fractional/consulting/mentoring, open to advisory.
More info at: https://gonzalosaenz.me/

Led a squad that enabled On Deck to onboard new fellows with fewer operational resources by 1) Revamping the activation experience in the core product and 2) Fixing core flows on internal tools. 
Part of a crossfunctional and autonomous team, comprised of 6 engineers, 1 Designer, 1 Product Manager, and 1 Product Ops Manager.
My tenure ended in August after a reduction in force that affected ~1/3 of the company.

- Responsible for the product vision, strategy, OKRs, and hiring/mentoring 2 Product Managers and 1 Product Designer. 
- Developed product positioning and competitive analysis for B2C and B2B products which served as inputs to define the company strategy for the next 3 years. 
- Revamped signup and activation journeys in the B2B product improved the Account Manager’s productivity by 2X and reduced setup time for new accounts. 
- Increased activation rate by 20pp for the consumer product, also determined the ideal activation time-frame for new customers based on data analysis.

- Developed a new operational model that increased GMV and Availability of small restaurants (~40% of users) by 10% and 20pp respectively. 
- Redesigned the store status user interface and management system to reduce support tickets and restaurant monthly churn
- Owner of the Rappi Aliado product (Android and Web) used by ~100K restaurants to manage Rappi’s orders (13MM per month).

- Owned the product strategy, roadmap, and experimentation backlog for the employer’s core product.
- Redesigned the activation flow for the employer’s product, increasing activation by 20pp and fill rate (north star metric) by 7pp.
- Restructured the Customer Success strategy and team, led a 4-person team in Utah as interim manager.
- Executed demand generation experiments in NYC, NJ, and Philly with no engineers and <$1K budget to start the inbound sales channel getting 100 qualified B2B leads in the first week.

Digital car insurance - Interseguro 
App Inkafarma Móvil - Inkafarma 
Payroll loans - Interbank

Led projects and experiments to improve company results (NPS, Inventory Health and Conversion rate) working along with Business Unit Managers, logistics and marketing.
Part of the team that implemented the S&OP in Perú.
Key User of Salesforce in Perú, traveled to Mexico to help redesign the salesforce workflow and sales pipeline.

Gonzalo Sáenz🇬🇧

About Gonzalo Sáenz

Expertise

Sessions with Gonzalo Sáenz

What mentees say