Alejandro Simkievich

Co-Founder and Head of Product

Produkando

Elite freelance agency offering product management as a service for interim positions in Northern Europe and the United States.

Founder

Responsible for launch and Go-to-market of Next-Gen digital standards product.

Interim Senior Product Manager

Genomelink

Genomelink is a Y Combinator company (YC 21). Responsible for growth and engagement program

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Pets Deli

Scaling Product at one of Germany's coolest and fastest-growing tech companies.

Interim Chief Product Officer / Head of Product

Zalando SE

Interim Product Lead

Managing product performing credit and fraud risk assessment.

Allianz Technology

Senior Product Owner for Big Data services in a private cloud. Product vision, product roadmap, and Product Development.

Interim Senior Product Owner

Bain & Company

Providing expertise on Product Management related projects, with a focus on data products.

Product Management Advisor

Takeaway.com

Senior Product Owner working in Agile B2C eCommerce environment.

Identidata, Inc

Identidata was an early-stage start-up offering a B2B Saas online platform to advance the digitalization of customer identification for financial institutions.

Product guy, founder, and freelancer. Successful track record with top-tier tech companies in Silicon Valley and Europe. MIT alum.

A product for product managers by product managers.

Solvd, Inc.

- Led end-to-end product development of an AI-powered resume conversion application that leverages OpenAI to parse PDFs into standardized editable Word files, reducing recruiter's manual data entry per candidate. Projected to save $14K annually (17.6% ROI) in a five-recruiter pilot, with strong early results paving the way for enterprise-wide expansion.

- Led MVP development of an AI-powered HR chatbot. Validated the solution with a 30-employee pilot and limited set of initial use cases (benefits, sick leave and vacation policies, available compensations), achieving an 85% satisfaction rate and confirming product viability.

- Leading enterprise-wide AI SDLC transformation initiative to embed AI tools into the SDLC, aiming to boost engineering productivity, optimize digital outsourcing operations and reduce development costs. Developed strategic frameworks and research methodologies to guide the adoption of AI technologies, such as coding assistants and chatbots. Currently, overseeing a pilot program to quantify the impact on development efficiency, with a focus on reducing costs and enhancing team performance.

- Won company-wide GenAI innovation competition for AI talent-matching platform concept that optimizes resource utilization by automatically pairing bench employees with upcoming project opportunities.

AI Product Manager

Product Manager

Teladoc Health

Business Analyst / Product Manager Proxy

Targetprocess, Inc.

Product Specialist

Intellectsoft

Business Analyst / Project Manager / Pre-Sale

Exadel

Business Analyst

• Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation (SRS, User Stories, Use Cases) and communication; 
• Backlog management and supervision;
• Organizing and conducting demos to customers;
• Experience in projects of various domains; involvement in pre-sale phases;
• Team meetings management;
• Working in tools such as Confluence, Jira, Realtimeboard, Invision;
• Preparing estimates, feature lists, presentations;
• Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban)

HiQo Solutions, Inc.

- Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation and communication;
- Organizing and conducting demos to customers;
- UI prototyping in Balsamiq, UML modelling;
- Experience in projects of various domains (E-commerce, IoT, Mobile Development);
- Working in tools such as Confluence, Jira, Visio;
- Preparing estimates;
- Performed the functions of the Project Lead: planned workload and assigned tasks on team members;

Business Analyst / Project Lead

ISsoft

Junior Business Analyst (Internship)

Randstad

- Answered phone calls in polite and respectful manner, provided potential candidates with information regarding job opportunities, welcomed candidates at the door;
- Screened candidates over the phone for customer service and administrative support positions, scheduled interviews with staffing consultants;
- Performed reference checks and credit checks;
- Performed various administrative duties as data entry (entering testing scores into Connect), filing, calendar management as assigned.

HR Sales / Recruitment Intern

Schiller International University

- Reported directly to the director of admissions. Planning and carrying out our educational outreach for the institution of higher learning. Recruiting the most talented and qualified applicants to enhance University prestige. Conducting pre-admissions interviews with prospective students, evaluate their grades, entrance examinations and recommendation to determine their eligibility for admissions. Qualify potential students to determine their ability to succeed within our University. Maintain all data as it relates to the metrics of our admissions department and also assists the director in the development and implementation of admission strategy and objectives.

- Working in conjunction with the Financial Aid Department -- overcoming student’s life hurdles to make their educational dreams a reality

- Continued praise and thanks from prospective students for above and beyond efforts, constant commitment and determination, outstanding customer service and care

Admissions Advisor

MBA, PSPO 1, SAFe SPC | Transforming Digital Products & Teams

Results- and AI-driven Product Manager (3+ years) with a strong skill of creating the "trust-first" environment to unite people and technology to make great digital products and solutions. I want to leverage the total 8+ years of experience in product/solution development and a passion for emerging technologies to pivot and shift towards creating AI-enhanced products.

Key Expertise:
- User research, discovery, and CustDev (surveys; customer interviews)
- Data-driven decision making (GA4/Amplitude)
- Agile methodologies (PSPO 1, SAFe SPC)
- Cross-cultural communication
- Strong advocate of user-centric/data-driven product development approaches

Notable Achievements:
- Delivered user-centric solutions across multiple domains: incl. telehealth, fintech, IoT/healthtech, legal.
- Led user research for a telehealth product: increased the onboarding conversion by 12% through multi-method research and actionable insights
- Experience in successful conversion rates and CTRs optimizations through data-driven A/B testing
- Multiple successful transformations of the teams’ culture, installations of “product-ownership” environment within teams and implementation of Agile best practices (top result: (B2B) secured $21M 3-year contract with the top client by timely delivery of the needed service through improved internal team engineering processes)
- Pioneered user feedback collection mechanism for a fintech platform, gaining management buy-in and enhancing user insights
- Authored "Qualitative Research: Key to Product Success and Budgets" article on Business of Apps (https://www.businessofapps.com/insights/qualitative-research-key-to-product-success-budgets/)

AI Integration:
- Integrating AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) into personal PM workflow for discovery, ideation, content creation, data analysis, requirements management
- Leading team/management education on AI applications to boost productivity (presentations; workshops)
- Continuously learning about AI technologies and their product implications: bootcamps, reading books, online workshops, webinars, podcasts

Continuous Learner:
- International MBA (4.0 GPA; USA), Postgrad Cert. in HR Management (3.8 GPA; Canada)
- 30+ product management books and numerous AI/data analysis courses completed (Coursera; GoPractice; Pendo; ProductSchool; EdX; LinkedIn; Udemy)
- Actively pursuing education in AI and emerging technologies (EdX CS50; Maven Academy; Reforge; GoPractice)

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