Remotesome

At Remotesome we are on a mission to help thousands of software engineers around the world find the job opportunities they deserve.

We focus on identifying your skills and wishes so we can create a great match between companies and you. 

Why is Remotesome a great solution for software engineers: 
- Top opportunities - Most of our clients are scaling startups based in US and Europe
- Get hired directly by the company - > No outsourcing gigs taking away your chunk of salary
- Get all the guide and support from our technical expert team to guide you through the hiring process
- Full transparency on the job opportunities with the salary range
- 100% free for engineers

Join Remotesome and take your career to the next level.
Got some questions? Feel free to reach out at andrej@remotesome.com

InsideRemote

InsideRemote hosts top individuals and company leaders who work #RemoteFirst. 

Through conversations we are learning tips & tricks of Remote Work and how they are changing the way Remote Companies work and operate.

Podcast Host

FirstBlood

FirstBlood is a blockchain based eSports platform that allows players to directly challenge each other to matches and win rewards!

https://firstblood.io/

I was in charge of Product as well as setting and scaling the product team to number of 15 people.

Lead Product Manager & First Employee

Outfit7 Ltd. (Slovenian subsidiary Ekipa2 d.o.o.)

Owning and managing app updates for various Talking Friends apps on Android and iOS platform. 

Lead Product Manager on the app Talking Tom for Messenger which generated more than 5 million downloads. 

Role transitioned to a Lead Product Manager in the spinoff company Bee7.

Product Manager

D·Labs

Leading product for D-Lab's biggest client on web and mobile.

Managing roadmap, backlog, prioritising work and executing ideas from start to finish. Identifying opportunities for successful continued improvement of the product.

ShowMeAround

One of co-founders who worked on an idea from the ground up. Working on a several different fields such as user experience, user growth, developing the product in order to provide customers with the best possible experience while travelling.

Diggit Startup Idea of the year 2013
Members of the first Slovenian accelerator TsStartup
2nd place on Startup Weekend Klagenfurt

Co-founder and CEO

CalypsoCrystal

Co-designed CalypsoKey, first iPhone case which was able to be used as a key for doors.

Optimising operations and logistics throughout time. With improved system I made sure that Calypso products were delivered as beautiful gifts in less than 72 hours throughout the world.

As a luxury brand we made sure to provide customers with the best possible service and keep their satisfaction level on the highest level.

Head of logistics department and customer support

I help startups and scale-ups hire great software engineers 📈 | Building Remotesome as a Remote First Company 🌍 | Helped 100+ companies hire great software engineering talent 🚀

As an ex-founder and member of startups who hired 200+ talented people, I learned the in-and-outs of hiring tech talent the hard way. 

I realized finding and hiring the right talent is hard. This is why I founded Remotesome where we helped startups and scale-ups hire the right talent. 

Through Remotesome I'm sharing my knowledge and skills with companies on how to identify the right talent and fill the position faster than before. 

Couple of wins:
- In the past 5 years, I helped 100+ companies find the right tech talent for their team. 
- Helped company scale their team to $100M evaluation
- Built 10+ teams with founding engineers

If you are struggling with finding the right talent for your job opportunities, send me a DM or reach out to andrej@remotesome and I'd be happy to help out.

Andrej Fodor

Charlie Serotoff

At-Bay

At-Bay is a product-led platform that combines AI-powered automation & real-time risk insights to help people purchase insurance and manage their cybersecurity through intuitive, self-serve platforms. 

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄

Joined At-Bay to lead the transformation of its product and engineering organization and build a long-term platform strategy to support product-led growth, driving acquisition, engagement, and self-service.

AI-Powered Internal Workflow Automation: Made AI automation a core pillar of the product strategy—streamlining internal workflows across purchasing, insights, and operations to reduce manual effort, increase accuracy, and improve execution speed. This enabled more efficient scaling without increases in headcount.

I rolled out discovery and experimentation frameworks, setting goals around outcomes, and added feedback loops to guide roadmap decisions. I partnered with marketing to align lifecycle messaging with product usage, ensuring users stayed engaged across the full journey.

𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓

⬥ Self-Serve Purchase & Onboarding: Rebuilt onboarding and purchase flow for small businesses, using AI to enable pricing and purchase. Cut manual-assisted workflows 45%, increased conversion 15%.

⬥ Insights & Risk Monitoring Platform: Built real-time customer dashboard surfacing account health, product opportunities, and risk insights—drove 3x engagement and improved renewal conversion. Drove 22% lift in conversion and 35% increase in engagement.

⬥ AI Workflow Automation: Automated high-volume, repetitive workflows using GPT-based tools—such as form processing, customer intake, and internal decision support—while preserving human oversight for exceptions. Reduced processing time by 80%, cut costs by 25%, and improved compliance and accuracy.

⬥ Design System & Velocity: Built a shared design system to standardize UX across products, accelerating delivery by 40% and improving quality and consistency.

Vice President of Product Management

Capital One

Capital One is a technology-forward bank delivering consumer and business banking experiences through modern, AI-powered web and mobile platforms. My work focused on driving product-led growth, improving activation and retention, and scaling AI personalization and automation across core journeys.

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄

I was hired to modernize Capital One’s digital product portfolio and lead the transformation of high-friction, fragmented workflows into scalable, self-serve experiences. The focus was on increasing user acquisition and engagement by embedding AI into lending, personalization, and search while enabling experimentation velocity and roadmap clarity across teams.

I led a global team of 19 product managers and partnered with 350+ engineers, analysts, and designers. My mandate was to build the systems, teams, and user journeys needed to scale PLG strategy—connecting platform usage with measurable business outcomes.

𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓

⬥ Product-Led Lending Experience: Unified legacy workflows into a seamless digital lending platform. Embedded AI for risk evaluation, automated pricing, and onboarding—driving a substantial increase in originations and 19% improvement in application completion.

⬥ Search & Discovery Platform: Positioned search as a key user engagement surface. Improved search result precision by 25%, reduced query-related support tickets by 30%, and increased targeted content interactions by 12%.

⬥ AI-Driven Personalization Framework: Launched personalized onboarding and content delivery using behavioral segmentation and predictive models—leading to a 15% YoY increase in organic leads and improved user activation.

⬥ Self-Serve Support Optimization: Developed new GTM strategies with in-product education and targeted messaging—reducing support ticket volume by 32% and increasing NPS by 12 points.

Senior Director of Product Management

Known

Known is a SaaS and services company that delivers AI-powered advertising and analytics solutions to enterprise media clients. The platform combines campaign planning tools, predictive modeling, and real-time performance reporting to help marketers optimize spend and outcomes across digital and linear channels.

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄

I was brought in as the first product hire to lead the company’s shift from a data science consultancy into a scalable software platform business. My role included defining product vision, building the roadmap for a new SaaS platform, and standing up the team, infrastructure, and operating model required to support product-led growth.

Over 32 months, I scaled the product and engineering organization from 3 to 45 people. I introduced product operations, launched cross-functional delivery rituals, and helped the company transition from manual services to self-serve tools and data products—enabling better onboarding, usage, and retention for both internal teams and external clients.

𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓

⬥ AI-Powered SaaS Platform Launch: Built and launched a self-serve planning and reporting platform used by agencies and media brands to manage and optimize advanced advertising campaigns.

⬥ Services-to-Software Transition: Replaced labor-intensive consulting engagements with scalable platform features—enabling 70% of the data science team to focus on productized services and introducing a licensing model to drive recurring revenue.

⬥ Go-to-Market & Support Ops: Created product feedback loops, support infrastructure, and a scalable GTM strategy that reduced support tickets by 32% and accelerated product adoption.

⬥ UX-Led Growth for Commerce Partner: Led a full redesign of a DTC client’s e-commerce platform, resulting in a 23% revenue lift and 14% increase in conversion through UX upgrades and streamlined workflows.

VP Product Management

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast delivers award-winning original reporting and sharp opinion in the arena of politics, pop culture, and media.

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄

I was hired to accelerate growth through experimentation, personalization, and faster iteration. The platform had strong content and traffic but lacked modern engagement systems, scalable infrastructure, and product analytics to support continuous learning and optimization.

My mandate was to transform the end-to-end user experience across mobile, web, and email, while also introducing a product culture built on testing, velocity, and data-driven decision-making. I led product, design, and analytics functions, and later took on engineering leadership during a transitional period.

We focused on deepening engagement, increasing retention, and unlocking new monetization through improved UX, targeted content delivery, and self-serve editorial tools.

𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐂 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓

⬥ Mobile Growth & Activation: Launched the first native iOS app, driving 5x mobile engagement and significantly increasing session time. Recognized by Apple as a “Best News App.”

⬥ Web Platform Redesign: Led a UX overhaul of the web and mobile web experience—guided by analytics and A/B testing. Increased engagement by 42% and return visits by 17%.

⬥ Lifecycle Engagement Infrastructure: Rebuilt the email platform and launched lifecycle campaigns based on user behavior—boosting subscriber acquisition by 35% and retention by 22%.

⬥ Personalized Editorial Insights: Shipped an internal dashboard surfacing real-time performance data and audience trends—driving a 35% lift in pageviews per session.

⬥ Ad Monetization Optimization: Grew programmatic revenue from $1M to $6M by improving viewability (63% → 82%) and optimizing responsive ad placement.

⬥ Business Model Expansion: Scaled branded content and affiliate programs, increasing partner revenue from $300K to $3M and improving campaign reporting.

Director of Product Management

1stdibs.com

An e-commerce online marketplace which sells luxury items such as high-end furniture for interior design, fine art, and jewelry.

CHALLENGE

I worked closely with senior management to develop new product ideas and create a plan for the mobile, tablet, and desktop e-commerce experience. I had the chance to oversee various products from the initial concept to launch, including analyzing performance and integrating them into the company's operations.

I directly led a team of 3 and led daily standup meetings and coordinated the product pipeline for an agile team that included JavaScript developers, visual designers, and QA professionals.

STRATEGIC IMPACT

⬥ Achieved a 7% increase in revenue and a 3% increase in volume while enabling transactions for fine art businesses.

⬥ Grew leads by 33% by optimizing lead generation features.

⬥ Improved registration conversion by 37% after launching a new registration experience.

⬥ Generated 39% growth in page views and a 23% decrease in exit rate, relaunching 2,000 dealer storefronts.

⬥ Decreased bounce rate by 7% and increased click rates by 3.8%, creating new page treatment for sold items.

⬥ Advanced implementation of recommendations into product features by defining, measuring, and optimizing metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Principal Product Manager

Moody's

• Moody's Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions.
• Built both mobile and B2B e-commerce platforms. 
• Grew mobile site to 8% of total traffic, increased e-commerce revenue by 80%, and accelerated site speed by 65%.
• Managed project timelines and ensured timely deliverables for software development teams spread across New York, San Francisco, London, and Shenzhen.
• Evaluated third-party solutions and recommended whether to build in-house, license or purchase them.
• Collaborated closely with development, design, project management, marketing, and business stakeholders to execute product and business plans effectively throughout the process.

Web Strategist

Forbes.com

With a digital ecosystem of over 140M, Forbes journalists and contributors reveal breaking news, extensive coverage, and top headlines on business.

CHALLENGE

I started my journey in product management with an exciting opportunity to oversee an analytics team and introduce innovative strategies and methods for evaluating the performance of web products. This led to more effective ways of boosting engagement, user retention, and website traffic.

Despite being at the early stages of my career, I took charge of a company-wide mobile initiative by creating and executing mobile product development and marketing strategies. Key priorities involved gathering and analyzing user feedback, addressing partner requirements, and conducting conversion analysis. I collaborated with end-users, business owners, and different departments to gather requirements and develop products tailored to their needs.

STRATEGIC IMPACT 

⬥ Increased traffic by 500%, Spearheading efforts to improve traffic flow from social media sites to Forbes.com.
⬥Launched the Forbes Intelligent Investing app for iPhone, Forbes Intelligent Investing and Forbes Reader for Palm Pre, Forbes Reader for Blackberry, and two versions of the Forbes.com mobile site.

Web Product Manager

JPMorgan Chase

⬥ Responsible for detailed analysis, financial modeling, risk grading/assessment, and structuring of credit for companies with annual sales of $10 million to $2 billion

⬥ Assisted in the maintenance of several active credit portfolios with an aggregate exposure in excess of $1 billion.  This included conducting market, industry, and company specific research on a regular basis in order to continually assess the needs of each client and the overall health of the portfolio

⬥ Consulted with various product groups such as the interest rate derivative and foreign exchange desks in the Investment Bank to create derivative and hedging solutions for our clients

⬥ Successfully completed a month long interim role of managing a credit portfolio with outstandings in excess of $330 million.  This role included many of the responsibilities as noted above, with the added role of reporting directly to a senior underwriter

Credit Analyst

VP of Product Management ⬥ AI, Fintech, SAAS, Search & Mobile ⬥ Proficient in driving revenue growth, scaling & efficiency.

I lead high-performing product organizations that drive strategic growth, product-led innovation, and personalized experiences at scale.

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: I have driven significant revenue and customer retention by optimizing full-funnel experiences, user journeys, and growth loops. I balance immediate impact and long-term growth through rigorous experimentation, deep analytics, and a strategic view of market opportunities.

𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐈 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Utilize AI across both customer-facing experiences and internal workflows to drive scale, precision, and speed. I’ve shipped predictive models, personalization engines, and workflow automation to improve acquisition, conversion, and retention.

𝐀𝐈-𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Used tools like GPT-4, Claude, Gamma, and Loveable to accelerate product specs, design reviews, and decision-making—cutting planning time by 40% and increasing team throughput without additional headcount.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭-𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲: I shape compelling product visions and roadmaps that align stakeholders from executive leadership through engineering, design, marketing, and sales. My cross-functional approach ensures clarity, strong buy-in, and effective execution.

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫: Grounded in a background of finance and accounting, my decisions are informed by robust analysis and experimentation. I consistently use customer behavior analytics, market insights, and rigorous testing methodologies to guide impactful product investments.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫: I foster collaborative, inclusive team cultures where people feel empowered to innovate, take risks, and drive results. Clear communication and trust-building are at the heart of how I lead and mentor teams to grow personally and professionally.

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Deep experience across SaaS, AI/ML, Fintech, HealthTech, Media, Marketplaces, and AdTech for both B2B and B2C, spanning startups and Fortune 500 firms.

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