Aj V., Lead Product Manager • Product Owner • Fintech

I am highly organized and motivated fintech professional who builds strategies and shapes end-to-end products at the intersection of finance and technology in the ever-changing digital world. Through honest communication and a clear planning, we can create great product experiences that people will love.

As a technology-focused creative, I love using design thinking to build great and relevant customer experiences for both users and businesses.

Competencies:

Strategy & Growth, Go-to-Market, Product Portfolio Management, User Experience, Branding & Identity.

Highly skilled:

Fintech, Invest-tech, DeFi, Build MVP from scratch, Agile Methodologies, Research & Development, Project Valuation, Product Design.

XQNT Ltd.
Lead Product Manager (trading terminal, payments, mobile app)
BANKING & INSURANCE
December 2019 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
Moscow
XQ is the NextGen Derivatives Exchange for high-load HFT trading. We give a lot of credit to security issues and develop cold storage processing for this purpose. The product includes derivatives exchange, trading terminal, payment processing, CCP module, Mobile App.

Responsibilities:
 
- Planning, talent recruiting, business process building;
- Product portfolio management, roadmap, backlog, market research;
- Data-driven design creation, a/a and a/b testing, sales funnel, CJM, etc.

Achievements thus far:
 
- Recruited and organized half of the current team and related processes;
- Launched a full-fledged MVP v1.0 and there is a huge backlog;
- Built organic traffic from scratch to test hypotheses (sales funnel, ads campaigns, onboarding, engagement, retention);
- Mobile App in development as well as Telegram Bot;
Derivatives Exchange Invest-tech Fintech Product Management Agile method UXUI
WiseAdvice Ltd.
Product Owner (trading robots, payments)
BANKING & INSURANCE
November 2018 - January 2020 (1 year and 2 months)
Boston, United States
This is a unique project with a quantitative approach to asset management which integrates various sources of liquidity and trading algorithms. The product includes trading algorithms, a web application, a Telegram bot.

What I did:
 
Business planning, outstaff recruiting, quantitative researching for trading algorithms, data-driven uxui.

Results:
Launched an MVP v1, created a highly efficient remote
team, raised the average portfolio profitability up to 15% per month.
Fintech Quantitative Finance Product Management
Yagoda.Cloud ERP Solutions PTE
Product Manage (e-commerce, payments)
E-COMMERCE
August 2019 - January 2020 (5 months)
Hong Kong, China
Yagoda.Cloud is a fully integrated ERP system. My responsibilities involved large e-commerce projects, including marketplace, CRM, warehouse module, task-tracker (similar to Jira), payment connections.

Responsibilities included:
Planning, collaboration with business teams from Russia and
China-based offices, product management, project management, in-depth business analysis, and product uxui
creation.

Achievements:
Developed a strong synergistic relationship between
international teams, created a lot of features for ERP and a large backlog, launched marketplace MVP (2 apps,2 webs).
Product management User Experience Design Marketing

Economic Science
Ural Stock Exchange Institute
2016