Cross-functional team leadership
Exemplary cross-functional leader for 7 years, adept at guiding teams of developers, designers, data analysts, and QA professionals. Known for effective communication and problem-solving, bridging gaps between sales-oriented and technical teams to achieve seamless alignment.
Experience
- Managed the entire product and engineering team at Onside with full end to end responsibility of the roadmap.
- Started with managing the 'ContentUs' team at StudySmarter which was responsible for our home-built content creation platform. Moved on to manage a second 'traficos' team and 'advertisement' team covering initiatives around internationalisation, ad performance improvements, jobboard, SEO and content creation.
- Started with managing the team for internal tools and content creation at Chessable. After several initial successes, I took up the product management role for the entire web application including 'chess and finance', 'content and tools' and the small but powerful 'data science' team.
- Led multiple cross-functional teams of developers, QA engineers and designers at Chessable, StudySmarter and Onside.
- Talent management at Chessimo: interviewing and selection of development and design partners.
Education
Harvard university
Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
May 2022
- Course on leadership.
Questrom school of business, Boston university
Leading in the digital age
August 2021
- Part of the MicroMasters degree - Digital transformation leadership.
- Learned about leadership capabilities for the digital age, building deep trust relationships, forming and leading a virtual team, collaboration and cocreation and learning dynamically.
Quantic school of business and technology
Masters of Business Administration
March 2020
- Full scholarship to a highly selective program (7% acceptance rate, average GMAT scores 700+)
- Innovative curriculum with proven results on par with Wharton, Harvard, and Stanford
- Learned about leading organizations: organizational behavior, organizational structure and culture, corporate governance, theories of leadership, developing a corporate philosophy, business ethics and social responsibility and negotiation.