Hyper Island

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Malmö University

Blekinge Institute of Technology

Vordingborg Gymnasium

Head of Product at TwentyThree  -  Hyper Island Alum

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Head of Product

Teamway is a future-of-work tech startup (seed round), innovating how companies hire and manage pre-vetted, remote tech talent through a self-service platform. The talent network is powered by blockchain as a means to decentralize work and redistribute value and power to all stakeholders. Acquired in July 2023.

• Established a streamlined self-service flow, from sign-up to hiring purchase, and developed tools for commercial teams to receive timely notifications and take immediate action. Resulting in low touch sales and hiring flows.
• Implemented a structured feedback system that ensures fairness and anonymity, of testing processes and highlighting the exclusivity of talents who successfully passed evaluations. Visualising this flow that resulted in shorter hiring process for the customers.
• Established cross-functional teams to collaborate on product roadmap and prioritize feature development based on customer needs and market trends.

During my time, Teamway acquired 1,000+ top %5 tech professionals from 90+ nations to our talent network and served customers from 8 countries, such as IKEA, Danske Bank, Verisure, Aller, and &Open.

Teamway

Chief Product Officer

• Implemented OKR framework & 2-week sprints in Product Team.
• Implemented & co-ran talent development in Product Team (of 6 people)
• Led the implementation of the new Teamway across the platform and other assets.

Took an 8-month break from building digital products.

Spent two months in Mexico to rest, recharge, travel, explore, and learn. The latter half year was dedicated to fully redesigning, repurposing, and renovating an old Swedish farmhouse to be fully off-grid.

Career Break

Gap year

TwentyThree is a bootstrapped B2B martech company focused on developing video and marketing tools(SaaS) for the web. It is utilized by thousands of innovative marketing teams, ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises.

• Managed the product roadmap across all products.
• Led the Webinars product from inception to a thriving customers base.
• Led the development of the B2C record & send video product from inception to Closed Beta.
• Established tooling and processes for effective customer feedback flow.
• Contributed to country launches in Norway, Sweden and US, all on the ground.
• Participated in the rebranding process, representing the product.
• Participated over 100 hiring interviews across the entire TwentyThree organization.
• Collaborated closely with C-levels as a part of the leadership team.

TwentyThree

I was hired as the first in-house designer (8th employee at the time). I worked
on all products and marketing materials until my promotion.

Product Designer

I did an internship as part of the advanced prototyping team, a cross disciplinary team of
8-10 members. We developed UX patterns for the next generation Blackberry OS. I was involved in both conceptual and visual design stages of various size projects.

Research In Motion

Visual Design Intern

Self initiated music magazine which became a "must-read" media for Istanbul's night life and for the best new music during the years it was published.

Sarper Erel