Moscow State University of Commerce

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College - The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Fachhochschule Kempten - Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft

FinTech Product Leadership, Strategy and Business Operations

San Francisco, California, United States

Every company needs to keep track of its finances, and most hire a bookkeeping firm to help do so. But there's no Stripe, Gusto, or Google Apps of this world—no clear best-in-class firm that everyone uses because it delivers a service of unmatched quality and integrates with the tools and workflows to run your business as it grows. Pilot is building a first-of-its-kind, software-centric solution to tackle the financial back office (including bookkeeping, tax, CFO, Controller Services etc.) so that founders and business owners don't have to.Series B (Index Ventures & Stripe) - read about our latest funding round here: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/announcing-40m-series-b-funding-pilot-tax-waseem-daher/Actively">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/announcing-40m-series-b-funding-pilot-tax-waseem-daher/Actively</a> hiring Engineers

Pilot.com

Product

Drive best-in-class loan servicing/ payments experience for Affirm's users while building a robust payment infrastructure at scale.

Affirm, Inc.

Product -  Payments

Managing Bank Engineering’s Funding program incl. developing automated funding flows

Group Technical Program Manager  -  Bank Engineering and Capital Markets

- Led team of product managers for Retail Banking Solution incl. mobile, online banking, PFM, card management, alerts. Solution serves 15M end users across 700+ financial institutions. Drove product vision and E2E delivery incl. UI, platform, and integration services •	Architected a new card management offering, incl. integration capabilities with external partners. Negotiated financing from external partners to cover start-up cost for the new offering•	Led complete UI/ UX redesign for core Retail Banking platform, incl. new delivery/ enablement mechanism, resulting in USD 3M increase in revenue •	Renegotiated a large predictive data analytics contract, resulting in >20% savings and improved SLAs to support broad roll-out of the new consumer marketing solution•	Developed product teams that build innovative and sustainable solutions; team members regularly recognized for hackaton wins, patent submissions, and end-to-end thinking•	Supported product management organization and our clients through two acquisitions

Digital Insight, (previously Intuit Financial Services)

Group Product Manager, Digital Banking

Digital Insight (previously Intuit Financial Services)

Senior Product Manager

- Planned and drove execution of independent modules within an engagement, developed and managed client relationships. Provided analytical, problem solving, and communications support.  Coached clients on analytics and process implementation•	Industry exposure: healthcare IT, consumer packaged goods, transportation, pharmaceuticals•	Functional expertise: service operations, call center, BPO, quality architecture, lean

McKinsey & Company

Management Consultant

Loyalty Partner provides data analytics, CRM and direct marketing solutions for major European retail chains and manages PAYBACK - Europe's largest customer loyalty program. •	Joined the company during startup stage with 50 employees, helped it grow to >500 employees•       Led team of 5 production and marketing services employees and a cross-functional team of 10, incl. data analytics, IT, call center, fulfillment•	Managed company’s main direct marketing product targeted at 10M+ end users and 15 retail partners•	Developed business plan and drove RFP negotiations with 30+ partners for the launch of a new loyalty program in Poland•	Maintained relationships with 50+ suppliers; renegotiated a EUR 15M contract with DHL•	Promoted 3 times in 6 years from Logistics Manager to Sr. Manager of Marketing Services team

Elena Bazina