The Open University

New Bulgarian University

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

Wartime Product Manager

Medentic

Product Advisor

Launched multiple products under the AOL incubation line. My responsibilities include:

- Developing a messaging platform tailored to senior communities facilitates enhanced communication and engagement.
- Creating a comprehensive Medicare hub to give users easy access to essential Medicare information and resources.
- Designing and implementing medical assistance chatbots to offer users quick and efficient support for their healthcare needs, but also answer Medicare related questions.

Yahoo

Principal Technical Product Manager 

Acquired by Shop Circle (https://shopcircle.co/)

Rush

Advisory Board

Cooee is on an inspiring quest 🌍 They're determined to find innovative ways to engage and convert low-intent shop visitors (a whopping 97% of all visitors!) through tailored discounts and offerings. 🛍️🎁

Imagine the potential! Converting even 1% of these low-intent visitors could lead to a significant 33% increase in gross transaction margin for an e-commerce store. 💡📈

Cooee

Advisor 

RevBrains

Advisor

manager role:
- Formulated company product missions, vision, and product strategy breaking it down into a roadmap.
- Defined Product NorthStar goal embracing the success of customers, business, and the product.
- Developed and monitored metrics related to Acquisition, Adoption, Retention, and Revenue using Metabase dashboards and SQL.
- Enforced UX design guidelines across the product based on the Shopify Polaris Design System.
- Coached members of Engineering and Customer Support teams
- Standardized internal product processes, including building and releasing new features and measuring their impact.
- Implemented Product Led Growth (PLG), resulting in a 4x increase in acquisition, 2x increase in revenue, and 86% trial success rate within the first 6 months.
-  Changed the revenue model from discount-based to value-driven.


Results from H2 2022:
- Optimized Rush App listing to enter the top 100 ranks on the Shopify Marketplace.
- Increased monthly installs from 250 to 1100
- Doubled revenue through self-service
- Improved product adoption by releasing numerous fixes addressing friction related to UX and product marketing messages

Head of Product & Co-Founder

Product:
- Delivered MVP (technically, UX, and product) with a small team of remote developers.
- Pivoted MVP 3 times till it found its early adoption strategy.
- Increased client retention and trial conversion rate from 32% to 65% by removing friction points.
- Early product instrumentation to support data-informed decisions.

Technical:
- Led the transformation of a monolith to a microservices-oriented architecture with Kong HQ as a gateway to support future growth and platform stability.
- Standardized documentation and automated multiple development processes to achieve higher quality and transparency while keeping company know-how.
- Focused on improving the hiring and onboarding of developers.
- Created an in-house project to fully set up the Rush platform on developer locally under one hour with docker-compose.
- Hired and influenced company culture to hire and create teams as a competitive advantage.
- Led the creation of a QA automation process that covers 16% of total app coverage at the time of writing - focusing on critical points first.

Full Stack Product Manager & Co-Founder

IC role:
- Drove strategic pricing decisions related to switching Upwork client's pricing model and introducing a tax to all payments.
- Owned and improved key features related to Upwork Connects, clients' subscription plans, and billing transactions and reports.
- Ensured that subscription payments stayed compliant with Mastercard and VISA's latest requirements.
- Collaborated with multiple teams inside the company including development teams, customer support, legal, global payments, finance, and security.
- Visualized and tracked key metrics related to accounts payable/receivable and product revenue.
- Created and maintained documentation artifacts related to pricing models, product products, and customer payment journeys for cross-team communications.

Upwork

Sr Product Manager at Monetization

Working in capacity as consultant:

- Develop and manage comprehensive reporting systems, encompassing preconfigured and customized dashboards, detailed drill-downs, and security incident reports. Designed for both on-demand access and email reporting on scheduled intervals.
- Designed and produced reports adhering to SOC2, SOC3, and ISO 27001 standards, ensuring compliance.
- Establish and document transparent processes, access permissions, and API scope for reporting functionalities tailored to specific roles and tasks.
- Conduct exploratory sessions with diverse clients' security teams, focusing on confirming required features using low-fidelity wireframes (Balsamiq) and inVision prototypes. consultant product manager.

Siemplify (Now Part of Google Cloud)

Senior Product Manager

Management role:
- Focused on removing friction from Upwork client onboarding flow towards posting the first job, using user research and data analysis to identify and prioritize pain points.
- Changed the customer experience to increase the First-Job-Post (FJP) and Second-Hire-Contract (SHC) metrics, using A/B testing and experimentation to validate hypotheses and drive continuous improvement.
- Took on the Client Onboarding team's Product Owner/Delivery Manager role, responsible for driving the product vision and roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements, and managing the delivery process.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including UX design, engineering, data analytics, and customer support, to release a unified client experience across multiple teams and ensure alignment and delivery between teams.
- Utilized product management skills such as user research, data analysis, A/B testing, experimentation, product vision, roadmap prioritization, delivery management, cross-functional collaboration, and Agile methodology to achieve success in the role.

Product Manager at Client Experience team

- Played a pivotal role in transitioning a 50+ employee company from functional departments to Scrum methodology.
- Altered the team formation approach by introducing the product and feature-based teams.
- Reduced the deployment downtime of the poker PaaS from 8 to 2 hours.
- Sunset 8 company-supported products, partially replaced by "build" or "lease"—streamlined support to only 7 products.
- Consolidated supported programming languages from 21 to 11 company-wide, enhancing team member interchangeability.
- Led 3 teams focused on client-side backend and desktop poker apps, both developed in C++.
- Launched highly successful revenue-boosting features such as Tournament ATM, Heads Up Sit and Go (HUSNG), and Jackpot table to improve revenue metrics.
— Gambling, Poker, Casino, PaaS

IG Soft

Product Owner

- Gather requirements from HiPPo clients related to the Video Streaming Platform product.
- Writing technical specifications (PRDs) tailored to customer needs.
- Managed and prioritized product backlog in epics and stories.
- Oversaw development releases, maintained changelogs, and provided customer updates.
- Collaborated extensively with other teams to coordinate release schedules.
- Performed Scrum Master duties, including leading grooming sessions, sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups in the team.
- Unlock the dev team and support them on day-to-day activities.

StreamingVideoProvider

- Managed a remote team of 7 developers, consistently maintaining a high delivery rate and ensuring timely completion of projects.
- Implemented the Scrum framework for development workflows, establishing a release cadence and facilitating regular stakeholder feedback.
- Led the remote development team in the successful launch of multiple intensive product features, including video streaming, video storage, and 1:1/group chats.
- Conducted weekly review sessions with junior team members, providing guidance and mentorship.
- Organized monthly virtual "beer" hours to strengthen team cohesion among remote members.
- Spearheaded the development and technical requirements for integrating the Navigaya app into the Wix Marketplace.

Navigaya.com INC

Technical Team Lead

Working as flash engineer on Navigaya Inc - flash application functionalities and optimization. Building flash application architecture. Technologies included - Flash, AsctionScript 3, JavaScript, WoWza

Remote Flash Engineer

Scopic Software

Remote Flash Developer

• Development of flash/flex projects, depending on the customer specifications.

Slav Stankov