Higher School of Economics

Head of products at Cindicator

I was responsible for: 
- building and maintaining a strategy for the whole product lineup and its execution
- Key products PNLs
- Product team transformation from feature-centric to customer-centric
- Introduced and implemented a company-wide system of NSMs and prioritization
- Cross-department communication (quants, analytics, other development teams, machine learning)
- Reporting to top-management
- Team of 30 ppl management (hiring, growing, mentoring, firing)
- key clients and partners' accounting 


Key results
- revenue growth from $xk to $xM through new products launch and scaling
- achieved a pace for mid/large feature experiments of 1 feature per team per month

Cindicator

Head of products

Hybrid intelligence powered financial products for crypto and traditional financial markets

Product Owner

•	Strategic planning;
•	Business model development and adjustment;
•	Maintaining and executing a financial plan;
•	Key account management (enterprises);
•	Building the entire sales pipeline from scratch;
•	Organizational structure development;
•	International partnerships (with a focus on US and Asia high-end corporate clients and VR platform-holders);
•	Investor relations (preparation for the roadshow, negotiations);
•	Product adjustment & analytics.

CEREVRUM INC.

Chief Business Development Officer

- Working for the needs of all company's business units (Mobile, PC, VR, Back-office, etc.);
- Managed to close dozen of deals (new sales channels, co-publishing, payments);
- Supporting almost all existing company's partnerships (Asian major game publishers, key marketplaces, payment providers, analytics, etc.);
- Developing new long-term income sources (VR, internal&external publishing, middleware, additional monetization);
- Business processes optimizing (consolidated budget by billing system building and implementation);
- Planning, preparing, attending and following up to offer several international exhibitions (G-Star, Riot Conference, White Nights, GDC);
- Contracts review;
- Interaction with the awesome top-management team.

Nival

Business Development Manager

- Making global market research;
- Developing new potential markets;
- Analyzing and improving in-game sales;
- Partnership network building (over 15 new global contracts since Nov'14);
- Contracts reviewing and conforming;
- Account management (over 40 partners simultaneously);
- Special projects management (created and maintained the branded merchandise shop, and some other projects)

Battlestate Games (fka Absolutsoft)

Business Development Lead

- The greatest experiment of creating an awesome game development startup (with unique team, management concept and product for Russian market);
- Creation of business model and its constant improving; 
- Day-to-day operations management; 
- Agile project management;
- Planning and coordinating the work of all departments: Art, Web, Dev and Office;
- Business processes building and controlling;
- Recruiting and managing a team of 40 ppl. at the peak;
- Reporting and negotiating with investors and founders.

Mind Meal Studios

•	Working for two core FEA-projects connected with governmental procurement;
•	Bringing out complex gas analyzing system;
•	Planning and coordinating logistics and custom clearing;
•	Account management.

Vladislav Kazakov