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Galina Kuklenko

Product Manager Lead
Amsterdam,UT

Summary

Passionate about building products that matter to people.

Creative and data-driven Product Leader with 13+ years experience in Product Management, Business Analysis and Technical Writing.

7+ years as a PM building global product in location technology, digital maps industry and traffic and travel services. I seek to inspire and drive cross-functional collaboration to achieve great things together. I am always curious to learn new things; currently exploring different applications of AI to maximize business outcomes. Avid evangelizer of lean product principles and product-led company culture.

Overview

6
6
years of post-secondary education
15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Manager Traffic

TomTom
Amsterdam
03.2020 - Current

Product Manager responsible for global historical traffic products (Traffic Speed Patterns and Traffic Density) aiming to improve estimated travel times (ETAs) for drivers and B2B customers.

Led product launch process of 2 new products to expand product portfolio (vision and strategy, pricing, go-to-market, stakeholder alignment, cross-functional collaboration, giving webinars on ETA topic).

On-boarded new customers and increased product revenue by 20%

● Installed OKR process to align product development around objectives and key results.

● Defined key metrics and installed end-to-end measuring of data product on routing application.

● Led product discovery and UX research to identify key areas of focus

● Pivoted product (Traffic Density) into a new market and increased its revenue by 50%.

Product Manager Maps

TomTom
Amsterdam
10.2013 - 03.2020
  • PM in TomTom Maps division for Points of Interest product used by business customers in automotive, travel and geo-marketing industries.
  • Led product development for Europe region and new product features globally.
  • Crafted Points of interest differentiated product offering to improve Driver user experience and rolled- out globally (through user research and usage analytics).
  • Increased operational efficiency by exploring innovative ways to achieve higher level of quality,
  • Initiated and launched new product offering for truck navigation (+ 2 big automotive customers and strategic opportunities to grow revenue in a new market segment) and for drivers of electrical vehicles (+10 automotive customers)
  • Initiated and led redesign (from concept to launch) of legacy features in product portfolio to increase usage and customer satisfaction.

Senior Business Analyst

Epam Systems UA
02.2011 - 10.2013
  • EPAM is a leading outsourcing company in software development in Ukraine.
  • I was supporting these clients to launch new software products based on new ATG technology: Telefónica O2 online selfcare, B&Q DYI e-Commerce.
  • Led requirements elicitation and facilitation between key stakeholders on customer side and software engineers Aligned software development and Quality Assurance to successfully launch new products.

Business Analyst

Intego Group (Conova GmbH) UA
08.2009 - 02.2011
  • Intego Group is a B2B software outsourcing agency.
  • I was supporting these clients to create new digital products for their end users: Volksbank Austria, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, PNI media.
  • Collaborated with customers, software engineers and project stakeholders to ensure project successful closeout.
  • Supported software development and testing with appropriate documentation (use cases, user stories, requirements documents, UML diagrams, UI prototypes, user acceptance criteria, test plans and test cases).

Lead of Technical Writing Department

Stella Systems UA
08.2005 - 08.2008
  • Client: US based MedeAnalytics, a web-based application service provider platform offering innovative business intelligence and analytical tools for the healthcare performance management.
  • Led a team of technical writers (4 people) Delivered technical and customer facing types of documentation.

Education

nano degree - Artificial Intelligence For Product Managers

Udacity
12.2019 - 01.2020

Certificate - Certification Product And Marketing Manager

Product Focus
12.2015 - 01.2016

1 Year Scholarship - German And English Languages, Cognitive Linguistic

Humboldt University of Berlin
09.2004 - 08.2005

Master's Degree - Foreign language studies, German/English language and literature

Kharkiv State University V.N. Karazin (Ukraine)
01.2000 - 01.2005

Skills

    Product Management (product vision, strategy, roadmap)

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Additional Information

  • Experience working in an Agile environment with co-located and distributed teams globally Industries: mobility and location-based services, travel, e-commerce, business intelligence, healthcare

Timeline

Product Manager Traffic

TomTom
03.2020 - Current

nano degree - Artificial Intelligence For Product Managers

Udacity
12.2019 - 01.2020

Certificate - Certification Product And Marketing Manager

Product Focus
12.2015 - 01.2016

Product Manager Maps

TomTom
10.2013 - 03.2020

Senior Business Analyst

Epam Systems UA
02.2011 - 10.2013

Business Analyst

Intego Group (Conova GmbH) UA
08.2009 - 02.2011

Lead of Technical Writing Department

Stella Systems UA
08.2005 - 08.2008

1 Year Scholarship - German And English Languages, Cognitive Linguistic

Humboldt University of Berlin
09.2004 - 08.2005

Master's Degree - Foreign language studies, German/English language and literature

Kharkiv State University V.N. Karazin (Ukraine)
01.2000 - 01.2005
Galina KuklenkoProduct Manager Lead