Ruby on Rails
Imran Akyol
Product Manager
Berlin
Summary
Experienced and highly determined Product Manager passionate about developing innovative methods to drive business goals. Specializes in leading teams through product discovery and shipment. Comfortable working in fast-paced, but structured environments. In the day-to-day work life, people-oriented mentality and thriving to work in a comfortable environment for all colleagues is essential.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Product Manager
hubblr GmbH
Remote
6 2022 - Current
- Analyzed competitive landscapes to identify market opportunities, informing strategic business decisions.
- Tested multiple solutions to understand buying intention and profitability of new markets.
- Designed and built MVPs without engineering efforts to ship solutions and discover opportunities rapidly.
- Created bi-weekly presentations to update stakeholders on new opportunities and decisions to continue or drop ongoing opportunities.
Senior Product Manager Consultant
Circus Kitchens
Hamburg
06.2022 - 06.2023
- Early stage Ghost Kitchen startup
- Lead product and engineering team under CTO
- Analyzed user behavior with Amplitude and monitoring funnel drops.
- Analyzed operational. performances and identifying cost reducing opportunities
- Shipped three new products and integrated into ongoing operational processes, thereby doubling performance and kitchen output.
- Organized and managed commercetools integration and data migration to prepare for scale-up and overcome technical limitations.
- Mentored engineering teams to establish error monitoring, QA processes and shipment maintenance.
- Introduced Segment for sophisticated tracking and analytics environment
- Reduced time-to-market by optimizing workflows throughout entire product lifecycles, from ideation to launch with JIRA automations and clear meeting structures.
- Created and executed Scrum workshops for new tech teams to understand and define scrum ceremonies and definitions of ready to release, ready to build and reference stories.
- Established event tracking and delivery to braze, Adjust and Amplitude for analytics
- Built and supported new data team for entire business
- Supported C-level with data-driven guidance for strategic business decisions
- Hired of new Product Managers and onboarding new colleagues
- Structured workflows throughout all departments and setting up Project Management tools with Atlassian
- Product Ownership for tech team of 3 Frontend Engineers and 2 Backend Engineers, and tech team of 3 Frontend Engineers and 1 Backend Engineer
Product Manager
shyftplan GmbH
Berlin
03.2019 - 06.2022
- SaaS for workforce management
- Established good relationships with users and relevant customer persona
- Maintained clean backlog that reflects stakeholder needs and business goals.
- Managed team of 7 developers and 2 QA managers
- Built JIRA structures, automations and integrations to reflect project workflows and minimize maintenance efforts.
- Consulted Sales and Customer Success teams as product expert in customer calls, onboarding, and sales.
- Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Continually maintained and improved company's reputation and positive image in markets served.
- Organized team-building events for product and engineering teams.
- Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others.
- Scripted and shipped solutions in Ruby on Rails for key customer problems for successful pilot project and entering new market.
Research Assistant
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Fundamental Research Practices
- Within the scope of my studies, I worked on several research projects in our faculty labs
- Collecting and analyzing data
- Planning and conducting scientific measurements
- Concluding and presenting findings
Education
Associate Arts Degree - Film
New York Film Academy
New York City, USA 08.2021 - 12.2022
B.Sc. Physics -
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany 10.2014 - 04.2019
High School With Science Intensive Program -
OSZ Lise-Meitner
Berlin, Germany 08.2012 - 10.2014
High school with science intensive program -
Kerschensteiner Schule
Stuttgart, Germany 08.2010 - 08.2012
Skills
People Management: Team Building, Stakeholder Management, Cross-departmental Alignment, Team Recruiting and Hiring, Onboarding
Software Engineering: Ruby on Rails, Golang RESTful APIs, Scripting, Flutterflow
Analytics: Google Analytics, Segment, Tableau, Amplitude
Tooling: Salesforce, Braze, Commercetools, Intercom
People Management: Team Building, Stakeholder Management, Cross-departmental Alignment, Team Recruiting and Hiring, Onboarding
Accomplishments
- Launched solutions to enter and create product/market-fit in a new profitable landscape for shyftplan GmbH, trippling ARR and improving sales funnel.
- Enabled sophisticated tracking and analytics structures to drive customer acquisition and retention with braze, Adjust, and Amplitude, leading to investor satisfaction and a second investment round of 10M
- Increased customer retention by improving operational processes to reduce delivery times and meet customer expectations.
- Identified a profitable market for new products in the care industry and acquired two paying early adopters to build a sophisticated full product.
Teaching
Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Mathematical Methods of Physics, 2017
Extracurricular Activities
- CFSTU (feature film) 2020 - Production Assistant and Assistant Editor for a low-budget movie project
- Theatre course by Sebastian Zett 2019 - Acting for theatre
- Actor in play 'Emilia Galotti' 2013-2014 - Final course performance of a one year acting for theatre course
Projects
See full list of projects on www.transaidency.org
- Online Tuition (Tutor)
- Moabiter Möglichkeiten (Ambassador)
- Jugend für die Zukunft stärken (Mentor)
Software
Golang
C
Flutter
Timeline
Senior Product Manager Consultant
Circus Kitchens
06.2022 - 06.2023
Associate Arts Degree - Film
New York Film Academy
08.2021 - 12.2022
Product Manager
shyftplan GmbH
03.2019 - 06.2022
Research Assistant
Technische Universität Berlin
01.2017 - 01.2019
B.Sc. Physics -
Technische Universität Berlin
10.2014 - 04.2019
High School With Science Intensive Program -
OSZ Lise-Meitner
08.2012 - 10.2014
High school with science intensive program -
Kerschensteiner Schule
08.2010 - 08.2012
Product Manager
hubblr GmbH
6 2022 - Current