tschernezki

Cpo/Product Lead

I'm a 'builder' kind of person in crypto and DeFi products with a great product-design background and experience in user research, human-centred design, design management, lean and agile methodologies.

I provide consultancy and mentorship for companies in strategic planning, go-to-market strategy, tokenomics design, unit-economy modelling, blockchain research and also product design, research and design management.


Experience: 6 years

Yearly salary: $80,000

Hourly rate: $50

Nationality: 🇵🇱 Poland

Residency: 🇵🇱 Poland


Experience

Advisor and co-founder
Promethium Finance
2023 - 2024
Co-founder and DeFi advisor in automated liquidity rebalancer, a protocol that manages liquidity automatically, based on the on-chain data analysis, giving the best APRs on the market.
Product Management Consultant
DeXe DAO Studio
2023 - 2024
The best on-chain DAO management tool. Decentralised protocol for voting and governance. My role was a consultancy for the team of founders and managers on the product strategy, metrics improvement, new growth opportunities, scrum processes, etc.
Product Management Consultant
Zeply
2023 - 2023
Zeply is a startup working on B2B and B2C products for crypto/fiat interoperability, such as consumers app with buy/sell crypto features, crypto card by Visa, and such as crypto-processing for businesses. My role was to help working with product customers research, conducting competitors and growing revenue and conversions for B2C product.
Product Manager
Everlend Finance
2022 - 2023
Automated liquidity allocator for lending & borrowing protocols on Solana Blockchain. Product offers re-balance and re-finance, to gain the highest lending APY and the lowest borrowing rates.
Product Manager
Hiveon
2020 - 2022
World â„–1 software for crypto mining and financial services. My role as a product manager is delivering perfect product for customers, aligning it with business goals and engineering capabilities. During the year I've started strategic planning, applied data-analysis, user research, backlog prioritisation and switched dev-team to scrum. I'm working with data analytics, writing product requirements, and managing whole team of 20 people including developers, designers, QA, technical writer and data analytic. Also I'm doing competitors analysis, JTBD-interviews, and A/B tests on regular basis. I launched +1 new product in company ecosystem from scratch, and significantly improved user-centricity of the main products.
Research and Development Product Manager
Pivdenny Bank
2020 - 2021
- UX of iOS and Android mobile applications - Setting KPIs for the team - Team OKR and skills-matrix - Design involvement on a strategic level - Stakeholders interview - Business and system analysis - Information architecture - Conducting user-research process on regular basis - Building users community
Product Design Instructor
IT Education Academy (ITEA)
2019 - 2020
ITEA is an educational project for the comprehensive training and development of IT industry specialists for whole Ukraine. I reinvented its design courses, making it more efficient for students with different background and experience.
Product Lead
Uklon
2019 - 2020
Uklon — is №1 ride-sharing service in Ukraine for web and mobile devices. My responsibilities: - Design management of 4 people team - Hiring designers - Providing OKR and skills-matrix for product-team - User research - User-centric design - Design-to-delivery process - Design-language and knowledge base
Product Designer
Rocket
2018 - 2018
Food delivery service (in 2020 is in TOP10 delivery apps of EU) - Stakeholders interview - Business and system analysis - Information architecture - Customer-journey mapping - Design iOS and Android apps for customers - Design cross-platform app for couriers - Design dashboards for customer support and for restaurants - Build Design system in Figma
Senior UX Designer
FigLeaf
2018 - 2019
FigLeaf (now AURA) is a privacy-first company, offering consumers the choice to be private when they desire. My responsibilities: - UX Research - Usability testing - Working on product features with product team - Working in cross-functional team as a designer
Head Of Design
Pokupon.ua and SuperDeal.ua
2017 - 2019
Pokupon is a biggest daily-deals online service in Ukraine and Belarus. My responsibilities: - Stakeholders interview - Align business metrics with design strategy - Hiring and developing designers - Managing design team of 3 people

Skills

agile
analyst
bootstrap
business-development
consulting
economy-designer
engineering-manager
executive
product-lead
product-marketing
research
scrum
strategy
technical-writer
ux-researcher
vc
web3
product-manager
english
czech
russian
ukrainian