Ilia Zelenkin

Product Manager • AI & Machine Learning Engineer • Operations Manager • Barcelona, CT, ES

Project Management

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services

A/B Testing

Agile Project Management

Process Optimization

Process Improvement

Data Analysis

Product Strategy

Customer Service

Customer Discovery

Machine Learning

Product Management

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Award-winning Product Leader with a knack for B2B software and A.I.

Hola from Barcelona! I love building new things, especially, zero to one. I've been a product Manager/Owner for over 15+ years of experience building, launching, and scaling products in large enterprises and startups. I specialize in the most exciting part of product building - starting from scratch. And super comfortable working with unknown and unclear signals. All products I've launched were scaled to millions of users, received multiple awards, and brought value to their customers. I've led large 20+ teams with cross-functional overlap and also small startup teams with just me and the other guy. I also have experience in budgeting, program, and project management, stakeholder relationships, and customer interview

Projects

Bitskout - Hire A.I. for your back office tasks

I've built the product executing my own idea, released and scaled it to grow 15% MoM in MRR. UNESCO Top 100 A.I. projects in 2021 and 2022. Raised VC and negotiated partnerships with Asana and monday.comSee More

Nokia Sensing As a Service

Originated the idea, built a business case, received a budget, hired a team (3 people) + selected an HW vendor to build the first product version. Successfully, piloted with Telefonica, Vodafone UK, and T-Mobile. Scaled to a portfolio item and orchestrated the spinoff to an Enterprise business unit. IoT World Congress 2018 award for the Best Business Model. Multiple international awards including from IoT world congress for best business model innovation.See More

Nokia Data Marketplace

A spinoff from Sensing as a Service - I saw a new product and created a business case, received a budget, and led a team to develop the first MVP. Currently, a portfolio item is used by customers like Airbus, Fifa, and Peugeot.See More

Nokia Digital Assistant

I've created the first vertically focused chatbot for telecom engineers. Built a business case, developed the first iOS MVP, and demonstrated it at Mobile World Congress in 2016. and then hired a team and scaled the product to a portfolio item generating tens of millions in revenues and >0.5M users. 10 international awards.See More

Saferoom - Encryption app for OneNote/Evernote

Wrote together with my dad and my brother an app to encrypt Evernote notes. Hobby project.See More

Special Projects - AR mobile app for construction

I was a lead PM - hired a team (4 experts from Toptal+2 ML engineers from the University of Padova), negotiated with the customer (site access, testing, user interviews), and build the MVP that was working for a commercial center in Helsinki. Orchestrated a spinoff to Enterprise Business Unit.See More

Special Projects: Sensorless Indoor Positioning System

Together with University of Padova I have developed an indoor positioning system for emergency services. It allows the fireman or rescue team to scan a map of the building (all buildings have fire escape maps) and using that map we could overlay in real time the positions of the rescue personnel in the unknown buildings.See More

Bell Labs - Environmental Data market study

I've built a comprehensive report for a large operator for new market entry. The report had an overall market report, current trends, competitor analysis, technical feasibility study, and business model analysis. The final part of the report contained a detailed market penetration strategy (3 basic scenarios) with a detailed roadmap. Based on this report, Bell Labs created a blueprint for market analysis per country and allowed multiple infrastructure operators to create new revenue streams.See More

Work History

CEO/Co-founder

BitskoutBitskout is software platform that allows non-tech teams extract data from documents and emails to their tools in a few clicks. - Idea, investigation, customer interviews, and first MVP developed - Product-focused CEO with hands-on in machine learning/generative AI part - Working with customers, agreeing on trials, conducting data-based research - Fundraising, partnership negotiations - Sales and marketing

Head of Product, Global Services

NokiaSep 2009 - Dec 2019 • 10 yrs 4 mos- created and launched 3 portfolio products putting Nokia into A.I. map - build an entire product management function inside Global Services to create new software - design and led data acquisition programs to build long-term data analytics solutions - +10 international awards

Care Technical Manager

Nokia Apr 2006 - Sep 2009 • 3 yrs 6 mos- Technical support operations for telco operators - Reporting, investigations, and customer presentations - Rota management, team schedules and queue management - Raised NPS from 6.9 to 9.2 (all time high in EMEA)

Education

ITMO

Masters, TelecommunicationsSep 2000 - Jun 2006

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