Seasoned Product Manager, Entrepreneur, and ex-Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience in bringing ideas to market across many different industries and a wide range of global companies including startups and Fortune 500 leaders IBM, Philips Healthcare, and PNC Financial Services. Data-minded and action-driven team leader.
- Building and leading cross-functional distributed product teams
- Managing full product lifecycle, from idea to market, using Agile and Lean Startup methodologies
- Experience with managing commercial B2B cloud/on-prem products and services, and data science projects
- Consistently achieving performance goals through continuous innovation and execution focus
- Honing leadership, strategic planning, and business development skills as co-founder of 2 startups
- Driven for professional excellence by combining practice with formal training - MBA program from Carnegie Mellonโs Tepper School of Business, Product Management Training Program from UC Berkeley, People Management Training from University of London, and MS in Electronics and Automation from the Technical University of Sofia
๐ Nationality | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
๐ก Residency | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
๐ Location | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
Remote OK | rok.co/@stzanev |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-tzanev/ | |
Nomad List | stzanev |
Skilled in | product management product strategy team management product roadmaps product usage analytics pricing user research customer experience design thinking agile lean startup innovation labs data privacy healthcare hl7 machine learning ai b2b saas paas apis |
Fluent in | englishbulgarian |
Preferred timezone | +5,+6,+7,+8,0,-1,-2 |
Preferred annual pay (min) | $180,000/year |
Preferred hourly pay (min) | $90/hour |
Last seen | 1 year ago |
Signed up | 1 year ago |
Badges |
๐จ Maker ๐ Early adopter |
2021 - 2022: Senior Product Manager @ Privitar
2019 - 2021: Innovation Manager @ PNC Financial Services
2015 - 2019: Lead Offering Manager @ IBM Watson
2014 - 2015: VP of Product, Co-founder @ Dbaza Health
2013 - 2014: Product Manager @ WeSpeke
2012 - 2013: Priduct Manager @ Trustwave Holdings
2003 - 2012: Global Product Manager @ Philips Respironics
2013 - 2013: Strategy Consulting