
Alin Stanescu
Senior Technical Product Manager | SaaS
Salary / Daily rate
50055 Romanina, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Technical Product Manager with 10+ years specializing in SaaS and maritime/fintech solutions. Led 0→1 product launches including marketplace platforms, delivered real-time operational dashboards, and drove digital transformation across shipping industries. Ready to turn your product vision into scalable, user-focused solutions.
Work experience
Technical Product Manager (Maritime SaaS)
Ninety Percent of Everything (90POE)
Nov 2022 - Present
4 years
Remote
90POE (Ninety Percent of Everything) is a maritime technology company building OpenOcean STUDIO, a cloud-based platform that unlocks data silos and drives digital transformation across the shipping industry. • Led product development for onRADAR with real-time, exception-based alerts and customisable rules, helping operators prioritise issues and respond faster. • Shipped an intuitive operations dashboard and a single source of truth for fleet data, improving transparency and collaboration across ship and shore. • Enabled secure ship-to-shore messaging and simplified task management to streamline incident resolution. • Built and evolved mobile apps for crews and shore teams to capture and share operational data anywhere, improving day-to-day connectivity across voyages. • Stakeholder and client management: ran customer reviews and executive demos, aligned engineering, data, design, and operations, and maintained tight feedback loops with key accounts. • Competitor and market analysis: benchmarked maritime tools and data vendors, identified capability gaps, and fed insights into positioning and roadmap. • Outcomes: defined and tracked KPIs (adoption, alert handling and accuracy, time-to-insight) and iterated for safer, more efficient operations. • Worked with data and integrations underpinning fleet visibility (e.g., vessel status and environmental conditions) to inform alerting and decision-making. • Used Postman to exercise platform/vendor APIs, generate test datasets, validate contracts, and reproduce data issues before releases.
Co-founder & Technical Product Manager (Marketplace)
Salon365RO
Jan 2019 - Jul 2023
4 years 7 months
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Product presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ide7uL8bjsc • Took Salon365.ro from idea to launch: validated demand with interviews, defined the marketplace MVP, coordinated build, and shipped the first version. • Co-founded Salon365.ro, one of Romania’s first online marketplaces for on-demand beauty services. • Led product development of the platform connecting clients with certified beauty professionals for in-home and salon appointments. • Focused on streamlining booking flows and improving the user journey, resulting in a more seamless and reliable appointment experience. • Set up AWS (S3/CloudFront/IAM/EC2) with OWASP-aligned controls (security headers, rate limiting, basic WAF rules). • Used Postman with our APIs to exercise endpoints and to test and validate booking, payments, and notifications across environments. Instrumented Google Analytics, Hotjar, and similar tools to spot drop-offs and guide what to build next or enhance. • Added Sentry to track checkout/auth errors and speed up fixes.
Senior Product Owner (Fintech SaaS) (SAP E-commerce)
Pentalog
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
4 years
Cluj County, Romania
Projects: 1️⃣ SAP E-commerce Webshop (S4HANA / SCPI / Commerce / Spartacus) • Acted as Product Owner for one of Germany’s leading toy manufacturers, overseeing the delivery of a new SAP-based digital commerce platform. • Defined product vision, roadmap, and user stories; worked with UX and engineering teams to deliver a seamless multi-channel shopping experience for B2C and institutional customers. • Ensured alignment between business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver high-quality, on-brand user experiences. 2️⃣ Fintech SaaS for Collateral, Liquidity & Interest Management (Banking/Finance) • Product Owner for an award-winning platform delivering automated collateral workflows end-to-end: margin calls, eligibility, substitutions, settlement, reporting, and interest management. • Led discovery, prioritization, and delivery to streamline compliance and risk processes, improving liquidity visibility and operational efficiency. • Partnered with UX, engineering, and stakeholders to define clear requirements and ship reliable, timely releases in a regulated environment. Core Responsibilities: • Owned end-to-end product lifecycle — from vision to release and iteration. • Created and maintained use cases, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria ensuring clarity and traceability. • Managed roadmaps and sprint backlogs, driving alignment with strategic goals. • Facilitated cross-team communication, knowledge sharing, and onboarding for new joiners. • Partnered with UX on usability testing and customer journey optimization. • Supported data analysis and performance monitoring to inform product decisions.
Product Owner (Workspaces) (Virtual Desktop SaaS / VDI)
Neverfail
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
2 years
Cluj County, Romania
Product: Neverfail Workspaces - A self-managed, secure cloud platform for provisioning and managing Windows® virtual desktops and applications at scale. • Owned product vision and roadmap for a virtual workspace SaaS platform enabling global users to deploy and manage thousands of Windows-based virtual machines. • Collaborated with UX and engineering to design intuitive admin and user interfaces, improving provisioning speed and scalability. • Defined use cases, epics, and user stories; ensured development alignment with business goals and release priorities. • Partnered with stakeholders across engineering, QA, and customer support to optimize delivery processes and enhance reliability. • Maintained backlog prioritization, release documentation, and cross-team knowledge sharing to ensure transparent communication and efficient sprint execution. • Supported data analysis and performance monitoring to inform roadmap decisions and improve product quality. • Used Postman with platform and vendor APIs to test and validate workspace provisioning, authentication, and sync flows. • Monitored system health and usage with Grafana (provisioning latency, failure rates, capacity) and refined alerting with engineering. • Worked with Active Directory to manage users, groups, and policies for virtual Windows environments; coordinated rollout and access controls.
Co-founder & Product Manager (UX Analytics) (Mobile)
UXRecord
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
2 years 3 months
Cluj County, Romania
Product presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8j0wRmEQsQ • Co-founded and led product development for UXRecord, a mobile analytics and UX research platform for Android and iOS app teams. • Took UXRecord from idea to shipped product (0→1): validated the problem with user interviews, defined MVP, led build, and launched to early design/developer teams. • Designed and delivered tools that enabled developers and designers to capture real user interactions through synchronized screen recordings, facial feedback, and touch heatmaps. • Built collaborative features for annotating screenshots, sharing insights, and assigning design improvements, enhancing cross-team feedback loops. • Introduced in-app behavioral analytics, including screen time, tap frequency, and gesture tracking to support usability testing. • Focused on bridging UX research and mobile app development, helping teams make data-driven design decisions faster.
Senior Business Analyst (HR Tech) (Recruiting Tools)
Xoomworks Ltd
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
1 year 3 months
Cluj County, Romania
Certificates: Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) · Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I) • Focused on web and mobile product delivery, emphasizing usability, modern architecture, and scalable UX. • Partnered with cross-functional teams to transition on-premise software to modern cloud-based solutions, improving maintainability and user experience. • Supported early-stage startup products, driving readiness for market launch and establishing product strategy foundations. • Conducted competitive benchmarking and process mapping (BPMN, UML) to inform product direction and prioritization. • Defined and prioritized user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria, ensuring alignment between business goals and engineering execution. • Collaborated on lean UX prototyping using Axure, InVision, and Balsamiq to test and validate new features. • Led Agile ceremonies (story mapping, backlog grooming, sprint planning) and maintained release documentation and quality assurance standards. • Contributed to defining monetization models and supporting go-to-market decisions.
Business Analyst (Healthcare/Pharma)
Tecknoworks
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
1 year 5 months
Cluj County, Romania
Certificate: Business Analysis Certified • Supported web and mobile software projects for a leading global medical and pharmaceutical company. • Acted as the liaison between business stakeholders and engineering teams, translating customer requirements into functional specifications and user stories. • Created Axure prototypes, wireframes, and UML diagrams to visualize features and improve stakeholder alignment. • Managed project documentation and backlog using Jira and Confluence, ensuring clarity and delivery consistency. • Facilitated sprint planning and prioritization, keeping stakeholders informed through regular progress updates and demos. • Delivered internal B2B presentations and contributed to defining information architecture and functional requirements. • Regularly traveled to client sites for workshops, user feedback sessions, and roadmap discussions.
Co-founder & Product Manager (Consumer Social) (Mobile)
evolso
Feb 2012 - Oct 2014
2 years 9 months
Cluj County, Romania
🎥 DemoDay Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSBuwWYhNQ • Co-founded and led product development for Evolso, a mobile-first social dating app designed to give women more control and choice in initiating connections. • Introduced a unique location-based matching system, allowing users to connect through mutual favorite venues and plan real-life meetups safely. • Oversaw concept design, user flows, and MVP launch, collaborating with designers and developers to deliver an intuitive mobile experience. • Conducted early-stage user testing and feedback loops to validate engagement features and improve retention.
Business Analyst (E-commerce)
Evozon
Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
1 year 3 months
Cluj County, Romania
Certificate: Google Analytics Certified (GAIQ) • Focused on web and mobile eCommerce platforms, supporting the full product lifecycle within Agile development teams. • Collaborated with clients to define business needs and translate them into functional designs, user stories, and UX/UI prototypes (InVision, Moqups, draw.io). • Created and maintained product backlogs and project documentation in Jira and Confluence, ensuring alignment between stakeholders and engineering. • Conducted UX audits and Google Analytics reviews, producing actionable insights and optimization proposals based on data-driven performance metrics. • Facilitated knowledge transfer sessions on Hybris technology and analytics best practices for new team members. • Served as liaison between business and technical teams, ensuring smooth communication and on-time delivery of sprint objectives.
Member
AIESEC Romania
Sep 2010 - Mar 2013
2 years 7 months
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Managing Logistics at big NGO Fests like : LSS ( leadership summer school ) & RYLF ( Romanian Youth Leadership Forum )
Education
Facultatea de Ştiinţe Economice şi Gestiunea Afacerilor
Year 3 , Marketing
2010 - 2013
4 years
Colegiul InfoEl , Bistrita
Baccalaureate
2005 - 2009
5 years