Iulia Jipa
Senior Product Owner | Agile Delivery
Salary / Daily rate
Málaga, Spain
Mobility: Madrid
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Product Owner & Delivery Manager with 15+ years driving complex IoT platform development and cloud migrations. Led international teams delivering scalable solutions with 99.99% availability, launched B2B platforms from MVP to market with 3+ clients. Expert in SAFe, Agile methodologies, and stakeholder management - ready to accelerate your product success.
Work experience
Senior Product Owner
Ilkari
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
Málaga, Spain
Merkle DACH
Oct 2021 - Oct 2024
3 years 1 month
Remote · Remote
Technical Delivery Manager, Consultant
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
2 years 3 months
Remote · Remote
-> Led international teams in delivering complex IoT solutions, ensuring projects are on time and within budget. -> Acted as primary point of contact for stakeholders, managing expectations and building strong relationships. -> Defined and managed project roadmaps, aligning engineering team capacity with business objectives. -> I ensured the projects are scalable, maintainable andaligned with the strategic IT initiatives and architecture roadmaps. -> I drove a continuous improvement of the Agile delivery processes, ensuring efficiency of the IoT delivery teams, meeting SLAs, facilitating the adoption of best practices and ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and quality standards. -> Mastered Jira for backlog management and reporting, Confluence for requirements gathering and project status, Miro for workflow design and SAFe PI Planning
Senior Product Owner, Consultant
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
11 months
Remote · Remote
-> Defined the Roadmaps for the IoT platform components, collaborating with Product Owners, Solution Managers and Architects. -> Led IoT platform development, testing and deployment, ensuring internal customer needs were met. -> Continuously monitored the health and performance of the IoT platform. -> Managed day-to-day activities of the development team, providing Level 3 support for internal clients. -> Mastered Jira for backlog management and reporting, Confluence for requirements gathering and project status, Miro for workflow design and SAFe PI Planning
Technical Product Owner
Equifax
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
1 year 4 months
Dublin, Ireland
-> Led the migration of the B2B applications to Google Cloud Platform, ensuring 99.99% availability and improved performance. -> I owned the technical backlog and worked together withback-end engineers, SREs, manual and automation quality engineers, -> Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver on time and manage interdependencies with other projects. -> Developed skills in CICD, Terraform, API, microservices, and SAFe methodology. -> Mastered Jira for backlog management and reporting, Confluence for requirements gathering and project status
Product Manager
LetsGetChecked
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
1 year 4 months
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland · On-site
-> Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver the MVP of a B2B platform from scratch, launching 3 clients on the first version of the platform. -> Interacted with clients and channel partners to gather feedback and identify solutions for user problems. -> Managed the product roadmap, led multiple projects concurrently and set the core development team on an Agile path. -> Mastered Jira for backlog management and reporting, Confluence for requirements gathering and project status
Technical Product Owner, Consultant
Stefanini
Oct 2018 - May 2019
8 months
Bucharest, Romania · Hybrid
-> Led a team of backend engineers in a SAFe environment to modernize the Dell Leasing Platform from a legacy platform into microservices and APIs. -> Acted as a liaison between business product manager, technical architect and the scrum team to fulfill the stakeholder requirements. -> Coordinated the development, automation and testing of the functionality of the new Leasing platform with key learnings in TFS, CICD, BDD and Scrum.
Product Manager
Nobel Financial
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 2 months
Bucharest, Romania
-> Managed the online money transfer product strategy and roadmaps, prioritizing features and user experience to exceed customer expectations. -> Owned the end-to-end product life-cycle, from competition research to monitoring and reporting. -> Led stakeholder management, project management and held Scrum Master duties for the online money transfer website at Nobel Financial. -> Mastered Jira for backlog management and reporting, Confluence for requirements gathering and project status, Miro for workflow design
Digital Product Owner / Team Leader
ERB Retail Services
May 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 6 months
Bucharest, Romania
-> Led cross-functional teams to launch the first online lending platform in Romania, coordinating internal and external teams for successful integration with third-party applications. -> Managed one release end to end, extended platform capabilities for existing lending channels, and implemented the platform for all current partners. -> Coordinated the business and technical requirements for integration with a Payments Service Provider, managed a team of 4-5 people and ensured effective reporting and communication throughout the project lifecycle.
UniCredit Bank Romania
May 2011 - May 2016
5 years 1 month
On-site
SME Liabilities Product/Project Manager
Nov 2015 - May 2016
7 months
On-site
-> Analyzed customer database to propose new SME product scheme based on transactional behavior. -> Led process improvement project for new loan application system.
Consumer Loan Product Manager Marketing
May 2011 - Oct 2015
4 years 6 months
On-site
-> Led multiple projects for lending products at UniCredit Bank Romania, including implementing a new automobile acquisition loan application and simplifying customer loan documention. -> Coordinated marketing campaigns to drive growth and decrease attrition, resulting in increased profitability by changing product mix. -> I was part of the project team that migrated the lending products from RBS Bank consumer portfolio.
BCR
Aug 2009 - May 2011
1 year 10 months
Bucharest, Romania
Consumer Loan Product Manager
Apr 2010 - May 2011
1 year 2 months
Bucharest, Romania
-> Coordinated new projects and campaigns for consumer loans portfolio at Commercial Bank of Romania (BCR), focusing on growth and attrition reduction. -> Led cross-functional teams for product development projects, collaborating with various departments for successful outcomes. -> Implemented legislative changes of OUG 50/2010, ensuring compliance and efficiency in operations.
Retail Monitoring Specialist
Aug 2009 - May 2010
10 months
Bucharest, Romania
-> Coordinated reporting activities for SLAs and KPIs, ensuring alignment between Operations and other departments. -> Defined SLAs and monitored agreements to meet retail clients' needs effectively. -> Revised operational systems based on CRM department feedback to enhance client satisfaction. -> Identified retail clients' requests and implemented system changes to improve response times.
Telemobil S.A.
Nov 2005 - Aug 2009
3 years 10 months
Bucharest, Romania
Product Manager Internet Services
Sep 2007 - Aug 2009
2 years
Bucharest, Romania
-> Led the product vision and priorities by conducting consumer analysis and market research for mobile and fixed data services relaunch in Telemobil. -> Contributed to the successful launch of the 3G HSDPA portfolio, driving growth and innovation in the internet services sector.
Collection Officer
Nov 2005 - Aug 2007
1 year 10 months
Bucharest, Romania
-> Managed top 10 Telemobil customers, ensuring timely debt payments and negotiating payment dates for customer satisfaction. -> Analyzed customer profiles to determine reasons for nonpayment and resolve payment issues effectively.
Education
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Master
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Bachelor's degree