Mário Nunes

Lead Product Manager

Salary / Daily rate

Porto, Portugal

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyGrowthAIPower BIGitRESTful APIsFullstack DevelopmentLLMs / Large language modelsJavaAzureProduct MarketingProject Management (PMO)Go-to-marketCRMHubspotGDPRScrumConfluenceJiraBusiness DevelopmentSalesforceFigmaStrategy & Consultingn8nAgile CoachingA/B TestingWeb AnalyticsSales StrategyProject OwnerMarketing StrategyData AnalysisMachine LearningAWSCoaching

Languages

English (Native)Portuguese (Native)Spanish (Fluent)FrenchJapaneseGerman

About me

Intro

Lead Product Manager with 8+ years in Tech, specializing in software quality & security solutions at global companies like BMW and IDERA. Previous Engineering Lead, led cross-functional teams, drove strategic product direction for +10 products and delivered high-impact releases saving millions in potential costs. Expert in go-to-market strategy, R&D and AI integration to accelerate your product growth. What sets me apart is my ability to bridge the gap between strategic vision and execution.

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Work experience

Lead Product Manager

Sembi

Jan 2025 - Present

1 year 10 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Sembi empowers organizations with world-class solutions for product quality and security management. As the newly formed parent company of TestRail, Xray, Ranorex and others - spanning an annual aggregate revenue well into the hundreds of millions, it focuses on automation, enterprise-scale capabilities, and AI readiness for over 20,000 customers and enterprises worldwide. • Coordinated priorities and requirement gathering among engineering, sales, support, and marketing teams using Agile frameworks, reducing time-to-market for key features by 15% and ensuring timely and high-quality software releases that addressed evolving customer (such as: Amazon, Sony, Bosch) and business needs, resulting in a 10% increase in customer satisfaction scores related to new feature adoption. • Steered growth initiatives for multiple SaaS offerings such as TestRail, Xray, and Ranorex, leveraging feedback cycles and cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment with customer expectations, contributing to a 20% year-over-year revenue growth across the product portfolio. Maintained a strong focus on security and compliance standards, achieving 100% compliance audit success rates for all product lines. • Introduced workflow enhancements across business operations by integrating DevOps toolchains and AI-driven automation frameworks to support rapid delivery and scaling of Sembi IQ, leading to a 25% reduction in deployment cycle time and enabling engineering teams to reallocate 15% of effort towards software quality and security initiatives.

IDERA Software

Nov 2023 - Jan 2025

1 year 3 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Lead Product Manager

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025

1 year 1 month

Remote, OR 97458, USA

Idera delivers B2B software productivity tools that enable technical users to do more with less, faster. • Balanced investment in core feature development and emerging technology adoption by building consensus among senior leadership and guiding teams with data-driven market analysis, AWS, Azure, and DevOps methodologies to strengthen the company’s product portfolio (Accenture, Oracle), resulting in a 12% uplift in product stickiness for core offerings and the successful launch of 2 new cloud-native features that expanded market reach by 8%. • Directed iterative planning cycles by integrating value-focused roadmaps with stakeholder input, applying data-driven approaches and embedded analytics to optimize team output and ensure ongoing alignment with product strategy, improving sprint velocity by 18% and reducing lead time from ideation to delivery by an average of 10 days. • Facilitated cross-functional collaborations by aligning stakeholder requirements with sprint planning in Jira and Confluence, establishing consistent delivery of high-impact releases tailored for user needs in automated testing solutions, leading to a 20% increase in successful feature adoption post-release and a 15% reduction in post-launch critical defects (for companies such as: Salesforce, SAP).

Product Manager

Nov 2023 - Jan 2024

3 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

• Leveraged SQL and Python-driven insights from customer interactions to continuously update product requirements within Confluence, supporting rapid iteration to align with shifting business priorities. • Strengthened schedule predictability by integrating real-time progress analytics from project management platforms used by complex engineering teams at companies such as Siemens and Techmatrix, coordinating adjustments with R&D and testers to reduce bottlenecks, leading to a 20% reduction in project delays and a >95% on-time delivery rate for major releases. • Enhanced internal systems efficiency by integrating automated dashboards with Python and Tableau to support continuous monitoring and decision-making for ongoing product performance, utilized by global firms, improving data-driven decision-making speed by 25% and enabling identification of performance issues 72 hours earlier on average.

Critical TechWorks / BMW

Apr 2019 - Nov 2023

4 years 8 months

Porto, Portugal · Hybrid

Product Owner & Scrum Master

May 2022 - Nov 2023

1 year 7 months

Porto, Portugal · Hybrid

Critical TechWorks is exclusively put together to support BMW in building software for its future driving machines. • Unified a cross-functional Agile team of 20+ engineers and designers across three international locations, achieving a 35% cycle time reduction by implementing continuous integration processes with Jenkins and automated code reviews, while maintaining sprint completion rate above 95% for BMW digital projects over an 18-month period. • Implemented peer review sessions bi-weekly and developed digital knowledge platforms using Confluence, resulting in a 30% increase in code review turnaround time and a 25% reduction in repeat code issues over 12 months, measured by Jira metrics. • Led executive-level decision meetings alongside stakeholders and on-site clients spanning several weeks related to a high-level migration at BMW, reaching desired results at a number of fronts, effectively saving BMW's millions of euros in potential costs.

Engineering Lead & Full Stack Developer

Apr 2019 - May 2022

3 years 2 months

Porto, Portugal · Hybrid

• Guided team members through advanced troubleshooting sessions in Java and related frameworks using regular code walkthroughs and collaborative issue resolution. • Engineered a custom authentication migration from basic auth to Web EAM, automating user validation flows and improving security audit pass rates to 100%, with phased rollout ensuring uninterrupted functionality for 12 distinct application modules. • Facilitated adoption of deployment automation tools project-wide, achieving a >30% cost reduction in release operations and elevating release throughput from 10 to 14 builds per month within one year by standardizing pipeline configurations and reporting with SonarQube and Bitbucket integration.

Frontend Developer & Growth Product Manager

Wegho

Nov 2018 - Apr 2019

6 months

Porto, Portugal

Wegho is a startup pioneer in the digital transformation of Home Cleaning and Facility Services that allows on-demand booking. • Partnered with a team of 3 members including: designers, backend developers, and the CEO to deliver and support the Wegho web and mobile platform, directly contributing to onboarding new 1,000+ active users within six months using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to implement responsive layouts. • Launched continuous UI optimization cycles using web analytics and A/B testing tools on the Wegho platform, achieving a 12% boost in mobile conversion rates and reducing average page load time by seconds, tracked across 10,000+ monthly session traffic. • Defined measurable KPIs for the Wegho Facility Services launch, producing a 40% increase in qualified lead generation and capturing a previously untapped market segment within half a year, building responsive web applications alongside multi-platform support for an up-and-coming startup.

Software Developer

FreelanceFreelance

Sep 2018 - Nov 2018

3 months

Remote

• Ran end-to-end testing and debugging for Lua-based applications, resulting in a 95%+ issue resolution rate prior to delivery and reducing post-deployment client support tickets by 30%. • Translated complex client requirements into Lua scripting solutions deployed in real-time systems, adapting deliverables to meet specific functional and resource constraints and contributing to +95% client satisfaction rates across more than 20 completed projects annually. • Optimized Lua runtime performance and resource utilization for high-traffic web services (e.g., Cloudflare, Nginx-based platforms) and network device firmware, implementing custom C/Lua bindings and profiling tools to decrease average script execution time by roughly 20% and reduce memory footprint by 15%, enhancing system stability under load.

Software Engineer Intern

INESC Technology and Science

Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

8 months

16034 Portofino, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy

INESC TEC is a private non-profit, charitable, dedicated to education, incubation, scientific research and technology consulting. • Contributed to the design and development of a generic Industry 4.0 information model and prototype management application, reducing manual configuration time by 47% over a 6-month pilot implementation using Python, SQL, and RESTful API frameworks. • Developed an augmented reality service prototype application using JavaScript and Unity for commercial clients, supporting deployment across 3 pilot stores and addressing 100+ user interactions weekly, leading to greater product engagement and a 45% improvement in customer support efficiency within a 6-month timeframe. • Delivered a proof-of-concept AR solution that processed queries from 200+ customers weekly across participating retailers, decreasing in-store support requests by 20% through seamless real-time product visualization using mobile platforms and computer vision APIs.


Education

Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

2015 - 2018

3 years


Licenses & certifications

Deep Learning Specialization

Issued: Jan 2024

Certified by DeepLearning.AI

Google Cloud Professional ML Engineer

Issued: Jan 2024

Certified by Google Cloud

Professional Product Owner I + II

Issued: Jan 2023

Certified by Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master I + II

Issued: Jan 2023

Certified by Scrum.org

Cambridge English Certification: CPE Proficiency

Issued: Jan 2014

Certified by Cambridge University

Portfolio

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