
Yev Lebedynska
Product Lead
Salary / Daily rate
Créteil, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Seasoned product manager and team leader experienced in product strategy & execution, platform ecosystems and organizational design within growing product organizations. - Product & Strategy: vision & roadmap, discovery, user research, JTBD, Kano, Design Thinking, full lifecycle management, data-informed decision making - Delivery & Execution: Agile, RICE, Lean, Six Sigma - Leadership & Operations: team management, organizational design, process design, stakeholder alignment, change management
Work experience
Founder & Host
This Is HersFreelance
Aug 2025 - Present
1 year 3 months
This Is Hers is a podcast about identity, ambition, agency and finding your own way. In each episode, I talk to women who’ve carved out space for themselves in leadership, entrepreneurship, media, and more - sharing their experience and challenges on their way to authenticity and fulfillment.
GiftBasketsOverseas.com
Feb 2024 - Present
2 years 9 months
Paris, France
Product Manager @ Ecommerce Platform
Mar 2025 - Present
1 year 8 months
Paris, France
Owning product strategy and execution for a multi-product platform ecosystem driving revenue growth and operational efficiency. - Leading product operating model design and organizational transformation across product, engineering and business teams. - Establishing product alignment across company stakeholders. - Designed and implemented scalable product processes and operating structures to support platform growth. - Enabled organizational change through team mentoring, operating-model redesign, and process structuring. - Leading a cross functional team: PM, engineers, product designers. - Owning data infrastructure, product discovery, roadmaps. - Preparing a new marketplace product for launch (2 mobile apps + web + ecosystem).
Product Manager @ GBO Mobile App
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 2 months
Paris, France
Spearheading mobile app development, launch & lifecycle. - Conducted discovery, user research, product strategy, roadmaps. - Mobile app launched in Oct 2024 - Achieved 54% retained sales in Year 1 mobile app lifecycle - Leveraged AI for product operations - Oversaw API development, third-party integrations - Lead a cross-functional team
Product Strategist
FreelanceFreelance
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
5 months
Paris, France
Consulting. Creating product strategies for startups & scale ups.
McDonald Paper & Restaurant Supplies
Jan 2018 - Aug 2023
5 years 8 months
Chief Product Officer
Dec 2019 - Aug 2023
3 years 9 months
Lead a complete cycle of products' online operations and its teams: product, design, engineering, marketing and customer support. Driven an out-of-the-box Magento ecommerce product to a versatile omnichannel platform for B2B customers and internal teams' operations, which brought tasks and communication automation and ongoing workload optimization for the teams. - Reached profitability for several products in 2 years since launch - Revenue increased x4, sales increased x2.5 in 3 years, acquisitions increased x4, and retention increase x2 - Lead product discovery - Owned products' strategies, roadmap & prioritization - Managed prototyping - Lead product delivery - Set up and optimized agile product operations - Leveraged APIs and third-party integrations for seamless automation and user experience. - Lead & mentored cross-functional teams - Contributed to company operations organization - Scaled successful methods and strategies - KPI's development and implementation - Recruited new talents - Managed P&L
Product Manager
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year 6 months
Aligned company stakeholders to defined the best strategy and roadmap for products' growth. - Lead product discovery, strategy, prototyping and delivery for several products - Owned product roadmaps: transformed several ecommerce products, reached profitability - Lead, mentored, reformed cross-functional teams - Built & scaled effective product ops and profitable strategies - Conducted data analysis, user and market research
Head of Product-Led SEO
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
7 months
Brooklyn, New York
- Increased acquisitions & sales from the channel x10 - Assembled and lead organic search marketing team - Conducted market research and product discovery - Created product prototypes - Defined product strategy and roadmap - Managed product delivery - Recruited and reformed an engineering team - Set up operations for engineering and marketing teams - Provided specifications and data for technical implementations
Product Manager
MediGlobus
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 4 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Led product strategy and delivered a scalable model of medical tourism service together with cofounders and company team leaders. - Mediglobus reached break-even point approximately a year after launch. - Created a product strategy & roadmap - Prototyping - Managed delivery of core features - Trained and mentored cross-functional teams - Consulted on growth strategies - Conducted data analysis
Product Manager
B2C
Sep 2017 - May 2018
9 months
I was invited by my ex-colleagues to consult on a couple of B2C products: beauty (Ukraine), computer hardware (Australia). - Lead product discovery and strategy creation - Lead product launch - Supervised product delivery - Assembled and managed teams - Optimized and automated teams' tasks
Head of Product-Led SEO
Bookimed
May 2017 - Oct 2017
6 months
My goal at Bookimed was to implement product features that would benefit both usability and organic channel outcomes. - Collaborated with stakeholders - Participated in product discovery - Conducted experiments which later became a core product vision - Participated in product strategy definition - Provided input to improve scalability of ops and technical efforts - Defined technical requirements for SEO, UX/UI, product outcomes - Participated in product roadmap prioritization - Developed search optimization, content and marketing strategy - Standardized collaboration and business ops for Content and Organic Growth departments
Product Owner | Head of SEO
WiseWeb LTD
Jul 2016 - May 2017
11 months
WiseWeb was focused on developing the most seamless and effective business processes and standards and scale them to a huge B2B product. I was the product owner of the launch of the child product while providing feedback on the main company's product. - Participated in development of internal products, tools and methodologies - Conducted product discovery - Defined necessary features and criteria for product development - Lead product launch - Roadmap prioritization and product delivery - Ops setup and automation for Search Marketing department - Cross-team business processes setup - Established good relationships and communication with stakeholders - Developed product vision for multiple projects - Provided knowledge base and requirements for SEO, Content, Engineering teams - Received extensive training on: communicating and presenting data to the teams, achieving and monetizing fast results, standards of agile project management.
Digital Growth Strategist
Suntechsoft
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
5 months
Teamed up with a UX /UI architect, we conducted product discovery for multiple projects, created product concepts and prototypes, and launched the first digital product for this company. - Took part in a product discovery - Participated in product vision development, prototyping and delivery - Development of digital marketing strategies - Lead digital marketing campaign - Gained 1 million users/mo on the 3d month in a new niche - Made partnerships with niche influencers - Provided technical specifications for a number of projects - Analytics of digital marketing results and technical implementations
Head of SEO
BOOMERS Group
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
9 months
- Lead and supervised the search marketing team - Development of search marketing strategies - Improved on site SEO, rankings, organic traffic - Provided analytics and technical recommendations for the projects - Supervised technical integration processes - Mentored and trained the team
Project Manager | Technical SEO
Noosphere Ventures
Apr 2013 - Jul 2015
2 years 4 months
- Improved rankings and organic search traffic - Improved technical SEO - Lead 9 projects (4 niches) targeted at US, UK, Canada, Poland, India, South Africa, Australia - Lead MVP launch of new products - Conducted product discovery - Created and prioritized MVP roadmap - Supervised front-end integrations delivery - Managed a network of projects through budget planning, business planning, and SEO development - Provided analytics on digital marketing and product development - Developed search marketing strategies - Coordinated and supervised duties of the team (link builders, copywriters) - Trained and managed a team of content writers and outreach specialists - Coordinated project activity with multiple departments (Accounting, Web development, Marketing, Project management)
Founder | Owner
Private InitiativeFreelance
Sep 2012 - Oct 2014
2 years 2 months
Kyiv, Ukraine, 02000
- Launched an online shop - Created a client base - Managed a client support - Reached BEP for the project - Developed and modified website design (CSS, HTML). - Created merchandise lists. - Established business relationships with management of Chinese suppliers. - Developed optimal individual shipping service for product delivery from China to Ukraine. - Lead SMM activities
Education
Eastern Ukrainian University
Master’s Degree, Sociology and Mass Communications
2006 - 2011
5 years 1 month
Lyceum of Foreign Languages
English Language and Literature, General
2002 - 2006
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
IBM AI Product Manager Specialization
Issued: Jan 2026
Product Management: Building AI-Powered Products
Issued: Dec 2025
Generative AI: Supercharge Your Product Management Career
Issued: Dec 2025
Generative AI: Introduction and Applications
Issued: Nov 2025
Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
Issued: Nov 2025
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Issued: Nov 2025
Generative AI: Foundation Models and Platforms
Issued: Nov 2025
Intermediate SQL
Issued: Aug 2024
AI for Product Management
Issued: Dec 2023