CEO and Product Manager
2017 - PRESENTFabrikator Information Technologies- Started an innovative supply chain tech company disrupting the DTC tech space.
- Raised seed investment from top investors in Europe.
- Conducted hundreds of user interviews and led the product team to build a fantastic product in a new software category.
- Amassed the data, analyzed it, and wrote up reports summarizing the data and the conclusions drawn.
- Helped DTC eCommerce companies globally with our software and led more than $150M gross merchandise volume annually.
- Developed content while always keeping in mind the SEO.
Sr. Product Manager
2020 - 2021Marley Spoon- Led the AI-based taste profile project for increasing NPS.
- Innovated a failed payment recovery workflow and increased revenue by multiples.
- Oversaw the back-end, front-end, and mobile teams' backlog successfully.
Head of Product
2018 - 2020LIQID Investments GmbH- Built strongly connected but autonomous teams at LIQID.
- Conducted dozens of interviews to hire the perfect fit for our organization; designed the hiring funnel from zero to one.
- Introduced Scrum to the whole company and trained engineers and stakeholders to operate in a proper Scrum framework.
- Conducted various types of end-to-end UATs to ensure quality, including bug reporting.
- Grew the team to three members and onboarded each to thrive in product development and the organization; also oversaw their career development.
- Worked with stakeholders from various backgrounds and departments as an inseparable part of the product management role; the most challenging stakeholder management was over operations and financial product domains.
- Led big projects end-to-end at LIQID, starting from ideation and design to developing and marketing specific features or products.
- Incorporated the game-changer design thinking approach to LIQID; this included conducting three design sprints, which resulted in new key features and product offerings.
- Valued data and treated it as my North Star guiding my way; relied heavily on web and product analytics reporting to inform my work.
- Treated financial products as being fundamentally different from other retail products, taking into consideration the monetary risks, compliance, and confusing laws.
Senior Product Manager
2016 - 2018ING Bank Turkey- Developed mobile software and shaped the marketing to go along with it.
- Generated user stories.
- Implemented Scrum team management.
- Took product ownership.
- Reported to the executive management.
- Held design sprints.
- Tested the UX/UI.
- Worked with mobile analytics.
- Created offline and online marketing campaign strategies.
- Managed offline sponsored events.
- Ensured compliance.
- Conducted competitor and market analyses.
Project Coordinator
2015 - 2016Istanbul Tour Studio- Designed user journeys.
- Shaped content marketing.
- Built up communities.
- Wrote profit-&-loss reports.
- Worked in accounting.
- Managed partnerships and ensured that the relationships thrived.
- Implemented G Suite administration.
- Oversaw the digitalization processes.
- Worked on B2C sales and provided customer care.
- Recruited and fufilled hiring needs.
Business Analytics Specialist
2014 - 2015Turkcell- Built prediction models.
- Conducted market research.
- Worked with SAS Enterprise.
- Mined text.
- Gave management presentations.
Bahadir Efeoglu
Product Manager in Berlin, Germany
Member since February 15, 2019
Bahadir is an experienced product manager with a demonstrated history of working in the supply chain, eCommerce, SaaS, digital wallets, and payments.
He founded a supply chain SaaS startup and directly impacted $100M GMV in direct-to-consumer space. Bahadir is ready to jump into a role to help clients build their product organization, processes, and strategy. He is a skilled recruiter in the product space and has built product organizations from scratch.
Bahadir is now available for hire
Project Highlights
- Led product development for two years and doubled the customer base of ING Bank's first digital wallet, ParaMara.
- Built a product and company with a strong proposition in less than six months and still maintaining sustainable growth today.
- Led the digital transformation of the company and increased the internal efficiency together with financial success.
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Banking & Finance
- Design Sprints
- Google Analytics
- Jobs to be Done (JTBD)
- Lean Product Development
- Scrum
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Education
- Bogazici University
- North Central College
Employment
Project History
- ParaMara | Digital WalletLed product development for two years and doubled the customer base of ING Bank's first digital wallet, ParaMara.
ParaMara is a digital wallet which enables individual users to easily and freely make payments, money transfers, gift items and more. This is a bank-agnostic mobile wallet platform which welcomes all smartphone users.
- Fabrikatör.io | SaaS for SMEsBuilt a product and company with a strong proposition in less than six months and still maintaining sustainable growth today.
In 2017, I founded Fabrikatör.io with my fellow co-founders to solve a small middle enterprise's production and cost-tracking problems.
It is a SaaS product running on the cloud and ready to use within a minute, even for non-digital businesses. Today our startup is growing with a solid customer base, most of them are subscribed for a year in advance and we keep improving the experience and our core offerings. - Istanbul Tour Studio | Online Travel AgencyLed the digital transformation of the company and increased the internal efficiency together with financial success.
Istanbul Tour Studio is an online travel agency targeting A+ FIT travelers all around the world and offering exclusive services and experiences to them in Turkey. I completed the digital transformation of this young startup by deeply analyzing the offline and manual processes and digitalized each one of them. Today, ITS still uses the systems I built and is running smoothly without any problems.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems2010 - 2015Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey
- Spent a Year Studying as an Exchange Student in Management Information Systems2011 - 2012North Central College - Naperville, IL, USA
