Bartosz Bałaziński – Product Management • User Experience • Interaction Design
Objective
To design, build and grow tech products that are useful, usable and desirable
Profile
Tech product manager combining strong user experience background, business acumen and technology awareness with Silicon Valley approach to innovation and getting things done
Experience
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Chief Product Officer at Printbox, Jul 2022 – Now
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Product Owner at Printbox, Sep 2021 – Jun 2022
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Technical Product Manager at Evident ID, Dec 2019 – Aug 2021
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Product Manager at Virtuslab, Feb 2017 – Nov 2019
- overlooked internal products for two enterprise domains for a major international retailer
- participated in the shift from legacy systems to microservices and productized enterprise APIs
- worked with stakeholders and analyzed the environment to distill universal needs
- defined the product vision, Objectives and Key Results, roadmap and backlog
- served as the Scrum Product Owner
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Product Manager at Estimote, Oct 2014 – Jan 2017
- overlooked Estimote Cloud, and Estimote iOS App ad interim
- translated founders' high–level vision into product backlog and shipped products
- held overall responsibility over a team of developers, including product, process and people
- ensured timely delivery and high quality of products
- supported and gathered feedback from users
- pitched products to potential customers, together with sales
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User Experience Designer at Estimote, Jul 2013 – Jan 2017
- designed experiences and interactions for the emerging industry of contextual computing
- designed cross–channel user flows (physical/web/mobile)
- created highly–interactive prototypes of mobile and web interfaces
- joined the founders in Silicon Valley during the YCombinator S13 batch
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Interaction Designer at ABB, 2009 – 2013
- designed and prototyped web applications, enterprise social software, B2B e–commerce
- advised ABB's global web team on user experience, usability, visual design, web content, web analytics
- joined ABB's global web team for a short-term assignment in ABB's HQ in Zurich
- recruited and led a small group of designers
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Interaction Designer at Making Waves, 2008 – 2009
- conducted customer workshops
- performed user testing and heuristic usability evaluations
- developed concepts and wireframe specifications for web sites and web applications
- evangelized usability and design on conferences, supported sales
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Business Consulting Trainee at Virtual Identity, 2007
- provided web consulting, analyses and benchmarks for major international companies
- supported one of the key accounts in the area of web analytics
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Project Manager at .apeiro, 2006 – 2007
- managed web projects, ensured timely delivery and high quality
- maintained positive relationships with customers
- trained and supported end–users
Education
University of Economics in Cracow
Master's degree in Computer Science for Business
Skills
Business
- strong product orientation
- interest in human psychology and behavior
- understanding of general business concepts
- running customer meetings, workshops, presentations, sales pitches
- experience in various organizations: web agencies, corporations, startups
- experience in international environment; remotely, in Kraków, Munich, Zurich, Mountain View
Design
- user experience research: think-aloud usability testing, individual in-depth interviews
- user–centered and lean (iterated MVP) product design
- UI design patterns for web and mobile applications
- creating highly interactive Axure prototypes for web and mobile
- advanced web analytics and enthusiasm for data-driven design
- strong general design sense: visual design, industrial design, photography, video, etc.
Technology
- experience with Scrum
- understanding of software development process
- experience with software development tools, e.g. Git(Hub), Heroku, Jira, Trello, cURL, etc.
- knowledge of the technologies powering the internet - HTTP, SQL, REST APIs, HTML/CSS, etc.