Cagdas Degirmencioglu
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Istanbul, Turkey
Toptal member since January 13, 2022
Cagdas has 20 years of product management, product development, and program management experience in eCommerce, classifieds, mobile, and online services on consumer and enterprise domains, within diverse and global teams. He's also spent 12 years managing technical dependencies and on end-to-end hands-on product development. With a master's and bachelor's degree in engineering, Cagdas's founded two startups, a consumer eCommerce, and a semantic recommendation engine funded by an angel investor.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Classifieds
- Management
- Microsoft Teams
- Mobile
- P&L Management
- Product Development
- Project Management
- eCommerce
Work Experience
Market Lead and Senior Product Manager
Microsoft
- Worked as the Microsoft News Turkey country manager, owning partner management, editorial quality, market performance in terms of engagement, growth, consumption, cost, and revenue, and also regulation and risk management.
- Owned the regional customer voice initiative to identify users' impressions and growth feedbacks.
- Led several successful growth and engagement projects locally, regionally, and globally.
Director, Business Development
Sahibinden.com
- Created and led business development initiatives within the company with senior executives.
- Led the product roadmap from the idea and scratch to launch with UX designers, marketing, analysts, project managers, and software engineers.
- Led in-house ideas from scratch to launch while managing UX designers, and product managers.
Senior Product Manager
Turkcell
- Managed the design, application development, UX engineering, local and global partnerships—with Google, Facebook, and Huawei—and made Turkcell T10, the first Turkcell ODM smartphone, ready for launch.
- Assessed and developed mobile application's needs for key account clients.
- Launched and managed three 3G products, like video calls.
Project History
eCommerce and Classifieds' App for Mobile
Led the design and development of a mobile app for an eCommerce and classifieds company. The app became #1 in downloads and one of the most used apps in the market.
The mobile app is widely used to sell and buy cars, houses, or goods. The user experience is simplified and allows users to search and buy within a few clicks, increasing user engagement, new user acquisition, and revenue increase.
Education
Master's Degree in Engineering Management
Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering
Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey
Certifications
Becoming an AI-first Product Manager
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Skills
Tools
Zoom, Slack, Jira
Paradigms
Marketplace Platforms
Platforms
Monday.com, Azure
Other
Management, Product Management, Product Development, Mobile, eCommerce, Classifieds, Media, News Media, Software as a Service (SaaS), Product Strategy, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), New Product Development, Roadmaps, Product Research, Video Streaming, Market Strategy and Research Product Manager, Market Research, Marketing Research & Analysis, Microsoft Teams, Project Management, P&L Management, Industrial Engineering, Visual Studio, Paid Media, Team Management, Business Development, New Business Development, Machine Learning, Data Modeling, iOS, Android, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Business
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