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Milos Belcevic, Product Manager in Belgrade, Serbia
Milos Belcevic

Product Manager in Belgrade, Serbia

Member since April 7, 2022
Milos is a highly adept product manager with 5+ years of proven experience serving diverse stakeholders and finding creative solutions to achieve product and company goals. He helped build, re-shape, and grow digital products, solving different challenges. Throughout time, Milos focused on developing a B2B platform for research and a B2C platform for respondents as the COO of a market research startup and worked as a freelance product specialist, spearheading distributed teams in B2B and B2C.
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  • Product Manager

    2022 - 2022
    Freelance
    • Prepared an extensive PRD with solution description, user types and roles, user flow and UX, product and technology fit, high-level roadmap features breakdown, and suggested team requirements.
    • Worked intensively with the founder to help with ideation and validation of product vision and scope.
    • Researched best tech solutions and approaches to implement VR in patient treatments, both remote and in-person.

  • Product Manager

    2021 - 2021
    Graphium Health
    • Worked with senior executives to establish the new feature initiative related to payments.
    • Cooperated with diverse stakeholders such as anesthesia providers and medical experts to gain feedback, shape, and document the feature.
    • Prepared basic mockups, user flow, value proposition, data model, and the complete product requirements document (PRD).

  • Product Manager

    2020 - 2021
    CROWDBOTICS
    • Worked for multiple clients from various industries, both B2B and B2C, including two of the company's top-5 clients.
    • Collaborated with founders to scope out the MVP and prepare the complete PRD and high-objective roadmap with a quick turnover.
    • Led cross-functional, remote, agile teams of four to eight people distributed across multiple timezones.

  • Senior Product Owner

    2020 - 2020
    Freelance
    • Managed multiple B2C web products and apps for support-related services in different industries like travel, legal, moving, and tech support.
    • Explored new revenue streams and launched new services.
    • Developed mockups, improved user flow, and revamped and re-designed new products and price models.
    • Worked closely with the customer success department to improve the product offering and internal tools.
    • Coached junior product owners and empowered them for the role.

  • Product Owner

    2020 - 2020
    Nanoramic
    • Owned several modules for in-house ERP software and worked with executive stakeholders to improve respective areas, including HR, accounting, capacity planning, intellectual property management, and more.
    • Led weekly product development team meetings with 15 to 20 people and monthly retrospectives.
    • Worked closely with the CEO to manage the roadmap and priorities.

  • COO

    2017 - 2019
    Opinodo ApS
    • Set up and led eight in-house employees and managed a network of 15+ freelancers.
    • Worked directly with the co-founders to effectively manage the product vision, roadmap, and strategy for the whole organization.
    • Oversaw and organized the launch of different products, market research panels, and brands in more than ten countries.
    • Negotiated and coordinated integrations with new partners.

  • Product Marketing and BizDev Consultant

    2015 - 2017
    Freelance
    • Worked for numerous clients such as Letgo, the world's largest mobile marketplace for used goods at the time, and for Delticom, Europe's largest seller of tires and many different brands with a focus on Norwegian and Nordic markets.
    • Collaborated closely with internal and external cross-functional marketing teams.
    • Led teams of five to ten members depending on the project.

  • SEO Manager

    2014 - 2015
    MyTrendyPhone
    • Assisted in ranking competitive pages on the top of Google for Norway and Denmark.
    • Collaborated closely with the internal team, including development, design, copywriting, and external marketing agencies.
    • Increased the conversion rate, decreased the bounce rate, and the overall performance of main pages.

Project History

  • In-house ERP for a Nanomaterials Manufacturing Company
    https://www.nanoramic.com/
    Owned several modules for in-house ERP software, working directly with executive stakeholders to understand their needs and domain knowledge and improve respective areas: HR, accounting, capacity planning, intelectual property management, and more.

    Starting at MIT in 2009, Nanoramic Labs is a unique R&D company applying deep tech to some of the most significant problems the industry faces—energy storage and thermal management—by developing cutting-edge materials, structures, and processes based on carbon composites.

    The company received $12+ million in grant funding and government awards from NASA, the Department of Energy, AFWERX (the innovation arm of the Department Air Force), and more.

  • EdTech Platform Redesign and New Features Discovery (More Than 250,000 Users)
    https://www.thecampster.com/
    Led discovery sessions and planning for the overall platform redesign and new feature initiatives, including AI tutor. Helped form and coach the cross-functional product team, set up and drive OKRs, and mentor and coach the in-house product lead.

    Campster is an online learning platform with over 250.000 users, present in seven European countries. They focus on community-driven learning and collaboration, gamification, and AI to solve motivation and improve learning outcomes.

    Campster's learning methodology is based on the research of the company's founders, an Oxford Ph.D. The organization received grants from several European and national funds for digital innovation, such as EBRD.

  • Ecosystem of Three Platforms for Market Research
    Achieved a 5-times growth in completed surveys per month, integrated three new market research partners, launched the product in 10+ countries, and accomplished 3-times higher earnings per active user (survey respondent).

    I was the COO at a Danish startup focused on market research, email marketing, and online surveys. This startup has a presence in over 15 European markets and hundreds of thousands of complete survey interviews.

    I worked on expanding the product offering and ecosystem: a B2B platform for market research agencies to manage and run their survey campaigns, a B2B platform for online publishers to recruit survey respondents, and a B2C platform for the respondents to register, take surveys, and earn rewards.

  • Payment-related Feature for a Healthtech SaaS
    https://graphiumhealth.com/
    Led the research and planning for the new feature initiative.

    Graphium Health is a leading provider of anesthesia electronic medical record software and billing functionality, implemented in over 400 facilities in the U.S. with 250+ unique integrations.

    At the time of my engagement, there was no billing and payment collection feature, and executive stakeholders decided to explore this opportunity.

    I worked closely with founders, medical professionals, and tech leads to help prioritize and scope out the MVP and prepare all key elements for the initiative, such as user flow, data model, and basic UI/UX.

  • Product Discovery for a VR-based Mental Health Product
    Prepared an extensive PRD with solution description, user types and roles, user flow and UX, product and technology fit, high-level roadmap, features breakdown, and suggested team requirements for MVP and long-term product goals.

    I worked intensively with the founder to scope out and envision a VR-enabled solution for patient treatment in-person and remote through mobile apps and patient and therapist portals.

    Researched best solutions, highlighted tradeoffs and benefits of different approaches, and laid out the foundation for further product development.

Education

  • Master's Degree in Engineering Management
    2017 - 2019
    Singidunum University - Belgrade, Serbia
  • Master's Degree in Marketing and Communication
    2016 - 2017
    Rome Business School - Rome, Italy

Certifications

  • Certified AI Product Manager
    JUNE 2022 - PRESENT
    Udacity
  • Certified Data Product Manager
    OCTOBER 2021 - PRESENT
    Udacity
  • Certified Kanban Professional
    DECEMBER 2020 - PRESENT
    Kanban University
  • Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) – Product Owner
    SEPTEMBER 2020 - PRESENT
    Scrum Alliance
  • Certified LeSS Practitioner
    DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
    LeSS Company
  • Certified Scrum Master
    APRIL 2018 - PRESENT
    Scrum Alliance
  • Certified E-business and Internet Marketing Manager
    OCTOBER 2015 - PRESENT
    IT Academy Belgrade

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