Omer Karisman
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Istanbul, Turkey
Toptal member since November 25, 2019
For the past decade, Omer has contributed to software development, launching successful products both as a developer and a product manager. He has participated in and managed projects—both online and offline—in eCommerce, medical, delivery, FMCG, B2B, textiles, social media, real-time, entertainment, AI, and cryptocurrency. Omer does an exemplary job of bootstrapping and improving products via effective team leadership.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Amazon
- Amazon FBA
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Retail & Wholesale
- Social Media
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- eCommerce
Work Experience
AI/ML Lead
StyleOf Inc
- Launched three AI products on multiple platforms.
- Trained and fine-tuned base models by creating an in-house training pipeline.
- Launched open-source AI models gathering 400 stars.
Head of Product
Ayadi
- Launched an LLM-Chatbot therapy app covering the MENA region.
- Improved long-term client conversion rate by 2x while improving churn.
- Moved software engineering in-house and built a product team.
Lead Product Manager
Calm.com, Inc.
- Collaborated with the senior executives to bootstrap the coaching services and prepare a GTM motion twice.
- Trained, mentored, and managed a team of 50 behavioral health coaches, building a coach management team.
- Led communications with other teams and stakeholders.
Chief Product Officer
Kozmos
- Launched 50+ offline products, generating 30% more revenue in six months.
- Launched a specialized eCommerce solution, doubling sales and traffic.
- Improved the internal management software, saving 20 full-time employee hours.
- Created product launch cycles for online and offline products.
- Led the development of specialized product picture processing software.
- Connected and automated multiple marketplaces with production and logistics.
Senior Product Manager
Leo AR
- Revamped the user interface.
- Improved/added new AR features.
- Improved the UX, resulting in increased overall user engagement of more than 40%.
- Featured on the App Store with the new version of the app.
- Delivered presentations in various venues, such as Unity HQ in San Francisco.
- Led the development of popular open-source AR frameworks.
- Created the product roadmap and managed the backlog.
Senior Product Manager
MojiLaLa
- Researched the market and competition.
- Improved the overall UI and UX.
- Improved app stability. App crashes were reduced by 70%. User retention and engagement were increased over 50%.
- Doubled MAU and engagement.
- Improved the App Store rating from three to five stars.
- Created the product roadmap and managed the backlog.
iOS Team Lead – UX Designer
Getir
- Led the mobile development.
- Improved and influenced UX and UI designs.
- Added machine learning features.
- Improved data analysis in regards to marketing and business decisions.
- Helped improve the back end and back-office front end.
- Introduced automated UI testing and deployment for mobile.
- Created the world's first retail chatbot to accept credit card payments for under 10 minutes' retail delivery.
- Created a social buzz monitoring tool to automate sentiment analysis and categorization through AI.
Senior Software Developer
Altin Elbiseli Adam/Man in the Golden Suit
- Designed software UI and UX.
- Oversaw the entirety of the mobile app lifecycle.
- Developed mobile apps and back-end features.
Founder and Senior Software Developer
Okaris
- Developed mobile apps and back-end features.
- Designed user experience and interfaces.
- Handled DevOps.
Product Manager
Marmara Mattress
- Handled the offline product lifecycle.
- Built an eCommerce website.
- Created internal management software.
- Developed new products.
- Conducted market research.
Project History
9GAGR
The very first mobile app for browsing the popular meme website and my first full-featured mobile app.
Stickers
One of the first sticker apps for major chat platforms, with three million downloads and 50 thousand daily average users.
Chatbot – Anonymous Messaging
My first chatbot project, with 8+ million messages and 100+ thousand pictures shared in a month.
It had very fast growth, expanding from Messenger to Telegram and spread across 20 countries and 50 thousand users in just shy of a month without any advertisement, all organically.
As a result, the project was eligible for the FBStart Bootstrap project and received rewards to further improve the project.
Chatbot – Instant Market Goods Delivery
The first chatbot to accept payments in partnership with MasterPass. AI integration with native language processing.
Customers were able to speak to the bot and order products natively thanks to ML-based language processing. User interactions were consequently highly intuitive.
The chatbot was able to successfully help users place an order in 5 minutes and get their delivery in under 10 minutes. This was the most fast-paced eCommerce environment I have worked in. The speed of the deliveries required the fastest and most seamless user interaction.
AR Augmented Reality App
Led a UI/UX revamp, increasing usability and overall look, ultimately seeing the app featured on the Apple App Store.
I participated in this project as the product manager. I planned and designed the user interface to improve the UX. The project took place back when ARKit had been just released. My team and I had to explore a lot of user experience and interface concepts for AR by ourselves. After I joined the team, our redesign earned us a place on the US Apple App Store homepage.
We also gave the community three very useful AR-related open-source frameworks. We had to develop intermediary frameworks to improve the stability and usability of the AR video recorder and object animations.
Used Product Board and Asana to manage workflow.
Social Media Monitoring Tool
Led the project planning and development of a customized SMM tool incorporating AI sentiment analysis and matching reviews/comments with sales.
Education
Continuing Studies in Product Management
Stanford University - California, USA
Accelerator Program in Building Global Innovators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Portugal
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design
Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Photoshop 2018, Trello, Git, Jira, Asana
Paradigms
Augmented Reality (AR), Kanban, Scrum, Agile Product Management
Platforms
iOS 11, Blockchain
Industry Expertise
Music, Entertainment & Leisure
Other
Amazon, Amazon FBA, Mobile Apps, Product Roadmaps, Product Strategy, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Startups, Product Vision, iOS, Node.js, PHP, eCommerce, NoSQL, Retail & Wholesale, ARKit, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), New Product Development, New Products & Services, Feasibility Studies, Business Plan Consulting, Pitch Presentations, Healthcare Services, Early-stage Startups, Revenue Strategy, Pitch Decks, User Flows, Architecture, User Stories, UX Flows, Cost Estimation, Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Remote Team Leadership, Digital Project Management, Product Design, UX Roadmaps, Go-to-market Plans, Product-market Fit, Product Launch, Consumer Services, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Microsoft Excel, Product Management, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Product Owner, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Linux, Medicine, Cryptocurrency, SQL, Social Media, Design Management, Virtual Reality (VR), Go-to-market Strategy, Function Flow, Bots, Social Media Analytics, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Communication, Product Analytics, Community Management, Coaching, Product Growth, Fitness
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