Oren Solomianik
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since September 2, 2019
Oren is a seasoned technical entrepreneur with more than 13 years of experience—having co-founded a startup, raised $1.5 million in venture funding, and served as CTO. Possessing the skill set of a developer, product owner, strategist, and leader, he has also built numerous products for startups and held management positions focused on product, strategy, and prototyping. He values a structured process and a hands-on approach.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Analysis
- Business Strategy
- Consumer Services
- Marketing Automation
- Prototyping
- SaaS
- Startup Consulting
Work Experience
Head of R&D Innovation Lab
HeyJobs GmbH
- Spearheaded business innovation and second horizon initiatives.
- Created quick prototypes and MVPs to assess new business opportunities, and to aid the company in quick value gains with minimal friction to the main product line.
- Guided the company strategy in content, marketing, and business partnerships fields.
Head of Marketing Product
HeyJobs GmbH
- Led the entire job seeker acquisition department of the company, including the marketing automation product team (product managers, developers, data scientists) and the marketing operations team (channel and operations managers).
- Drove the company strategy on everything marketing related with a direct influence on the value proposition of the company.
- Managed the roadmap execution while coordinating with stakeholders both internal and external.
- Took on resource management and team growth and hiring.
Technical Product Manager
HeyJobs GmbH
- Managed the core product of a performance-marketing startup, focusing on marketing automation, partner integrations, and data-driven models to optimize budget spend and revenue.
- Led a team of six developers and data scientists using Scrumban and a structured OKR process.
- Directed the roadmap creation and execution and took on the analysis and followup of product usage and KPIs.
Co-founder | CTO
Triond
- Founded a VC-backed online publishing platform, driven by an innovative revenue-share business model and a themed content distribution model.
- Held the CTO role from day one, produced a massive scale internet business (100+ million monthly PV, 200,000 users) by implementing the entire tech stack of the service (cloud servers, web services, application servers, databases, and cache mechanisms).
- Directed product management from inception through design to implementation.
- Managed the R&D team, customer success team, and marketing communications team.
- Led the company to profitability.
Project History
Triond Content Optimization Automation
Automated manual content editing which optimized the process, cut 90% of costs, and increased publishing throughput by x100.
After initial research had shown costs could be cut down with minimal impact to content quality, I designed and implemented a background automated process of content optimization. This solution allowed them to reduce staff costs by 90% while increasing content publishing throughput and scale by a hundredfold.
Replacement of In-house Code with Third-party Tool
Improved the scalability and resource usage of the company by transforming in-house product usage to a third-party tool.
This product was the primary communication method with marketing partners and even tiny operational changes required hours of developer time and limited the ability of marketing managers to test new ideas or set up new integrations quickly. By identifying this bottleneck and seeing to its removal, the company has gained momentum and focus.
Machine Learning-based Facebook Audience Targeting
Led the product design and development for the data-driven creation of Facebook value-based audience—reducing 50% in CPA.
With this new system, the cost per action (CPA) was reduced by 50%, which enabled the company to outrun the competition and allocate more marketing budget to other channels.
Paid Campaign Management for Various Clients
Increased clients' reach and conversion, and drove cost-per-acquisition down across channels through effective strategies, bid, and budget management.
From enterprise construction industry clients through NGOs and healthcare clients all the way to startups and initial product launches, I helped companies achieve their marketing goals and increase their marketing performance.
Education
Bachelor's Degree (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Science, East Asian Studies
Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv, Israel
Skills
Tools
GitHub, Jekyll, Trello, NGINX, Google Slides, cURL Command Line Tool, Jira
Paradigms
Agile, Agile Product Management, Scrum, Kanban, B2C, Pay-per-Click (PPC)
Platforms
Google Ads, Ubuntu, Docker, Bing Ads, Social Media Advertising
Industry Expertise
Consumer Products
Other
Product Management, Online Marketing, SaaS, Project Management, Content Creation, Content Strategy, Performance Marketing, Facebook Ads, Campaign Management, Analysis, Marketing Automation, Marketing, Facebook Marketing, SEO Content, Consumer Services, Prototyping, Startup Consulting, Big Data, Google Ads API, Facebook Ads API, Display Advertising, Google Display Network, Ad Campaigns, Advertising Campaigns, Data Science, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), JavaScript, Python, Databases, Data Analytics, Data Analysis, Node.js, Amazon EC2, Linux, WordPress, WordPress Multisite, Scaling, On-page SEO, Google SEO, Google API, B2B, Recruiting, Recruitment, Human Resources (HR), Roadmaps, Product Roadmaps, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web Scraping, Data Scraping, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Google Sheets, Vue, Business to Consumer (B2C), Technology, Technology Consulting, Management Consulting, Business Consulting, Strategy, Business Strategy, Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Ads, Machine Learning, Research, Research Analysis, Social Media Marketing (SMM)
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