Srdjan Kosutic
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Vienna, Austria
Toptal member since February 15, 2021
Srdjan is an experienced product manager with a background in financial services and banking. He has a strong track record in leading product teams, managing product portfolios, and building digital products across industries. Srdjan is particularly passionate about building fintech, adtech, and transactional products.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- APIs
- Agile Product Management
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Open Banking APIs
- Product Management
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
Work Experience
Head of Product | CPO
Bitebell Technologies
- Led the product management of Bitebell's delivery automation platform. Blueprinted, prototyped, and steered the development of the MVP while balancing company vision and customer needs.
- Created, managed, and owned the product roadmap, acting as a point of contact for all business and product-related topics, communicating with the CTO and engineering team.
- Contributed to the development and execution of marketing and business development strategy, in close alignment with the CMO and CSO.
Director of Global Transaction Banking
UniCredit S.p.A.
- Managed a portfolio of working capital products (both digital and traditional). Oversaw structuring, implementation, and client onboarding teams within the Global Transaction Banking (GTB) division.
- Led the fintech integration assessments and rollouts within different product lines.
- Coordinated internal stakeholders, including sales, finance, tax, legal, operations, and compliance, to meet the customers, regulators, and auditors' expectations.
- Oversaw and coordinated multiple engineering teams to develop internal products for credit portfolio management and risk metric analysis.
Product Consultant | Freelance
Audiens s.r.l
- Advised the founding team in the product discovery phase with framing the problem and developing the proof of concept before incorporation.
- Helped pivot the business model from the spread-based data brokerage model to a recurring subscription-based revenue model.
- Oversaw the development done by an outsourced engineering team in the prototyping/MVP stage and facilitated the handover and transition to the in-house development at a later stage, without implications on the product roadmap.
Product Development Partner
Ellecta International
- Provided product advisory and delivered 100+ digital products for enterprise clients such as Philip Morris International (PMI), AmRest, Coca Cola, and Decathlon.
- Managed the outsourced product development, blueprinting, and prototyping for funded early-stage startups in Europe and the US.
- Coordinated the development activities, assignment of tasks, and project steering between the agency's engineering team and clients' in-house teams.
Project History
Audiens | Customer Data Platform
Prototyped the proof of concept and oversaw the release of the MVP.
Ticbile | Mobile Ticketing Solution
Led the product management of a web-based mobile ticketing platform.
Education
Master's Degree in Quantitative Finance
Bocconi University - Milano, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Banking and Finance
Singidunum University, Faculty of Business - Belgrade, Serbia
Skills
Tools
Slack, Google Workspace, Figma, Trello, Jira, Prototyping on Paper (POP)
Industry Expertise
Financial Services, Banking & Finance, Logistics
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Agile, Rapid Prototyping
Other
APIs, Product Management, Bank Transactions, Custom APIs, Prototyping, Digital Product Development, Fintech, Microsoft Excel, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Open Banking APIs, Early-stage Startups, UI Prototyping, API Design, Direct Carrier Billing, Quantitative Modeling, Derivatives, Futures & Options, Investment Banking, Investments & Risk Management, Foodtech, Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems, Delivery, SaaS Product Marketing, Big Data, Enterprise SaaS, Product Portfolio Manager, Investment Analysis
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