Zee Drakhshandeh
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since April 18, 2021
Zee is an innovative product manager with 5+ years of experience in product management, web and app development, analytics, and marketing in startup and corporate settings. He's passionate about helping clients design, craft, and deliver delightful products and experiences for their customers.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Analytics
- Design Thinking
- Marketing
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Mobile Apps
- Pitch Presentations
- Product Management
- Team Building
Work Experience
Lead Consultant
Vanalytica
- Led a team of developers, designers, and data analysts, determining clients' product, analytics, and data science needs and implementing solutions on time and under budget.
- Defined, executed, and communicated product strategy and roadmap to support the clients' OKRs and KPIs.
- Delivered React and Python web services and Swift mobile apps with built-in Firebase and Google Analytics.
- Saved a lead generation client 11% on ad-spend while increasing conversions by 16.5% within six months.
- Reduced the average checkout time by 18% for a sporting goods retailer by optimizing the checkout flow.
Product Manager
Wayfair
- Increased the forecast delivery speed for over 2,000,000 items by 35%, shortened the machine learning algorithm's processing time from 14 to nine days, and enabled the supply chain team to make faster logistical decisions.
- Collaborated with an engineering manager, grew engineering team size, and increased team velocity by 40%.
- Gathered requests, negotiated priorities, and translated needs into concise technical product requirements.
Product Manager
Pixel AI
- Created product recommendation and personalization engines to increase eCommerce conversions.
- Managed full product lifecycle; took the idea from inception to MVP to launch, raised funding, formed an engineering and design team, and iterated to find the product-market fit.
- Led B2B customer discovery interviews, collected and integrated UX/UI feedback and feature requests into prioritized product requirements, and drove execution.
Analytics Consultant
Lunametrics
- Implemented Google Analytics 360 for enterprise clients such as PBS, Kate Spade, Caterpillar, and Quest Diagnostics.
- Defined measurement strategy and completed analytics implementation for USPS within four months.
- Recruited two analytics engineers that generated $650,000 in additional revenue within 18 months of joining.
Project History
Orbitals
Led the design and development of a no-code prototyping tool for early-stage startups that enables them to launch their MVPs eight times faster and validate their hypotheses quicker.
The product allowed users to turn their idea into an MVP by connecting a few predefined modules to configure a fully functional app with built-in analytics and launch it on their domain, all within a few days.
Applications similar to Tinder or Uber were launched using Orbitals over 3-4 days.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA
Skills
Tools
Asana, Slack, Zoom, Trello, Firebase Analytics
Paradigms
Scrum, Design Thinking, Agile Product Management
Platforms
Google Analytics 360
Other
Product Management, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Marketing, Analytics, Web Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Product Analytics, Product Roadmaps, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Technology Consulting, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web Development, Mobile Apps, HTML, eCommerce, Software Engineering, Fundraising, Team Building, Pitch Decks, Pitch Presentations, SQL, REST APIs, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), UX Research, CSS, JavaScript, Technical Product Management, APIs, Data Science Product Manager, Recruiting, React, Node.js, Python, ARKit, Mobile UX
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring