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Head of Product with 7+ years of experience in B2B TravelTech, HR-Tech, FinTech, and AI/ML. Built and scaled 5+ digital products generating $55M+ in annual revenue. Proven record of driving product launches, strategic execution, and cross-functional leadership — improving team efficiency by 25% and reducing costs by $5M. Public Relations → Project Manager → Product Manager/Head of Product

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📱Contact Information

Portfolio Aleksei Sakhnenko

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👨‍💻Work Experience

Head of Product, HR-Tech

Yandex*, Budapest, Hungary – (October 2022 - July 2025) 💡 Yandex — a leading digital ecosystem with $8.6B annual revenue (2023), offering services like Yandex.Cloud, Yandex.Market, and a top-tier search engine — one of the largest tech companies in Eastern Europe.*

👨‍💻 As Product Lead at Yandex HR, I managed and scaled Yandex Business Trips — the company’s B2B business travel platform.

• Led a cross-functional team of 30 to launch a corporate travel management platform from internal tool to external B2B product — 300+ corporate clients in 3 months.
• Defined product strategy and roadmap: revenue +30% YoY to $43M, business travel volume ×1.5 YoY, operational costs –$3.2M annually.
• Implemented product-driven structure: time-to-market –35%, team velocity ×2, release frequency +40%, delivery accuracy 90%, bug rate –25%.
• Redesigned architecture, UX/UI, and EJM: integrated Yandex Taxi, Maps, Weather, Aeroclub, Aviacenter → 95% price parity, content coverage 50% → 99%, support SLA 10–40 min (–70% response time, CSAT 98%), CSI 3.9 → 4.8, Time-to-Book 1h → 10 min, Approval Time 3d → 12h.

Head of Product, HR-Tech & EDM

Sber Group*, Saint Petersburg, Russia – (October 2021 - October 2022)*

💡 Sber — Russia’s largest financial and technology ecosystem with assets over $571 B, offering banking and digital services across Eastern Europe.

👨‍💻 As Head of HR Products, led the creation and scaling of Pulse, HR EDI, and Podpisant — core HR platforms for employees and self-employed professionals.

• Built and led a 30-person cross-functional team (engineering, analytics, design, marketing) to launch flagship SberPulse — an HR management platform with e-signature services → $2 M revenue in the first quarter, 50 K+ active users.
• Led the HR-Tech product line and managed product managers: implemented P&L and OKR-based growth metrics → revenue +95 % YoY, ARPU +20 %, CAC –25 %, retention +8 %.
• Expanded the partner ecosystem (SberJob, SberSolutions, 1C) → revenue ×5, reach +150 %, inbound traffic ×3.

Sber EDM Release Journal