Jefim Piekarz

Experience

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  Welo

  Chief of Product

  Mar 2022 - Present

  Whether you gather people for regular meetings or are leading a one-time event, Welo’s visual spaces recreate the look, feel, and flow of working together in-person. With streamlined access to people and information, Welo users report stronger connections to their colleagues and the context they need to thrive. Our mission is to make the future of work an engaging, collaborative and connected experience where no matter where you are, no matter what you do, you are doing it together. Founded in 2020, Welo is currently used in over 100 countries and its team is distributed across the U.S. and Europe.

  • I lead Product Development efforts at Welo, a remote work startup, which includes everything from Product Discovery to Product Delivery efforts (Research and Development, Customer Interviewing, Product Strategy, Feature Prioritization, Backlog Management, Partnering with Engineering, Communicating with Business team, etc). My work has helped Welo to launch an App in the Zoom Marketplace that's been named a top 10 "essentials" app by Zoom, and to double our activation rate and improve our retention rate by an average of 10%.
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  Octane

  Director of Agile Program Management

  Nov 2020 - Mar 2022

  Octane connects you with your passions.

  • I built and led the Agile Program Management function at Octane. I taught and coached the Product and Engineering organizations on modern product discovery and delivery approaches, identified dependencies between teams slowing down flow and putting delivery dates at risk, acted as a coach and partner to all levels of product and engineering leadership (C-Suite to middle management and individual team members), and helped to improve the team health and culture at Octane.
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  Etsy

  Team Lead, Product Development and Culture

  Jul 2019 - Oct 2020

  Keep Commerce Human

  • I formed and trained a new internal team, called the "Product Development Culture team". I helped recruit and train two new team members on modern product discovery and delivery techniques. We partnered closely with teams and product leaders, running workshops (like Google Design Sprints and other Product Discovery activities), individual coaching sessions, and training to help them gain insights in days that would have normally taken weeks or months. And we developed the Product Development Culture curriculum, training 50+ Etsy employees on modern product discovery and delivery practices in a 3 month period.
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  Fidelity Investments

  Agile Coach

  Aug 2018 - Jun 2019

  at fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. we do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. we offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. that’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the fidelity way. for our terms and conditions, please visit http://go.fidelity.com/literms

  • I worked in the Personal Investing (PI) business unit (B2C) focused on the Account Opening teams. I helped those teams design, plan, and implement a new product concept: a modernized approach to opening accounts across all Fidelity's investment products.
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  LogMeIn

  Coach of Coaches

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2018

  LogMeIn, Inc.’s category-defining products unlock the potential of the modern workforce by making it possible for millions of people and businesses around the globe to do their best work, whenever, however, and most importantly, wherever. A pioneer in remote work technology and a driving force behind today’s work-from-anywhere movement, LogMeIn has become one of the world’s largest SaaS companies with tens of millions of active users, more than 3,500 global employees, over $1.3 billion in annual revenue and more than 2 million customers worldwide who use its software as an essential part of their daily lives. Our teams have built the best known, most trusted and most reliable product portfolios in remote work, including GoToMeeting, LastPass, RescueAssist, LogMeIn Pro and Central and many more. LogMeIn is headquartered in Boston with additional locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

  • I built and led a 13 person Product and Engineering Strategy & Operations Coaching Team that spanned 3 continents while on International Assignment in LogMeIn's Budapest, Hungary Product Development Center. I also formed and cultivated a a community of 100+ modern Product Discovery and Delivery technique practitioners within LogMeIn.
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  LogMeIn

  Senior Product Coach

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2016

  LogMeIn, Inc.’s category-defining products unlock the potential of the modern workforce by making it possible for millions of people and businesses around the globe to do their best work, whenever, however, and most importantly, wherever. A pioneer in remote work technology and a driving force behind today’s work-from-anywhere movement, LogMeIn has become one of the world’s largest SaaS companies with tens of millions of active users, more than 3,500 global employees, over $1.3 billion in annual revenue and more than 2 million customers worldwide who use its software as an essential part of their daily lives. Our teams have built the best known, most trusted and most reliable product portfolios in remote work, including GoToMeeting, LastPass, RescueAssist, LogMeIn Pro and Central and many more. LogMeIn is headquartered in Boston with additional locations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

  • I was a key leader in turning around and creating “Xively”, LogMeIn’s Internet of Things (IOT) API Platform Product. There I helped to drive Xively's acquisition by Google through introduction and development of the Product Management function and practices and by driving the release of Xively's v1.0 B2B Platform to market.
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  Altisource Labs

  Product Manager and Scrum Master

  Jul 2014 - Mar 2015

  Your One Source

  • Scrum Master and Product Manager for multiple teams at a defunct startup that was attempting to transform and digitize the U.S. Mortgage Business.