Jefim Piekarz

  1. Product
  2. Product
  3. Product Management
  4. Product Vision
  5. Product Strategy
  6. Goal Setting

Fractional Head of Product and Organizational Coach

I’m a leader with 17 years of diverse product development experience (including international), an empathetic approach to leadership, an MBA, and a track record for delivering results. Whether you're facing challenges in understanding your customer's needs, designing and testing solutions that meet those needs, or simply getting your product to market, I can help.


My style is hands-on, and I bring a broad skill set that includes product management, team building and coaching, agile product develo…

Jefim Piekarz

Work

  • Welo Virtual Workspace

    Welo Virtual Workspace

    • Head of Product
    • Chief Product Officer
    • Product Management
    • Agile Product Management
    • OKR Coach
    • Product Operations
    • Goal Setting
    • Product Strategy
    • Product Vision
    • Monetization
    • Product roadmapping

    Welo provides teams and organizations with a Virtual Workspace that helps you to feel more connected to your remote and hybrid teammates. Selected as a Top 10 "Zoom Essential App", Welo is the workplace metaverse for today.

    https://www.welo.space/
  • Octane Lending "Prequal"

    Octane Lending "Prequal"

    • Program Management
    • Agile Methodologies
    • Coaching
    • Executive Coaching
    • Goal Setting
    • OKR Coach
    • Process Improvement
    • Product roadmapping
    • Organizational Design

    Octane Prequal makes the entire process of buying and financing a powersports vehicle easier. Customers can to pick the vehicle they want and get approved for financing before entering a dealer and then sends them to a dealer who has it in stock and is ready to sell at that offer. In turn Dealers get pre-qualified high-intent sales leads allowing them to move products faster.

    https://octane.co/o/prequal/
  • Etsy Recommendations

    Etsy Recommendations

    • Product Strategy
    • Agile Product Management
    • Product Management
    • Program Management
    • Coaching
    • Workshops
    • Product Vision
    • Product roadmapping

    Etsy Recommendations now provides better, more personalized ideas for you. See the "Your May Also Like" and "Browse Collections Hand Picked..." sections of any item.

    https://www.etsy.com/listing/1251479451/hand-embroidered-crown-for-baby-and?click_key=89b0fa16597a0f1e84ab9f6ed2219fb37217a2b2%3A1251479451&click_sum=34344488&ref=search2_top_narrowing_intent_modules_etsys_pick-1&frs=1&sts=1
  • Fidelity Investments (New) Account Opening Process

    • Agile Product Management
    • Product Leader
    • Coaching
    • Program Management
    • Product Management
    • OKR Coach
    • Goal Setting

    We made it easier to open a new account with Fidelity (in just minutes, with little manual intervention).

    https://www.fidelity.com/open-account/overview
  • Xively IOT Platform (Acquired by Google)

    Xively IOT Platform (Acquired by Google)

    • Product Leader
    • Product Operations
    • Program Management
    • Agile Product Management
    • Agile Methodologies
    • Coaching
    • Product roadmapping
    • Organizational Design

    We created an Internet of Things Developer Platform called Xively. This allowed hardware businesses to plug into our platform and focus on doing what they do best: Building Hardware Products. We provided the Platform to allow them to tie their products to the internet.


    The Platform was acquired by Google in 2018 for $50 Million and integrated into their Core IOT offering.

    https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/google-to-acquire-xively-iot-platform-from-logmein/

Experience

  • Welo

    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%.
  • Octane

    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.
  • Etsy

    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.
  • Fidelity Investments

    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.
  • LogMeIn

    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.
  • LogMeIn

    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.
  • Altisource Labs

    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.

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