Alexander Bachinin

Project Manager with 6 year experience in IT. 

Sidekick

April 2023 — till now 7 months

Project Manager

Sidekick is the privacy browser with features to stay focused, time effective and safe. Led cross-functional development team (UI/UX designers, Frontend and Backend developers, QA, DevOps). Collaborated with designers, marketers, stakeholders and other development teams to implement projects.

- Successfully completed 9+ projects (website upgrade, CPA integrations, etc).
- Maintained the SCRUM framework, optimized development team meeting time, added 1 hour per week for actual coding.
- Improved team performance and speed-to-market by efficiently managing teams (increased velocity during sprint from 25% to 40%).
- Transformed user feedback after every release into actionable tasks for product enhancement, fostering a 30% increase in customer satisfaction scores.
- Managed product releases, ensured timely deployment and coordination among cross-functional teams, resulting in faster time-to-market for 20%.
- Repaired post-release issues promptly, enhancing product reliability and leading to a 15% decrease in customer-reported bugs.

Proofix

June 2022 — April 2023 11 months

Project Manager

Streasy is a startup under the wing of the parent company Proofix. Proofix is engaged in organizing online broadcasts for medium and large businesses.
Streasy is a SaaS platform for organizing live-streams from a virtual studio.

- Conducted research on the video platforms market, tested 8 hypotheses, identified the target segments.
- Executed 45 customer development sessions, the core features gathered (JTBD framework).
- Shaped the product vision, created MVP for 1 month.
- Designed a Roadmap for 3 months, identified the marketing strategy for the segments.
- Designed and launched targeted ad campaigns on Meta and TikTok platforms, achieving a 40% increase in brand visibility and engagement.
- Maintained video ad creation, created 3 ad videos as an actor.
- Managed the team of 3: ad manager, video maker, and back-end developer.
- Provided product management expertise by effectively organizing and prioritizing the product backlog, resulting in a 15% increase in development efficiency and on-time feature delivery.
- Achieved from scratch 17 early adopters and paid clients in 3 months.

Engaged in the parent company projects. As PM I also:

- Led Department of Growth, directing strategic initiatives that drove a 40% increase in customer acquisition, propelling the company towards its expansion goals.
- Discovered and developed the new sales channel to reach the internal communications specialist segment, tested 4 hypotheses, proved one with the best conversion rate, 20%.
- Managed and coached a sales team of 3 salespeople, reached KPIs in lead generation and sales, surpassing set targets by 10% and contributing to a 15% rise in overall company revenue after 2 months.

AEZAKMI Browser

August 2019 — December 2021 2 years 5 months

Product Manager, Co-founder

AEZAKMI is a multi-accounts browser for advertising with fingerprints change, SaaS.

- Composed the idea. Inspected competitors and their market product positioning, differentiated our product from competitors' solutions, launched an MVP in 3 months.
- Successfully accomplished AEZAKMI to the market (Reached a stable revenue growth of 6.6% per month during the pandemic).
- Installed Support management processes in the company. Coached Support manager. Achieved the best ART (avg. replay time) on the market, 15 minutes.
- Designed a Roadmap for 12 months. Defined segments for growth in multi-accounts browser field.
- Collected and implemented UI / UX insights, increased conversion rate from 1.5% to 2.5% on paid features.
- Built and directed development team of 3: back-end dev (Python, Node.js), front-end dev (JS, React), and C++ dev.
- Hired and managed part-time team members (SEO, design, developers), helped the core development team save time and increased time for 30% to work on the killer features.
- Handled the website localization to English, Chinese, and Portugal. Achieved additional 30% of paid users from that language groups after 1 month.
- Oversaw advertising campaign in Google Ads, optimized ad costs, saved $4,5K by year.
- Installed end-to-end analytics between Google Analytics and MongoDB, increased efficiency of ad campaigns by 30%.
- Managed expenses including salaries, rent, marketing, tech tools, legal services, and more for optimal budget allocation and growth, built a self-sustaining product with $18k MRR.

Mediagram

January 2018 — July 2019 1 year 7 months

Project Manager, Co-founder

A marketing agency for ICO's promotion in Telegram.

- Invented a LinkedIn sales funnel, gained an average check of $1,5K with no costs on the marketing channel.
- Reached 5% conversion rate in LinkedIn lead generation funnel.
- Led full cycle of communications with potential clients from clients' RFI to the results delivery, completed 15+ projects.
- Managed clients from New Zealand to the USA, staying available at any time of the day.
- Maintained project documentation and status reports for the client, built long term and transparent relationships, 20% of clients repeated orders for services.
- Optimized team processes, reduced costs by 40% on subcontractors.

Mir Mining

April 2017 — February 2018 11 months

Project Manager

Trade and service IT company. We were engaged in the sale of miners, placing equipment in our mining hotels.

- Completed 150+ orders on miners sale.
- Negotiated with foreign suppliers, received a 10% discount.
- Designed and managed supply chains. Found and nurtured 2 direct suppliers for 1 month.
- Executed financing with customers and suppliers, 40% of clients repeated orders.
- Oversaw operation of 2 mining hotels, maintaining 98% uptime.

• The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 2014
• The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 2014