Yevhen

Yevhen Donde | CPO, Head of Products
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Professional Summary
Dynamic and innovative telecommunications professional with over 18 years of experience. Expert in digital product creation, VAS-platforms, and
LTE network infrastructure projects. Proven leadership in aligning product strategy with company goals at Vodafone Ukraine. Experience working
with international teams and vendors (UK, Portugal, Sweden & China market). Adept in driving cross-functional and multi-national teams towards
innovation and excellence. Professional team builder empowering every person to achieve more. Have a work permit in Spain.

Professional Experience
Responsibilities
Vodafone Ukraine
• Implementation of the LTE-network rollout strategy and launching quality in-demand digital products and
Head of Products and innovations to digitize the users base and generate extra revenue streams.
Networks • Lead the products development process, from concept to launch, ensuring alignment with the company’s
November 2013 – present strategic goals and customer needs.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of products portfolio in the market, gathering feedback from customers
and stakeholders to drive product improvements.
• Manage the product management team of 20+ people and inspire cross-functional teams of product managers,
analytics, engineers, UX/UI designers, brand- and CVM-managers, providing guidance and support to foster their
professional growth and development ensuring agile methodologies.
• Develop and manage the products budget, ensuring cost control and optimization.

Achievements
• Led the successful rollout of the LTE network, enhancing the company’s service offerings and customer reach
doubled the values of population coverage and penetration of data users in 5 years.
• Implemented scrum-methodology in MyVodafone self-care service development, improving customer
engagement and satisfaction of the up-to-date product, bringing MAU to a 400% growth rate, boost application
rating in stores from 4.0 to 4.6 in 4 years.
• Spearheaded the development of VodafoneTV and branded OTT-services (Music, Books, Applications store),
fintech product Sharpay, programmatic innovation platform, generated extra revenue stream to the core business.
Responsibilities
MTS Ukraine
• Implement product strategies based on VAS-platforms that align with company goals.
Leading product manager • Produce detailed product requirements and criteria, effectively communicate complex ideas to stakeholders and
ensuring clarity across cross-functional teams and vendors.
June 2009 – October 2013
• Develop and execute the go to market strategy, budgets, forecasts and metrics.
Achievements
• Launched a subscriptions management and delivery platform (SDP) for VAS- and content-services, increasing
annual revenue by 300% in 2 years.
• Optimized and relaunched the music products, increasing user base 4 times in 3 years.
Ukrainian Mobile Responsibilities
Communications • Manage partnerships to deliver up to date content-products to customers.
• Conduct market analysis and competitive research to identify product differentiators and design unique products
Product manager proposition.
January 2006 – June 2009 • Define and monitor KPIs and metrics to achieve company objectives.
Achievements
• Developed new procedure for Content-providers to determine and simplify integration processes and engage
new commercial terms, speeded up the time to market from 4 to 2 months and increasing annual revenue by 80%.
• Developed and launched successful content-products with strong partners to innovate awareness of the brand
and generate stable revenue growth.

Professional skills
Project Management Products strategy development Remote collaboration tools:
(Scrum, Kanban & Waterfall) MS Team, Zoom, Google Docs, Miro, Mural
Strong technical knowledge
Leadership & Team Management (Networks and digital products creation) Jira, Confluence, Trello

Digital transformation (Agile coaching & Financial budgeting and forecasting, cost control Prompt engineering (Chain of thoughts)
processes optimization)

Education Languages
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, 2005 • Ukrainian: Fluent
Graduate degree, Experimental research automation engineer • English: Fluent
• Spanish: A2 (currently Learning)
Professional Development
Gathers: Practical use of AI – achieving operational efficiency though the integration of GPT models.
Agile drive: Transformation of the business processes and development framework using Agile approach.
KMBS. Finances for non-financial managers.

Additional Information
• Experience in public speaking presenting new digital product launches.
• Participation in volunteer programs to help those affected by war in Ukraine.
• Experience in management football team as acting coach for 5+ years