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KAREN GEVA

Givat Ada

Summary

Experienced product and technology executive with over 5 years in senior management roles across startups and corporates, specializing in AI-powered data platforms. Proven track record in building and leading product & technology teams to achieve company goals. Expertise in defining company roadmaps, positioning and strategy. Strong knowledge in BI systems, machine learning, big data, and cloud infrastructure.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director of Product Management

SAP
12.2021 - Current
  • Lead & dene the product strategy - lead a complete transformation of product strategy to be customer centric and transform from a B2C Retail oriented niche business model to a B2B enterprise solution thus tripling our customer base
  • Lead a team of product managers - build and trained the team to own both inbound and outbound responsibilities
  • Working closely with R&D to improve the product development lifecycle thus improving our ability to execute over 95% of our quarterly planned features
  • Introduced a new customer engagement approach preventing churn and addressing shelfware customers to convert them to active customers.

Senior Product Manager

SAP
12.2021 - 02.2023
  • Part of the CDP product team leading the core of the product which is identity resolution
  • Dene, lead and launch the industry strategy of the CDP industry accelerators
  • Working closely with R&D and have established good relationships and trust that contribute to successfully delivering new features
  • Working closely with managers within and outside Gigya to build new oerings and identify the unique value proposition of the CDP within the SAP, and CX in particular, strategy.

Director of Product

Smartech
09.2020 - 11.2021
  • Managing the go to market strategy for new product's including: identifying audience segments, dening new business models based on CAPEX and Pay-As-You-Go models and dening pricing for both product and professional services
  • Leading market research eorts to identify new ventures and also support the development of current product lines
  • Lead the product's marketing strategy which includes: identifying marketing channels per audience segment, planning yearly marketing activities & managing the budget
  • Working with freelancers to execute marketing activities including crafting the massaging and design language for each product line, marcom, PR, email marketing and social media presence.

Head of Technological Innovation & IT strategy

Bank Leumi
05.2019 - 09.2020
  • Led a group of technological leaders and analysts which are responsible for identifying emerging technologies that could be of use to the bank's technological division
  • Led technological due diligence for all innovation initiatives that require collaboration with startups
  • Provided architectural solutions to projects that wish to be built on public cloud (AWS) infrastructure
  • Led the bank's public cloud (AWS) infrastructure project with a budget evaluated at 3.7 million NIS.

VP Product

Atidot Software
01.2018 - 05.2019
  • Launched an innovative product from concept to market in the US and South Africa, overseeing user ows, UI, and development
  • Led company strategy, product roadmap, and oerings, identifying customer needs and dening business goals and KPIs
  • Directed BizDev eorts, including strategy, negotiations, and partnerships
  • Built teams, implemented Scrum, and shaped company culture
  • Managed the Israeli site R&D, Data Science, Analytics & BI with a $4.6 million budget.

Consultant to Early Stage Startups

Self employed
01.2016 - 01.2018

Helping startups define their product strategy and a good market fit.

Head of Product

Toyga Media
01.2013 - 01.2016

FinTech company (860 employees) providing a trading platform for both B2B and B2C customers.

Product Manager

Exent Technologies
01.2011 - 01.2013

Ad-Tech & Gaming mature startup providing a casual games platform for PC with embedded ads in a B2C business model.

Education

M.A Organizational Development -

College of Management

B.A in Political Science -

Tel Aviv University

Certification

Cloud Architecture, AWS

Languages

Hebrew
English
German

Eligibility

EU

Travel

Frequent

Personal Information

  • Title: Head of Product Managment
  • Nationality: Portuguese

Timeline

Director of Product Management

SAP
12.2021 - Current

Senior Product Manager

SAP
12.2021 - 02.2023

Director of Product

Smartech
09.2020 - 11.2021

Head of Technological Innovation & IT strategy

Bank Leumi
05.2019 - 09.2020

VP Product

Atidot Software
01.2018 - 05.2019

Consultant to Early Stage Startups

Self employed
01.2016 - 01.2018

Head of Product

Toyga Media
01.2013 - 01.2016

Product Manager

Exent Technologies
01.2011 - 01.2013

M.A Organizational Development -

College of Management

B.A in Political Science -

Tel Aviv University
KAREN GEVA