15 Years of Product Excellence—Blending Business, Design, and Tech

With 15 years of experience in product management and product design across large companies, scaleups, and startups, I have developed a well-rounded and deep skillset. I’m a classically educated product enthusiast with an MBA, a BBA, and a background in Computer Science. I live in Vancouver, BC, with my wife, and I enjoy spending as much time outdoors as possible.

DeepOpinion. Ent. SaaS

Sr. Product Designer (Core Team)

2023 - Present Austria (Remote)

DeepOpinion is a series-A enterprise SaaS in IDP and Generative automation.


Established product design infrastructure from the ground up, establishing robust processes and growing the team from 1 to 3 members to drive strategic and creative innovation.


Leading the strategic product and design initiatives to introduce HITL (Human-in-the-loop) and post- processing functionality, streamlining users' ability to pre-defined model output and validate the model predictions.


Leading the strategic design initiatives to introduce AI Copilot (AI Coworker) functionality, streamlining users' ability to extract, summarize, Q&A, and define task notations via a conversational experience.


Led initiatives to introduce zero-shot and few-shot models as a node and AI skill which decreased the customer time-to-value significantly.

QPage. B2B SaaS

Cofounder, Product and Design

2021 - 2023 Tallinn.London (Remote)

→ Worked with the team to build a rich AI-powered recruiting solution covering source, nurture, assessment, analytics, and onboarding.


Led initiatives to introduce PLG, PQL, and PQA which included launching SSO, SAML, free trials, registration, user walkthroughs, and user onboarding. These efforts resulted in a 15% increase in ARR.


Led the product and design initiatives to launch Video interview assistant, AI Sourcer, AI Matching and assessment builder using in-house models, GPT-J and ELLM.

Zalando. Online Retail

Sr. Product Manager (UX)

2019 - 2021 Tallinn (Remote)

→ Worked with the team to enhance user experience in user basket and checkout process resulting in a 2% decrease in cross-border abandonment.


Led the initiative to improve the user experience in the checkout process by providing payment options including BNPL and CoD, enhancing multi-device compatibility to ensure a seamless shopping experience across various platforms


Worked with the team to improve user baskets, resulting in a 3.5% decrease in the abandon rate.

Rocket Internet. Superapp

Head of Product

2017 - 2019 Dubai

→ Worked on Warehouse Management System (WMS) including Order management system, order tracking, CoD and reconciliation solutions.


Led the initiatives to introduce same-day delivery and Drop shipping.


Introduced order tracking to provide order status visibility to the customers.


API Integrations and data Governance for 3PL Partners


Led the initiatives to introduce Cash-on-delivery mechanism on check-out. Owned product operation visions map, PRM prioritization, OKRs and SoPs.

Reyhoon. Online Food Delivery

Cofounder, Product and Growth

2016 - 2017 Tehran

→ As a cofounder, I wore many hats across product and GTM during my tenure, helping to scale the company.


Introduced user rate and review, user basket, online payment, catalogs, order tracking and user purchase history.


Acquired

LG Electronics. Consumer Electronics

Sr. Product Manager

2009 - 2016 Dubai.Seoul

→ Introduced Inverter series which led to 42% market share.


Contributed to defining Shopper Prism, a market-specific merchandising and promotional strategy.

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VP of Tech Project. Bank of America

"Pouya is one of the most talented, smart, aggressive, passionate, motivated, and ambitious person that I had worked with him for the almost past five years. He always brought his attention to detail to every project and business conditions. His communication and people skills were excellent, and he had always very innovative ideas to establish new rules and improve the quality of results. It was a pleasure to work with him."

VP of Tech Project. Bank of America

"Pouya is one of the most talented, smart, aggressive, passionate, motivated, and ambitious person that I had worked with him for the almost past five years. He always brought his attention to detail to every project and business conditions. His communication and people skills were excellent, and he had always very innovative ideas to establish new rules and improve the quality of results. It was a pleasure to work with him."

VP of Tech Project. Bank of America

"Pouya is one of the most talented, smart, aggressive, passionate, motivated, and ambitious person that I had worked with him for the almost past five years. He always brought his attention to detail to every project and business conditions. His communication and people skills were excellent, and he had always very innovative ideas to establish new rules and improve the quality of results. It was a pleasure to work with him."

Country Director. DKT

"I find Pouya very hardworking, serious and detail oriented with an immense sense of ownership."



Country Director. DKT

"I find Pouya very hardworking, serious and detail oriented with an immense sense of ownership."



Country Director. DKT

"I find Pouya very hardworking, serious and detail oriented with an immense sense of ownership."



Marketing Director. Reyhoon

"I can call Pouya a "Game Changer". He reformed Reyhoon. His attitude for boosting the business encouraged me work more efficiency. I absolutely recommend him as a leader to overcome aggressive situation and KPIs."

H. Karimi

Marketing Director. Reyhoon

"I can call Pouya a "Game Changer". He reformed Reyhoon. His attitude for boosting the business encouraged me work more efficiency. I absolutely recommend him as a leader to overcome aggressive situation and KPIs."

H. Karimi

Marketing Director. Reyhoon

"I can call Pouya a "Game Changer". He reformed Reyhoon. His attitude for boosting the business encouraged me work more efficiency. I absolutely recommend him as a leader to overcome aggressive situation and KPIs."

H. Karimi

Serial Entrepreneur

"I'm writing this recommendation for Pouya because he did an absolutely outstanding job of organizing and running the student program where I was a guest speaker. I met a bunch of new people from the experience and had a lot of fun."

Paul Trowe

Serial Entrepreneur

"I'm writing this recommendation for Pouya because he did an absolutely outstanding job of organizing and running the student program where I was a guest speaker. I met a bunch of new people from the experience and had a lot of fun."

Paul Trowe

Serial Entrepreneur

"I'm writing this recommendation for Pouya because he did an absolutely outstanding job of organizing and running the student program where I was a guest speaker. I met a bunch of new people from the experience and had a lot of fun."

Paul Trowe

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What might make me not a fit for the team?

What are your core values?

What motivates you to create and design?

What sets you apart as a product designers?

How do you tackle complex problems?

What might make me not a fit for the team?

What are your core values?

What motivates you to create and design?

What sets you apart as a product designers?

How do you tackle complex problems?

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