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🔬Research

📈Experience

1. Toptal

   Apr 2022 – present

   Top 3% talent network

   Senior Product Expert

   • Drove product strategy and business-model validation for 6+ ventures across HealthTech, EdTech, Logistics, Life Sciences and FinTech.
   • 2,500+ billable hours with strong client retention.

2. Rewardful

   Mar 2026 – Sep 2026

   Affiliate marketing SaaS, part of saas.group

   Senior Product Manager (interim)

   • Planned a staged business-model transition from affiliate-management tool to network-powered marketplace.
   • Assessed, documented and improved product and development processes.

3. Urban Sports Club

   Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

   Millions of members, 10k+ partners, 7 countries

   Staff Product Manager (interim)

   • Led a multi-phase monolith-to-microservices migration targeting reliability, error rate, scalability and lead-time metrics.
   • Surfaced new product opportunities, moving the team from maintenance to measurable high-impact delivery.

4. Feldspar

   AI-powered hardware for athletic performance

   Fractional Head of Product

   Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

   • Managed three hardware development streams with external vendors, coordinating delivery against time and budget constraints, aligning with internal data science and software development team

   Product and Operations Lead

   Apr 2024 – Sep 2024

   • Led experimentation phases to validate technical assumptions; SOPs cut workflow cycle times by ~30%.

5. Clarivate

   Jun 2022 – Apr 2024

   Global provider of enriched data, insights & analytics

   Senior Product Manager, API

   • Owned API strategy for high-volume data endpoints serving millions of calls per month.
   • Coordinated requirements across 5+ tech teams; promoted from PO to Senior PM within 6 months.

6. Various clients

   Aug 2019 – Jun 2022

   3,000+ billable hours, B2B & B2C

   Product Management Consultant

   • Crowdbotics — technical specs, API integrations, agile delivery (18 months).
   • Nanoramic Laboratories (MIT spinoff) — 0-to-1 discovery and system design of an in-house ERP.
   • Kampster — platform redesign and AI-feature discovery for 450,000+ users.

7. Opinodo

   Feb 2017 – Aug 2019

   Survey & membership platforms, 500k+ users

   Chief Operations Officer

   • Led survey-partner integration and expansion into 10+ countries.
   • Built a distributed team of 7 staff and 15 freelancers.

8. Various clients

   May 2015 – Feb 2017

   (Product) Marketing Consultant

🎓Education

• PhD candidate — Operations Research & Management Science

  Nov 2024 – now

  Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade

• MSc Engineering Management

  2017 – 2019

  Singidunum University · GPA 9.75/10

• MSc Marketing & Communication

  2016 – 2017

  Singidunum University · GPA 25.6/30

• BA

  2011 – 2016

  University of Belgrade · GPA 8.12/10

Certifications

• Certified Product Innovation Professional — Spark Engine, 2026
• Certified Agile Leader 1 — Scrum Alliance, 2024
• Lean Agile Visual Management — Modus Institute, 2023
• Senior Product Manager — Product School, 2022
• Certified Kanban Professional — Kanban University, 2020
• Certified Scrum Professional — Scrum Alliance, 2020
• Certified ScrumMaster — Scrum Alliance, 2018

Memberships

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
• Academy of Management (AOM)
• Agile Alliance

🧮Technical Skills

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Interested in applied operations research, data science and decision science roles. Also open to product roles with technical, data-heavy, marketplace, platform and integration, dev and expert products, or ML-focused projects.