Andrew Mende

Product Manager

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands19 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led ML model development at Booking.com
Created high-rated courses for product managers
Scaled trading platform across multiple markets

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in E-commerce and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementMachine LearningEdtechMentoringUser Experience (ux)Customer Research

Other Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)A/B TestingData AnalysisFin TechPaymentsE-commerceMobile CommercePayment Card ProcessingStart-upsBusiness StrategyStrategyNew Business DevelopmentMobile PaymentsPayment SystemsExecutive Management

Experience

Booking.com

2 roles

Senior Product Manager Machine Learning

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

→ led the team responsible for the ML model powering the booking.com hotel search
→ over three years the team consistently delivered improvements which led to substantial increase of customer conversion (validated via A/B experiments) by adding new features to the model or algorithmic improvements
→ introduced interleaving testing approach which led to 5x more ML hypotheses tested in production per year

Product ManagementMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Product Manager Machine Learning

Jun 2017 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos

→ led the team responsible for transition the hotel search relevance engine from heuristic algorithm to a machine learning model
→ deployed an ML application with highest load and business criticality level at booking.com
→ transition to ML-based ranking yielded significant increase of customer conversion and search quality metrics

Machine LearningProduct ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data Analysis

Productdo

Course author and mentor

Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Remote

→ created practical courses on Machine Learning, Data analysis, A/B experimentation and LLMs specifically tailored for PMs
→ average review score 4.7/5, 38% of purchases are driven by personal recommendations

EdtechMentoring

Forex club

Product Manager

Apr 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Podgorica · On-site

→ led the team responsible for development of a b2c trading platform
→ on my watch the product entered several markets in LatAm scaling to multiple times its original size
→ innovative customer experience allowed the product to significantly outperform other trading interfaces (MetaTrader etc) in customer aquistion and ARPU

Customer ResearchUser Experience (UX)Fin Tech

Neemble

Product Manager

Feb 2015 – Apr 2015 · 2 mos · St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia · On-site

→ led the development of a POS terminal for small HoReCa businesses
→ pushed product from a prototype phase to first paying customers

Yandex

Project Manager

Aug 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia · On-site

→ acted as product manager for the real estate vertical of the web search (realty.yandex.ru)
→ deployed the first version of listings for new construction projects, which opened a new revenue stream for the product
→ improved customer retantion in the search platform, which boosed ad display and revenue

Onlinedengi

Executive Director

Jul 2010 – Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · On-site

→ led development of payment processing platfrom for gaming and e-commerce busineses
→ the product grew by an order of magnitude through developing existing segments and expansion to multiple new segments (online dating, cross-border e-commerce etc)
→ product offering was extended with complimentary services like payouts and delivery integration, which opened several new revenue streams for the company