Pavel Hadzhiev

Product Manager

Bulgaria8 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product management for innovative fintech solutions.
  • Expert in Agile methodologies and project management.
  • Significant experience in scaling product teams and processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Management expert with strong Agile and software development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAgile Project ManagementProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentScrum Management

Other Skills

Project PlanningAgile MethodologiesJavaGoCI/CDKubernetesC++Presentation SkillsPublic SpeakingTeam BuildingDesign ThinkingDistributed Ledger Technology (DLT)CryptocurrencyJava Certified Programmer

Experience

8 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Payhawk

4 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · Sofia

  • Pressing on to:
  • establish our Bill Payments offering as a clear winner in the mid-market segment in Europe
  • turn our Procurement offering into a spearhead we can open new markets with
Product ManagementAgile Project ManagementProject Planning

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Jun 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sofia

  • As the company started heavily investing into the Accounts Payable space, we needed to strengthen our product discovery there, so I moved into our Accounts Payable product area.
  • Since then I've been leading Payhawk's Bill Payments and Procurement products.
  • In 2025 I've been working on our Procurement Agent and our new Intake-to-Pay experience: https://payhawk.com/procure-to-pay
Product ManagementAgile Project ManagementProject Planning

Product Manager

Promoted

Jul 2022Jun 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sofia

  • After scaling support & maintenance capacity in engineering 4x, I was responsible for prioritisation of the Current backlog and scaling our processes. We set up Jira from the ground up, established prioritisation frameworks, automated operational tasks, established rules of engagement between support & engineering, etc.
  • I then took over Expense Management product area, and 3 months later also had to step in to replace the PM who owned the Spend Controls area. Being the PM for these two product areas, I was owning a big part of the expense lifecycle - submission from employees, approvals from managers, and reviewing from accounting. This helped me and my teams to deliver strong end-to-end user journeys.
Agile Project ManagementProject PlanningSoftware DevelopmentProject Management

Associate Product Manager

Apr 2022Jun 2022 · 2 mos · Sofia

  • Initially came on board to help out one of the Senior PMs by taking over from her some initiatives like revamping all of our email notifications from the product, improving the quality of our workflows, prioritising the backlog of bugs and small improvements, etc.
  • We however quickly found out that we really need to scale our support & maintenance processes - due to our speedy growth we added way more engineering power there (5 -> 20 people). This pushed us to develop processes to work efficiently. I was put in the lead of this initiative and it was my focus for the next 6-9 months.
Project ManagementAgile Methodologies

Sap

3 roles

Product Owner

Promoted

Apr 2021Mar 2022 · 11 mos · Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

  • Navigating a team of 6 as one of the many teams involved in a re-innovation project to transform SAP's cloud services. Changing a lot of the underlying concepts and technical decisions across the stack required my absolute focus and attention to keep up with the fast-changing environment and maintain a high level of synergy with the other teams & organisations.
Product ManagementAgile Methodologies

Scrum Master

Promoted

Feb 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

  • Organised and oversaw the Scrum process in a team of 8 developers in a dynamic and fast-moving environment. Having a central role in the team, I also participated in a lot of the product definition work, side-by-side with my product owner. Furthermore, team members were reporting to different managers, which created even more situations requiring my attention and involvement.
Scrum ManagementAgile Methodologies

Software Developer

Aug 2017Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

  • Developed in Java & Go in Scrum teams working on various cloud services with additional responsibilities like building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, creating & operating Kubernetes clusters and managing microservice installations with Helm.
JavaGoCI/CDKubernetesSoftware Development

Education

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

First English Language School Sofia

High School Diploma

Jan 2010Jan 2015

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