Amira Barakat
Lead Product Manager
Paris,Île-de-France
Summary
Experienced Product Manager with over 9 years of expertise across E-commerce platforms (B2B, B2C, and C2C), the dating industry, HCMS, CMS, and BPM. A self-driven and adaptable professional who thrives on challenges, consistently seeking opportunities to add value to organizations. Passionate about continuous growth, both personally and technically, across diverse business domains.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
19
19
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Lead Product Manager
Salams | Match Group Inc
01.2024 - Current
Growth & Monetization Product Manager
Even | Match Group Inc
02.2023 - 12.2023
Growth & Monetization Product Manager
Hawaya | Match Group Inc
06.2022 - 02.2023
Privacy & Safety Product Manager
Hawaya | Match Group Inc
06.2021 - 02.2023
<p>Product Manager (B2C & C2C)</p> <p></p>
SURVV - Virgin Gates
12.2020 - 06.2021
- Owning the product roadmaps and coordinating milestone deliveries with engineering and relevant internal teams.
- Establishing and communicating product vision, feature requirements, their impact and priorities to engineering and design teams.
- Utilizing a diverse set of analytics tools to establish, measure, track and optimize key metrics for our products.
- Forming feedback channels with our users, power users and customers to get insights into issues to be fixed and how the product should evolve.
- Designing and running A/B experiments, testing key product assumptions.
- Tracking users behavior to drive key funnel conversions and explore different possible solutions for challenging problems.
- Collaborating with cross functional teams to design the best end to end experience for our users.
- Exceeding the KPIs set by the VP of Product.
<p>Product Manager</p> <p></p>
Breadfast
11.2019 - 11.2020
- Meet the stakeholders of other departments to identify their pains and their requirements from their point of view.
- Prioritize these pains and requirements after thinking of a right solution for each.
- Define the roadmap for long-term vision.
- Share this strategy and suggested solutions with all the stakeholders.
- Define the backlog of each batch with high level analysis for new features and enhancements on old features with taking in consideration the impacts on all modules and on old versions.
- Prioritize the backlog for executing the roadmap then having a release planning meeting.
- Deep dive in the analysis in each feature to break it down to fully baked stories.
- Work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and are designing great features.
- Oversee the execution of the strategy closely.
- Track the plan progress with the team, accept or reject or give comments over the work result prior to the demos.
- Report periodically status of project to the CEO and the stakeholders of the departments, suggesting fix solutions for out of track squad.
- Track the customer behavior through added events on each newly developed features using analytical tools to check if they are achieving the goal they have been built for or needs some enhancements.
- Achieve the target set by the CPO by specific metrics and numbers agreed on within certain time.
<p>Senior Product Owner/Product Manager</p> <p></p>
ZAD Fresh
12.2018 - 11.2019
Define the roadmap for long-term vision.
- Share this strategy with all the stakeholders.
- Define the backlog with high level analysis for new features and enhancements on old features with taking in consideration the impacts on the product.
- Prioritize the backlog for executing the roadmap.
- Deep dive in the analysis with each PO in the features in hand.
- Provide sufficient coaching to POs till we deliver features to the development and quality team.
- Oversee the execution of the strategy closely. ( 5 Squads for Operation, Finance, Commercial, Data Entry and Marketing departments and beside the Customers' App, Operation app & Drivers' App ).
- Track the plan progress with the team, accept or reject work result prior to the demos.
- Report periodically status of project to the CEO and the stakeholders of the departments, suggesting fix solutions for out of track squad.
<p>Senior Product Owner</p>
Ibtikar Technologies
08.2018 - 12.2018
- Collaborate with architect to translate business requirements into user stories for the development teams to implement, Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
- Work with PMO and team leaders to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles.
- Work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and are designing great features for our partners.
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams.
- Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product.
- Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases.
- Track the project progress with team, accept or reject work result prior to the demo.
- Report periodically status of project to the PMO, suggesting fix solutions for out of track projects.
- Maintain project tracking sheet containing various project metrics.
- Maintain Communication plan and maintain direct contact with the client.
- Baseline the project and re-baseline based on any new changes and re-calculates the project budget.
<p>Product Owner</p> <p></p>
Ibtikar Technologies
12.2017 - 08.2018
- Gathering requirements from client
- Successful delivery to the project to web and app stores on the planned deadline
- Effective, prioritized and groomed backlog
- Clear defined acceptance criteria per feature
- Effective Agile Process and cross functional communication
- Collaborate with product architect and product marketing teams to translate business requirements into user stories for the development teams to implement.
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams.
- Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases.
- Discuss functional and non-functional requirements with the client.
- Works with UI and UX team to deliver user friendly project solutions.
<p>Product Owner</p> <p></p>
Civilsoft Co.
10.2016 - 11.2017
Receives business logic from client (Internal/ External) and talk on the behalf of the client.
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- Continuously engage the customer and stakeholders to ensure the Team is building the right product.
- Manage project activities across all phases ( initiation, planning, execution, monitor and closure).
- Conveys the Vision and Goals of the system and insure it is know to the whole team.
- Create High-level plan of the client's requirement.
- Assure that the system meets client's expectation.
- Monitor Analysis Work.
<p>Business System Analyst</p> <p></p>
Civilsoft Co.
07.2014 - 10.2016
- Business research to get to know the core business of the product in hand.
- Analyze system business requirements to get a modified, improved and applicable system design that covers all business cases.
- Refine the system design and deliver it to development team in the best way.
- Create system documents (SRS, UML Diagrams, and database design)
- Create system screens (Mock-ups prototype) and insure it follow the appropriate User experience.
- Monitor project progress with the development team and work closely with them to ensure the delivery meets system's requirements.
- Maintains and updates status logs, and progress reports produced to project manager.
Education
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Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport , Engineering , Computer , Bachelor's degree
09.2009 - 07.2014
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El Ikhlas Private School of Kuwait
09.2005 - 06.2009
L'école De La Sainte Famille
09.1994 - 06.2005
Skills
Problem Solving
Analytical Skills
Detailed Oriented
Punctual and deadline oriented
Good team Player
Project Planing & Budgeting
People management
Timeline
Lead Product Manager
Salams | Match Group Inc
01.2024 - Current
Growth & Monetization Product Manager
Even | Match Group Inc
02.2023 - 12.2023
Growth & Monetization Product Manager
Hawaya | Match Group Inc
06.2022 - 02.2023
Privacy & Safety Product Manager
Hawaya | Match Group Inc
06.2021 - 02.2023
<p>Product Manager (B2C & C2C)</p> <p></p>
SURVV - Virgin Gates
12.2020 - 06.2021
<p>Product Manager</p> <p></p>
Breadfast
11.2019 - 11.2020
<p>Senior Product Owner/Product Manager</p> <p></p>
ZAD Fresh
12.2018 - 11.2019
<p>Senior Product Owner</p>
Ibtikar Technologies
08.2018 - 12.2018
<p>Product Owner</p> <p></p>
Ibtikar Technologies
12.2017 - 08.2018
<p>Product Owner</p> <p></p>
Civilsoft Co.
10.2016 - 11.2017
<p>Business System Analyst</p> <p></p>
Civilsoft Co.
07.2014 - 10.2016
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Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport , Engineering , Computer , Bachelor's degree
09.2009 - 07.2014
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El Ikhlas Private School of Kuwait
09.2005 - 06.2009
L'école De La Sainte Famille
09.1994 - 06.2005
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