Fyodor Dronov
EXPERTISE
BIO
After working over a decade in product delivery, I know perfectly well how to ask questions that will help to get the right answers, whom to ask and when to ask - starting from users up to C-level stakeholders, to define vision that gets aligned with business objectives, formalise business case, create actionable and executable backlog, make team work as efficient as it can be with this team and product, and make users happy and get their feedback, that will allow to evolve product further.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Product Owner
Infuse
February 2025 - May 2025
• Created product vision and a prioritised executable product backlog based on user needs, with clear objectives for 2025. • Implemented Agile delivery, ensuring quality, structured planning and progress transparency. • Worked with development teams (2 x 8 people) to maintain focus on key deliverables and efficient delivery. • Customised RICE scoring based on business objectives and operational specifics for precise prioritisation, aligned with user expectations. • Achieved development cost reduction by 20% and increased delivery velocity by 35%, by making tech design alteration suggestions.
Digital Product Manager
Swiss Re
January 2021 - October 2024
• Spearheaded establishment and development of 7 B2B SaaS products end-to-end, utilising new risk assessment models, AI / ML models, APIs, Tableau Analytics, accessible web and mobile UI, achieving a 5% increase in client base and over $2M in revenue growth. • Structured and prioritised delivery backlog, enabling convenient and transparent delivery pipeline management. • Managed product testing and acceptance with various proficiencies (L&H and R&D underwriters, sales, actuaries) to maximise deliverable value. • Together with the team created multiple solutions enhancements during solution design, driving product value, increasing uptake (+3 clients) and reducing costs by 35%. • Managed assessment of user feedback, market trends and product key performance indicators to drive data-driven product decisions, improve market adoption and identify business growth opportunities. • Continued to consult P&C product teams and started working on London market product initiatives. • Led a cross-functional product team (underwriters, agents and architects) to design a workbench component intended for integration with Magnum. After completing the design and developing the business case, a strategic decision was made to proceed with a third-party tool integration, which I helped to implement. • Successfully launched the organisation’s first API-based SaaS product, resulting in an additional $1M in revenue and increasing client NPS. • Conceptualised and optimised external medical data source integration framework using modern technologies, boosting product development velocity by 60% and cutting development costs by 40%.
Digital Business Analyst
Swiss Re
November 2018 - January 2021
• Directed IT onboarding and consulting for enterprise automated underwriting platform clients in the APAC region, successfully launching 7 new clients and leading 2 teams with 10 members. • Streamlined client integration by refining onboarding processes, achieving a 30% reduction in product platform integration time. • Captured client feedback to drive phased product enhancements, fostering a culture of continuous improvement that works since then. • Led discovery and pioneered an AI model for underwriting pre-assessment with insurance company, enhancing application processing speed and allowing underwriters to focus on more complex cases. • Consulted P&C product development teams, helping to optimise product design process and improve development velocity by 20%. • Designed and established a global external client integration project governance model, ensuring consistent transparency on client integration, effective reporting and fast response to client problems.
Product Owner
CTCo
January 2015 - November 2018
• Served as a strategic liaison between Swiss Re, underwriting platform B2B clients globally (Americas, Asia, EMEA incl. London market), and development teams, ensuring solutions met business and customer needs, regulatory compliance and delivered revenue. • By analysing user needs, conceptualised and released a mobile app for underwriting assessment in offline mode, increasing client base by 25%. • Created a solution architecture unit for Swiss Re B2B client onboarding, boosting revenue by 10% and enhancing feedback process. • Launched Scrum framework across multiple teams (8 and 6 people) that helped to accelerate delivery and manage backlog more effectively. • Utilising client feedback and managing solution design with the team, optimised product design resulting in delivery speed increase by 35%. • Optimised product backlog grooming and item refinement process, enabling more effective collaboration, driving productivity gains and boosting development velocity and product quality by 20%. • Designed and launched 8 products in Fintech and Insurtech, generating over $3M revenue for clients and boosting market presence. • Led global SaaS rollout of the underwriting platform (Azure, AWS, AliCloud), reducing product costs by 15% and increasing scalability. • Managed product integration with client admin systems and workbenches, analysing requirements and optimising integration process by making software changes, to enable clients spending less time.
IT Project Manager
CTCo
October 2011 - January 2015
• Key member of the Swiss Re Core development team (8 people) that launched next-gen automated underwriting platform (Magnum), significantly enhancing solution capabilities and scalability. • Managed UX redesign for products, optimising cost-efficiency through data driven decisions, boosting operational efficiency by 80%. • Delivered over 10 products and managed development teams, consistently optimising delivery process, resulting in delivery speed increase by 40%. • Worked with users to capture more requirement details and enable design thinking process for more productive solution design.
EDUCATION
Bachelors
College of Economics and Culture (Latvia), July 2007
Business Administration And Management
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Issued: 1/1/1970
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Issued: 1/1/1970
Certified Product Manager (CPM)
Tarigo
Issued: 1/1/1970
Verified B2B Product Manager
8+ years of experience
Preferred commitment: Part Time
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