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Olga Shavrina

Product Manager & UX Consultant for SaaS

€500/day
Barcelona, ES
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Olga

Product Leader 🦊 Startup Builder | Helping Impact-Driven Software Startups Nail Their Why, What & How

I’m a Product Leader who helps early-stage impact and climate founders turn messy, complex ideas into clear, fundable, user-loved products.

After building products for 15 years across SaaS, B2B/B2C, and marketplaces, I realised something simple but powerful:

👉 most impactful products fail not because they’re bad or they lack features – but because teams lack clarity, lose focus, and lose momentum.

Founders struggle to explain what they do, validate ideas, design the right product, or tell a compelling story to investors.

That’s where I come in.

I merge product strategy, UX, visual communication, and systems thinking to help founders:

👉 articulate their “why”

👉 design the right “what”

👉 execute a pragmatic “how”

👉 communicate their impact in a way investors understand

👉 build products that create real change, not just good intentions

I’m deeply passionate about biodiversity, keystone species, and ecosystem restoration 🌿 – and I bring this lens into my work with climate and sustainability startups.

If you’re building something that helps people and the planet 🌍, I’d love to help you gain clarity and move faster.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Vai
    Product Lead, CPO, Co-founder
    DIGITAL AND IT
    April 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
    Pre-Seed round, 1-10 employees, B2B SaaS marketplace. Main market - Europe.

    As a co-founder and the sole Product person on the team, I own the product end-to-end – defining the product strategy for the MVP and beyond, leading execution, setting up analytics, driving customer engagement, establishing sales pipelines, communicating with clients, collaborating with key partners, conducting user interviews, supporting QA, engaging with investors and supporting fundraising.
    Product management User Experience Design Prototype Pricing strategy Wireframing
  • Job Today
    Product Manager
    DIGITAL AND IT
    February 2021 - August 2023 (2 years and 6 months)
    Series B, 50-100 employees, B2C hiring in Spain, the UK, and the US.

    Product Strategy and Execution:
    • ● Developed a product strategy that aligns with the company's vision and product values, for core user experiences areas: profile quality, communication tools, application processes, and job posting workflows.
    • ● Owned and managed the roadmap and backlog in these areas, driving successful execution.

    Core User Experience Enhancement:
    • ● Identified user needs and problems through qualitative and quantitative research, driving targeted improvements in user experience.
    • ● Improved user activation rate by 18% through job posting flow optimization and enhancements in trust and fraud prevention.
    • ● Enhanced user profiles' quality and data accuracy through application flow experiments.
    • ● Simplified and clarified the in-app chat feature, streamlining the hiring process and improving user engagement metrics.

    Revenue Growth and User Base Expansion:
    • ● Contributed to a 2x expansion of the user base and a 3x increase in revenue growth by supporting monetization experiments, closing loopholes in the funnel, and improving the website to leverage digital marketing and SEO. Customer

    Satisfaction and Feedback:
    • ● Boosted review rating from 2.2 to 4.7 stars.
    • ● Implemented actionable customer feedback using NPS reports.
    Product management User Experience Design Wireframing Tableau software Project Management
  • Nautal
    Product Manager, UX & Product designer
    June 2018 - February 2021 (2 years and 8 months)
    Seed round (exited), 50-100 employees, P2P Boat charter marketplace in Europe and LatAm.

    Product Strategy and Execution:
    • ● Owned the roadmap and backlog, participating in product strategy creation and driving execution.
    • ● Clarified and accelerated feature development processes, implementing agile techniques.
    • ● Gathered and shared product knowledge to empower teams, resulting in a reduction of mistakes, increased velocity of product execution, and smoother customer support

    Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication:
    • ● Established effective cross-functional communication between the tech, marketing, sales, and finance departments, enabling alignment in achieving business goals and efficient management of scarce tech resources.
    • ● Played a crucial role in navigating and adapting to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, implementing survival measures a month ahead of market competition, and contributing to the company's survival.

    Payment Optimization and integrations:
    • ● Achieved a +30% lead to sale CVR by integrating Stripe and simplifying the booking process.
    • ● Saved 90% commission for 50% of Dutch clients through IDEAL payment integration.

    Sales Growth and Efficiency:
    • ● Increased Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) by +2% with the addition of an insurance add-on.
    • ● Reduced balance payment overdue by 70% through the implementation of automatic charging.
    • ● Improved sales team efficiency by +30% with the introduction of enhanced tools.

    SEO and Traffic Improvement:
    • ● Doubled traffic through collaborative SEO improvements with the SEO lead.
    Product management User Experience Design User Interface Design Wireframing Team management

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Education

  • Soil
    Health and Regenerative Farming
    2023
    Soil
  • Climate change: Learning for action
    2023
    Climate change: Learning for action

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