Fernando Garrido Vaz Staff Product Manager at Qonto

Staff Product Manager

Qonto

Feb 2024 - Current (2 years 9 months)

Staff Product Manager in the Connect team, building the most connected FinTech in the world.

So far, I have:
- Launched a first-of-its-kind AI operator to help Qonto users retrieve invoices from their suppliers.
- Built the capacity to connect external bank accounts, allowing users to see their full financial picture within Qonto.
- Increased the number of available integrations from 46 to over 6k. This helps users transform Qonto into their finance workspace from which they can run their business' finances much more easily.

Product Manager

Klarna

Nov 2020 - Feb 2024 (3 years 4 months)

B2B Product Manager in the Partner Operations & Product domain.

I led a workstream focused on providing the infrastructure to scale Klarna's revenue from Growth Marketing products. These are products such as Klarna Search and Klarna Ads Manager - those that are not about directly placing or managing orders. We have enabled the generation of revenue by building self-service onboarding for Klarna Ads Manager - the goal is to reach 800M SEK by the end of 2023.

I have previously managed other teams at Klarna, all within the Merchant Onboarding Group (B2B):

- Merchant Account Infrastructure (MAI) owns Klarna's Merchant Onboarding API and is responsible for providing merchant data to other systems within Klarna.

Senior Product Owner

Quandoo Online Restaurant Booking

May 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 6 months)

Senior Product Owner, B2B at Quandoo. Transforming the world's dining out experiences.

I led a multidisciplinary "Focus Team" that owned the B2B experience. This team, which consisted of just over 20 professionals (engineers, designers, researcher, analyst), took care of all "General Release" (ie, non-beta) B2B products, both web and mobile.

Technical Product Manager

HeyJobs

Jun 2018 - May 2019 (1 year)

I owned the job seeker experience at Hey Jobs.

- Established the Jobseeker team.
- Defined, designed and delivered Heyjobs' job search portal.
- Instituted the User Research practice within Heyjobs with regular interviews with end users.

Product Manager

Upwork

Jul 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years)

Product Manager helping build the future of work. Managing a few different teams, including day-to-day operations and managing their roadmaps:

- Collaboration Platform, which provides tools for freelancers and clients to work together;
- Identity and Access Management, providing internal infrastructure for various other teams;
- PSM (Project Success Managers), an in-product service that helps clients fill their jobs.

In addition to these, I worked as Product Manager on various cross-team projects and initiatives. Examples are projects to fight disintermediation and to increase sign-ups from the same company.

Software Engineering Manager

JobScore

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 (1 year)

Software Engineering Manager for Jobscore's development team, leading a team of 15 software engineers.

My role was to:
- Enable our team of engineers to ship software that delivers business value.
- Create an environment where engineers are productive, continuously learn and love to work
- Improve internal communication
- Create frameworks to measure ourselves (performance benchmarks) and use them to identify opportunities for improvement.

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Product Manager

Product Management Freelancer

Apr 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 4 months)

I worked for various companies as Product Manager under contract, on a variety of different projects:
• Establishing culture and processes for optimization, including A/B testing, at Cuponation, a Rocket Internet company based in Germany.
• Developing and validating a series of MVPs for Smiley Media, for whom I had worked full-time previously.
• Market evaluation and business development for Mondago, a computer telephony software company based in the UK.
• Evaluating and improving software development process at JobScore, a B2B software start-up based in San Francisco with an engineering office in Brazil.

Product Manager

Smiley Media

Feb 2012 - Jan 2015 (3 years)

In my role as Product Manager, I define, specify and optimize features for the business’ products, as well as monitor the performance of new and existing capabilities. Some of the relevant initiatives I led include:
• Development process improvements: drove the increased adoption of agile development practices, including the push to a “Continuous Delivery” model and the use of “Kanban” for work planning and prioritization, as well as test automation. To this date, this initiative has resulted in a two-fold increase in the frequency of software releases to production, with an end goal of on-demand releases. I also manage the development process workflows in JIRA.
• Email optimization: specified and oversaw the creation of various i

Product and Project Management Consultant

Selbetti Business Consulting

Feb 2011 - Jun 2013 (2 years 5 months)

Consulting and teaching activities regarding project management tools and technologies and product management activities, in particular those related to the elicitation, documenting and managing of software requirements.

Founder, Technology and Product Management

Eutopio

Feb 2011 - Feb 2012 (1 year 1 month)

Eutopio helps businesses make the most of the opportunities the web has to offer them. We plan our clients’ online presence and execute this plan, developing websites and online stores, developing Facebook applications and campaigns, and offering an email marketing platform.
I am one of the founders, responsible for all technology and product related issues.

Product Manager and Product Owner

Euax Gestão de Projetos

Jul 2008 - Feb 2011 (2 years 8 months)

Worked as product manager and Scrum Product Owner for a web-based project management tool (www.artia.com). My activities included creating the product vision, determining the product’s scope and eliciting requirements, managing and prioritizing the product backlog and coordinating development activities with the development team. Other activities included advising companies on the adoption of project management tools and methodologies and teaching instruction courses related to project management (Microsoft Project, Agile Project Management and Software Requirements Management).

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IBM Rational Consultant

Ogeda

Apr 2007 - Jul 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Consultant specializing in Rational Portfolio Manager deployment.

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Owner

GarridoVaz IT Management

Jan 2007 - Feb 2011 (4 years 2 months)

Self-owned company focusing on IT project management.

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Project Assistant

Eurice GmbH

Sep 2006 - Mar 2007 (7 months)

Project Management for EU funded R&D projects, focusing on IT and international cooperation projects.

Project Manager

MATRIX

Aug 2004 - Aug 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Project Manager in the Voice Products Division, working with IP telephony projects. Matrix Internet is the Brazilian subsidiary of Primus Telecommunications (PRTL).

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