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Krzysztof Grzeskowiak

Krzysztof Grzeskowiak

Senior Manager Of Product & Engineering
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Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Manager of Product & Engineering

Allegro.pl
Poznan, Greater Poland
05.2023 - Current
  • Created strategy and execution plans for key product that resulted in bringing additional +1% GMV on product listings
  • Brought innovation into search by launching semantic search (+0.62% GMV) project followed by AI-Assistant and LLM based tools.
  • Active creator on contributor into strategy and operating documents shaping vision of search and consumer decisions.
  • People manager for Product Management and Engineering Teams (30-40 people).
  • Responsibility for following areas: search engine, suggest, relevancy and LLM/AI components both on product and engineering level.

Owner

Ezfly sp. z o.o.
03.2022 - Current

Owner of plane rental and flying school company.

- Sales strategy and customer acquisition.

- Setting up company sales, pricing and offer strategy

- Agreements negotation

Senior Product Manager

Allegro.pl
8 2020 - 05.2023

Tech&Product heavy role focused on product development of search engine in the biggest e-commerce polish marketplace

  • I launched elements of query understanding that improved CTR from 2% to 8%
  • I introduced new GUI of suggest component that improved CTR by 22%
  • I completed successful transition of search engine to sharded and automatically released architecture
  • I was responsible for expanding search engine to handle other languages than Polish (International expansion initative)
  • Introduced operational changes that allowed search team to accomplish over 90% of quarter goals since my joining
  • Successfully guided and coached new junior product managers in my first year of work.

Senior IT Project Manager & Product Owner

Contman
Poznan, Greater Poland
01.2018 - 08.2020
  • I created from scratch new company product for digital signatures and workflow
  • Thanks to my product I was able to launch new process of handling agreements in one of the top companies from the beverages and spirits sector. Process duration was improved from 8 months to 3 days
  • Supervised a team of Project Managers with successful track record of achieving financial and project goals.
  • Direct reporting to the company ownership.

IT Project Manager

Contman
10.2013 - 01.2018

I was introduced to new role that was combination of project management, product ownership and people management. As the company was in the transformation process I was entrusted to act key role and report directly to company owners.

  • Successful execution of dozens of projects for financial, insurance, TSL, tel-co (both migration and new product launch)
  • Together with Board I have established a financial KPI for my department and I was responsible for achieving goals with my team.
  • Introduced new processes how project are being led based on PMI and agile.
  • Migrated over 500 million digital documents for leading financial companies in Poland (for example Allianz)
  • Recruited and established Project Management Office from scratch (4 - 5 FTE)
  • I managed backlog products for archiving, scanning and processing documents
  • I acquired budget to create a new workflow system and I led transformation process from old workflow system to new one
  • I successfully organized the partnership with German company and software was introduced at several German companies


Pre-sales Manager

Contman
04.2013 - 10.2013
  • Unified a standard of process notation in company by introducing BPMN 2.0 both internally and for clients
  • Collected customer insights and led first webinars to show product and build small community.

Account Manager

Contman
01.2013 - 04.2013
  • My first commercial steps in IT
  • I Was quickly recognized and promoted by Board to directly work with products.

Education

Bachelor of Science - International Relationship

WSNHiD
Poznan
10.2010 - 05.2014

Business Analysis -

The George Washington University
Warsaw
12.2014 - 05.2014

Leadership in Project Management -

The George Washington University
Warsaw
10.2016 - 05.2016

Managing Projects - undefined

The George Washington University
06.2014 - 05.2014

Associate's Certificate in Project Management - undefined

The George Washington University
10.2016 - 05.2016

PPL(A) - undefined

Smart Aviation
01.2020 - 05.2020

Sensemaking.pl -

Sensemaking.pl
12.2020 - 04.2021

Skills

Product Strategy

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 05/07/1989
  • Nationality: Polish

Languages

Polish
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Spanish
Beginner
A1

Timeline

Senior Manager of Product & Engineering

Allegro.pl
05.2023 - Current

Owner

Ezfly sp. z o.o.
03.2022 - Current

Sensemaking.pl -

Sensemaking.pl
12.2020 - 04.2021

PPL(A) - undefined

Smart Aviation
01.2020 - 05.2020

Senior IT Project Manager & Product Owner

Contman
01.2018 - 08.2020

Leadership in Project Management -

The George Washington University
10.2016 - 05.2016

Associate's Certificate in Project Management - undefined

The George Washington University
10.2016 - 05.2016

Business Analysis -

The George Washington University
12.2014 - 05.2014

Managing Projects - undefined

The George Washington University
06.2014 - 05.2014

IT Project Manager

Contman
10.2013 - 01.2018

Pre-sales Manager

Contman
04.2013 - 10.2013

Account Manager

Contman
01.2013 - 04.2013

Bachelor of Science - International Relationship

WSNHiD
10.2010 - 05.2014

Senior Product Manager

Allegro.pl
8 2020 - 05.2023
Krzysztof GrzeskowiakSenior Manager Of Product & Engineering