Alen StojanovicSenior Product Manager

Enterprise video creation and management SaaS, 35+ person team. Customers included AWS, Thermo Fisher Scientific, PwC and Gartner. Acquired by Banzai (NASDAQ: BNZI) in Dec 2024.

• Owned end-to-end release management across product, design, engineering and data, turning an ad-hoc process into a predictable cadence GTM and customer-facing teams could plan around.
• Partnered with the Head of Product to translate company strategy into team-level initiatives with measurable goals, owning the path from roadmap decision to shipped release.
• Held the roadmap and enterprise customers stable through the Banzai acquisition and integration, protecting continuity for Fortune 500 accounts.
• Led go-to-market coordination for 6 enterprise feature launches, aligning rollout, enablement and customer comms so releases landed without disruption to key accounts.
• Cut time-to-value from 1 week to 1 day by introducing a new landing experience aligned with customer needs.

Digital health startup offering secure messaging, media sharing and workflow automation connecting nursing homes, families and service providers.

• Shipped 10 major releases in 12 months, including an end-to-end food-ordering and kitchen-management system now used daily across care facilities.
• Increased engagement among external facility users (relatives) by ~20% with a new push-notification structure and weekly digest emails.
• Authored requirements and functional specs for 40+ features, balancing custom requests from 3 key customers against the roadmap without slipping core delivery timelines.
• Stood up product analytics from scratch, giving the team and investors the usage data needed to support a funding round.

Product and business-analysis engagements for software teams through Toptal, an exclusive, fully remote global freelance network.

• Delivered discovery, testing, requirements and backlog work across several client engagements, helping teams turn product ideas into prioritized, buildable and shippable scope.
• Worked across different domains and team setups, learning to ramp up quickly and add structure with limited context.

AI-powered intelligence hub and digital marketplace for industrial spare parts management, cleaning inventory data and minimizing manufacturing downtime.

• Reported directly to the CEO, turning business needs into wireframes and prioritized feature requirements.
• Built and maintained a prioritized backlog that kept engineering aligned and made sprint delivery predictable.
• Introduced Agile delivery practices to the software team.

AI (RAG) based chat platform for the hospitality industry, handling pre-stay and in-stay guest communication through NaviWeb and NaviStay.

• Bootstrapped the project with initial product discovery, communication, scoping and go-to-market.
• Defined the product value proposition and strategy using the Blue Ocean framework.
• Driving business development and lead generation.

Non-profit community platform for travellers to exchange physical cultural goods, built during the pandemic's no-travel period.

• Did the wireframing and customer research, built the MVP and delivered it to production as a one-person team.
• Managed user relations and an external development team.
• Wound the project down after concluding that a production-ready version needed funding and ongoing support beyond a solo founder's capacity.

Nearshore software development and design agency providing dedicated teams to European companies, later acquired by and rebranded under Dutch consulting firm Valcon.

• Joined the founding core team of a new local agency and owned business-requirements gathering and QA for its largest client, QuickParking.

Cloud-based HR management platform for automated onboarding, employee compliance and engagement.

• Started my career in QA, working alongside Business Analysts and Product Managers. This was the foundation for my move into product management.