Nabil Chouaib
Senior Product Owner & Manager
Experience
Sep 2021 - May 2023
1 year 9 months Munich, Germany
Director of Product Management
Izicap
- Product Manager/ Owner for the data, web and mobile teams (Java, REST API, Angular, React, Flutter)
- Close collaboration with the executive team (CPO & CTO) to help them make decisions by representing the product voice
- Managed sprints in an agile workflow (SCRUM & Kanban) – Sprint planning, reviews, and retrospective as well as the backlog of 2 teams – Requirements, ticket grooming/ estimation
- Moderation of SCRUM meetings
- Wrote Epics and User stories – Close collaboration with the engineering team leads – Translating business requirements into technical user stories
- Definition and execution on OKRs
- Designed, Built and Hired a product structure that consists of 8 individuals including product managers, UI/UX Designer, product analyst.
- Results: Increased offer activation rate x8.
May 2021 - Aug 2021
4 months Munich, Germany
Product Management Consultant
Izicap
- Product Owner/ Manager for the data team
- Epic and user stories definition
- Backlog and sprint management of the data team
- Introduced product management workflow to create the product roadmap
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 6 months Hamburg, Germany
Director of Product Management
Smaato Inc.
- Product Owner/ Manager for the UI and backend teams
- Roadmap definition and alignment cross teams (Product & engineering) as well as cross department
- Definition and execution on OKRs
- Hired a product manager to support team, roadmap, and backlog management
- Stakeholder management (Internal and external)
- Leading and growing a team of product managers that was responsible for multiple strategic products.
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
2 years 2 months Hamburg, Germany
Senior Product Manager
Smaato Inc.
- Growing Smaato's strategic relationships and leading new strategic integration e.g. Amazon.
- Leading growth of existing platform and prioritizing new features based on stakeholder feedback and data.
- Coaching junior product managers to excel in the Smaato's product organization.
- Company representation in trade fairs such as the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, DMEXCO in Cologne.
- Pitching Smaato's products together with the sales team to new leads.
- Educating customers on the advertising market either through webinars and/or customer summits.
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
1 year 8 months Hamburg, Germany
Product Manager
Smaato Inc.
- Roadmap prioritization and planning.
- Stakeholder management.
- Translating business needs into technical user stories.
- Leading Smaato's strategic integrations such as with Google.
- Built the world's leading demand-facing platform (SDX) that helped advertisers target specific user audiences which resulted in cutting Smaato's infrastructure cost by ~40% and increase in revenue by ~15% - see Smaato's blogpost for more details.
- Supporting the executive team in the due diligence/CFIUS phase during Smaato's exit valued at $148 million.
Aug 2012 - Jun 2015
2 years 11 months Hamburg, Germany
Software & SDK Developer
Smaato Inc.
- Developing new features and maintaining existing features in the Smaato advertising SDK.
- Guiding and supporting Smaato's strategic customers in the integration phase.
- Stakeholder management, internal communication and roadmap prioritization.
- Product managing of all Smaato's mobile SDKs, leading all SDKs roadmaps and teamwork organization based on SCRUM.
Summary
An EDHEC Business School Global MBA graduate, dynamic and impact driven product leader with over 9 years of experience in building global online products in the mobile advertising and fintech industries. A product visionary professional who is passionate about innovating and making products that makes people's lives easier, more comfortable, healthier and cheaper. A business leader obsessed by market dynamics, innovative business models, finance, startups, entrepreneurship and innovation. A proven track of successfully launching multiple online products that secured company growth and led to company exit.
Languages
Arabic
Advanced
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
German
Advanced
Education
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
EDHEC Business School
Master of Business Administration · Business Administration · Nice, France
Dec 2011 - May 2012
University of Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
Sep 2009 - Jun 2012