Cihan Sen

Ceo & Founder

ArcadeLift · Germany

Present

Launched as a different product ArcadeLift (ArcadeLift.com), an AI-native OS platform for company growth.

Initial Prototype

ArcadeLift · Germany

Worked on stealth app that helped people build pitch decks faster and more attuned to VC expectation. Build prototype in RoR - hosted on AWS.

Upskilling and Research Phase Ai Product Capability Incorporation

ArcadeLift · Norway, Germany

Product Manager

Ardoq · Oslo, Norway

● Responsible for product roadmap towards a more integrated product offering. ● Supported product strategy group in creating a commercially driven strategy. ● Cross-functional collaboration with designers, engineers, marketing, sales and business developers.

Chief Product Officer

SVOSJ

● Overall responsibility for all product, tech, and design initiatives across the company for all SVOSJ products; with the core product being a mobile eComm app that guarantees a free-shipping option at more than 80 leading Nordic online stores (recently stopped due to Schibsted's redirection in its eCommerce strategy). ● Responsible for SVOSJ's product vision and alignment with strategy and OKRs of other disciplines and the entire company. ● Given SVOSJ's company lifecycle, a large impact on company mission, strategy, goal setting, and corresponding product roadmap. ● Responsible for product-marketing strategy, uncovering and executing on retention and engagement loops to find scalable, predictable, and repeatable growth. ● Recruited, onboarded, and empowered cross-functional and high-functioning product, tech, and design team consisting of 12 engineers & product designers of varying seniority during time of Covid work restrictions. ● Created a high-impact agile product development en…

Product Lead News Strategy and Content Creation

Schibsted Media Group · Oslo Area, Norway

● Senior Product Lead responsible for Schibsted News Media's content creation tools across all Schibsted-owned Scandinavian News Destinations (Norway: VG, Aftenposten, Sweden: Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet). ● Led a cross-functional product team of designers, engineers, analysts. ● Implemented and cultivated impact-driven product development methodologies & frameworks and an agile mindset within corporate product leadership. ● Fostered importance of fast methods for executing validated product initiatives, starting from discovery to prototyping and implementation of new initiatives. ● Responsible for prioritized roadmap and aligning with other product teams in News Media to strive towards achieving common OKRs. ● Senior Strategic Project Lead on behalf of the Schibsted Group Executive Management Team to assess the financial and technical viability of a sale of Schibsted's internal news production suite to international media organizations. ● Conducted deep industry and market research…

Senior Product Manager

Curve · London, United Kingdom

● Product Lead with particular focus on growing active user base. ● Responsible as growth Product Lead for increasing conversion of new signups to initial transaction (main activation KPI) and understanding value-proposition of product. ● Implemented new risk-based KYC approach to increase financial safety while improving onboarding UX and reducing drop-off in the user activation funnel. ● Responsible for growth roadmap and implementation of initiatives. ● Helped create product development culture in a growth team of quick iterative learnings and hypothesis-driven product development with a focus on high ROI initiatives. ● Conducted market and competitive analysis.

Founder & Head of Product

HYPESONG · London, United Kingdom

● Designed, developed and released MVP in Ruby on Rails. ● Conducted user research to uncover customer problems to build a high-impact roadmap and achieve product-market fit. ● Grew activated users to around 30,000 and 100 leading labels. ● Raised seed rounds from experienced angel investors.

Founder

Bruddi · London Area, United Kingdom

Startup to launch music competitions. Build platform as solo-founder in Ruby on Rails and raised initial angel investments.