Maxim Smirnov, Senior Product Manager

Hi!
My name is Maxim

Product lead with 7+ years building products at the intersection of Telecom, Payments, Billing and AdTech. I connect product strategy, technical delivery and business goals — taking complex solutions from launch to scale across international markets.

Professional path

Senior Project Lead (R&D)

Current role

Own the full cycle of new products and services.

What I did

  • Billing & Telecom: launched Direct Carrier Billing.
  • Marketplace / recommendations: built and launched an AI recommendation system.
  • AdTech / monetization: launched HTML5 Gaming and Pin API.
  • AI services: designed an AI service concept and Python microservice.
  • Traffic quality: introduced anti-fraud and HLR solutions.

Product Manager

Owned billing and Trading Desk DSP development.

What I did

  • Hired and organized the engineering team.
  • Built process analytics and improved team efficiency metrics.
  • Migrated part of the monolith PHP/MySQL → Go/ClickHouse.
  • Launched services to automate A/B testing.
  • Built data marts and automation for the mediabuy team.

IT Project Manager / Business Analyst

Collected business requirements, controlled timelines and project budgets.

What I did

  • Internal process automation for a Big3 consulting company.
  • Awards portal and live stream for a company in the Sber ecosystem.
  • Internal system for a ministry.
  • Corporate portal for an international DIY retail chain.

Product Manager, AskUsers

Owned revenue growth for AskUsers.

What I did

  • Assembled an internal team and built development from scratch.
  • Managed backlog and prioritization.
  • Studied customer needs, reworked the product line, raised prices.
  • Set up end-to-end analytics, calculated channel ROI.
  • Grew traffic ×5.

Project Manager (internship)

Learned the basics of custom development delivery.

What I did

  • Pre-project work: client communication, project roadmap, budget estimate.
  • Specs and prototypes for development.
  • Coordination with backend and frontend.
  • Testing and task acceptance.

Tools

Tools I use in everyday work.

ClickHouse MySQL DBeaver REST API Python Graylog Grafana LLM AI tools Figma Jira

Education

Degrees and product courses.

2024
Produkt i Tochka · Opportunity Discovery, Product Discovery, Product Delivery
2021
Netology · Product Analytics
2015
Yaroslavl State University · History

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