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Tima Kozak

Tima Kozak

Warsaw

Hi, I’m Tim. I help software agencies and startup founders win customers through founder-led sales and build products people actually buy. I’ve spent the last years as a product manager in early-stage startups (from 0 to exit). Now I’m building Typedesk toward $1M ARR as Chief Product Officer, and running Leverion, where I work directly with founders on: - early B2B sales & discovery - founder-led demos and sales calls - building a customer-centric sales process - product positioning and go-to-market strategy - validating demand before building

Ask me about:
Business Networking,
Go-to-Market Strategy,
Early-Stage Startups,
Pitch,
Product Development,
Product Discovery,
Startups,
Product Management,
Board Games,
Tennis,
Alpine Skiing,
Road Trips,
Sauna / Banya

Dreams

Move to San Francisco for 1 year
Do a roadtrip across Europe
Go through Y Combinator / a16z Speedrun program

Leverion

Jan 2024 - Present

Founder & Builder of your startup ideas

Help entrepreneurs go through idea validation, design & development to get their startup concept into a market-ready product.

- All projects are led by Leverion co-founders.
- Full focus on your product
- Obsessed with Lean.
- Incredibly fast with no bureaucracy.

Self Employed

Aug 2023 - May 2024

Product Development Consultant

Helped businesses approach product development, product discovery and pre-sales

- Saved over $100,000 in development costs for clients by facilitating lean product discovery
- Assisted fintech company with AI-based product pre-sale by directing PRD & prototype development
- Helped a travel agency validate and build a travel package management product

IAMPM

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024

Product Owner Course Mentor

IAMPM is an online school in Ukraine that specialises on courses for non-technical IT specialists

- Supported 3 batches of course students with mentorship sessions & homework feedback

Loty Proty

Dec 2022 - Sep 2023

Product Manager

Loty Proty is a Ukrainian non-profit auction web app that helped to raise over 3,000,000 UAH for the Ukrainian military.

- Full responsibility for the success of a product
- Drove 3.5x growth to auction’s total profit in less than 4 months (from 300k to 1M+ UAH)
- Gathered product insights through customer development & data analysis
- Determined product strategy and created development & marketing roadmaps

Fulcrum

Oct 2022 - May 2024

R&D Product Manager < Product Owner

Fulcrum is an agency that provides product teams to startups. Due to my achievements on the past role, I was selected to take over a special R&D project

- Led discovery & development of a tool from scratch that got acquired by a venture fund in less than 10 months
- Coordinated a cross-functional team with a goal to build a profitable SaaS product
- Tested 10+ product hypotheses for new products in various domains

Luxoft

Aug 2022 - Oct 2022

Middle Business Analyst

Luxoft is one of the biggest outsource IT companies in Ukraine that helped me understand that I prefer fast-paced environments.

- Created vehicle-abstract specification for a luxury Italian car manufacturer in less than 3 months by analysing and harmonizing 400+ infotainment requirements
- Increased team efficiency by more than 30% by organising internal business processes
- Reduced project delay by 2 weeks by creating best-practice project status tracking

IT Procurement Platform Startup

Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

Co-founder & CEO

We aimed to build an online platform for hackathon-like IT tendering, and it was my first full-time startup experience, so I made mistakes, and it never worked out

- Co-founded the startup with an expert in IT tendering after having a conversation about my hackathon experience
- Developed product vision & strategy by conducting interviews and performing competitive analysis and market research
- Created all requirement artifacts for the product MVP from scratch by writing user stories & use cases and documenting business requirements
- Managed legal and development teams, and a designer

Lviv City Council

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

Business Analyst | Project Manager

Supercolony

May 2021 - Jul 2021

Hackathon Organiser

HUCUTHON

Feb 2021 - May 2021

Hackathon Organiser

- Organised hackathon for 127 participants from all over Ukraine to develop innovative solutions for online education
- Partnered with GlobalLogic and Perfectial (currently Avenga)
- Executed all activities in 3 months: event planning, partnership negotiations, social media marketing, brand design, landing page development, communication & more

Ukrainian Catholic University

Bachelor's degree IT & Business analytics

Lyceum №157

Upper secondary education

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