Elina Simonetou

About Elina Simonetou

A customer-focused product leader with a track record of guiding innovative products from ideation to successful delivery and widespread adoption in both B2C and B2B (SaaS) environments. I excel at transforming ideas into market-leading solutions across web, mobile, APIs, and data platforms and I have done so in both consulting and in-house product teams. Whether building teams from ground up or driving them through transformation I advocate for human-centered design thinking, data-driven strategy, AI Innovation and product operations excellency.Skills: Product Operations Agile Product & Project ManagementUXPeople managementMeasurement Strategy and AnalyticsProduct StrategyPublic speakingProduct Roadmaps & Backlog prioritizationGo to MarketAI, ML, LLM, NLP, GenAIBI and Data analyticsFinancial planning and budgeting

Experience

1. Director of Product Management

   UKG

   Jul 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Currently overseeing the Talent Management product portfolio, with over $200M in ARR. Achievements include- Product-led Growth: Expanded the client base for existing products with an average 54% YoY growth, whilst also achieving a >90% retention rate and a 85% CSAT score (10% YoY growth) through customer growth design strategies- AI and GenAI Innovation: Spearheaded UKG’s GenAI product offering bringing to market Agentic AI use cases for reporting, analytics, recommendations and task automation- Cross functional Leadership: Collaborated with Sales, Marketing and Operations successfully leading new product launches, acquisitions and an OEM partnership- 0 to 1 product execution: Pitched to C-suite and secured funding for a new talent mobility product, managing its lifecycle from initial concept through to Beta, market-product fit, and pricing strategy- Team Leadership: Recruited, mentored, and managed a global product team of 11 FTEs, including managers and individual contributors- Customer relationships: Instrumented multiple VoC (Voice of customer) initiatives to gather customer feedback through product analytics, market analysis, CAB (customer advisory boards) and Beta programs- Product Operations excellency: Led key organization-wide initiatives to implement product management tools for roadmapping, customer feedback, and business analytics, leveraging Aha, Pendo, and Power BI

Education

• Alliance Manchester Business School

  MSc, Business Information Technology

  2005 — 2006

• University of Piraeus

  BSc, Computer Science

  2000 — 2005

Skills

• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Business Analysis
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Requirements Analysis
• Integration
• Business Requirements
• Business Intelligence
• Web Applications
• Mobile Applications
• Scrum
• Project Delivery
• Uml
• Databases
• User Acceptance Testing
• Analysis
• Sql
• User Interface Design
• Requirements Gathering
• Use Case Analysis
• Testing
• Sdlc
• Business Process Mapping
• Analytics
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Information Management
• Crm
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Consulting
• Stakeholder Management
• Prince2
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Salesforce.com
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Change Management