Zachary Balaska

Experience

1. Product Manager

   Cyrisk Inc

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Host daily stand-up meetings for synchronizing development progress and addressing concerns, involving team members from the U.S. and Bangladesh while leading weekly sprint planning to allocate and prioritize tasks for upcoming sprints- Engage with various stakeholders (CEO, sales, marketing, engineering, customer success, end-users) for requirement collection and converting these into Jira user stories while holding regular meetings with the CEO and customer success team for business prioritization and roadmap development- Informing business members about upcoming release features and timeline adjustments due to development hurdles while maintaining effective communication between the development team and business units, aligning goals and providing updates- Develop wireframes and mockups in Figma to direct development, ensuring a comprehensive design process in order to manage development tasks using agile methodologies, organizing them into structured sprints and releases- Create and manage documentation for new features for both internal teams and end-users while supervising the documentation process for SOC2 compliance and maintain changelogs for product releases.

Education

• Ball State University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International Business

  2011 — 2015