Vova Ermolaev

• Set product strategy + research-led quarterly prioritization & OKRs → MAU growth >20%, retention ATH + team's turnover 0% with 28% promotions (+22% vs avg)

• Lifted market share +10 pp by tightly managing product, marketing, operations and performance teams

• Launched risk‑priced insurance → +231% gross profit in 6 months

• First time in industry: sold tariff naming as branding to Winline & launched native BNPL

• Achieved stronger retention by rolling out a Superapp Mode unifying sharing, rental, and subscription

Insurance

BNPL

Superapp

• Built franchise from scratch: developed strategy → launched 16 000 e-Scooters in 12 cities across 4 countries → generated >$10M GMV

• Launched tax optimization → $2M annual OPEX savings.

• Stabilized the business and regained share: Israel market share up from 29% to 38%.

• +$3.8m net impact by optimizing opex and new UX – executed a legacy-to-Yango tech migration and designed brand new Yango Wind app.

• Secured +12% GMV uplift by launching new minute packages and updated zero-unlock passes.

Yango Wind alt-offers

• Designed offline-first knowledge-graph app – Anytype. Lead 14-person team & community of 3,000+ users who contributed 1,500 bug reports and feature requests.

•Achieved product-market fit and scaled user retention → helped to secure $13.4M investment from Balderton Capital and 2nd place in PoTM on Product Hunt

Anytype Main

Knowledge Graph

• Built everything in crowdlending platform from scratch.

• Successfully implemented a business model for Ozon.Invest, delivering $5M to lenders, 10.5% returns to investors, and covering development costs in a year with a 2% fee

• Personally struck first loans offline.

• Developed new UX of daily banking app for 2M users – app propelled from 8th to 1st in the Markswebb Mobile Banking Rank.

My prototype from 2018

• Developed banking app using Java and Kotlin, writing logic on microservices architecture.