Oleg Kozin
11 years product management experience (6 years in Web3). Skilled in cross-org leadership, customer development, discovery, and hands-on execution.
Experience
Senior Product Manager
Trust Wallet
- Users: Focused on diverse crypto users by optimizing the UX for high-value financial primitives, including Swaps, DeFi, Prediction markets, and Real-World Assets (RWA).
- Strategy: Directed product strategy and revenue stream diversification, taking ownership of a portfolio responsible for 90% of the company's total revenue.
- Delivery: Led 0-1 delivery and vendor management, orchestrating seamless integrations for Perpetuals, Swaps, Predictions and various DeFi protocols.
- Product: Spearheaded rigorous UX optimization across the trading ecosystem to reduce friction and improve execution for decentralized financial transactions.
- Result: Successfully doubled the entire company's revenue. Increased the conversion rate of swaps from 2.5% to 37% within a six-month period.
Senior Product Manager
Sequence
- Users: Focused on Web2 game developers integrating Web3 features, ensuring seamless onboarding for non-crypto-native teams. Result: Reduced onboarding time by 30% and the onboarding drop-off rate by 60%.
- Strategy: Drove product development for blockchain infrastructure, enabling game studios to integrate wallets, NFT marketplaces, and on-chain payment gateways. Result: Enabled $4M+ in in-game asset sales across key partners.
- Delivery: Led go-to-market and execution for developer tools, API integrations, and dashboards, streamlining tokenized economies in games. Result: Accelerated integration speed in average by 50%, reducing time-to-market for game studios.
- Product: Built and optimized solutions for Ubisoft, Immutable, ApeChain, and Somnia, improving Web3 adoption through embedded wallets, cross-chain payments, and white label NFT infrastructure.
Head of Product
POAP
- Users: Streamlined processes for issuers, developers, collectors, and curators, improving ease of use across the platform.
- Strategy: Led the development of product strategy and roadmap, identified user pains, defined needs, and coordinated with stakeholders each quarter.
- Delivery: Established a product organization, implementing best practices and coordinating development with engineering.
- Product: Led new product development 0-1 and delivered 5 new products: POAP Drops for issuing POAPs, POAP Scan for viewing wallet-attached collections, POAP Gallery for viewing social graph activity, POAP Collections for managing drops, and POAP Mint for a standard minting processes.
Senior Product Manager
MetaMask
- Users: Enabled web3 financial tooling adoption for MetaMask and MetaMask Institutional.
- Strategy: Led the integration of Ethereum and web3 technologies across a 200-person product organization.
- Delivery: Focused R&D on staking, bridging, and Web3 solutions with a focus on users.. Ran hypothesis testing, research, and continuous feedback.
- Product: Partnered with product engineering, go-to-market, business development, analytics, and executives to drive initiatives and achieve goals. Led discovery and scoping for key products such as the MetaMask portfolio dApp and interchain bridges for ConsenSys ecosystem.
Associate Director, Product
Paxful
- Users: Served peer-to-peer digital currency Marketplace buyers and sellers, supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and 300+ payment methods.
- Strategy: Defined a product vision for the marketplace, prioritizing user safety and streamlined transactions. Led market analysis and competitive research to inform feature development and partnership opportunities.
- Delivery: Built and managed a 3-person product team. Implemented agile development, OKRs, and user-focused metrics.
- Product: Improved performance and drove growth. Automated trade flows, pursued strategic partnerships, and delivered features including "Trusted Offers," a Telegram trade bot, gift code database, wallet QR trades, automated/guided trades, and fiat off-ramps. Results include: Increased trade velocity by 30%, improved marketplace conversion by 7%, and reduced trade disputes amount by 11%.
Senior Product Manager
Wise (ex. TransferWise)
- Users: Focused on the customer verification domain, specializing in automation and tooling.
- Strategy: Led the design and launch of a new customer verification flow to streamline onboarding and increase conversion rates.
- Delivery: Played a key role in a cross-team initiative to improve the customer verification process. Coordinated with engineering, legal, and operations teams to align requirements and implementation.
- Product: Led the development of a new user verification flow, reducing fraud by 11% for targeted user personas. Outsourced a verification method, leading to increased first-attempt verification success by 6%, decrease in review costs (saving over $400k annually) and accelerated verification speed to an average of 10 minutes - 1 hour.
Product Manager
MGID inc.
- Users: Protected advertising ecosystem for publishers, advertisers, and middlemen.
- Strategy: Led anti-fraud initiatives, conducting market research, stress testing, and A/B testing to define system health metrics.
- Delivery: Spearheaded anti-fraud projects, managing cross-functional teams to implement penetration tests, analyze A/B testing results, and continuously improve system security.
- Product: Developed solutions including click tracking, spyware detection, and device analytics.As result: TAG compliance achieved. Reduced invalid traffic by 80% over 23 months.
Product/Project Manager
Various Companies
- Users: Served advertisers, publishers, and local consumers in adtech, affiliate marketing, and booking services.
- Strategy: Led product development across multiple domains, focusing on fraud prevention, advertising technology, and mobile applications.
- Delivery: Managed cross-functional teams, conducted market research, implemented fraud detection systems, and developed mobile apps.
- Product: Delivered fraud prevention tools, Traffic Distribution Systems (TDS), a booking platform, and adtech solutions. Results: TAG compliance achieved, 80% fraud reduction, 400+ monthly app installs, and $800k+ revenue growth.
Education
Odesa's Mechnikov's University
Masters
International economics
Skills
Cooking
Me
11 years product management experience (6 years in Web3). Skilled in cross-org leadership, customer development, discovery, and hands-on execution.