Michael Solomonov
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Savelii Barashkov
Michael is an incredibly reliable and trustworthy colleague with a high level of work ethics and personal responsibility. You can trust him to become an evangelist of your product who will constantly seek new creative ways of presenting it on the market. He knows and appreciates a functioning system and will organize the work process with KPIs, a system of reporting, and a set of strategic goals. Based on my personal experience I can highly recommend Michael for managerial and product roles
Igor Kotlyarenko
Michael has a unique expertise in everything related to the content strategy. He really knows everything in this theme - starting from ways of picking A-players for the team and ending with the best ideas of viral distribution for stories. He can build a new digital media for you in a few weeks. It was a pleasure to work and learn from such a big professional.
Savelii Barashkov
Michael is an incredibly reliable and trustworthy colleague with a high level of work ethics and personal responsibility. You can trust him to become an evangelist of your product who will constantly seek new creative ways of presenting it on the market. He knows and appreciates a functioning system and will organize the work process with KPIs, a system of reporting, and a set of strategic goals. Based on my personal experience I can highly recommend Michael for managerial and product roles
Igor Kotlyarenko
Michael has a unique expertise in everything related to the content strategy. He really knows everything in this theme - starting from ways of picking A-players for the team and ending with the best ideas of viral distribution for stories. He can build a new digital media for you in a few weeks. It was a pleasure to work and learn from such a big professional.
Savelii Barashkov
Michael is an incredibly reliable and trustworthy colleague with a high level of work ethics and personal responsibility. You can trust him to become an evangelist of your product who will constantly seek new creative ways of presenting it on the market. He knows and appreciates a functioning system and will organize the work process with KPIs, a system of reporting, and a set of strategic goals. Based on my personal experience I can highly recommend Michael for managerial and product roles
Igor Kotlyarenko
Michael has a unique expertise in everything related to the content strategy. He really knows everything in this theme - starting from ways of picking A-players for the team and ending with the best ideas of viral distribution for stories. He can build a new digital media for you in a few weeks. It was a pleasure to work and learn from such a big professional.
Savelii Barashkov
Michael is an incredibly reliable and trustworthy colleague with a high level of work ethics and personal responsibility. You can trust him to become an evangelist of your product who will constantly seek new creative ways of presenting it on the market. He knows and appreciates a functioning system and will organize the work process with KPIs, a system of reporting, and a set of strategic goals. Based on my personal experience I can highly recommend Michael for managerial and product roles
Igor Kotlyarenko
Michael has a unique expertise in everything related to the content strategy. He really knows everything in this theme - starting from ways of picking A-players for the team and ending with the best ideas of viral distribution for stories. He can build a new digital media for you in a few weeks. It was a pleasure to work and learn from such a big professional.
Credentials
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BuzzSumo Certification
BuzzSumoApr, 2018- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Checkify.pro
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Cyprus
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Managing Partner
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Aug 2022 - Present
Responsibilities: - Customer success management: Constant communication with top spenders and personalized approach aimed at maintaining strong business relations with key users, understanding their actual and potential needs, and finding the ways to fulfil them. - Customer support and retention: help with onboarding and typical questions, working with email automation flows. - Analytics: customer analysis, financial stats analysis, and product analytics. - Business development and partnerships management: Undertaking business development duties, as well as communication with strategic partners. - Tech writing: Maintaining the help center in actual state. - Online services and subscription management: picking the right tools and services for running and developing the product. - PnL management: Identifying potential areas for cost optimization. Achievements: - Found product market fit and led the product to profitability within year after launch. - All the core metrics increased YoY despite the situation in Ukraine. Show less
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Genesis Tech
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Colombia
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Software Development
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Co-Chief Executive Officer at GMTP
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Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
The leader of a digital transformation project for one of the top Ukrainian independent media funded by renowned European institutions and organizations. Co-founded a checkout SaaS for eComm once the main project was over.Responsibilities:- Customer relationship management: Securing smooth financing, resolving legal and contractural aspects of the project. Presenting results of work and being in constant touch with stakeholders on the customer's side and the supervising (financing) side.- Project management: establishing smooth product development flow with timely releases. Applying best practices of Agile, using both elements of Scrum and Kanban methodologies in order to achieve the best result and maximum efficiency of every member of the team.- Product management: monitoring competitors and trends in the digital news publishing industry and their implementation to the developed solution; owning the process of creating technical documentation; collecting feedback, analysing, structuring and sharing it with the team.- People management: responsible for hiring, firing, evaluation and promotion (performance reviews), growth and development (personal development plans, one-on-ones).- Product integration: Training of end users and roll out of the developed solution to 20+ branches of the customer.- Financial management: responsible for project's PnL.Achievements:- Successfully integrated the enterprise-level web content management system to the end user, bringing together over 400 editors, reporters and journalists across the country.- The digital publishing platform led to exponential growth of the website: 11.7+M visits monthly as of December 2022 vs >100k visits (sessions) in December 2019.- High retention of the team, over 80% worked for the whole duration of the project. The satisfaction with the project they were doing and the value they were delivering were also really high: NPS over 90%. Show less
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Head of News Product
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Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Responsibilities:- Supervising a global team of 120 located in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, the Philippines and Ukraine.- Working with Ukraine-based dev, marketing and analytics teams to provide specifications and implement features aimed at boosting audience acquisition and revenue generation for five news websites.- Optimising operations: web content production flow, approach to social media, direct sales and administrative processes.- Ensuring trainings and knowledge sharing remotely and on ground, while living for six months in Nairobi, Kenya.- Maintaining relations and building strategic partnerships with Meta (Facebook), Opera News, YouTube and Google.- Mentoring and assisting in the editorial development of a partner media project in Kazakhstan.- Responsible for managing and minimizing losses (operating costs) of the group of news websites.Achievements:- Updated the system of regular reviews, finalized the hiring processes and workflows, defined and implemented a more effective structure for newsrooms.- Resolved the issue of vacant general manager position for one of the local offices. - Completed over 150 job interviews while in this role (position).- The group of news websites reversed the trend of non-profitability in the year 2019, became profitable in 2020.- The news sites demonstrated steady traffic and programmatic revenue growth, adding on average +10% quarterly.- Prepared the development roadmap for application to YouTube’s innovation funding. The grant was awarded to the Nigerian office in December 2018.- Established and led regular consultations and communication with Google during their R&D for a content-related product aimed at the Nigerian media market. As the result, the product called Question Hub was made available to the Nigerian online publishers in August 2019.- Led communication with Facebook and published a success story together with them. Show less
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Content & Operations Lead
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Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Responsibilities:- Developing editorial and media business growth plans.- Ensuring adoption of new editorial, marketing and financial analytics tools for the media business.- Improving editorial workflows to ensure faster content production and costs optimization.- Building monitoring desk to ensure that every single viral and breaking news is covered.Key achievements/projects:- Formed first content strategies and long-term (3-5 years) plans.- Completed hiring for the local content and operations teams to complete successful expansion ofthe media business to two new countries.- Introduced fact-checking flows, policy and compliance requirements to produced content. Show less
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TUT.BY
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Belarus
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Managing Editor
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Mar 2013 - Jun 2015
Responsibilities: - Managing a team of 20, including 12 in Nigeria, Lagos. - Designing first structure and hierarchy for the early-stage online newsroom, organizing shifts schedule. - Developing and maintaining in actual state sets for KPIs and OKRs for editors and reporters. - Creating and editing content for news websites and for social media platforms. Achievements: - Created a set of editorial and operational guidelines (knowledge base) that facilitated the expansion of the media business to Kenya and to Ghana (spring and autumn of 2015, respectively). - Developed templates and strategy for rapid SMM growth and development. The highest rate of Facebook page likes growth was achieved in 2015 as a result. Show less
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Education
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2012 - 2015
Belarusian State University
International Relations and Affairs -
2007 - 2011
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Computer Engineering
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