Denis Ivanov - Group Product Manager, Grocery Delivery

Recommended expert

Tallinn, Estonia

Check rate

Experience

Feb 2023 - Present

3 years 7 months

Tallinn, Estonia

Group Product Manager, Bolt Market

Bolt

Scaling Bolt Market

Jul 2021 - Feb 2023

1 year 8 months

Tallinn, Estonia

Director of Product, Bolt Food & Bolt Market

Bolt

Scaling Delivery

Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

7 months

Tallinn, Estonia

Group Product Manager, Bolt Food

Bolt

Scaling Bolt Food

Nov 2018 - Jan 2021

2 years 3 months

Tallinn, Estonia

Product Manager

Bolt

Built Bolt Food

Apr 2016 - Oct 2018

2 years 7 months

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Head of Product Team at Embria Labs

Embria

Embria Labs was created as a r&d department of Embria Group (20+ IT businesses, and growing) in order to find business ideas and launch startups. Since summer 2017 Labs focused entirely on Crypto market.

Key responsibilities:

finding and elaborating business ideas
defining product vision and business models
providing data and estimates for financial modelling
validating product hypotheses — through market intelligence, networking and prototyping
competitor analysis: estimating metrics, product strengths and weaknesses
taking part in startup development (as a guest manager)
managing a team of up to 5 persons (developer, designer, marketing managers), hiring

Achievements:

4 startups launched and running: two influencer marketing platforms, a cashback service for offline FMCG purchases, and a crypto mining farm
one startup launched and failed: an invoice-factoring service
a bunch of ideas studied and considered unfavorable (in Logistics, Finance and Crypto industries)
and few minor projects: a crypto trading bot (fully developed and launched, still working), help with launching a viral video app (formulating the product vision, managed design) etc.

Oct 2014 - Mar 2016

1 year 6 months

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Head of Department of Yandex.Realty

Yandex

Key responsibilities:

taking part in development and implementation of the new strategy for Yandex.Realty service
shipping tons of new features, mostly through a/b-testing
coordination of different teams — developers, testers, admins, designers, marketing managers etc.
managing of the team (direct supervision of 5–7 people, total — 50+), staff budgeting, hiring managers

Main achievement — pivoting Yandex.Realty from being an aggregator of classifieds to a stand-alone classifieds service, which allowed:

start working with mobile audience (launched mobile apps and mobile website)
diversify the revenue sources (implemented pay-per-call model and boosting of ads)
improve usability of the service and ads quality

Apr 2013 - Sep 2014

1 year 6 months

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Head of Vertical and Thematic Search Department

Yandex

managed the team while transitioning from a part of the Yandex.Search team to a separate unit (later Yandex.Verticals)
supported Yandex.Auto, Yandex.Jobs and Yandex.Realty and improved monetisation
took part in elaborating the strategy of Yandex.Auto, and in the acquisition of Auto.ru
launched a beta of Interactive Answers API, which would allow webmasters to add interactive content to snippets of their websites on the search results page — a part of a major “Yandex Islands” project

Oct 2011 - Apr 2013

1 year 7 months

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Head of Thematic Search Verticals Group

Yandex

Key responsibilities:

launching a series of small thematic verticals (search for general reviews, chords, books etc) within the main Yandex Search and other major verticals
launching new reviews implementations, supporting the old ones
managing a group of managers (2–4 persons), hiring

Key launches:

Businesses reviews at Yandex.Maps
Search and ranking engine for Yandex.Store
Desktop version of the App Search

Sep 2010 - Oct 2011

1 year 2 months

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Project/Product Manager

Yandex

Key responsibilities:

forming product launches and updates, getting stakeholders' approvals
coordinating the project teams: developers, designers, testers, support specialists and other
negotiating with partners, forming agreements on aggregating their content
developing a general platform for introducing reviews into different Yandex verticals (like Yandex.Auto, Yandex.Jobs, Yandex.Maps etc)

Achievements:

launched two new sections at Yandex.Auto (an automotive classified aggregator) on the newly-developed reviews platform: Reviews — for user-generated reviews, and Articles — for professional reviews from car magazines
launched a Search vertical for iOS and Android applications — to improve Yandex Search results for then-emerging queries about mobile apps

Sep 2007 - Aug 2010

3 years

Manager of Yandex Affiliate Network Program

Mixmarket (Affiliate Network)

In 2006 Yandex launched it's Advertising Network, and MixMarket.BIZ was one of several companies acting as an intermediary to manage publishers (until 2014, when Yandex shut down this type of partnerships).

So in 2007 I joined MixMarket to manage and improve that service.

Key responsibilities:

Developing and improving the affiliate program of Yandex Advertising Network
Creating a loyal community of affiliates to prevent churn
Managing payouts to affiliates
Lobbying publishers' needs at Yandex

What's done:

launched a bonus program for affiliates
supported affiliates (at first on my own, later a dedicated support agent was hired)
wrote and updated HowTos, FAQs and other documentation
made MixMarket.BIZ forum much more lively by posting useful content and encouraging affiliates to discuss things
managed several updates in interfaces (improved support and reports system)
made payouts much faster (~3-7 days down to 1-2 days since confirmed)
launched a few promos for the affiliates

Nov 2003 - Aug 2010

6 years 10 months

Moscow, Russian Federation

Search Engine Optimization Specialist

ADLABS (ООО Адлабс.ру)

Responsibilities

analyzing clients' websites and writing recommendations to improve search engine rankings
buying links, writing search engine optimized texts, selecting keywords, etc.
after switching to MixMarket as my main job — advising colleagues and managing payments for links.

Achievements:

built a unified process for buying links for all the company's clients (more than 50 projects)
developed a semi-automatic method to check the quality of bought links (so that we could spend way less than an average competing SEO agency — perhaps a 3-5x cost saving, but it's really hard to tell for sure)

Industry Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time.

Experienced in Information Technology, Professional Services, Food and Beverage, Real Estate, Advertising, and Banking and Finance.

Information Technology

Professional Services

Food and Beverage

Real Estate

Advertising

Banking and Finance

Business Area Experience

See which departments and functions this freelancer has contributed to most.

Experienced in Product Development, Operations, Strategy, Project Management, Marketing, and Quality Assurance.

Product Development

Operations

Strategy

Project Management

Marketing

Quality Assurance

Summary

10+ years of product/project management experience in different industries: Classifieds, AdTech, Search engines. Then Food and now Grocery delivery.

Skills

Product Management
Web Project Management
Project Management

Languages

Russian

Native

English

Advanced

German

Elementary

French

Elementary

Education

Sep 1998 - Jun 2003

Moscow State University

Specialist · Theoretical and Applied Linguistics · Moscow, Russian Federation

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 11

Experience in Information Technology 16 y

Avg length 2 y 4 m

Longest experience 6 y 9 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (Russian Federation, Estonia)

Primary country Russian Federation

Expertise

Recent roles Group Product Manager, Bolt Market, Director of Product, Bolt Food & Bolt Market, Group Product Manager, Bolt Food

Main industries Information Technology, Professional Services, Food and Beverage

Main business areas Product Development, Operations, Strategy

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Profile

Created

August 2026

Need a freelancer? Find your match in seconds.

Try FRATCH GPT

Frequently asked questions

Have questions? Find more information here.

Denis is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Denis speaks the following languages: Russian (Native), English (Advanced), German (Elementary), French (Elementary).

Denis has at least 23 years of experience. During this time, Denis has worked in at least 11 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 1 month. Note that Denis may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Denis would be well-suited for roles such as: Group Product Manager, Bolt Market, Director of Product, Bolt Food & Bolt Market, Group Product Manager, Bolt Food.

Denis's most recent position is Group Product Manager, Bolt Market at Bolt.

In recent years, Denis has worked for Bolt.

Denis is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Professional Services, and Food and Beverage. Denis also has some experience in Real Estate, Advertising, and Banking and Finance.

Denis is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Operations, and Strategy. Denis also has some experience in Project Management, Marketing, and Quality Assurance.

Denis has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Food and Beverage, and Transportation.

Denis has recently worked in business areas like Operations, Product Development, and Strategy.

Denis holds a Master in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from Moscow State University.

The availability of Denis needs to be confirmed.

Daily Rate Distribution

0 1 2 3 4

<€320 €480-640 €640-800 €800-960 €960+

The rates shown represent the typical market range for freelancers in this position based on recent contracts on our platform.

Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Average rates for similar positions

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

800

600

400

200

Daily rate avg. 652 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

800

600

400

200

Median rate 640 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.