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Sergey Soloviov

A seasoned Product Director with over 20 years of experience in software products and digital transformation.
My expertise spans product leadership, Agile coaching, and go-to-market strategy, with a focus on achieving product-market fit and operational excellence.

Journey

2024–2025: Portfolio and Product Director for Capgemini
2019–2023: Client Partner for Capgemini Engineering
2019–2022: Product Coach for startups
2015–2019: Head of Product and Tech for HeadBox
2003–2015: Delivery Lead with a range of companies

Consultancy offering

I’m available for consultancy engagements on a fractional or temporary basis.

Over the years, I’ve worked across diverse industries and domains. While gaining broad exposure, I also noticed that I consistently applied transferable skills to create value in new ways. Each experience has helped me reach deeper and push the boundaries to drive meaningful impact.

I now help teams close product management gaps leveraging both the depth and the breadth of my hands-on expertise.

Depth

My consultancy goes across all areas of product management, with a particular focus on areas where I can make the most difference:

Product types – B2B SaaS products, Marketplaces, eCommerce
Building a Product Function – Structuring teams, defining roles, hiring the right talent, and developing career progression plans.
Product Operations – Defining vision and strategic direction, roadmapping, embedding continuous discovery, and strengthening feedback loops.
Agile Delivery – Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, enhancing performance, and scaling multi-squad collaboration.
Vendor Management – Establishing effective engagement models and optimising ways of working with remote teams.
Technical SEO – Auditing your current setup, providing actionable recommendations, and overseeing implementation.

Breadth

I have worked across countries, oftentimes with teams and stakeholders spread across timezones: the UK, the US, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Ukraine, India, UAE and Malaysia.

Industries where I was able to make an impact—with examples:

Eventtech
- Built and launched an online marketplace and two B2B SaaS products for a venue finding platform to disrupt the industry.
- Developed an immersive communications platform underpinned by the Unity tech stack for a corporate communications company to gain a competitive edge.
Payments
- Accelerated integrations roadmap for a leading European online payments platform, increasing market share across European markets.
- Modernised remittance functionality for a digital banking and remittance platform, unlocking scalability and driving platform growth.
eCommerce
- Enabled product-led growth for a search and discovery API provider, significantly improving customer acquisition.
- Advised a global e-commerce conglomerate on offshore collaboration strategies, creating a strong Quality Assurance function.
- Integrated shopping experiences for a range of national fashion retail brands to seamlessly incorporate online distribution channels.
Banking
- Led development of a self-service facility within an internet-banking platform for a major UK bank to drive significant cost reductions.
- Executed an overhaul of online customer experience for a leading bank in UAE, elevating standards and enabling accurate and comprehensive content across all product lines.
ISVs
- Delivered re-platforming for a data analytics software firm more efficiently than their in-house processes, reinforcing their leadership position in the market.
- Coached and consulted on agile planning and execution for a distributed computing technology company, raising product delivery standards.
Media
- Levelled up Agile delivery with a multi-squad orchestration using SAFe for a digital services company, strengthening reliability of delivery.
Energy and Utilities
- Built and launched the self-service order management facility for a fuel delivery business, doubling adoption, driving retention, and boosting market share.
Healthcare
- Developed a critical platform component for a healthcare technology firm, eliminating reliance on external software and dramatically reducing costs.
Aviation
- Provided targeted coaching for an airline, optimising output across five interdependent Agile work streams.
FMCG
- Delivered re-platforming and localisation programmes for a number of product brands for a global FMCG giant, unifying how they manage their web presence.
Cyber-security
- Helped to apply a niche engineering skillset in a unique way to power the customer experience layer of remote browser isolation solution.

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Product Stories newsletter
Product Management Assessment
Coaching gig on Fiverr
Product in the Aether (periodical appearances)

Connect

LinkedIn / sergey.a.soloviov🥨gmail.com