School Rebound – Co-Founder & COO / Head of Product
Jul. 2020 – Jun. 2025 · Lausanne, Switzerland
EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) spin-off developing Dynamilis, an AI-powered educational iPad app, achieving 200K+ downloads and helping tens of thousands of children worldwide with handwriting difficulties.
- Product Leadership: Directed multi-year product strategy through user behavior analysis and market research, evolving app from MVP to top 5% retention in educational apps through hypothesis-driven feature development and A/B testing.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Built and managed 10-person cross-functional team (engineers, AI/ML, design) with OKRs and performance metrics, ensuring alignment between technical capabilities and business objectives.
- Data-Driven Growth Strategy: Analyzed user acquisition funnels and cohort behavior to optimize onboarding, achieving conversion rates in top 10% for educational apps through experimentation and external market benchmarking.
- Strategic B2B Market Expansion: Evaluated European education markets through competitive analysis and stakeholder interviews, securing partnerships with 50+ schools across 5 countries via targeted go-to-market strategy.
- 0-to-1 AI Product Innovation: Transformed complex handwriting recognition research into a scalable consumer product by analyzing technical feasibility, market opportunity, and user needs to define product-market fit strategy.