Digital Bears

A boutique agency with focus on Communications and specifically Employer Branding and DevRel (developers relations) for the growth-stage startups. 
– Established several departments from scratch from business model to hiring teams
– Led multiple clients projects from design and communications to web and app development
– Helped 15+ startups to establish their brands and craft GTM strategies

Marketing Communications Lead | Program Manager

Acure.io

Acure.io, a Latvian startup recognized as one of the top 10 promising companies by EU-Startups.com, has developed an advanced AIOps incident control and automation platform. Operating as a cloud-based solution, Acure.io boasts a flexible and open architecture, enabling seamless integration with various systems.

- Conducted community research and interviews with industry experts and potential customers to shape Go-to-market (GTM) and product development strategies
- Hosted series of events with well known industry experts and attracted 2500+ registrations 
- Established ambassador program and get useful insights from the most engaged community members
- Supported several product updates launches from communication side
- Send over 40 newsletters with latest DevOps trends and products updates with OR 10-20%

Head of Communications | Community Lead

Startup Community

Startup Community is an NGO that connects global tech communities with the local startup market where entrepreneurs, VCs, or accelerators can share their expertise and opportunities.

- Launched 4-weeks Traction Program from a scratch with zero budget to help growth-stage or revenue generated startups with global mentors and jury members set and meet their commitments to scale globally (100 applications, 25 participants, 15 finalists)
- Launched Twitter Mondays, a weekly 5 minutes microcast about tech trends and startup news with humor in Eng/Ru. Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, SoundCloud, etc. The total amount of downloads is over 100k.
- Making a weekly Startup Digest of the best startup and tech events, grown from zero to 4k subscribers.

Venture Associate | Program Manager | Community Lead

Startup Grind

The world's largest community of entrepreneurs across 600+ chapters in over 125 countries and over 5 million entrepreneurs across the globe. 

Hosted over 20 monthly events featuring successful founders, innovators, educators, and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Established the Startup Grind brand in St. Petersburg through media coverage and estimated reach of 15 000 potential chapter members per month.

Chapter Director | Event Organizer | Community Lead

BSPB

Lead a team of 10 people on 2 projects: tech brand Geekhub and community of entrepreneurs It’s Better here. Events, content marketing, collaborations, community relations.

– Created offline events for the B2B customers with NPS over 95% with over 350 attendees.
– Hosted over 20 online and hybrid events for the tech audience, and engaged over 3000 new attendees, over 50 of whom become employees 4 times faster than usual.
– Because of the pandemic switched to launching Youtube Shows and podcasts, attracting over 3000 views per episode as a minimum and gaining additional awareness with an estimated reach of over 200 000 potential customers per month.

Program Manager | Employer Branding | Internal Communications

Techstars Startup Weekend

Techstars Startup Weekend is a creative and collaborative three-day educational event where anyone can develop and pitch new startup ideas.

– Hosted Startup Weekends in St. Petersburg and online Startup Weekend Russia. Over 200 attendees took part and built their MVPs during 54 hours, 5 of them continued their work and raise funds in the first year after these events.
– Engaged strong local partners, including Untitled Ventures, IIDF, Seedstars, etc.
– Invited foreign speakers to all events to establish a global startup culture and Techstars brand in Russia

Team Leader | Event Organizer | Community Lead

SPECIA

Coordinated all kinds of projects: events, content marketing, collaborations, industry relations, which made Specia the #1 Community among all digital agencies in St. Petersburg due to community research.

- Hosted over 130 local community events with zero budget, and attracted over new 3,500 attendees with NPS >= 90%, which brought 40 new community members. 
- Engaged >70 companies to become paid members, relaunched community monetization model, revenue scaled x3.
- Launch email digest with the open rate at 70-95% and over 2500 new subscribers which drove 43% revenue growth in the following year, after 2 years of flat revenue growth in a row.

Program Manager | Community Lead | Event Organizer

Case'n'Keys

Communication agency located in St. Petersburg, Russia. Specialization: public relations, events and content marketing, An official representative of the Nordic Business Forum in Russian Federation.

Head of Marketing Communications

Community Builder | Startup Enthusiast | DevRel

I am currently:
- Running a boutique digital agency specializing in Employer Branding and Communications.
- Hosting Talent Fair and Conference HOLY SHIFT to connect talents with opportunities.
- Consulting companies on their marketing, communication strategies, and positioning.

I have also:
- Been selected as one of 60 promising European entrepreneurs to participate in the YTILI 2023 Program.
- Hosted over 215 events, ranging from small meetups to conferences with 1500+ attendees.
- Hosted several Techstars Startup Weekends, assisting 200 founders in launching MVPs.
- Launched the Traction Program to help founders achieve and commit to their goals.
- Created a microcast, Twitter Mondays, from scratch, with a total reach of 100k.
- Published a series of 150+ newsletters with an open rate of 70-95%.

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