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Co-founded and helped transform a traditional offline retail business into an e-commerce brand, building the systems and processes needed to operate with a 3x smaller team.
Product, Systems & AI
I’ve spent most of my career figuring out how to make things work better, whether that’s a product, a process or the systems behind a growing business. I spent 5+ years leading product at B2B SaaS companies, including joining as a first Product Manager, building the product function from scratch and scaling it through to acquisition. I’ve also co-founded and scaled an e-commerce business and mentored founders of service and software businesses on their products, systems and operations. The way I approach most problems is pretty simple: understand how things work today, find what’s actually holding you back, and only then decide what to change. It can be a better software, an improved process, or AI where it genuinely helps. But sometimes you really don’t need another tool! 😁 I’m most useful if you’re: - trying to improve how your business or team operates as it grows - figuring out what to systemise, automate or improve first - choosing or implementing software and AI without overcomplicating things - struggling to prioritise when everything feels important - building your first product function or process Book a call if you have a problem and want a second opinion. I’m very happy to dig into how things work today and figure it out with you! Here's my Linkedin if you want to connect there as well: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irynastruk/
I don’t believe AI is the answer to every problem. I’ve built and tested practical AI workflows across sales, marketing, customer success and internal operations, and I’m happy to help you figure out where AI can genuinely save time and where it’s likely to create more complexity than value.
I help founders step back from the day-to-day and understand how their business actually operates: where work gets stuck, what depends too heavily on them, and what should be improved first. From there, we can figure out whether the answer is a better process, clearer ownership, new software, automation or AI.
8 years in tech, 5 of them leading product at B2B SaaS companies. Happy to help with MVP scoping, customer discovery, prioritisation and product strategy questions.

I use Claude to build practical workflows across sales, marketing, customer success and internal operations. Happy to help you work out what should actually be automated, design the workflow and test whether it’s reliable enough to use in practice.
I use Zapier for the workflows that need to connect to tools without native Claude integrations. Claude Cowork now covers a lot of what I used to build in Zapier, so it's a smaller part of my stack than it used to be.
5+ years leading product at B2B SaaS companies, from early stage through to acquisition. I've built product functions from scratch, hired and shaped small product teams, and shipped under real constraints. Happy to help with the classic SaaS product challenges: finding PMF, scoping an MVP that's actually minimal, prioritising when every stakeholder has a different opinion, and figuring out where AI fits into your product or operations without overcomplicating things.
Most of my experience is with sales-driven B2B companies where product needs to work closely with sales, CS, and marketing. I understand the dynamics of building product when you have enterprise buyers, long sales cycles, and pressure to ship what the loudest customer is asking for. Can also help with practical AI implementation for go-to-market teams: where it actually saves time vs. where it's just hype.

Co-founded and helped transform a traditional offline retail business into an e-commerce brand, building the systems and processes needed to operate with a 3x smaller team.

First Product Manager at HandsHQ leading two software B2B SaaS products. Working on product strategy, user research and integrations. Acquired by HSI in 2025.

Helping growing businesses improve how they operate by building better systems, using software and AI where it makes sense.

Mentored Techstars Paris portfolio companies on product, operational systems and scaling challenges.

Led ProductTank London, one of London’s largest product communities with 19k+ members. Watch some of our sessions on https://youtube.com/c/MindtheProductTV or join the next monthly meetup.

Helped create OSCI (Open source contribution index) and provided go-to-market consultancy support for internal teams to solidify the company’s market positioning as an open-source leader.