Yoav Farbey

ING

Group Product Manager

February 2024 - present

Group Product Manager at ING Data Analytics Platform Empowering data science teams to deliver real impact at global scale I lead product strategy for Machine Learning products including ML over API, ML over Kafka-based streaming, and ML over scheduler. These products form the backbone of ING's global Analytics Platform, enabling data scientists to generate insights that serve 40+ million customers. Highlights: 📈 Drove a 300% increase in paid execution project within 12 months, unlocking faster time-to-value for data science teams and reinforcing ING’s leadership in data-driven banking. ⚙️ Scaled the engineering team by 2.25x and cut deployment times by 30%, strengthening platform stability, reliability, and team velocity. 🔍 Introduced and scaled best-in-class tools across the stack including Airflow, MLflow, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Kubernetes, and Azure DevOps, to ensure teams have the infrastructure and autonomy to ship real-world Machine Learning applications with confidence. I focus on building products that empower data scientists and analysts by reducing friction for model deployment and creating scalable products to make Machine Learning and data analytics part of ING's regular operations.

CleanHub

Product Manager

July 2022 - August 2023•cleanhub.com

CleanHub protects and preserves the oceans by building an economy where plastic is too valuable to waste. In a simple 1+1 principle companies can finance the collection of low-value plastic with every product they sell. All collection partners use our app to deliver full transparency of recovered volumes.

PARK NOW Group is the no. 1 parking provider. We’re driven by one thing: making our cities healthier, cleaner and more liveable. Transforming cities into places where people can move around freely with easy to use mobility solutions while reducing congestion and pollution. How? By unlocking the power of technology to make parking simple, quick and effortless for drivers, operators and cities.

Uplifting product team capability by adopting Product discovery methodologies & Product team manifesto. Key Achievements at NewMotion: • Lead a cross functional team to deliver NewMotion’s B2B platform, from Beta to commercial launch and beyond. • Expanded the B2B platform customer base from 5 to 70 customers across Europe, by collaborating with marketing, sales and operations. • Coordinated multiple product teams responsible for different products, balancing the priorities of maintaining legacy software and improving highly valued products. • Introduce internal training sessions for the Product Managers focusing on scrum and design thinking best practices, in order to empower the product team & to learn from each other. • For example: How to facilitate a design sprint, or How to run a good product demo.

Key Achievements at Accenture • Identified an opportunity for internal tooling, received €150,000 in internal funding and launched Enso, an app to help design thinking & ideation workshops. • Lead a cross functional team with a focus on product discovery to make sure the right solutions are delivered to the clients & their users. • Facilitated 12 design sprints with the goal to help clients tackle difficult business challenges, collaborating with service designers and developers in the process. • Trained and guided junior product owners on the team • As a consultant I lead the a Single-Sign-On project for large multi-national retail client with 2,000,000+ mobile users • Helped clients solve problems around their users, using design thinking & service design methodologies, including running design sprints. • Advised clients on how to take their prototypes to MVPs and how to go to market following workshops. • Helped sell a €500,000 app redesign project to MOBGEN’s largest client

The Startup Magazine

Founder

March 2014 - July 2016

Exit 2016. As the co-founder and Head of product at the startup magazine, my core responsibilities evolved around the company website and app. Working with a team producing a digital magazine on we and the Apple and Google newsstands, focusing on young professionals and corporates interested in startups & entrepreneurship. • Managed day to day running of tech and creative teams, often working remotely • Used analytics from Social, Email and Web Analytics, to make data driven business decisions • Set up website and app with small product team • Successfully exited the company to a new owner

Ostmodern

Product Manager

March 2014 - December 2014

Working as a part of the product team, delivering and maintaining Video On Demand products for Ostmodern's clients, as well as Ostmoder's white label product. KEY ROLE SKILLS - Identify and define technical features from UX and client requirement - Work with external stakeholders, understand their requirements - Feedback to stakeholders on what is possible technically in the time scale - Work with UX and design and development teams - Creating and Prioritising product backlog - Break down epic user stories into manageable user stories - Make sure team progress can be tracked easily by other member of the product team: using Pivitol Tracker with it's labels and release flags. - Running daily standups - Working closely with QA to make sure the features of the product delivered thoroughly tested - Create and maintain admin video tutorials for clients to be able to use the new website

Hailo

Senior Data Analyst

September 2011 - December 2013

Started the Data Analysis department at Hailo, as Hailo's first data analyst. Working closely with the Product and Marketing teams and other members of the company to provide insight into Hailo's performance. Analysing passenger and driver behaviors to identify trends, strengths and weaknesses in the product. Presenting analytical results in innovative data visualisations, using Python, R, Java and BI tools to share knowledge and insight throughout the organisation. Regularly working with and developing on analytical BI tools such as Qlikview to integrate the company's third party data sources, including Salesforce, Flurry and Google Analytics with it's own data source (Cassandra). Building dashboards with this tool to satisfy the needs of a variety of teams in Hailo. KEY ROLE SKILLS - Conducting analysis and providing insight to all levels of the company - Managerial responsibility for negotiating and working with third party BI support team and consultants (external to Hailo) - Act as the point of technical reference to the wider business - Creating data visualisations to be shared internally amongst all the organisation - Support, train and develop the team - Data extraction, cleansing and manipulation using SQL / Excel techniques - Proactive monitoring of the systems; Investigation and resolution of common system errors - where necessary in consultation with third parties - Maintaining the data quality and integrity by running regular tests - Monitor and improve data completeness and accuracy - Requirements gathering and problem solving, ability to look at a question being asked of the team and be able to come up with a solution that answers the underlying questions. - Research the latest BI, Database and analytical tools to enable the team to keep up with the company's data needs.

As Co-Founder, developed business plan, kept business plan under regular review, attended local business networking events, developed client relationships, contributed to company website and blog. As Head of Product, responsible for end-to-end product leadership from establishing customer requirements through to drafting proposals and estimating time scales for delivery. Supporting design and scrum teams following Agile methodology to deliver products clients desire, and their users need.