ANDRÉ CARMO
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Pro-active, gritty a nd highly analytical Product Manager
with 3 years of experience having led teams, both on site
and remotely, from Ideation to Launch and Maintenance.
Expertise in user research, prototyping and design
thinking as well as stakeholder management at different
levels.
--Lisbon (Open to relocation)
linkedin.com/in/andre
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
MSC, MANAGEMENT
NOVA SBE (#16 FT
RANKINGS), PORTUGAL
2016 – 2018
BA, GEOLOGIC
ENGINEERING
NOVA – FCT, PORTUGAL
2011 – 2016
HARD SKILLS
User Reasearch
Product Development
SQL
Agile
Prototyping
Excel (Certified)
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
(Native)
English
(Fluent)
Spanish
(Intermediate)
Dollar.ai | Portugal | 2019 – Present
Co-Founder and CEO
Dollar.ai is a startup tackling the huge problem of unstructured
data and how to take advantage of it using machine learning.
• Led Ideation & Validation of the product as well as MVP
development (Reporting Web app for PR agency’s).
• Defined go to market strategy and entire business plan.
• Hired team of very strong technical co-founders and
Chairman.
• Managed relations with advisors and potential investors.
SAS – Apostas Sociais (Placard.pt) | Portugal | 2018 – 2019
Product Manager (Sportsbook)
Responsibilities included overseeing the sportsbook product
(content and features both Mobile and Desktop) as well as trading
and internal reporting.
• Led the negotiations to buy the streaming rights of major
competitions and successfully reached several objectives of
the negotiations (lowering the average price per event and
unlocking the customizability of the providers’ portfolios).
• Created and implemented the trading procedures that
include the company’s price strategy and risk tolerance.
• Successfully met the industry’s benchmark GGR % without
the usage of bonusing or odds limitations.
• Developed the strategy, using price elasticity, to better
spread the risk of several sports and markets (reaching 98.5%
of positive days).
• Actively tracked and measured user activity using tools such
as Mixpanel and Hotjar resulting in changes to the user
experience that increased time spent on the website by 10%.
• Built successefull relationships with all stakeholders in the
company from CS agents, to marketing colleagues, as well as
with the company’s board to extend his influence in decision
making and project approval.
SOFT SKILLS
Emotional Inteligence
Performs the best under
pressure
Leadership
Determination
C-Level communication
experience
Negotiation
Critical Thinking
Stakeholder Management
INTERESTS
Trading the financial markets
(Stocks, Options,
Cryptoassets)
Understand Blockchain and
its implications on several
industries such as Finance
and Marketing
Understand AI and
collaborative filtering to
improve the usability of
certain products
Sports & Sports betting
Learning new coding
languages (doing Harvard CS
50)
Product Management
(Udacity Nanodegree – AI
for Product Managers)
Learning new languages
(started learning German)
Traveling
Eat out
Playing Competitive
Videogames
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Galp – Consulting Labs | Portugal | 2017 - 2018
Product Marketing Consultant
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Responsible for data treatment and model creation within
the project.
Developed and pitched to the Head of Galp’s Marketing as
well as the responsible Board Member several actionable
initiatives to impact Galp’s retail customers.
Nova Social Consulting | Portugal | 2016 – 2018
Board Advisor/Managing Team/Team Leader/Consultant
Organization that offers pro-bono consulting services from selected
students of NOVA SBE to several Social Organizations.
• Led the renegotiation of the partnership with Deloitte,
increasing the number of projects directly mentored by
Deloitte’s senior consultants.
• Co-lead in the restructuring of the club, from a more
horizontal one to a more vertical and structured one to
enable the club’s growth.
• Oversaw recruitment in the semester with the most
applicants in wich only 20% of the applicants got selected.
Seedrs & Faber Ventures | Portugal | 2017 - 2017
Business Development Intern
Within the scope of the Faber Ventures internship I worked at both
Seedrs and Faber in the same period.
• Co-Developed an algorithm to rank the top 20% of 400
researched Startups and pitched them to Seedrs Head of
Business Development.
• Researched and initiated conversations for potential
partnerships in the VC Iberian Space.
• Modeled the company’s strategy to enter pro-actively the
Spanish Market (Monte Carlo Simulations and DCF).
• With a team of other Faber Interns pitched DOCEO an AI
Education APP.
Professional Poker Player | Portugal, Malta, Macau | 2012 - 2015
High Stakes Cash-Game (NL & PLO)
Lived mainly between Malta and Macau playing both online and live
cash games while pursuing my BA in Engineering in Portugal.
• Winning High Stakes online poker player.
• Winning player at Macau’s Monster Stakes (highest stakes
worldwide) cash games by being the co-lead player of a poker
player’s fund.
