Iris Vale
Product manager · Open to work from January 2027
Contact
hello@irisvale.com+49 30 1234 5678Berlinlinkedin.comNine years turning fuzzy problems into products people keep. Led four launches at Northwind and Relay, now looking for the next team.
Experience
- 2022 to now
Northwind · Senior product managerBerlin
Led payments and onboarding. Checkout conversion up 31 % in a year.
- Rebuilt checkout with a team of seven, conversion 2.9 % to 3.8 %
- Launched Northwind Pay in four countries
- Hired and ran three product managers
- 2019 to 2022
Relay · Product managerAmsterdam
Shipped the mobile app from zero to 800K installs. Ran a team of nine.
- Took the iOS and Android apps from a prototype to 800K installs
- Set up the first experimentation program, 40 tests a quarter
- Cut support tickets per order by 44 %
- 2017 to 2019
Kindly · Associate product managerAmsterdam
Owned search and discovery. Time to first order cut by half.
- Rebuilt search ranking with the data team
- Shipped saved lists and reorder
- Wrote the discovery playbook still in use
- 2015 to 2017
Studio Mast · Product designerRotterdam
Designed for fintech and health clients, then moved into product.
- Design lead on three client launches
- Ran research with 120 users a year
- Built the studio's design system
- 2014 to 2015
Freelance · UX researcherRotterdam
Interviews, usability tests and reports for early-stage teams.
- Fourteen studies for nine startups
- Taught a research course at the academy
Skills
- Product
- Product strategy, Discovery, Roadmaps, Pricing, Payments
- Craft
- Experimentation, Hiring, Public speaking
- Tools
- SQL, Figma
Education
- 2012 to 2014TU Delft · MSc Design for Interaction
Thesis on onboarding in mobile banking, cum laude.
- 2009 to 2012University of Amsterdam · BSc Psychology
Minor in statistics.
Languages
English, German, Dutch