Summary
Emil Stoychev is a Principal Product Manager with 11 years of experience building product-led growth and onboarding experiences for B2B SaaS companies, currently driving Payhawk’s motion to acquire new businesses. He blends hands-on technical roots as a former CTO and founder with deep product delivery expertise from Leanplum and Progress, focusing on cross-team delivery, usability, and measurable customer value. Emil’s background in founding startups and training in Silverlight gives him a rare mix of engineering fluency and people-first leadership that helps translate strategy into runnable roadmaps. He holds a Bachelor in Computer Science and a Master in Project Management, and is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Notably, Emil’s career shows a pattern of improving processes and onboarding to turn complex platforms into simple, scalable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Project management, Master Project management at New Bulgarian University
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English