Kirill Efimov is a product and technology leader with 10 years of experience and 6+ years driving product strategy and delivery at scale, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Sberbank. He led cross-functional teams to build a customer chat platform that generated 3+ million monthly contacts and unlocked over $10M in new revenue while also delivering $15M annual payroll savings through operational tooling. Kirill combines hands-on development familiarity (1C and web) with rigorous product discovery—introducing HADI cycles, customer journey mapping, and an employee satisfaction metric that rose from 2.12 to 4.52 in two years. He’s skilled at scaling delivery—reducing release cycles from two months to three weeks and growing feature throughput sevenfold—while keeping team retention high and earning a 100% internal NPS as a leader. Based in Volzhsky, he brings a data-driven, cross-disciplinary approach that thrives at the intersection of business impact and engineering practicality.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Economics, Master of Arts (MA), Economics at Higher School of Economics
Master of Arts (MA), Economics and Management Science, Master of Arts (MA), Economics and Management Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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