ANNA MARCINKOWSKA
Software Engineer at Spotify
MSc. Engineering and Industrial Management
Phone:
+46 (0) 734241402
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Email:
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Location:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Date of Birth:
July 11th, 1991
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Product manager seeking new employment opportunities
2023 - Present
Engineer
Associate Backend Engineer at Playback in Spotify
Spotify
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Engineer I. Currently hired in one of Spotify's core development teams responsible for transcoding and encoding of all content available in the app.
2021 - 2023
Engineer
Associate Backend Engineer at Playback in Spotify
2021 - 2021
Product Manager
Product manager of Creator product team at Soundtrap
2018 - 2020
Product Manager
Product manager and Lead of 2 teams
Spotify
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Associate Engineer. Offered a rare full-time opportunity tailored towards transitioning me into Software Engineering under direct tutelage and guidance of one of Spotify's core- development teams. By contributing to the code itself, our strategy is to bracket my PM skillset together with the very indispensable knowledge that is so vital to the creation and future maintenance of robust and sustainable products - to become an employee with the ability of operating across both disciplines with fluency and to draw on the strengths of both equally well.
Klarna Bank
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Product manager and lead of one of Klarna's main payment products. Managing a product targeting 90 million users, overseeing its entire service pipeline from purchase acquisition, user experience, legal requirements to even debt collection
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Launched a new payment method in Germany together with H&M, effectively increasing total # of subscribers and revenues generated by 40M € the month of the product launch. This is now Klarna's largest revenue generating merchant.
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As a vertical lead - appointed by CPO to lead Klarna's main product launch in Sweden 2020. Managed two full-sized Klarna teams to create the new company subscription product and lowered reminder rates by 20%.
Spotify
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Product manager of the Creator product team at the Soundtrap hub. Product manager of a team of 11 people, responsible for the website Soundtrap.com and the logged in experience of Soundtrap.
2017 - 2018
MSc. Dissertation Work
"Exploratory Research on Market Entry Strategies for Digital Payment Platforms"
The Institute of Technology, Linköping University
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Performed an in-depth secondary data analysis of the Swedish digital platform industry. Due to an inherent scarcity of publicly available data: backwards-engineered the underlying strategies of five case-companies. My work assesses the viability of discovered strategies leading to formulation of new academic theory along with projections for the continued progress of each venture, and in general, the future of this market as a whole.
2016-2017
Business Development & Marketing Intern
PayPal
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Planned, developed and executed PayPal's main marketing activities across Scandinavia. This involved cross-coordinating efforts of multiple European PayPal branches with over 30 international merchants (Qatar Airways, Zalando, Airbnb and more) where my efforts led to an average throughput of 3-8 campaign projects per month.
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Laid the foundation for PayPal’s new partnership program by formulating strategies towards increasing the collaboration with new- and existing partners and analysing specific KPI's of 100+ companies at the Swedish market.
Ericsson
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Supported company-wide strategy execution- and digital transformation initiatives. Spring-time internship attended alongside University studies.
Spring 2016
Strategy Execution Management
2013 - 2015
Communications
National Medical Products Agency - Läkemedelsverket
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My responsibilities ranged from handling sensitive communications material of over 100+ global medical firms to developing educational material for how to optimise the company's internal work-flow surrounding such communications.
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Entrusted the task of helping develop and teach employees new internal communications software.
EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
2012-2018
MSc. in Engineering
and Industrial Management
Linköping Institute of Technology
Degree of Master of Science in Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management.
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Branch of Studies/Specialisations: Electrical Engineering, Strategic Management & Control and Biotechnology
2010-2012
Applied Science, Corporate Strategy
and Programming Courses
Linköping Institute of Technology, Blekinge Technical University and Uppsala University
Studied various BSc. courses in Math, Science, Economic Theory, Corporate strategy, Mechanical Engineering and more.
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Select courses from 380 Academic ECTS point total
Applied Math in Science & Technology
Industrial Economics
Applied Transform Theory
Production & Operations Management
Automatic Control
Programming in C++
Programming in Java
Economic Theory
Decision- & Financial Methodology
Strategic Management & Change
Signal Theory
Computer Security
Operations Research
Biotechnical Chemistry
Mathematical Statistics I, II
Engineering Mechanics
Industrial Management
Corporate Strategies
Switching Theory & Logical Design
Medical Image Analysis
Corporate Planning
Digital Image Processing
Industrial Service Development
Industrial Control Systems
LEADERSHIP &
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
2014-2015
Head of Fair
LINK Career Summit
During 1 year - I was in charge of coordinating 5 team-members in planning logistics & acquiring sponsors to prepare for the LINK career summit. At main event (2 days), in charge of leading 65+ team-members, coordinating record attendance of 3000+ visitors & 60 companies.
Late 2015
Coordinator
TEAM Career Fair
Coordinated logistics and flow of people at the career fair, called TEAM, at Linköping Technical University with 60+ visiting companies.
Late 2015
Co-founder & Marketing Manager
Math Helpers
Co-founded student-run after-hours tutoring program in natural sciences aimed at reducing student drop-outs. Recognized for its success, the program received official university funding and is actively run to this day.
SOFTWARE SKILLS &
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
C / C++
Java / JavaScript
Jira
Matlab
Adobe Illustrator
Sketch / Abstract
Adobe Indesign
Office Suite
Adobe Photoshop
Trello
Google Suite
Qliksense
HONORS
NOVA 100 - Talent Network Member
Member of Nova 100 which is a global talent network operating in 72 countries, with 8500 members where 90 % are professionals and 10 % are students - only 1 of 10 applicants qualify for a membership.
PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
The Institute of Technology at Linköping University
