About Joana
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational
French
Basic
Experience
- Self-employedFractional Programme ManagerJuly 2025 - May 2026 (10 months)Consultant across two pre-seed SaaS startups (5–20 employees), working directly with senior leadership under confidentiality agreements to build scalable execution and delivery systems.• • Built and implemented end-to-end delivery systems (roadmaps, milestones, ownership, dependency tracking, and decision logging) in Notion, creating a single source of execution clarity across teams.• • Established lightweight operating cadence and governance (planning rituals, reporting, accountability loops, post-mortem templates), improving coordination speed and reducing execution ambiguity.• • Standardised delivery workflows and coached teams into self-sufficiency in execution and prioritisation, reducing reliance on ad hoc coordination and enabling sustained delivery without a dedicated PM.
- Google UKEMEA Launch ManagerMay 2022 - April 2025 (2 years and 11 months)Led cross-functional execution for multiple EMEA hardware launches, coordinating stakeholders across EMEA and US HQ to ensure timely and compliant market readiness.• • Prevented a four-month delay to a new-category EMEA hardware launch by identifying a critical ownership gap, establishing cross-functional execution frameworks and escalation paths, and driving daily coordination across legal, operations, GTM, and account teams to accelerate approvals and restore launch timelines.• • Redesigned project management and reporting workflows to improve execution visibility, streamline stakeholder communication, and reduce operational overhead across distributed teams.
- Amazon UK, Grocery 3PProduct ManagerFebruary 2021 - April 2022 (1 year and 2 months)Owned the technical onboarding and rollout of new grocery partners and store locations, coordinating engineering, operations, marketing and external partners across complex cross-system integrations.• • Led the end-to-end technical integration and launch of Co-Op on Amazon Fresh, coordinating cross functional teams across product, operations, engineering, and external partners to prevent a critical one month launch delay through dependency restructuring and stakeholder alignment.• • Managed the deployment of 15 new delivery store locations across the UK, coordinating internal teams and external developers to support operational scale and drive a 20% increase in monthly customer basket spend.
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Education
- MScImperial College London2015MSc
- BSc BusinessUniversity of Lisbon2014BSc Business