About Kareem
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Experience
- ClyncSr. Product ManagerNovember 2024 - February 2026 (1 year and 3 months)• • Introduced Agile methodology and the Scrum framework, streamlining workflows and improving team efficiency.• • Collaborated with engineering to build compliant fintech solutions, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards while maintaining high performance, security, data privacy and scalability.• • Reduced dependency on external vendors by transitioning development in-house, reducing ops costs by 27%• • Created new product flows using design thinking, improving customer experience and product reliability• • Led discovery and A/B testing experiments to validate roadmap hypotheses and new features, accelerating validated learning• • Launched internal portals to automate operations and reduce manual support interventions, and integrated them with card processor and bank's work flow.• • Developed the beta testing plan and defined OKRs to measure adoption, usability, and market readiness, laying the foundation for early product validation and refinement.
- Geidea Payment SolutionsProduct ManagerSeptember 2022 - October 2024 (2 years and 1 month)• • Developed and aligned product strategy and vision with business goals and market demands, directly contributing to company growth and customer satisfaction.• • Owned the end-to-end merchant onboarding experience, embedding KYC (IAM & ELM) and KYB frameworks to optimize UX while ensuring full regulatory compliance (SAMA, CBE, CBUAE) -reducing self onboarding churn by 27% - and implementing compliant SSO and access management.• • Partnered cross-functionally with Legal, Risk, and Compliance to support EMI licensing efforts, ensuring product design and development aligned with evolving regulatory requirements..• • Developed and communicated clear product roadmaps through a design thinking paradigm, enhancing transparency and alignment across teams.• • Analyzed key product metrics to make data-driven decisions, improving product performance and user engagement.• • Increased user adoption for the invoice processing system, achieving a conversion rate of almost 21%.• • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX, to ensure seamless product delivery.• • Responsible for Mixpanel analytical events integration across all company products. Products development: Wallet, Geidea Card, and Geidea Merchant App (to become a super-app).
- NASPS -Bank Notes, Cards production & Secured Products SolutionsQuality ManagerDecember 2020 - September 2022 (1 year and 9 months)Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt• • Managed an industrial complex (5 factories) overall Quality Assurance and Quality Control practices.• • Developed and implemented Company's management system and Quality control procedures for unconventional products, which facilitated and organized the Workflow resulting in reducing the production waste from a mean of 10% to 1.46%.• • Trained and managed the team towards adapting a continuous improvement approach using different tools (A3 Methodology, FMEA, Lean and MECE) which decreased the non-value-adding activities by 36%.• • Achieved the CQM Mastercard certification for manufacturing Mastercard's payment cards.
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Education
- Master of SciencePolitecnico Di Milano2019Master of Science
- Bachelor of ScienceAlexandria University2014Bachelor of Science