Headway Inc
Engineering Manager · R&D Product
– · 1 yr 3 mosLviv, Ukraine
- Helped launch a new consumer product as part of an R&D initiative, working with the General Manager on product strategy, monetization, retention, experimentation, prioritization, and resource allocation.
- Built and managed a cross-functional team of 4 direct reports across backend, frontend, iOS, and ML/MLOps. Hired 3 engineers end-to-end and owned their onboarding, performance, growth, and development.
- Sustained roughly two major product features per week for about a year, with low carry-over, 99.97% crash-free users, and 99.99% crash-free sessions. The product achieved retention above typical EdTech benchmarks and the median observed across gaming apps.
- Built the engineering planning and delivery model across roadmap, estimation, releases, cross-team coordination, and risk management, while expanding engineers’ ownership beyond their original specializations.
- Remained hands-on as an iOS Product Engineer, taking user problems from solution design and UI/UX through implementation and analytics validation, while also owning App Store Connect, subscriptions, and production releases.