VP of Product
Kuda · Full-timeJan 2023 - PresentBerlin, Germany · Remote
Our mission here at Kuda is to bring accessible, affordable, and rewarding banking experiences to people living in Africa and the African diaspora living abroad.
Product Leadership • Fintech • Global Teams
Dmitry Filippov
Product Management Expert
I build and scale digital products that solve meaningful customer problems and deliver measurable business impact. Over 15+ years, I have led product strategy across banking, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
15+
Years in Product
Global Team Leadership
Banking & Fintech
About
Building high-impact products with clear outcomes
I lead with customer insight, focused execution, and strong cross-functional collaboration. My work spans growth-stage and established organizations where product quality and speed both matter.
Hi there and welcome
I'm Dmitry Filippov, a product management and marketing expert based in Berlin, Germany. I'm passionate about building and scaling software solutions that meet customer needs and achieve product/market fit.
With experience across product leadership, product marketing, and software engineering, I focus on solving strategic problems with measurable outcomes.
Career highlights
VP of Product at Kuda, Director of Product at Chipper, Senior Product Manager at N26, and prior leadership roles at JetBrains. Earlier in my career, I worked in software engineering on enterprise and aviation projects.
Product StrategyTeam LeadershipExecution at ScaleRegulated Financial ProductsCross-Functional Operations
Track Record
Career and education timeline
Experience
Director of Product
Chipper Cash · Full-timeNov 2020 - Jan 2023Berlin, Germany · Remote
Our mission here at Chipper was to unlock global opportunities and connect Africa, one transaction at a time. Every day we're chipping away at the huge challenge of moving money freely across oceans and Africa. We’re lowering barriers to payments like never before and unlocking new opportunities for our customers. I led teams across Africa, US, Europe and Latin America to build innovative, well-designed products for customers.
Bank API Group Product Manager
N26 · Full-timeSep 2019 - Jan 2021Berlin, Germany
At N26 I led a group of teams working on PSD2 Open Banking, Multi-Banking, Custom/Premium APIs and partner integrations. At that time I was an official main tech contact for BaFin (German Financial Authority) on Open Banking.
Head of Business Analysis and Automation
JetBrains · Full-timeJan 2019 - Aug 2019 · 8 mosMunich, Germany
Leading the company-wide customer retention initiative and marketing/sales collaboration: identifying main reasons for customer churn and contractions to improve processes targeting customer/user retention growth in a data-driven way. Active collaboration with the sales department on retention growth initiatives and accurate reporting with custom dashboards.
Senior Product Manager
JetBrains · Full-timeSep 2016 - Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mosMunich, Germany
Leading PyCharm product management activities: Python developers market research; competitor analysis and technology research; roadmaps; usability research, user interviews and surveys; coordinating release activities; helping with QA and tech support; product documentation improvements; product-oriented content creation and coordination of a dedicated team: a dev advocate, a product marketing manager and a tech writer
Product Marketing Manager
JetBrains · Full-timeJan 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mosSaint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Leading product marketing activities for PyCharm - the Python IDE for Professional Developers
Software Developer
Oracle Corporation · Full-timeMay 2011 - Jan 2013 · 1 yr 9 mosSaint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Coordination of QA across Oracle VM and Oracle Linux projects, Oracle Linux kernel automated tests development (focusing on virtualization and interoperability with Oracle VM Server), managing QA team for Oracle Linux; Oracle VM Server Documentation enhancements
Software Engineer
Astronautics Corporation of America · Full-timeFeb 2007 - May 2011 · 4 yrs 4 mosSaint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Linux kernel developer working on Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for Boeing 777/787 and the Nexus platform
Education
Baltic State Technical University
Master of Technology/Engineering - MTech, MEng2004 - 2010Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Computer Science and Automated Information Processing Systems Engineering