Valerii BabenkoProduct Owner

Telecom
& AI

At MTS Group I own the product side of exolve.ru and mtt.ru.

Before that: an AI video analytics system from zero to production, and a loyalty programme across four markets. I care about the part of the work you can settle with a number.

CPaaSLLM in production0 → 1B2B self-serviceMoscow / remote

Work

Exolve — CPaaS platform

MTS Group · product & site exolve.ru

Current

MTT — telecom for business

MTS Group · product & site mtt.ru

Current

AI video analytics system

Stilsoft · from idea to production at the client

MVP in 9 mo

International loyalty programme

Yandex · web & app ecosystem

4 markets

Security systems integration platform

Stilsoft · lead time 14 → 11 days

+26% throughput

What I did hands-on and the numbers behind it — happy to walk you through it.

Craft

I decide what the product will not do first

A roadmap with nothing crossed out is a wish list. I agree on the cuts early, while they are still cheap.

A metric is allowed to kill a feature

We fix the failure threshold before release. If the number misses, we switch it off instead of explaining it.

AI where it moves unit economics, not the slide deck

A model is a cost per request and a probability of being wrong. I price both before promising it to a client.

I talk to the people paying and the people writing the code

In equal detail. Most product failures live in the gap between those two conversations.

Speed means predictability, not hurry

Lead time and rework share one chart: each number keeps the other honest.

Tools — Jira · Confluence · SQL / Metabase · Figma · Miro · LLM tooling in the daily loop

Contact

+7 996 416 2217

Product owner (product manager) in B2B: CPaaS and cloud telephony, SMS and voice APIs, telecom services for business, SaaS platforms. A separate part of the work is AI and LLM in production: speech analytics, AI assistants, AI video analytics and computer vision. I work with product metrics and unit economics (ARPU, LTV, CAC, retention, conversion), run discovery and customer development, build the roadmap and prioritise the backlog with RICE, and take products from MVP and 0 → 1 to product-market fit. Day to day: Jira, Confluence, SQL and Metabase, Figma, Miro, A/B tests, agile and kanban, lead time as the flow metric. Projects: Exolve and MTT at MTS Group, AI video analytics at Stilsoft, an international loyalty programme at Yandex, a security systems integration platform. Moscow and remote.