Alex Sheard
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Hi, I'm Alex 👋🏻

I'm a Product Manager with 4 years of experience ranging from hardware startups to FinTech, consumer tech and energy sector companies.

Right now I'm based in Madrid where I work at Kraken and help organise ProductTank Madrid .

I like swimming, running, tennis and padel. I also love learning languages and am actively learning Spanish and Japanese.

Work
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  • Kraken
    Product Manager
    Apr 2024 - Present

    I am helping build a business automation platform to help Kraken scale at speed whilst delivering highly customised solutions for energy companies across the globe.

  • iwoca
    Product Manager
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2024

    I led the payments and financial data team as Product Manager, overseeing vision, OKRs & delivery for 6 developers. During my time there I:

    • Introduced open-banking early repayments, leading to a 40% decrease in monthly card processing fees.
    • Developed a phone repayment feature in the internal CRM, resulting in a 40% reduction in weekly payment processing volume for FinOps.
    • Achieved a 75% reduction in reconciliation workload with new automatic transaction matchers, allowing the FinOps team more time for support and accounting tasks.
    • Led iwoca’s environmental task force for one year, helping make iwoca carbon neutral and establish its environmental strategy.
When I'm not at work
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