BART MARON
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PRODUCT OWNER / PRODUCT MANAGER

I build products
for hard problems.

I lead products where customer experience depends on getting the underlying system right – from fintech services and enterprise workflows to integrations and subscription products.

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7YEARS IN PRODUCT

FINTECH / CRYPTO / AI / APIs / SAAS

A solitary figure standing beneath the moon in a monochrome desert

HOW I WORK

Fall in love with the problem.

ASK WHY

PRODUCT EXPERIENCE

Good products survive contact with reality.

I connect what customers want, what the business needs, and what the system can actually do – then give teams a direction worth shipping.

FINTECH / VALUE-ADDED SERVICES

FINTECH / VALUE-ADDED SERVICES

Buying experiences, extended warranty, cashback, rewards programs, regulated constraints, and partner delivery.

CRYPTO / WEB3

CRYPTO / WEB3

Trading automation, market APIs, blockchain-oriented products, and pragmatic validation before scale.

AI / MARKETING

AI / MARKETING

Journey builders, workflow automation, explainable AI interactions, growth loops, and enterprise adoption.

SAAS / SUBSCRIPTIONS

SAAS / SUBSCRIPTIONS

Recurring billing, licensing, migrations, support reduction, and scalable operating models.

PLATFORMS / INTEGRATIONS

PLATFORMS / INTEGRATIONS

CRM, APIs, frontend/backend dependencies, workflow orchestration, and system-level product thinking.

TEAMS / DELIVERY

TEAMS / DELIVERY

Outcome-led roadmaps, discovery, agile delivery, stakeholder alignment, and remote cross-functional leadership.

SELECTED PRODUCT WORK

Product ownership where systems meet.

Fintech and value-added services first. Then crypto automation, enterprise AI, API integrations, and SaaS – product work that connects customer value to the systems required to deliver it.

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FINTECH / VAS01 / 10

ZEN.COM

Owning new services from proposition to integration

ROLE
Senior Product Owner with end-to-end ownership: product direction, customer journey, UX collaboration, legal and compliance alignment, partner API integrations, backlog, and delivery with engineering.
WORK
Turn partner-backed propositions into clear, compliant in-app products while coordinating UX, legal, commercial, API, engineering, offer, checkout, and invoicing dependencies.
RESULT
3 active product workstreams
  • Fintech
  • Partner APIs
  • Compliance
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CRYPTO / APIs02 / 10

BotBot / Side project

Executing crypto strategies without manual trading

ROLE
Founder and product owner responsible for product design, technical architecture, API integrations, automation logic, and continuous iteration.
WORK
Turn crypto trading signals and risk rules into dependable real-time execution while keeping the system configurable, observable, and inexpensive to iterate.
RESULT
Crypto signal → risk rules → execution
  • Crypto
  • Trading automation
  • TradingView
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AI / SaaS03 / 10

S&P Global / automotiveMastermind

Turning buyer intelligence into AI-built audiences

ROLE
Product Owner leading the frontend product and UX direction, shaping the AI experience with design and engineering while aligning it with the wider automotiveMastermind SaaS platform.
WORK
Translate a powerful but complex body of buyer data and predictive intelligence into an AI-assisted SaaS workflow that dealership teams could understand, trust, and use.
RESULT
Dealer intent → custom audience
  • AI product
  • Predictive data
  • Audience building
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API INTEGRATIONS / SaaS04 / 10

S&P Global / automotiveMastermind

Synchronising a SaaS platform with dealership CRMs

ROLE
Product Owner for the CRM integrations team, owning integration priorities and coordinating partner requirements, API behaviour, engineering delivery, and operational needs.
WORK
Create dependable sync behaviour across multiple CRM partners while making ownership, mapping, failure states, and source-of-truth rules explicit.
RESULT
One-way + two-way CRM sync
  • CRM integrations
  • Partner APIs
  • Data synchronisation
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PRODUCT PRINCIPLES

Ask why. Test the bet. Ship to learn.

Process earns its place only when it improves the decision. I use discovery, validation, and short delivery loops to turn uncertainty into evidence – and evidence into a product people choose to use.

  1. 01 / ASK WHY

    A confident roadmap can still solve the wrong problem. Start with the user, the outcome, and the reason this matters now.

  2. 02 / NAME THE BET

    Every feature is a hypothesis. Make the assumption, expected signal, and cost of being wrong explicit before committing the team.

  3. 03 / TEST THE RISK

    Validate what could break the idea first. Real behavior beats stakeholder volume, polished decks, and comfortable consensus.

  4. 04 / SHIP TO LEARN

    Scrum is a feedback loop, not a ceremony. Release the smallest useful change, measure what happened, and use the evidence to decide what is next.

BRING THE MESSY VERSION

Got a hard product problem?

Send me the messy version. AI, APIs, fintech, SaaS, integrations, or a product that refuses to fit neatly into a slide – those are usually the interesting ones.

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