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GUL KUCUKDEREDIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

NEW YORK, NY · DATA & AI

Scaling data products.Leading product teams.Building with AI.

16+ years of experience, progressing from business analytics to data products and product leadership—and now hands-on AI-assisted building.

Experience

Alios Outlet & Alios Ekip · New York, NY – Bulgaria

Head of Product & E-commerce

Built the first e-commerce operation for a 30-year-old family retailer, using AI agents and designing around a two-person warehouse.

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  • Built and scaled our family retailer’s first e-commerce operation using AI agents, designing around a two-person warehouse.
  • Independently built two branded websites with Replit AI agents, translating customer research into message-based ordering for 500+ SKUs.
  • Used OpenAI Codex agents to organize thousands of products into accurate stock listings, creating inventory data for online catalogs and fulfillment.
  • Launched marketplace and social channels that generated orders; trained employees to manage listings, customer service and fulfillment.

JPMorgan Chase · New York, NY

Executive Director, Product Management – HR Data Products

Led six product managers across HR Data Products and drove enterprise data-platform modernization.

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  • Led 6 direct-report product managers across HR Data Products, owning the annual roadmap and executive alignment while retaining hands-on responsibility for HR operations data.
  • Drove enterprise data modernization from Starburst to Databricks and the BI transition from Tableau to Sigma, including data governance and access entitlements.
  • Piloted autonomous AI agents for HR case resolution, demonstrating a 60%+ reduction in processing time during testing.

CB Insights · New York, NY

Group Product Manager, Data & AI Products

Expanded company coverage from 1M to 10M, increased profile views 45%, and launched AI-powered intelligence products.

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  • Promoted to lead and mentor 3 direct-report product managers, owning data pipelines and data science product strategy, priorities and strategic data partnerships.
  • Expanded company coverage from 1M to 10M entities, increasing profile views 45% and reducing searches with no results to 2%.
  • Scaled news sources from 5,000 to 250,000 using AI relevance scoring, matching and data extraction to expand market intelligence coverage.
  • Launched predictive ML products: Success Prediction, Exit Probability and Company Matching.
  • Delivered automated business-model tags for 2M+ companies using fine-tuned LLMs.

CB Insights · New York, NY

Senior Product Manager

  • Built an in-house LLM-powered Business Graph for automated market mapping, increasing identified company competitor relationships 500%.
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  • Automated business description generation for 10M+ companies using LLMs.
  • Introduced semantic search to improve query relevance, increasing click-through rate 8%.
  • Launched headcount data for 6M+ companies at >96% precision; led AI enrichment that increased equity-deal coverage 35% and valuation coverage 10%.

Decent Inc · New York, NY

Product Manager

  • Launched a Salesforce-integrated member portal for customers and internal operations.

Zalando · Berlin, Germany

Senior Product Manager

  • Moved from financial analysis into ownership of the financial planning product; increased its average NPS survey rating from 6.0 to 7.3.

Zalando · Berlin, Germany

Strategic Planning Manager

  • Translated financial performance analysis into priorities for senior leadership.

Bayer HealthCare · Istanbul, Turkey

Sales Force Excellence Specialist

  • Automated incentive calculations, cutting processing time 50%; used KPIs to guide sales strategy.

Migros Ticaret A.S. · Istanbul, Turkey

Marketing Planning Specialist

  • Used performance analytics to guide marketing planning and commercial decisions.

Expertise

Product leadership

  • Strategy and roadmaps
  • Product discovery
  • 0-to-1 launches
  • PM team development
  • Executive stakeholder management

AI and data

  • Generative AI (GenAI)
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Machine learning
  • AI agents
  • Semantic search
  • Knowledge graphs
  • Enterprise data platforms
  • Governance

Platforms

  • Databricks
  • Starburst
  • Sigma
  • Tableau
  • Salesforce
  • AI-assisted building with Replit
  • OpenAI Codex

Education & credentials

Education

Technical University of MunichMSc, Consumer ScienceInnovation & Technology Management
Istanbul Technical UniversityBSc, Industrial Engineering

Certifications & further study

Growth SeriesReforge
Artificial Intelligence Product ManagerUdacity
Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)Scrum Alliance
Product ManagementExecutive EducationUC Berkeley – Haas School of Business