Product leadership · Available for select advisory

Building products, teams and systems that scale.

I help companies move from feature delivery to outcome-driven growth through product strategy, operational excellence and AI-native execution.

Anna Makovnikova
Currently
Director of Product, Prerender.io
Based in
Valencia, Spain
Operating in
Remote · Global
Languages
EN · ES · UA · RU
Business impact

A track record measured in outcomes, not features shipped.

Operating across B2B SaaS, Consumer Electronics and E‑commerce, including founder, operator and executive seats.

25+ Years
In Product, Business Development and Marketing
$10M → $20M
ARR growth journey
12% → 22%
Paid conversion lift
What I do

Three practices, one operating system for product.

I work at the intersection of strategy, operations and people — the leverage points that decide whether a product org compounds or stalls.

01

Product Strategy

Translating customer insight into multi-year strategy that compounds. From three-year roadmaps to PQL frameworks that materially shift activation and revenue.

02

Product Operations

Building the operating system underneath the AI-first product org — roadmapping, analytics, discovery rituals, shared context — so teams ship outcomes, not output.

03

People Management

Helping my teams navigate the change by actually sitting with people and helping them figure out where they fit in a structure that's reshaping itself in real time.

Leadership philosophy

Five principles I lead by

The shorthand I bring into every product org. Built from 25 years of shipping, hiring, scaling... and occasionally cleaning up.

Read the full philosophy →
  1. I.

    Outcome over output

    Roadmaps are bets on outcomes. Velocity is a side effect of clarity, not the goal.

  2. II.

    Product Sense drives strategy

    Hundreds of interviews and a continuous discovery loop are the cheapest moat a product org can build.

  3. III.

    Systems beat heroics

    Operating cadences, dashboards and frameworks scale further than any one heroic PM.

  4. IV.

    AI amplifies teams

    Used well, AI doesn't replace product judgement — it compresses the distance between an insight and a tested prototype.

  5. V.

    Who you hire is the strategy

    Senior title doesn't mean senior thinking. Team shape and talent caliber determine the product success.