OZANSÖNMEZ
I turn complexity
into things that
bring people together.
PRODUCT STRATEGY.
[ YOU CAN MOVE IT ]
A PEOPLE
THING.✳
Less noise.
More signal.
I'm Ozan Sönmez, a Senior Product Manager with a particular fascination for the technology that brings people together.
I build product roadmaps, listen closely to customers, and connect the dots between what people need and what a product can become.
Video conferencing is my territory.
people on the platform
PERCULUS / B2B VIDEO
increase in feature adoption
FROM INSIGHT TO IMPACT
THE NUMBERS MATTER. THE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM MATTER MORE.
Not a
straight line.
A FEW YEARS OFASKING BETTER QUESTIONS.
2024— PRESENTTURKEY / CHAPTER 04Constructor
TechProduct Manager
A product, a team, and an entirely new orbit.
I led Perculus's transition into Constructor Tech's portfolio as Constructor Groups, bringing a team of ten into a larger organization and creating the connections needed to move forward together.
- Established annual roadmaps across the product portfolio.
- Trained and supported pre-sales teams through Constructor Groups onboarding.
- Researched pricing and go-to-market strategies across markets, helping sales teams find the right price brackets.
- Built collaboration across teams to accelerate integration after the acquisition.
2020— 2024TURKEY / CHAPTER 03PerculusProduct Manager Acquired by Constructor Tech
Making connection work for more than two million people.
I led product management for a B2B video conferencing platform: retiring legacy products, shaping roadmaps around industry needs, and taking new features from insight to rollout.
- Increased new feature adoption by 30%.
- Shipped generative AI features for video conferencing and helped make AI a core part of the product.
- Built a B2C sales channel and worked with sales and marketing on EMEA expansion.
- Led development of a telemetry platform spanning infrastructure, operations, and commercial teams.
- Managed enterprise relationships across banking, government, defense, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications.
- Used customer feedback to uncover shared pain points and guide what we built next.
2019JUN — SEPTHAILAND / CHAPTER 02Ubon Ratchathani
UniversityResearch Assistant Intern
Learning in a different language. Building in a different context.
I implemented education technology to improve grading and student tracking in computer science courses, designed and taught English lessons for high-achieving high school students, and helped develop the science department's web platform.
I also contributed to a Thai-language NLP project for plagiarism detection.
2018— 2021TURKEY / CHAPTER 01MEF UniversityStudent Teaching Assistant
A better way to learn starts with a better way to work.
I led the acquisition and implementation of MOOC platforms and evaluated education tools including H5P and Perusall. By automating support desk processes, I reduced support requests by more than 400 annually and improved response times.
I also presented developments in technology and education to the university's rectorate.
Computer Engineering
MEF University
BACHELOR'S DEGREEFinal project: non-invasive sleep apnea detection using a LeNet-5 convolutional neural network with ECG and EMG sensors.
Side
effects.
Some ideas become tools.
Some tools become products.
These started with “what if?”
& USEFUL OBSESSIONS
SMALL EXPERIMENTS. VERY REAL PROBLEMS.
A little bit
of everything.
STRATEGY MEETS SYSTEMS.
RESEARCH MEETS INSTINCT.