
Ivan Petkovic
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for Ivan Petkovic
- Current 9 years and 7 months, since Feb 2017
Leadership Coach and Consultant (Gen AI Change Management)
ipCoaching
- Designed 3-6 month coaching program for business, product and engineering leaders. - Helped organisations and individuals to introduce and tailor best GenAI workflows and automations. - Transformed organisations to use Product Operating Model by Marty Cagan. - Ran conflict and feedback (org culture) trainings for teams and leaders. - Facilitated strategy→execution offsites and trainings within Europe, USA and SE Asia. - Ran (DDD) event storming WS to introduce clarity on business and product flows
- 5 years and 5 months, Sep 2020 - Jan 2026XING - part of NEW WORK SE
Team Lead Technical Program Management
- Challenge: opaque product and project portfolio and long feedback loops Action: built Jira/GitHub-based product development performance metrics and engineering investment profile in Metabase Result: transparency enabled multiple data-informed reallocations - Instituted quarterly product portfolio review with clear cost-benefit analysis - Introduced monthly flow metrics used in executive forums to shape the developer experience - Piloting generative AI introduction to workflows and AI community of practice
- Ran department-level Agile operations with product/engineering directors; stabilized throughput across 15 teams. - Standardised scaled collaboration and standards within the org. - Built Jira-based OKR tooling and scaled ‘OKR grading’ to exec requirements; avoided Excel fallback and harmonized operating cadence. - Ran a central PM for cross-location Hiring Funnels. - Led near-shoring to Porto; ramped 10 engineering teams in 11 months - Created role definitions for Agile Coach and Technical Project Manager
- Led OKR rollout across 3 units (13 product teams); increased objective completion - People manager and mentor for junior agile coaches - Managed conflicts among various parts of the organisation - Built and developed (remote) software teams in Hamburg and Porto
- 1 year and 6 months, Oct 2015 - Mar 2017
Agile Project Manager
XING AG
- Implemented Agile frameworks tailored per team - Conducted Agile training sessions and workshops to up-skill teams - Mentored and coached individual team members
- 1 year and 1 month, Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
Manager Technical Business Development
XING AG
- Relaunched lebenslauf.com; drove 12% growth in XING registrations; integrated acquired product; built 5-person team. - Managed partnerships to expand XING member base; added 22 active partners.
- 1 year and 8 months, Mar 2013 - Oct 2014
Senior Strategy Specialist
Croatian Telecom
- Responsible for business innovations (from conception and market analysis to implementation steering) of technology projects (e.g. introduction of FTTH) - Startup recruiting and incubation with Deutsche Telekom’s incubator hub:raum
- 2 years and 6 months, Oct 2010 - Mar 2013
IPTV Specialist
Hrvatski Telekom
Managing and coordinating technical data centre HW & SW projects with international partners (Ericsson, Huawei, DT)
- 4 years and 3 months, Jan 2008 - Mar 2012
Organized Play Manager
One2play
- Head of Organised Play marketing unit - Organising promotional events throughout the country while leading a team of 10 event organisers
Educational background for Ivan Petkovic
- 1 year and 10 months, Oct 2008 - Jul 2010
Telecommunication and Informatics
University of Zagreb
- 2 years and 10 months, Oct 2005 - Jul 2008
Computing
University of Zagreb
Languages
English
C1 (Fluent)
Croatian
C2 (Expert / native speaker)
German
C1 (Fluent)
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