Product Manager

It all started with a friend that had recently created a start-up and came by talking about Digital Marketing. At the time, I was still living in São Paulo, working as a Press Officer for a Publishing House, and I was looking for new job opportunities. Most of them required knowledge on Analytics, KPI reporting, Social Media, and so on. They wanted a Press Officer also capable of handling Social Media and understanding how to manage a website. Everything I had learned on my Bachelor's degree was obsolete, and I felt a need, as an individual, for improvement. And what can we say? Over the last decade everything went digital! It felt like the right time to boost my career and look for some educational enhancement. That was when I decided to move abroad to pursue a Master's degree. 

It didn't take me long to get passionate about it. I was enthusiastic about learning new things and discovering everything about how a website worked, and what had to be done for it to work: how to organize a team and "make it happen" and, most importantly, to keep it functional and attractive to customers. 

This formation brought me solid technical skills, which blossomed during my final internship, where I was finally able to put everything I had learned in action. I had to face all kinds of professional challenges, such as being the middlewoman dealing with both stakeholders' expectations and team's frustrations, getting to know in detail an extremely technical project, and figuring everything out by myself when I had to cover my colleagues' vacations. I also had to adapt to new codes, behaviours and rules, all different from those of my home country. 

After this rewarding experience, it is now time to go on new adventures and more challenging experiences in The Netherlands.

You can find more information on what I did during my internship (and after I got hired) below.