Yelena Drabkin
Chief Product Officer at Strivr
Yelena is a passionate product visionary with a customer-first mindset. She works at fast-growing startups and large global companies has allowed for diverse experiences requiring entrepreneurial creativity and an evangelical spirit while maintaining focus on driving growth and revenue.
As Chief Product Officer for Strivr, Yelena leads the vision and strategy for the product, design, and data science that drives the roadmap for our enterprise-scale immersive learning solution. She help people understand what we’re trying to do and aligns them to the company goals, at all levels of the organization. She ensures that they have a vision that people understand and buy into and therefore feel completely motivated to work hard to achieve.
She brings extensive experience having co-founded an online real estate market analytics business, led growth stage product development at Simplee, and managed large-scale product-execution and consumer onboarding and engagement at both PayPal and eBay. Yelena is passionate about promoting women in technology.
- Passionate product leader with a customer-first mindset.
- Team builder for operationalizing product vision at growth-stage companies.
- Evangelizer and partner with cross-functional leaders to align the organization behind a common vision
- Builder and coach for A+ teams across product, design and data science
Her superpower is the ability to understand the business and build teams to lead a high growth start-up to success
She's also very passionate about growing the next generation of product leaders! Mentoring and coaching are highlights of many of her days.