Team Leadership
Designing a team dynamic that ensured we delivered results
Starting from scratch, I built a robust product organization over 5 years.
I unlocked possibility for our product by recruiting, hiring and mentoring talented individuals from around the world.
Scaling a team as fully bootstrapped company takes discipline and strategic, long-term planning.
Navigating budgets and our product roadmap, I worked closely with the CEO and other department leads to ensure we always had the proper team in place.
“Mo is a leader. He’s an excellent director and manager who is very adaptable to change and who knows how to bring out the best in the team.”
— Victor da C. Luna Freire, Backend Engineer
A modern product team for a high-growth SaaS company.
17 people
Engineering, Product Design,
Product Management & Quality Assurance
8 countries
10 timezones
89
Employee Net Promotor Score
“Mo’s confidence in me was instrumental in helping me develop my project management skills, enabling me to take on complex initiatives, take risks, and deliver results.”
— Isabel Lien, Product Manager
As a leader, I created a shared definition of success for the team.
Designing goals that ensured team alignment and individual growth.
I developed an OKR strategy at a department level to measure success. This allowed for autonomous decision making across sub-teams and clear progress monitoring, both of which were essential for a distributed and remote team.
By building trust with each individual and across the department, we had a feedback culture that was focused on continuous improvement and growth.
Professional development programs helped in recruiting and retaining team members, especially for engineering roles.
“Mo has fantastic leadership skills and strategic thinking. He always inspired people to improve the team culture and working process. As a result, we create and maintain a high-quality product for thousands of customers.”
— Maks Petryshak, Wordpress Developer
“Mo has been the best manager I’ve ever had. A great human being and an amazingly capable creative professional, I envy whoever gets the chance to work with Mo.”
— Gaspar Errobidart, Senior Javascript Developer & Lead Infrastructure Engineer