Braze Integration and Cross-Platform Engagement Strategy
Brainly — Product Owner
Brainly needed a robust engagement automation platform to support scalable user communication across push notifications, in-app messaging, and email — all localized and behavior-triggered across platforms.
The engagement stack was outdated, non-personalized, and inefficient to scale across Brainly’s 350M+ user base.
The opportunity was to integrate Braze and establish a modern, fully owned user engagement pipeline — covering push notifications, in-app messaging, and lifecycle automation with high segmentation precision.
- Led vendor research, evaluation, and contract negotiation, aligning stakeholders across Product, Marketing, and Legal.
- PMed the full integration across Android, iOS, and Web, managing cross-functional dependencies (backend, localization, frontend, analytics).
- Designed scalable user journeys for push and in-app, mapped to behavioral triggers across the user lifecycle (onboarding, activation, re-engagement, upsell).
- Post-integration, assumed full ownership of the Braze channel: campaign strategy, message design, testing, and performance optimization.
- Implemented A/B and multivariate testing for timing, messaging tone, and feature prompts.
- Trained internal teams on Braze usage, permissions, segmentation logic, and lifecycle program structure.
- Completed Braze integration across all platforms under time and scope constraints.
- Decreased campaign creation time by over 80%, from multi-week engineering cycles to self-service execution.
- Boosted push and in-app engagement metrics through highly targeted journeys tied to user behavior.
- Enabled market- and language-specific personalization at scale.
- Maintained full product-side ownership of the channel post-launch, aligning messaging strategy with product and monetization goals.
Crowdin Integration and Localization Pipeline Ownership
Brainly — Product Owner
Brainly’s localization process was inefficient and error-prone, relying on outdated tooling (OneSky), manual developer requests, and inconsistent translation quality across platforms and markets.
With a global user base and content-driven platform, localization bottlenecks were delaying releases and creating UX inconsistencies.
The opportunity was to fully modernize the localization pipeline by selecting a better tool, automating developer workflows, and building a scalable internal localization operation.
- Researched and compared localization platforms; selected Crowdin based on automation potential, scalability, and platform compatibility.
- Led vendor negotiation, internal approval, and integration project across Android, iOS, and Web platforms.
- Owned post-integration management of the localization channel and acted as the single point of contact across development, product, and content teams.
- Selected, hired, and managed the internal localization team (translators, reviewers, language leads).
- Built automated workflows for developers to push and pull localization updates directly through Crowdin pipelines, removing manual steps.
- Designed process governance: versioning, priority setting, fallback handling, and communication protocols.
- Trained internal teams (engineering, content, product) on Crowdin workflows and access management.
- Replaced OneSky with Crowdin, enabling real-time, version-controlled localization across all platforms.
- Reduced localization turnaround time by eliminating manual developer steps and content handoffs.
- Improved translation consistency and quality across languages and product experiences.
- Established a repeatable, scalable localization framework adaptable to new products and markets.
- Increased engineering satisfaction by eliminating friction in the translation flow.
Appbot Platform Ownership and App Review Insights Team Management
Brainly — Product Owner
With millions of mobile users, Brainly’s app stores received constant user feedback through reviews — a high-volume, high-noise channel that had been underutilized for actionable insights.
User sentiment was fragmented across platforms and languages, with no structured process for extracting insights from reviews.
The opportunity was to operationalize app store feedback analysis using Appbot and a dedicated team to surface qualitative insights for product, UX, and support teams.
- Took full ownership of Appbot platform: user management, tag design, alerting logic, and feedback flow configuration.
- Recruited and managed a dedicated app review team responsible for tagging, triaging, and summarizing feedback across 7+ languages.
- Created standardized workflows for feedback escalation to Product, Design, Engineering, and Support teams.
- Implemented sentiment tracking dashboards segmented by platform, language, and feature.
- Coordinated with the localization and content teams to manage cultural and linguistic nuances in feedback interpretation.
- Established periodic insight reports and reactive feedback alerts tied to releases or spikes in negative reviews.
- Reduced latency between app feedback and issue detection, improving response time and customer trust.
- Improved signal-to-noise ratio in app reviews, surfacing 10x more actionable insights per cycle.
- Enabled structured tracking of feature-specific sentiment across time and geographies.
- Institutionalized a permanent feedback channel within the product development cycle.