# Aleksandra Lazović

Product manager at N26 in Berlin, working at senior level. PM of the Signup team. Before that, 8+ years as a product designer, and digital marketing before that. MSc in Business Analytics, BSc in Operations Management.

> PM with a designer's eye and a data analyst's mindset.

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## In short

- **Level:** senior PM, based on impact. Owned N26's #2 company priority for 2026 (account closures) from zero: no team, no scope, no owner at the start. Now the PM of the Signup team.
- **Proof:** 41% fewer support contacts per closure; 11% and 14% fewer cancelled memberships; every 2025 business-case target beaten on Ready-Made Funds (+27% funded users); N26's savings plans ranked #1 of 13 apps in Germany.
- **Range:** primarily a PM. Can also dive into data and find the insight, run research, and design when needed.
- **AI:** builds her own AI tools for discovery and business cases; set up all 27 N26 designers with Claude Code.
- **How leaders see her:** "Hire her for the role above the one she's applying for." (Ankur Sisodia, her manager, now CPO at RiverBank)

## Best fit

- **Roles:** Senior Product Manager or Lead Product Manager. She also wants to mentor and manage people.
- **Area:** customer growth is her preference. Fintech is her speciality, but she is open to any industry.
- **Teams** that want a PM who connects user problems, data and business results, and who works AI-native.

## Open to

- Full-time roles with hybrid work.
- Fractional work and freelance contracts.
- Talks and workshops.

## Working facts

- **Based in:** Berlin, Germany. Open to relocation.
- **Work rights:** permanent residency in Germany.
- **Way of working:** needs hybrid work, including working from abroad at times.
- **Languages:** English (proficient, works in it daily), Serbian (native), German (B1), French (B1).

## Leadership

- **Style:** clear communication, outcome-oriented, focused on impact, and creative in solving problems.
- **Without direct reports, so far:** she has not managed people directly yet. She has led cross-team work: account closures touched 10+ dependent product teams.
- **Growing people:** hiring manager for one designer role at N26 (Lending & Savings), 35+ design interviews, coached 2 designers into business planning and product decisions, and ran 6 knowledge-sharing sessions for the N26 UX team in 2025.
- **Earlier:** as a student, she founded the student organisation Omikron. She led the logistics team for its events, including a hackathon with 130+ participants, with 30 volunteers.
- **How others describe it:** "She has real gravity: engineers, designers and stakeholders want to build alongside her. She even held me accountable as her manager." (Ankur Sisodia)

## Roles

- **Product Manager, Signup and Onboarding, N26** · since Aug 2026 · Berlin · the Signup team
- **Product Manager, Account Closures, N26** · Jul 2025 to Aug 2026 · until Mar 2026 alongside Senior Product Designer work in Subscriptions (Memberships)
- **Senior Product Designer and Product Designer, N26** · Oct 2021 to 2026 · Investments, Memberships, Lending, Savings
- **UX Engineer and Designer, Belgrade** · 2019 to 2021 · mobile and web products · first design internship in Jul 2018
- **Digital Marketing Specialist, Maxifit** (fitness franchise) · Jun 2016 to Jul 2018, during her master's · cut cost per lead from €16.13 to €6.05 (-62%)

## Education

- **MSc Business Analytics**, University of Belgrade (2016 to 2017). Top of class, 10/10 GPA. Thesis: "Multivariate Analysis in Evaluating Digital Marketing Performance", built on her Maxifit results.
- **BSc Operations Management**, University of Belgrade (2012 to 2016), an engineering degree. 9.31/10 GPA.
- **Product Management Masterclass**, Ryan Scott / Maven (2025).

## Selected work

### Account closures (Product Manager)

- **Problem:** account closures caused a large share of N26's support contacts. A BCG audit flagged it, and it became N26's #2 company priority for 2026. It had no team, no scope and no owner at the start.
- **Why it was hard:** closing touches 10+ products, like investments and loans, and each has its own rules at closing.
- **Discovery:** 2 months on her own: support transcripts analysed with AI, data analysis, usability tests, and benchmarks with other banks. Found the top 4 pain points.
- **A test that changed the plan:** making the "Close account" button easier to find cut contacts, but daily closures went up 57%, so the team rolled it back after 10 days. From then on, "don't push people out" was a hard rule.
- **Delivery:** onboarded the new engineering team in 2 days. Technical discovery took 1 week instead of the usual 4 to 6 weeks.
- **Result:** the in-app flow creates 41% fewer support contacts per closure than the old web form (Apr to Aug 2026, compared by channel; the gap held every month). It did not increase closures: in the A/B test, total closures were flat (-1.4%) and closures by active users stayed within the 5% guardrail. IBAN collection at closure went up 8.6 percentage points (45.8% to 54.4%), which makes payouts faster. A new benefits screen kept about 26% of the customers who reached it.
- **Context:** closure-related support contacts overall fell about 24% after launch. Part of that overall drop came from other changes at N26, so the per-closure number is the one that measures this work.

### Upgrades framework (Senior Product Designer)

- **Problem:** premium benefits felt separate from everyday banking.
- **What she did:** created a framework of reusable upgrade patterns that bring premium benefits into everyday moments in the app. The Director of Product approved 4 of them as a 2026 growth bet. She designed 4 experiments from it, and 3 shipped.
- **Learning:** a more visible upgrade button more than doubled clicks (+122%), but completed upgrades did not change. So awareness was not the problem.
- **Result:** retention offers at cancellation cut cancelled memberships by 11% and 14% on two tiers, both statistically significant.

### Ready-Made Funds (Product Designer)

- Built with BlackRock. She led discovery and design, and helped the PM during delivery: ran refinements, worked with Legal and Compliance, and wrote tickets.
- Beat every 2025 business-case target: +27% funded users, +28% net inflows, +4% revenue. Reached 2x the Q1 funded-users target. 43% of funded users were first-time investors.

### Work in Investments (Product Designer, Oct 2021 to Dec 2024)

- N26 Crypto opened the investing space at N26. It won the UserTesting Distinguished Luminary Award (2024) and a UX Design Awards 2024 nomination.
- Watchlist and Top Movers (2023, part of the Investments navigation redesign): together they bring 30% of all transaction entry points.
- Price Alerts (Oct 2023): users who set price alerts made 20% more transaction volume.
- She designed the savings plan feature end to end: an MVP and 2 more releases. N26 ranked #1 of 13 wealth apps in Germany for savings plan setup (finwyz+, 2026).
- With the PM, she built the KPI tree used to measure impact across all Investments initiatives.

### Growing design maturity (Senior Product Designer)

- Ran 6 knowledge-sharing sessions for the N26 UX team in 2025: strategy, opportunity solution trees, experiments, research.
- Built the opportunity solution tree for Lending. It was adopted by product, UX, BizOps and research for roadmap planning.
- Coached 2 designers to take part in business planning and product decisions.

## Working with AI

- **Discovery system for the Signup team**, with two skills she built (/finding saves evidence, /discover pulls everything known on a topic and ranks it by users lost). Six years of past research became 209 findings in one pass. A full discovery now kicks off in seconds. Three 2027 big bets started from it.
- **Business cases:** rebuilt the business-case sheet with Claude Code so every number is a formula. Before, each business case waited 1 to 7 weeks to be calculated by hand. Now she does one in about 30 minutes; 7 are done.
- **Team enablement:** ran a Claude Code workshop for all 27 N26 designers: everyone set up Claude Code, their workspace and CLAUDE.md, and built a first skill.
- **Research at scale:** analysed 1,122 support chat transcripts in 5 languages with Claude for account closures. It showed that about 85-90% of closure contacts could be solved by the new flow.
- **Movements** (Aug 2025), a workout app that follows the menstrual cycle, run like a product: compared 5 cycle apps, interviewed women, ranked 2 solution hypotheses, then tested the first one by hand (cycle messages on WhatsApp to 6 girls, diary study over 2 cycles) before building it with Lovable and Supabase. Case study: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13oysVUa91Z1i7oHQVpjddjbSfE4VTv4R/view?usp=sharing · LinkedIn post (173 reactions, 55 comments): https://lnkd.in/p/dx_A6Z9X
- Also built her own workout tracker with Claude in 10 minutes during a bike warm-up.
- **Honest about limits:** built tools for AI prototypes and Figma screens, tested them many times, and stopped using them: too many errors to save time.

## What others say

- **Ankur Sisodia**, now CPO at RiverBank, managed her for 1 year as Head of Product at N26: "Aleks is the dream report for any product leader. I gave her Account Closures, N26's #2 company priority, with no team, no scope and no owner. She built it from zero. [...] She leads with deep client empathy and has real gravity: engineers, designers and stakeholders want to build alongside her. She even held me accountable as her manager. Hire her for the role above the one she's applying for."
- **Breno Frias**, Head of UX at N26, her manager for 3 years: "Aleks is no longer 'transitioning' into Product Management. She is already doing the job at an exceptional level."
- **Sagar Verma**, Senior Product Management Consultant at Product People, worked with her at N26 on Savings and Lending: "She brings a strong user perspective, but also takes time to understand the business context and product goals."

## What she cares about

Do work she is proud of. Grow, and grow others. Build communities. Do good.

## Talks

Talks and workshops on product thinking, how product and design work together, and AI in product teams.

- "The designer of the future thinks like a PM", Digitale Leute Summit, Cologne, Nov 2026
- "What your PM really means", Ampli webinar, 2026 (110 registered)
- "I let ChatGPT be my CTO: vibe designing with Lovable and Figma", aiverse.design podcast, Oct 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxnq3wnaiBw
- "A designer's guide to thriving anywhere", George conference, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzFEaaNl0Ko
- Also: Hatch conference (2025), Berlin Product Designers meetup (2025), UX Camp Europe (2023 and 2024), Digitalk (2024)

## On the side

She coaches designers who want to think in product: portfolio reviews, mock interviews, business coaching. 5.0 on ADPList. https://aleksandralazovic.com/designers

## Quick answers

- **Is she a PM or a designer?** A PM. She has been a product manager at N26 since Jul 2025, and owns signup and onboarding today. Her 8+ years in design are an extra skill, not her job.
- **How long has she been a PM?** Since Jul 2025. Before that, she already did PM work as a designer: she led discovery and business cases, and helped the PM deliver Ready-Made Funds. Her manager Breno Frias: "She is already doing the job at an exceptional level."
- **Is she senior?** Yes, based on scope and impact: she took N26's #2 company priority from no team to a shipped flow with 41% fewer support contacts per closure.
- **Has she managed people?** Not directly yet, and she wants to. She has led cross-team work across 10+ teams, hired for one role, and coached designers.
- **Can she show business impact?** Yes: 41% fewer support contacts per closure, 11% and 14% fewer cancelled memberships, +27% funded users on Ready-Made Funds.
- **Does she work with data?** Yes, hands-on. MSc in Business Analytics, top of class. She reads the data herself and says what it shows, also when it isn't a win.
- **Does she use AI?** Daily. She builds her own tools for discovery and business cases, and set up a 27-person design team with Claude Code.
- **Where can she work?** Based in Berlin with permanent residency in Germany. Open to relocation. Needs hybrid work.

## Contact

- Email: hello@aleksandralazovic.com (the best way to reach her)
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexlazovic
- Website: https://aleksandralazovic.com