Paula Martina Almeida

Group Product Manager at Telefónica | ex-Société Générale

Telefónica

Barcelona, Spain · CET (UTC+1)

9+ years experience

École Polytechnique

English, Spanish

Co-founder

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Overview

9 years in product management, the last 4 at Telefónica, where I lead the marketplace team. Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for. Most at home with APIs and matching. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

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People who want to build this with me
Questions about marketplaces
Second opinions on APIs decisions
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Skills

matchingtwo-sided networkstrust & safetyAPIs

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

closes in 3 months

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for invoice financing for shipping lines

The idea: Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for invoice financing for shipping lines
Stage: Idea
I bring: 8 years in marketplaces
Looking for: Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Barcelona or remote

I bring 9 years of marketplaces (currently Telefónica). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

Barcelona, Spainmatchingtrust & safetyapis

Open

Experience

Group Product Manager
Feb 2023 - Present
Telefónica · 3 yr 8 mo · Contract · Barcelona, Spain
- Grew marketplace revenue from $6 million to $37 million ARR.
- Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
Associate Product Manager
Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
Société Générale · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Barcelona, Spain
- Killed 4 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
Associate Product Manager
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
BlaBlaCar · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Barcelona, Spain
- Grew marketplace revenue from $7 million to $54 million ARR.

Projects

Marketplaces benchmark

2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing two-sided networks and matching on real workloads.

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Education

École Polytechnique
Ingénieur, Economics
2012 - 2016

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