Adam Vargic

Senior Product Manager & Product Leader

Edinburgh, UK

adam.vargic@gmail.com

Profile

Senior Product Manager and Product Leader with 9+ years of B2B SaaS experience. Core strengths include enterprise solutions, AI-driven capabilities, complex customer workflows, owning strategy and execution in fast-scaling companies, strong product intuition, cross-functional collaboration, and coaching product managers.

Experience

Petrolink

04/2025 – Present

Remote (UK)

Product Lead

Led a global product team of 5 PMs and 2 Designers across 8 product teams. Owned strategic planning and the product roadmap, driving key product expansion initiatives.

  • Aligned senior management around a clear product strategy, shifting the organisation from reactive feature delivery to a focused roadmap.
  • Cut time from idea to testable prototype from weeks to days by introducing AI tooling across prototyping, documentation, and UX review — saving an estimated 3–4 hours per person per week.
  • Established scalable product practices through new processes, templates, and structured coaching.
  • Scaled the team through an internal APM programme, adding 2 PMs from within the organisation.
  • Personally led two platform expansion initiatives: an AI-powered reporting layer for senior stakeholders, and a navigation redesign shifting to proactive, contextual information delivery.

Continuum Industries

03/2024 – 03/2025

Edinburgh, UK

Product Lead

Joined as the first product hire at an AI-powered infrastructure development platform. Built, scaled, and led a team of 2 PMs and 2 Designers.

  • Built and scaled the product team through hiring and internal development (2 external hires, 2 internal promotions).
  • Defined and implemented a clear product career framework.
  • Established scalable product processes, introducing product analytics by selecting tooling, defining event schemas, and coaching PMs.
  • Developed product strategy resulting in higher team satisfaction and a 25% increase in CSAT.
  • Led expansion into the North American market, discovering, validating, and launching new Scoping functionality — generating a $1.25M ARR sales pipeline.

Productboard

01/2022 – 02/2024

Prague, CZ (Remote)

Senior Product Manager

Led the team responsible for enterprise scalability and collaboration. Conducted 100+ customer interviews over two years. Partnered with product, design, engineering, and GTM teams on a major redesign.

  • Led end-to-end delivery of a major enterprise-focused redesign — resulting in a 10% YoY ARR increase in the enterprise segment.
  • Orchestrated the staged rollout of the redesigned interface to 6,000+ customers over 6 months — the second-largest release in Productboard's history.
  • Enhanced enterprise permissioning, unlocking a $2.2M ARR pipeline.

Pawprint

01/2021 – 12/2021

Edinburgh, UK

Head of Product

Joined as the first product hire to lead the pivot from B2C to B2B. Reported directly to the CEO and was part of the senior leadership team.

  • Led the successful pivot from B2C to B2B, scaling from 5 pioneer customers to 30 paying customers in 12 months, reaching £550k ARR.
  • Established and led 2 product teams, scaling to 14 engineers and 2 designers.
  • Delivered key engagement drivers increasing product adoption from 20% to 40% across customer accounts.

Petrolink

06/2019 – 01/2021

Aberdeen, UK

Head of Product Management

Promoted into a player-coach role, accountable for overall product strategy and roadmaps across multiple product teams. Managed and coached 6 PMs and 2 Designers.

  • Led the launch of a redesigned web-based viewer, resulting in a 50% reduction in support costs.
  • Oversaw the rollout of a redesigned real-time visualisation platform, generating $10M in new ARR within 12 months.
  • Standardised product development practices, resulting in 2 senior promotions.

Petrolink

11/2018 – 06/2019

Aberdeen, UK

Senior Product Manager

Promoted to lead development of a next-generation visualisation platform. Conducted in-depth user and market research.

  • Built a successful PoC of the 'next gen viewer', securing stakeholder buy-in.
  • Designed and executed a beta and early access programme, resulting in smooth customer adoption.

Petrolink

10/2016 – 11/2018

Aberdeen, UK

Product Manager

Owned product strategy and end-to-end development of Petrolink's mobile application from inception to launch.

  • Delivered the mobile app from 0→1, running alpha and beta programmes with customers.
  • Launched on iOS and Android across the full customer base, supporting 30+ enterprise accounts.
  • Delivered a white-label mobile app for the largest client (10,000+ active users), achieving 90% satisfaction within 3 months.
  • Sustained 80%+ CSAT post-launch.

Petrolink

05/2014 – 10/2016

Aberdeen, UK

Client Support Engineer

Provided on-site and remote technical support. Developed deep product knowledge and worked closely with the development team to collect customer feedback.

Skills

Product vision & strategyLeading & coaching teamsCustomer-centred discoveryEnterprise B2B SaaS0 → 1 product deliveryAgile product developmentProduct analytics (Amplitude, Looker, Mixpanel)UX Design (Figma)Communication & storytellingProject management & execution

Education

2011–2012

MSc in Management, Economics & International Relations

The University of Aberdeen

2007–2011

MA in Sociology & International Relations

The University of Aberdeen