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Product strategy decisions are expensive to get wrong.

I help senior product leaders and executive teams make high-stakes decisions when growth slows, capital tightens, and the cost of being wrong is real.

ELENA LEONOVA

Former Chief Product Officer

Executive Product Strategy Advisor to Scaling Companies

Founder of OneRank.io, AI-powered strategy platform

Speaker at global product & technology conferences

Award-winning Product Leader (PLA, Products That Count)

15+ years building and scaling global B2B and platform products across North America, Europe and APAC

Previous Product Leadership Experience Across Global Technology Companies

BigCommerce
Spryker
eBay
PayPal
Magento

Work With Me

Elena Leonova

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ABOUT

How We Can Work Together

1/ Executive Product  Coaching
(Strategy & Leadership)

Designed for PMs, Directors, and VPs accountable for business outcomes — not just delivery.

We work on connecting product decisions to business impact, defining strategic bets, and developing the executive judgment required to lead at scale.

2/ Strategic Product Advisory

For executive teams and senior product leaders operating at scale.

I partner with organizations facing complex strategic decisions — from growth and profitability tradeoffs to portfolio direction and investment prioritization — bringing structured, business-grounded clarity to high-stakes choices.

This is not delivery support. It’s strategic judgment when direction matters most.

3/ OneRank.io

OneRank.io

A platform built to systematize high-quality product strategy.

OneRank helps organizations proactively define strategic direction and make disciplined allocation decisions — connecting long-term business intent with roadmap and capacity execution.

Designed for fast-changing environments, it enables teams to move with speed while staying grounded in business reality.

How Leaders

Describe the Impact

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Boris Lokschin

CEO & Co-founder, Spryker

Elena is a highly strategic product leader with a rare ability to combine deep platform strategy with practical, measurable business value. She played a key role in shaping Spryker's platform strategy during a critical growth phase and helped establish us as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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Ángel Hita Albarracín

Product Leader, B2B SaaS Platforms (former Head of Product, Spryker)

If you're looking for a CPO who can bring clarity to complex environments, Elena is someone you should speak with. She breaks down complex problems with calm structure and surfaces insights others overlook. Under her leadership, we went from Visionary to Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Strategy Insights

You Don't Have a Product Strategy

Most product teams have a backlog with a story. Not a strategy. The difference only shows up when something fails.

The Signal Hierarchy Product Leaders Should Use

Not all signals deserve the same weight. The roadmap drifts when product leaders react to the loudest ones.

Most ROI Math Is Backwards

By slide two, the room knows. The CFO doesn't fund features — they fund gaps closing on schedule.

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP UNLOCKED

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The Art

of Platform Products

Elena Leonova

BOOK

Coming 2026

A practical guide to building and scaling platform products in complex, high-stakes environments.

The book explores how platform strategy differs from traditional product models — from ecosystem dynamics and multi-sided value creation to strategic bets, capital allocation, and execution at scale.

For product leaders and executives responsible for building and scaling platform businesses

If you’re navigating strategic complexity, growth pressure, or a high-stakes product decision, let’s talk.

Whether you’re interested in executive coaching, strategic advisory, or exploring OneRank.io, share a few details below and I’ll personally review your message.

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