Senior Product Manager · São Paulo, Brazil

Senior PM who owns products end-to-end with data rigor — from 0-to-1 build to experimentation infra to cross-functional discovery — currently applied to pricing & monetization at Brazil's largest bus marketplace.

I'm a Senior PM who builds products end-to-end — strategy, discovery, delivery — and backs every call with data. My background is Computer Engineering and machine-learning research, so I design A/B tests with statistical rigor, run my own analyses in Python and SQL, and discuss architecture with engineers as a peer. I currently apply that operating model as sole PM for ClickBus' four monetization products, running discovery across internal stakeholders and external partners to shape channel strategy. In 2026 I rebuilt my entire PM workflow as an AI-native pipeline and now mentor PMs and engineers across the company on it.

Currently: Pricing squad @ ClickBus — Brazil's largest online bus-ticket marketplace

Highlights

+66%
GMV YoY on the core product, first year as owner
+123%
conversion in the company's first incrementality A/B test
−92%
search latency (~400ms → ~30ms)
<1 p.p.
low-fare cancellation gap, down from +4–5 p.p.
4
monetization products as sole PM
14
custom AI skills automating the full PM workflow

Case studies

01

Scaling a low-fare pricing product: year one

From manual spreadsheets to a pricing platform — +66% GMV YoY

The problem

ClickBus' low-fare product — advance purchase of carrier seat inventory resold with dynamic fares — was relevant but couldn't scale: billing was 100% manual, margin guardrails lived in spreadsheets with no real-time integration, discounts were fixed regardless of context, campaign management was fragmented, there was zero experimentation infrastructure, and search responded in ~400ms. Roughly 9% of purchased seats expired unsold.

What I did

  • Shipped a unified campaign-management platform: parameterized search, 360° campaign view, one-click activation via API.
  • Built a proposal simulator & validator that automated commercial proposal generation and post-negotiation financial validation — replacing an external tool dependency.
  • Launched dynamic per-bus pricing ("smart discount") on a 3-layer architecture deliberately designed to evolve from decision matrix to ML without a rewrite.
  • Automated billing end to end (balance write-off, mark-up, guardrails, over-sale) and moved margin guardrails from spreadsheets to real-time calculation in the database.
  • Stood up permanent experimentation infrastructure (Unleash + Amplitude) and ran the company's first incrementality A/B test.
+66% GMV YoY (Q1)+37% contribution margin YoY1.20% → 0.63% operational inefficiency over GMV100% inventory occupancy (from ~96%)

02

Closing a cancellation gap with data

Diagnosis → flow redesign → counterfactual measurement, annual goal beaten in 2 months

The problem

The low-fare flow historically cancelled 4–5 percentage points above the regular flow — a persistent revenue leak nobody had root-caused.

What I did

  • Ran my own data analysis (Python, data lake) and identified portfolio mix as the driver: low-fare tickets lacked the exchange/cancellation self-service the regular flow had.
  • Redesigned the exchange and cancellation flows to support low-fare tickets, shipped in two waves.
  • Measured impact with a counterfactual analysis against the historical spread — presented at c-level review.
+4–5 → <1 p.p. cancellation spread vs regular flow11.7k cancellations avoided in ~2 months~10 months early beat the initiative's 12-month goal

03

The company's first incrementality A/B test

Statistical rigor that became a B2B negotiation asset

The problem

Leadership debated whether low fares actually created demand or just cannibalized full-price sales — with no experimental evidence either way, and no infrastructure to get it.

What I did

  • Designed the experiment end to end — 17 routes of a major partner carrier, 8,400+ users, deterministic bucketing, pre-defined significance criteria.
  • Built the permanent experimentation stack (Unleash + Amplitude) so every future test reuses the same infrastructure.
  • Documented the results as a negotiation asset now used by the commercial team with carriers.
+123% conversion (3.4% → 7.6%)+54% GMV in the low-fare variant+11.3% purchase antecedence

04

Building a unified channel pricing strategy through structured discovery

The qualitative backbone behind ClickBus' biggest pricing wins — 5 internal areas, 3 carrier-facing workstreams

The problem

Pricing decisions across ClickBus' sales channels were made with a fragmented view — marketing, strategy, commercial, product and engineering each held a partial picture. The relationship with partner carriers lived in silos too: commercial negotiated inventory, finance fought processes case by case, and nobody owned a unified read on the B2B experience.

What I did

  • Ran structured interviews with stakeholders across 5 internal areas (marketing, strategy, commercial, product, engineering) to build a unified channel pricing strategy — in progress.
  • Ran recurring discovery with partner carriers across 3 distinct workstreams: inventory negotiation, financial process mapping, and B2B experience design.
  • Inventory-negotiation discovery fed directly into the company's largest seat-inventory deal in recent years.
  • Financial-process discovery surfaced the validation gaps later formalized during the product's external audit.
  • B2B-experience discovery led tribe leadership to invite me to co-design the company's B2B product, its main goal for the year.
5 internal areas interviewed (channel pricing strategy in progress)3 carrier-facing discovery workstreams — inventory, finance, B2B3/3 workstreams that fed a major deal, an audit system, or a company-wide initiative

05

Running product AI-native

The full PM workflow as a pipeline of 14 custom AI skills

The problem

One PM, four products: keeping the delivery bar high across discovery, specs, GTM and impact analysis doesn't scale by working more hours. I rebuilt the way the work itself gets done.

What I did

  • Built a pipeline of 14 custom Claude Code skills covering the full cycle: raw data → analysis → discovery brief → PRD → prototype → spec + ADRs (with automated validation) → issues → implementation → GTM → impact analysis.
  • Automated board governance with GitHub Actions (board health, epic→feature hierarchy, PR insights) and migrated squad tracking from Jira to GitHub Projects.
  • Reverse-engineered a legacy pricing microservice into full documentation — C4 diagrams, ERD, state machines, OpenAPI, 7 ADRs — using an AI-assisted framework.
  • Mentor PMs and engineers across the company; share cases at tribe meetings with the stated goal of raising the whole product team's bar.
27 / 25 / 15 PRDs / ADRs / specs in one quarter100% AI-assisted commits on one service, 0% revert rate20/23 sprint items delivered across 4 products

Experience

Senior Product Manager — Pricing · ClickBus

Sep 2025 – Present

São Paulo, Brazil (hybrid)

  • Sole PM for the Pricing squad at Brazil's largest online bus-ticket marketplace — 4 monetization products: dynamic low-fare pricing, service fee, coupons/vouchers, and the internal cross-squad admin platform.
  • Grew the core low-fare product +66% GMV YoY (+37% contribution margin) in my first year owning it, while cutting operational inefficiency from 1.20% to 0.63% of GMV and lifting inventory occupancy from ~96% to 100%.
  • Key player — named by the Commercial team — in closing the company's largest seat-inventory purchase deal in recent years, joining carrier visits and building the proposals.
  • Designed and ran the company's first incrementality A/B test (17 routes, 8,400+ users, statistically significant): +123% conversion and +54% GMV in the low-fare variant — now a documented asset in B2B carrier negotiations. Built the permanent experimentation infrastructure (Unleash + Amplitude) alongside it.
  • Closed the low-fare cancellation gap from +4–5 p.p. above the regular flow to under 1 p.p., avoiding 11.7k cancellations in ~2 months and beating the initiative's 12-month goal ~10 months early — from my own data diagnosis to flow redesign to counterfactual impact measurement.
  • Automated the low-fare billing end to end (from 100% manual spreadsheets to automated invoicing with guardrails), unblocking a years-old finance backlog; led the creation of new validation systems as the product went through an external audit.
  • Drove a series of search-performance optimizations that cut response time by 92% (~400ms → ~30ms).
  • Rebuilt the squad's PM workflow AI-native — a pipeline of 14 custom Claude Code skills covering analysis → discovery → PRD → spec/ADR → implementation → GTM → impact analysis; 27 PRDs, 25 ADRs, 15 specs and 10 prototypes in one quarter. Mentor PMs and engineers across the company on it.
  • Winner of the company's 2026 talent-recognition program — the only Product person selected; rated above expectations in my first performance cycle on the Senior bar. Invited by tribe leadership to co-design the company's B2B product, its main goal for the year.

Product Manager — Billing & Pricing · ClickBus

Dec 2024 – Sep 2025

São Paulo, Brazil (remote)

  • Hired to turn around the Billing squad (no PM, demotivated team): cut invoicing time by 50%, stabilized revenue accounting across wallet, cashback and insurance products, and integrated the ERP (NetSuite) — leadership called it the team's first clear direction in years. Promoted to Senior in ~9 months.
  • Invited to also lead the Pricing squad while still running Billing — took over the core low-fare product mid-audit; the former product owner called my arrival a turning point ("divisor de águas").
  • Won the company-wide ideation workshop with a redesign of the NPS capture flow.

Product Manager — Commissions & HUB App · XP Inc.

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024

São Paulo, Brazil (hybrid)

  • Owned the system that commissions all of XP's partner offices — 12,000+ investment advisors across 600+ offices — in Brazil's largest investment platform.
  • Defined the roadmap for every user journey of the advisors' mobile app; drove a growth and penetration strategy against the web version's heavy-user base that increased monthly active users by 16%.
  • Ran discovery and shipped new products and solutions for advisor and office commissioning — the B2B experience tribe of the platform.

Associate Product Manager — Migrations · Rico (XP Inc.)

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022

São Paulo, Brazil

  • Orchestrated the migration of 1M+ customers between critical systems — roadmap, system requirements and quality criteria.
  • Partnered with revenue and marketing teams on tooling to enhance campaigns.

Business Strategist — Data & Innovation · Rico (XP Inc.)

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

São Paulo, Brazil

  • Data analysis to identify opportunities, impact mapping, and business-plan workshops.

Product Development Consultant · Self-employed

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021

Remote

  • Worked with 100+ content creators building, pricing and launching educational products (communities, courses, mentorships) and the business plans to monetize them.

Deep Learning Undergraduate Researcher · NAUTEC / FURG

Mar 2015 – Jan 2019

Rio Grande, Brazil

  • Built neural-network models for image dehazing; 3 international publications and 2 awards — Best Paper and Best Undergraduate Work at SIBGRAPI 2018.

Personal projects

What people say

Since day one you've shown this very strong skill of taking a complex, messy problem — no history, no documentation, no map — and quickly understanding the pieces, talking to people, and building a vision of what needs to be done.
Product Director, ClickBus
The problem is incredibly complex, but you manage to simplify it into blocks so that even people without context can follow your reasoning. That's a superpower, especially in an area as complex as Pricing.
Product Director, ClickBus
His ability to absorb complex topics and steer the team toward solutions is impressive. He shows genuine interest in solving issues that sat in the backlog for years — and does it with mastery and speed.
Finance stakeholder, ClickBus
His technical background makes a real difference in how he leads: he sees and defends the value of technical initiatives like refactoring and performance work. That directly boosted the team's motivation.
Engineering peer, ClickBus

Education & awards

  • B.Sc. Computer Engineering

    Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) · 2013 – 2018

    Research group in intelligent robotics (NAUTEC); ICPC competitive programming.

  • Talent-recognition program winner — ClickBus 2026

    Only Product person selected; education budget applied to Reforge and the Product at Heart conference (Germany).

  • Ideation workshop winner — ClickBus 2025

  • Best Paper & Best Undergraduate Work — SIBGRAPI 2018

    3 international publications on deep learning for image dehazing.

Skills

Product

Product strategyDiscoveryMetric-driven PRDsPricing & monetizationRevenue managementGTMRoadmappingStakeholder managementB2B negotiation

Data & experimentation

PythonSQLA/B testing (MDE, power, stopping rules)Counterfactual analysisAmplitudeGA4Advanced Excel

Technical

System design with engineeringAPIs & microservicesLegacy reverse-engineeringGitHub ActionsFeature flags (Unleash)

AI-native workflow

Claude Code (custom skill pipelines)AI-assisted prototyping (v0, Lovable)Spec & ADR automationAI mentoring at scale