Senior PM who owns products end-to-end with data rigor — currently leading pricing & monetization at Brazil's largest bus marketplace.

I'm a curious problem solver who builds products end-to-end — strategy, discovery, delivery — and backs every call with data. My engineering and ML research background means I design rigorous A/B tests, run my own analyses in Python/SQL, and talk architecture with engineers as a peer. I currently lead ClickBus' four monetization products, and in 2026 rebuilt my PM workflow as an AI-native pipeline I now share company-wide, helping shape a new way of working.

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

Highlights

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.
  • Built a proposal simulator & validator that replaced an external tool, automating proposal generation and post-negotiation financial validation.
  • Launched dynamic per-bus pricing ("smart discount") on an architecture designed to evolve into ML without a rewrite, and moved margin guardrails from spreadsheets to real time.
+66%
GMV YoY (Q1)
+37%
contribution margin YoY
1.20% → 0.63%
operational inefficiency over GMV
100%
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

  • Diagnosed the root cause with my own data analysis (Python, data lake): low-fare tickets lacked the exchange/cancellation self-service the regular flow had.
  • Redesigned the exchange and cancellation flows and measured impact with a counterfactual analysis, presented at c-level review.
+4–5 → <1 p.p.
cancellation spread vs regular flow
11.7k
cancellations avoided in ~2 months
~10 months early
beat the initiative's 12-month goal

03

Proving incrementality through experiments

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 and ran the experiment end to end — 17 routes of a major partner carrier, 8,400+ users, deterministic bucketing, pre-defined significance criteria.
  • Documented the results as a negotiation asset now used by the commercial team with carriers.
+123%
conversion lift
+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 discovery across 5 internal areas (marketing, strategy, commercial, product, engineering) and 3 carrier-facing workstreams: inventory, finance, B2B experience.
  • Inventory discovery fed directly into the company's largest seat-inventory deal in recent years; financial discovery surfaced gaps later formalized in 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, B2B
3/3
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 and migrated squad tracking from Jira to GitHub Projects.
  • Mentor PMs and engineers across the company, sharing cases to raise the whole product team's bar.
27 / 25 / 15
PRDs / ADRs / specs in one quarter
100%
AI-assisted commits on one service, 0% revert rate
20/23
sprint items delivered across 4 products

Experience

07
Senior Product Manager — Pricing · ClickBus

Sole PM for 4 monetization products at Brazil's largest online bus-ticket marketplace: dynamic low-fare pricing, service fee, coupons/vouchers, internal cross-squad admin platform.

Sep 2025 – Present
06
Product Manager — Billing & Pricing · ClickBus

Turned around the Billing squad (no PM, demotivated team): cut invoicing time by 50%, stabilized revenue accounting and integrated the ERP (NetSuite); promoted to Senior in ~9 months.

Dec 2024 – Sep 2025
05
Product Manager — Commissions & HUB App · XP Inc.

Owned the system that commissions all of XP's partner offices — 12,000+ advisors, 600+ offices — at Brazil's largest investment platform.

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024
04
Associate Product Manager — Migrations · Rico (XP Inc.)

Orchestrated the migration of 1M+ customers between critical systems — roadmap, system requirements and quality criteria.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022
03
Business Strategist — Data & Innovation · Rico (XP Inc.)

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

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021
02
Product Development Consultant · Self-employed

Helped 100+ content creators build, price and launch educational products (communities, courses, mentorships).

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021
01
Deep Learning Undergraduate Researcher · NAUTEC / FURG

Neural-network models for image dehazing; 3 international publications, 2 awards at SIBGRAPI 2018.

Mar 2015 – Jan 2019

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
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
Lucas engages with challenges at a level that leaves us confident of an excellent outcome. He's participative, collaborative, and a true team player. His willingness to share information and knowledge contributes to raising the team's overall performance.
UX peer, XP Inc.

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 managementRoadmappingStakeholder managementB2B negotiation

Data & experimentation

PythonSQLA/B testing (MDE, power, stopping rules)AmplitudeGA4

Technical

System design with engineeringAPIs & microservices

AI-native workflow

Claude Code (automated pipelines, harnesses and loops)AI-assisted prototyping (Claude Design, Figma Make, Lovable)Spec & ADR automationAI mentoring at scale