Lucas Teixeira Gonçalves

Senior Product Manager

São Paulo, Brazil · lucaspufe@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/lucaspufe

Summary

Senior Product Manager with 6+ years across travel e-commerce and fintech, owning everything from strategy and discovery to delivery. Sole PM for ClickBus' pricing & monetization squad (4 products): grew the core low-fare product +66% GMV YoY (+37% contribution margin) in its first year under my ownership, built on discovery across 5 internal areas and 3 partner-facing workstreams. Engineer by training (ML research, published & awarded): designs rigorous experiments, runs own data analyses (Python/SQL), and operates an AI-native product workflow recognized as an internal reference.

Experience

Senior Product Manager — Pricing · ClickBus

Sep 2025 – Present

  • 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.
  • Grew the core low-fare product +66% GMV YoY (+37% contribution margin) in my first year owning it; operational inefficiency down from 1.20% to 0.63% of GMV, inventory occupancy up to 100%.
  • Key player — named by the Commercial team — in the company's largest seat-inventory deal in recent years (carrier visits, proposal building).
  • Designed and ran the company's first incrementality A/B test (17 routes, 8,400+ users): +123% conversion, +54% GMV — now a documented B2B negotiation asset; built the permanent experimentation infra (Unleash + Amplitude).
  • Closed the low-fare cancellation gap from +4–5 p.p. to <1 p.p. (11.7k cancellations avoided in ~2 months), beating the initiative's 12-month goal ~10 months early — own diagnosis, flow redesign, counterfactual measurement.
  • Rebuilt the squad's PM workflow AI-native — 14 custom Claude Code skills covering the full cycle from analysis and discovery to spec, GTM and impact analysis (27 PRDs, 25 ADRs, 15 specs in a quarter); mentor PMs and engineers company-wide.

Product Manager — Billing & Pricing · ClickBus

Dec 2024 – Sep 2025

  • 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.
  • Invited to also lead the Pricing squad while still running Billing — took over the core low-fare product mid-audit; former owner called my arrival a turning point.

Product Manager — Commissions & HUB App · XP Inc.

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024

  • Owned the system that commissions all of XP's partner offices — 12,000+ advisors, 600+ offices — at Brazil's largest investment platform.
  • Defined the advisors' mobile-app roadmap; growth strategy against the web heavy-user base lifted monthly active users by 16%.

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

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022

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

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

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

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

Product Development Consultant · Self-employed

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021

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

Deep Learning Undergraduate Researcher · NAUTEC / FURG

Mar 2015 – Jan 2019

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

Education

B.Sc. Computer Engineering
Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) · 2013 – 2018

Awards

  • Talent-recognition program winner — ClickBus (2026)
  • Ideation workshop winner — ClickBus (2025)
  • Best Paper & Best Undergraduate Work — SIBGRAPI (2018)

Skills

  • Product: Product strategy, Discovery, Pricing & monetization, GTM, B2B negotiation
  • Data & experimentation: Python, SQL, A/B testing, Counterfactual analysis, Amplitude, GA4
  • Technical: System design, APIs & microservices, Legacy reverse-engineering, GitHub Actions
  • AI-native workflow: Claude Code skill pipelines, AI prototyping (v0, Lovable), Spec/ADR automation
  • Certifications: Reforge membership (2026) · SHIFT — Squad Leaders (xTree) (2022) · MESA Method (2020)
  • Languages: Portuguese (Native) · English (Fluent)