AI Product Management Internship - UBS Investment Bank AG - Zürich, Switzerland
(2026 - 2026)
- Advanced an AI-enabled institutional-lending product from discovery through delivery by translating business and lending requirements into product specifications, workflows, and priorities across Engineering, Operations, IT, and Business stakeholders.
- Identified workflow-friction and usability improvements for internal financial applications by conducting 1:1 interviews, moderated UX research, usability sessions, and surveys, converting findings into product, design, and process recommendations.
Developer Relations, Business Development (Data Science, AI & Analytics) - OriginTrail (Prospeh d.o.o.) - Slovenia
(2025 - 2025)
- Translated OriginTrail’s decentralized AI stack, including the Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG), AI-ready Knowledge Assets, and decentralized Retrieval-Augmented Generation (dRAG) into enterprise use cases and business cases, while supporting C-suite discussions on trusted AI adoption as well as GTM strategy.
- Worked on enterprise customer discovery for agentic AI solutions, translating needs for verifiable knowledge retrieval and multi-step workflows into pilot requirements, onboarding plans, and measurable adoption goals.
- Supported partnership and ecosystem initiatives involving different enterprises (eg. Revolut), as well as community engagement by helping position DKG-based AI infrastructure and verifiable knowledge capabilities for partner and enterprise use cases.
- Coordinated cross-functional work across AI infrastructure and staking products, supporting roadmap planning, launch preparation, and KPI tracking across 3 products.
- Developed GTM frameworks for 2 product launches, aligning ecosystem, protocol, BD, and UX teams on target users, partner activation milestones, positioning, and adoption goals.
Product Strategy: Premium Crypto Payment Card Project - Slovenian banking system
(2024 - 2024)
- Led competitive benchmarking and strategy for a Slovenian banking proposition in collaboration with a private law firm, bank, and international crypto exchange, assessing premium payment cards and crypto wallets across pricing, security, insurance, UX, investment, and loyalty.
- Evaluated DEX, CEX, Wallet providers to identify product gaps and differentiation opportunities.
- Defined core requirements for a premium crypto card, spanning pricing, security, support, wallet integration, cashback, insurance, and investment features.
- Identified and developed product and partnership concepts across fintech, lifestyle, wellness, sustainability, education, and community.
- Assessed strategic integrations including trading benefits, portfolio tools, market dashboards, account-to-account payments, and cross-platform functionality.
ETHEX, Anonymized Algorithmic Personal Data Pricing for Exchange Platforms in Health Information - YC Application
(2024 - 2024)
Top 10%, but not selected
- In a team of 3 (Oxford, EPFL), defined the product concept and functional requirements for a decentralized healthcare-data platform addressing fragmented records, limited individual data ownership and opaque third-party usage; connected patient-controlled data sharing with research access, personalized insights and contributor compensation.
- Conducted secondary market research and competitive landscape mapping across Ciitizen, HealthVerity, PicnicHealth and consumer health platforms; developed early-adopter personas and institutional buyer segments, documenting hypothesized adoption barriers around data integration, privacy, trust and acquisition costs.
- Mapped end-to-end user journeys and data workflows across record upload, consent selection, anonymisation, permissioned access and monetisation, covering electronic health records, wearable data, personal files and insurance claims; specified guided uploads, personalized dashboards and data-access notifications.
- Specified four configurable data-sharing tiers, mapping data granularity to authorized recipient groups, permitted uses and compensation models, from demographic aggregates to detailed records and real-time feeds, with adjustable opt-in/opt-out controls and visibility into data usage.
- Explored a hybrid blockchain/off-chain approach, proposing Ethereum smart contracts for ownership records and token transactions alongside off-chain bulk data storage and AI analytics; identified transaction costs and throughput as constraints requiring further evaluation of Layer 2 alternatives.
- Documented privacy and data-utility trade-offs, researching differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation and zero-knowledge proofs as candidate approaches to controlled data sharing and confidential analysis.
- Developed a conceptual data-monetisation framework linking compensation to data specificity, research utility, privacy impact and access frequency; outlined participation payments, project-based compensation, dataset licensing and profit-sharing options across the four sharing tiers.
Business Development Internship - Sygnum Bank - Zürich, Switzerland
(2023 - 2023)
- Worked cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Data, Trading, Compliance, Tokenisation, Marketing, Relationship Management, and B2B teams on 3 different product lines (institutional staking, ring-fenced custody, permissioned DeFi) at a FINMA-regulated digital asset bank.
- Defined success criteria across four dimensions (revenue, feasibility, regulatory approval, operations) in a 12-sub-criterion scoring framework to rank 5+ liquid-staking providers, drawing on vendor calls, fee and slashing analysis and Trading and Engineering input. Recommended a shortlist to management with pros, cons and next steps.
- Analyzed on-chain lending behaviour across 1,500+ wallets alongside institutional market research to identify user needs, size demand and inform product priorities. Partnered with Business and Compliance teams to translate insights into permissioned DeFi requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements, user stories and BPMN flows.
- Structured epic charters across staking, node infrastructure, key management and custody recovery, and scoped the workload for a permissioned DeFi MVP. Drove the onboarding of 5 new tokens onto a platform supporting 30+ assets by evaluating 20+ assets across liquidity, market cap, consensus mechanisms, node infrastructure and custody readiness. Tested staking workflows and designed a repeatable Jira-based assessment process, improving the scalability of future asset onboarding.
- Modelled ETH validator economics and compared node providers across yield, slashing risk and insurance, gas fees, security and implementation complexity, informing the final provider selection. Extended the analysis to lending economics and pricing, identifying potential B2B opportunities and supporting subsequent commercial negotiations.
- For a legacy custody platform shutdown, consolidated 4 key-management policies into 1 system-agnostic standard, planned HD-wallet recovery (BIP-32, SLIP-10, offline key ceremony) and evaluated a 3-of-5 multisig with timelocked recovery.
- Presented analysis and vendor shortlists to management, aligned Trading and Engineering input on the recommendation, and reworked the ETH staking fact sheet and website with Marketing, supported by client-friendly slashing-coverage tables and process documentation.
- Designed a 5-session internal learning series (blockchain to DeFi and smart contracts) with the CEO Office and Compliance, so non-technical teams could work from a shared understanding of the products.
Researcher and Product Developer - Quantifly startup - Remote (Slovenia/Switzerland)
(2021 - 2022)
- Designed and owned the product and roadmap for a B2B HRTech SaaS platform, working across engineering, psychology, and business development to turn research into product decisions.
- Designed a six-instrument, mixed-methods organizational fit model, combining self/coworker/company assessments, competency surveys, prior-role data, and résumé/job-description parsing, by leading discovery with executives, HR leaders, psychology professors, and product owners; analyzed data from 250+ surveys and 50 interviews to evaluate fit at the individual, role, and organizational levels, ultimately recommending improvements aligned with core business goals.
- Defined success metrics and a five-stage validation plan, prioritizing work from instrument design and pilot testing through validation, an ATS prototype, and reporting.
- Analyzed client data across 80+ organizations that used the product to identify leadership, communication, and organizational-network patterns and guide product development and priorities.
- Presented product findings and roadmap to organizations including Tel Aviv Start-up Hub, Elektronček, and Pipistrel.
Business Intelligence Internship - Bitstamp - Slovenia
(2021 - 2021)
- Analyzed Twitter/Reddit sentiment using social scores as influence proxies. Sourced EUR/USD tick data from histdata.com, validated against Bloomberg. Analyzed the link between social behavior and exchange rate movements for marketing purposes.
Research and Strategy - Episcenter - Slovenia
(2021 - 2021)
- Advised enterprise web and app enterprise clients across telecom and public sectors on digital CX for a smart-city application satisfaction prototype across 8+ digital touchpoints, redesigning user journeys to reduce friction, drive product adoption, and maximize customer lifetime value.
- Conducted B2B discovery with 3 enterprise clients to define digital loyalty strategy; led cross-functional CX/UX optimization for a telecom loyalty web and mobile app, translating behavioral analytics into web/app feature priorities and A/B testing roadmaps that drove 84% user satisfaction and 70% subscriber enrollment.
- Led research and analytics across 3+ loyalty products, including a 1,500+ respondent segmentation study, to shape product requirements, CX priorities, roadmap decisions, and experimentation plans.
- Benchmarked 5 online research platforms across UX, monetization, self-service, and rewards, and defined a target B2B/B2C product model with hypotheses for A/B testing key user journeys and value propositions.
- Supported strategic partnerships, consulted and advised C-suite stakeholders across retail, telecom, and energy, translating research, behavioral data, and experiment results into product, CX, and growth recommendations.
Business Lead and Product Strategist - UniBill start-up
(2020 - 2022)
- Co-led a cross-functional team of 5 on a digital retail platform for digital receipts and behavioral analytics, targeting Slovenian retailers; defined product and GTM strategy that made the startup attractive for acquisition by Episcenter.
- Drove negotiations for acquisition and for implementation with major institutional retail players in Slovenia, enabling rollout to hundreds of retail locations and creating a foundation for scaled data collection and loyalty initiatives with significant upsell potential.
