Petter Viippola
Sweden, Stockholm
Summary
Senior Product Manager with 8 years of product management and 5 years of leadership experience. Expert in scaling teams, optimising workflows, and aligning platform strategy with business goals. Skilled in supply developer experience, cloud & SaaS, and driving innovation at scale. Adaptable across industries.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Sandvik
01.2024 - Current
- Leading Developer Experience strategy in a decentralised engineering environment, ensuring platform adoption and business alignment across Sandvik.
- Responsible for budget, resources, and strategic prioritisation to address key challenges and drive measurable outcomes.
- Defined platform strategy within Engineering Platform to create a unified, cost-efficient, and high-adoption platform.
- Led recruitment, agile transformation, and product prioritisation, ensuring value-driven execution.
Senior Product Manager
Flexera
03.2024 - 08.2024
- Part of the Cloud Engineering Management Team, product led a department of Security Engineering, Developer Experience, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Management, and Technical Communications.
- Developed a high-level department roadmap, highlighting key customer value and securing executive alignment.
- Led a company-wide disaster recovery initiative for the $15M ARR Snow Atlas SaaS product, improving resilience and expanding revenue opportunities.
Head Of Developer Experience
Flexera
03.2022 - 08.2024
- Part of the Cloud Engineering Management Team, managed & product-led two engineering teams (8 FTEs), scaling Developer Experience as a strategic function.
- Transformed the DevOps-team from focusing on ad-hoc support to a structured, scalable platform team, enabling 300+ engineers to streamline build, deploy, and security scanning.
- Led procurement strategy, shifting from scattered purchases to compliant, strategic procurement.
- Hired and built a high-performing engineering team, improving productivity and team impact.
Product Owner
Flexera
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Launched Snow Atlas General Availability on schedule, meeting performance & security requirements improving potential new revenue.
- Introduced agile methodologies, improving efficiency and project accountability.
- Managed cross-team dependencies, ensuring progress towards General Availability.
Technical Product Owner
Santander Consumer Nordics
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Product led the launch of a generic origination process, streamlining approvals and reducing operational costs.
- Successfully launched Credit Cards product with the new generic origination process.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
Consultant
Avega Group AB, Input Consulting AB
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Built an OpenShift Container Platform from the ground up supporting critical business applications with a turnover of 100 million sek every Saturday, 52 weeks a year.
- ATG – Technical Product Owner, Messaging (May 2019 – Dec 2019).
- ATG – Technical Product Owner, Container Platform (Feb 2018 – Mar 2019).
- Led initiatives in cloud enablement, messaging, and containerisation to digitalise and support new products verticals.
Agile Product Owner, Agile Coach
NetEnt
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Led the launch of the company’s first microservice on OpenShift, pioneering container adoption.
- Introduced agile methodologies to improve delivery speed and cross-team collaboration.
Education
Higher Vocational Diploma - Computer
Nackademin
Sweden, Stockholm01-2013
Skills
- Business & Product Strategy
- Technical Vision & Roadmap Execution
- Engineering Efficiency
- Organisational Change & Digital Transformation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Scaling Platform & Cloud Strategy
Accomplishments
- Scaled Developer Experience function to onboard 300+ engineers, improving quality of products and reducing time to market.
- Led platform strategy transformation at Sandvik & Flexera, driving cost efficiency & engineering centralisation.
- Drove a $15M ARR SaaS disaster recovery initiative, enhancing operational resilience & unlocking potential new revenue.
- Defined and executed high-level cloud & platform roadmaps, securing executive alignment
Languages
Swedish
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Flexera
03.2024 - 08.2024
Senior Product Manager
Sandvik
01.2024 - Current
Head Of Developer Experience
Flexera
03.2022 - 08.2024
Product Owner
Flexera
01.2021 - 01.2022
Technical Product Owner
Santander Consumer Nordics
01.2020 - 01.2021
Consultant
Avega Group AB, Input Consulting AB
01.2018 - 01.2020
Agile Product Owner, Agile Coach
NetEnt
01.2016 - 01.2018
Higher Vocational Diploma - Computer
Nackademin
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