Dmitry Zlokazov
Dmitry Zlokazov is the head of product at Revolut, the $45 billion fintech giant operating in over 50 countries, serving more than 50 million customers, and producing some of the world’s top product leaders. Dmitry shares his hard-won lessons, contrarian org design principles, and day-to-day practices that power Revolut’s relentless shipping velocity, culture of ownership, and unparalleled “wow” product experience.
Discovery & Research Skills
Remove market uncertainty by ensuring that even the most minimal version of a product never compromises on quality, UX, or aesthetic appeal.
"We can cut down the product in terms of functionality to just most critical features, but we will never compromise on the quality and UX and the aesthetics."
Team & Organization Skills
Prioritize high cognitive ability and a relentless drive to build over traditional industry experience when hiring product talent.
"Everyone is striving for talented, skillful, smart people. Revolut values way more raw intellect and this unquenched hunger to build things rather than experience."
Empower product leaders by giving them direct line management authority over their cross-functional team members to ensure total accountability for delivery and results.
"So the way we operate, we have these fully cross-functional teams, meaning they're staffed with all necessary functions, engineers data, analysts, designers, operational managers and so on. And we als..."