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Antonella Piscitelli

@antonellapiscitelli

Digital product and marketplace executive scaling AI-driven growth and monetization across Europe.

Italy
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for C-level product/digital business and marketplace roles focused on AI transformation. I want to scale customer-centric digital businesses with clarity, speed, and measurable impact, with opportunities in advisory and board governance.

I build and scale digital businesses where product, technology, customer experience, data, and growth operate as one system. For 20+ years, I’ve led product, marketplace, ecommerce, and digital transformation across Europe’s most recognized internet companies, including Italiaonline, Zalando, lastminute.com Group, Booking.com, and Expedia Group.

As a Director of Digital Product, I lead digital product strategy for Italy’s largest internet ecosystem—PagineGialle, PagineBianche, and Tuttocittà—reaching 26M MAU and 160K+ SME clients. I own product strategy across local marketplace, directories, client self-service, monetization, data intelligence, and AI-enabled product innovation.

I focus on measurable business outcomes: I drove +107% RPM growth through a full monetization redesign at Italiaonline, including ad-stack architecture and traffic-quality alignment. I also redesigned the client self-service portal (Area Clienti) with +41% logins and +22% accesses per paying user, deployed AI-powered client intelligence products, and executed a first-year P&L turnaround by reducing operating costs by more than 50% while accelerating delivery.

Previously at Zalando, I owned product discovery, personalization, and customer journey across web and app, delivering +8.5% PDP conversion uplift and spearheading Sephora and 300+ luxury beauty brand integration into Zalando Beauty. I bring executive product leadership, commercial ownership, AI-enabled transformation, international scale, and governance readiness to help companies move from product delivery to business outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Italiaonline logoIT
Current

Director of Digital Product

Italiaonline

Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

Led digital product strategy across PagineGialle, PagineBianche and Tuttocittà, owning monetization, data intelligence and AI-enabled product innovation. Drove +107% RPM growth via monetization redesign, delivered +41% logins and +22% accesses per paying user through Area Clienti redesign, and executed a first-year P&L turnaround reducing operating costs by 50%+.

Italiaonline logoIT
Current

Director of Digital Product – Online Directories & Local Marketplace

Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

> Lead digital product strategy for Italy’s largest internet ecosystem across PagineGialle, PagineBianche and Tuttocittà, reaching 26M MAU and 160K+ SME clients.

> Own product strategy across local marketplace, directories, client self-service, monetization, data intelligence and AI-enabled product innovation.

> Delivered +107% RPM growth through a full monetization redesign, including ad-st

Zalando logoZA

Head of Product – Product Experience

Nov 2020 - Sep 2021 (10 months)

> Led product experience for Zalando’s €10B+ fashion and beauty marketplace across 23 countries.

> Owned product discovery, personalization and customer journey across web and app.

> Spearheaded global integration of Sephora and 300+ luxury beauty brands into Zalando Beauty.

> Delivered +8.5% PDP conversion uplift through AI-powered product data enrichment, filter optimization and UX redes

lastminute.com group logoLG

Head of Product – Shopping & Site Optimization

Apr 2017 - Nov 2020 (3 years 7 months)

> Led global product strategy, CRO and SEO across flights, hotels and dynamic packages.

> Delivered +45% overall conversion uplift and +60% mobile conversion uplift through structured experimentation, SEO and funnel optimization.

> Defined product vision, roadmap and go-to-market strategy across web, mobile and app.

> Managed product teams across shopping, site optimization, acquisition and

LG

Head of Product – Shopping & UX

Apr 2017 - Nov 2020 (3 years 7 months)

Led global product strategy, CRO and SEO for flights, hotels and dynamic packages, defining product vision, roadmap and go-to-market strategy across web, mobile and app. Delivered +45% overall conversion uplift and +60% mobile conversion uplift through structured experimentation, SEO and funnel optimization, and managed product teams spanning shopping, site optimization, acquisition and monetizati

Booking.com logoBO

Product Owner | Booking.com

Mar 2017 - Apr 2017 (1 month)

> Contributed to product development initiatives for one of the world's leading online travel platforms, operating at global scale.

> Worked across cross-functional product, engineering and commercial teams to enhance customer experience and booking performance.

> Strengthened expertise in data-driven product management, experimentation and customer-centric decision making within a high-grow

Expedia Group logoEG

Head of Product & User Experience

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 11 months)

> Member of Venere Management Team, reporting to the Managing Director.

> Led Product, UX, Research and Content for a 70M-visitor / €500M gross revenue business.

> Launched Venere iOS and Android apps, growing mobile transaction share from 0.2% to 2.8% in 9 months, with +66% app downloads and +140% transaction volume.

> Improved purchase success rate from 82% to 92.56% prepaid and from 95

VE

Senior Manager, Ecommerce

Venere.com

Mar 2014 - Jan 2015 (10 months)

Led ecommerce product work for Venere.com.

VE

Manager, Product Management

Venere.com

Mar 2013 - Mar 2014 (1 year)

Managed product management for Venere.com.

VE

Senior Product Manager

Venere.com

Mar 2012 - Mar 2013 (1 year)

Contributed to product development as a Senior Product Manager at Venere.com.

Venere.com (an Expedia Inc. Company) logoVC

Product Manager

Nov 2010 - Mar 2012 (1 year 4 months)

Venere.com is an Expedia Inc. company specializing in online hotel reservations. Venere.com was founded in 1995 in Italy and features 120,000 hotels and speciality lodging properties worldwide, real-time rates, availability, special offers and the best deals on the web all with the help of more than 810,000 unbiased hotel reviews.

Core activity: Scrum Product Owner (in-house teams) and Product Ma

VE

Product Manager

Venere.com

Nov 2010 - Mar 2012 (1 year 4 months)

Worked as Scrum Product Owner and Product Manager for Venere.com initiatives spanning the public website, private areas, affiliate program and mobile channel. Used web analytics (Omniture, Business Objects), supported affiliate integrations via B2B XML feeds, and contributed to releases including the Venere mobile site and travel preference integration across booking methods.

Populis (Previously GoAdv) logoPG

Product Manager | Populis / Excite Europe

Feb 2007 - Nov 2010 (3 years 9 months)

> Led product initiatives across media and digital publishing properties serving international audiences.

> Managed platform evolution, content monetization and user engagement initiatives across web and mobile channels.

> Developed expertise in SEO, analytics, digital advertising and audience growth strategies.

AReA Interactive Design and Studio Graffiti logoAG

Project Manager | AReA Interactive

May 2005 - Mar 2007 (1 year 10 months)

> Managed the delivery of web and digital transformation projects for corporate clients.

> Coordinated multidisciplinary teams across business, design and technology functions.

> Built the project management, stakeholder engagement and execution capabilities that became the foundation of later product leadership roles.

AG

Project Manager

AReA Interactive Design and Studio Graffiti

May 2005 - Mar 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Managed delivery of web and digital transformation projects for corporate clients. Coordinated multidisciplinary teams across business, design and technology functions and built stakeholder engagement and execution capabilities.

Sanderson Consulting logoSC

Marketing and Communication Consultant

Sep 2004 - May 2005 (8 months)

Marketing and Communication consultant for small and medium enterprises (Business Development Management) at Sanderson Consulting. Core activities: marketing planning, communication mix, events, business development, web marketing, company meeting.

SC

Marketing & Communication Consultant

Sanderson Consulting

Sep 2004 - May 2005 (8 months)

Provided marketing and communication consulting for SMEs, focusing on business development and go-to-market communications. Supported marketing planning, communication mix, events, web marketing and related business development activities.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

IN

InTheBoardroom 4.0

VIII Class of In The Boardroom 4.0, Executive training course to prepare women for boards of directors

2019 - 2020

IN

InTheBoardroom 4.0

Executive training course (VIII Class), Executive training course to prepare women for boards of directors

2019 - 2020

Completed an executive program (VIII Class) preparing women for board roles, InTheBoardroom 4.0.

LM

Link Campus University of Malta

Master in Business Administration - Executive, Family business and entrepreneurship

2011 - 2013

Dissertation: "Social Media Strategy As Leverage Of Demand Generation In Travel And Tourism Industry"

AS

Ateneo Impresa (Business School)

High graduate course in “Marketing and Communication – Fashion Industry”

2003 - 2003

Project plan (winner of the IX Edition) about launching the on-line fashion brand Yoox Italia (www.yoox.it) on the French market.

AS

Ateneo Impresa (Business School)

High graduate course, Marketing and Communication – Fashion Industry

2003 -

Completed a high graduate course in Marketing and Communication for the Fashion Industry. Project plan (winner of the IX Edition) on launching the online fashion brand Yoox Italia (www.yoox.it) on the French market.

SR

Sapienza Università di Roma

Communication Sciences, Corporate and Business Communication

1999 - 2004

Dissertation: “Border Web. The Latest Frontiers Of Web Advertising: From Web Sites To Below The On-Line”.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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