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Growth Marketer

Overview

Senior Growth Manager @JetBrains

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Hello

  • I'm Saba - Growth Leader with 8+ years of experience. I have grown and measured every type of digital product there is: web apps, mobile apps and desktop software across global markets.
  • I like breaking things apart and solving complex growth problems using technology and creativity.
  • I turn user insight and data into experiments across acquisition, activation and retention. Have delivered 60% YoY new user growth, 50% YoY MAU growth, 300% ROAS and double-digit CRO gains across B2B SaaS, fintech and digital platforms.

Places that shaped my journey

Growth stack

Experience

JetBrains

Location
Berlin, Germany
Employment status
Current
  • Owning growth strategies across developer tools used by 15M+ software developers worldwide: IDEs, coding agents, frameworks & programming languages.
  • Managing hypothesis-driven A/B tests that optimize new user acquisition and free-to-paid conversion via web. Owning the jetbrains.com web surface across landing pages, navigation, pricing and user journeys, resulting in double-digit improvements in product download & purchase conversion funnels.
  • Growing adoption of AI coding agents (Junie, Codex, Claude Code) inside JetBrains IDEs, resulting in 70% growth of AI Chat WAU in 4 months.
  • Built and deployed an in-house marketing analytics AI agent using MCP servers, CLI tools and custom agent skills, enabling self-serve analysis across marketing, advertising and product usage data.
  • Growth Strategy
  • Growth Loops
  • A/B Testing
  • CRO
  • Agentic AI
  • Data Analytics
  • BigQuery
  • SQL
  • Reporting
  • User Research
  • Design
  • MCP
  • Agent Skills

Pflegia

Location
Berlin, Germany
  • Growth Marketing
  • Product Experimentation
  • Data Analytics
  • Reporting
  • Attribution
  • Performance Marketing
  • A/B Testing
  • PostHog
  • CRO
  • SEO
  • Team Leadership
  • Budget Management

TBC Bank

Location
Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Growth Strategy
  • User Acquisition
  • Activation
  • Engagement
  • Retention
  • GTM
  • Gamification
  • Predictive Churn
  • Product Analytics
  • User Research
  • PostHog
  • GA4
  • BigQuery
  • Dremio
  • Power BI
  • Performance Marketing
  • Team Leadership
  • Executive Reporting
  • Product Management
  • Agile
  • Team Leadership
  • Product Launch
  • Web
  • Performance Marketing
  • GTM
  • Digital Banking
  • Business Banking
  • Digital Sales
  • Program Leadership
  • Startup Ecosystems
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business Education
  • Partnerships
  • Project Management
  • Events
  • Community

Education

Free University of Tbilisi

Study period
09.201612.2021
Degree
Bachelor's degree
Field of study
Business Administration

Awards & recognition(4)

  • Young Lions Georgia 2022 — Marketer — Gold

    · Received by Saba Mikaia and Ketevan “Keto” Shurghaia as a TBC team · Georgian local competition

  • Young Lions Georgia 2023 — Marketer — Silver

    · Received by Saba Mikaia and Ketevan “Keto” Shurghaia as a TBC team · Georgian local competition

  • Enriched Knowledge — Shortlist

    KIAF · Team/project recognition · TBC Bank and Leavingstone

  • World's Best Digital Banking Portal for Businesses

    Global Finance · · Platform recognition · TBC Business Internet Banking