Ruth Grinko

Customer Success &
Community Coordinator

Education · Onboarding · Events — Stockholm, Sweden · Swedish · English · Russian

Swedish residence and work permit

Seven years in education — teaching, building courses, coordinating in schools — and on the other side of it, running the rollouts. I know what a teacher thinks when yet another digital tool arrives. Adoption is rarely about the software; it's decided by whether people feel someone understands their day.

Ruth Grinko speaking at a bookstore event in Stockholm
7+ yearsprojects, programmes and customer-facing work
4 → 20team growth, with personnel responsibility
30+ colleaguestrained in a system rollout, no interruption to service
300+ usersfeedback collected and turned into changes
25%shorter lead time from request to delivery
20+ events a yearup to 300 participants

What I bring

01

Onboarding & adoption

Planning and running system rollouts end to end: training 30+ colleagues, building guides and FAQs, and following up on whether the tool is actually being used. Planning time down 20%, zero disruption.

02

The customer's voice internally

Collecting and analysing feedback from 300+ users, separating what someone says from what the problem actually is, and turning patterns into concrete changes. Satisfaction and engagement up 25% year over year.

03

People & training

Personnel responsibility for a team that grew from four to twenty: onboarding, development conversations, work environment and rehabilitation. Training and presentations for groups of 20 to 300.

04

Technology & AI

Daily user of Claude and ChatGPT. Built and shipped my own bilingual web product with a writing-practice bot, @manzhetapaper_bot. Python and R basics, BA in Computational Linguistics with programming and statistics. Microsoft 365 incl. Excel, Google Workspace, Monday.com, Notion, Trello, Slack, Zoom, Canva, Genially, Prezi.

Experience

Event & Sales Coordinator

Interbok

Stockholm · Mar 2024 – present
  • Plan and deliver 20+ events a year with up to 300 participants, owning budget, suppliers, logistics and timelines.
  • Own the customer relationship end to end — advice, orders, delivery and follow-up — daily in Swedish, English and Russian.
  • Build and maintain partnerships with publishers, schools and cultural institutions.
  • Redesigned the request-to-delivery workflow, cutting lead time by 25%, and documented it so colleagues could run it.

Context: Retail and events business serving customers and partners across Scandinavia.

Special Needs Education Pedagog

Stockholms stad

Stockholm · Apr 2025 – Jul 2026
  • Municipal preschool services. Fifteen months working entirely in Swedish, with individual support plans, documentation and confidentiality requirements.

Creative Writing Tutor

Write Like a Grrrl

2024 – 2025 · remote
  • Created and delivered 10+ programmes for 100+ international participants; 90%+ positive feedback.
  • Wrote the FAQs that cut repeat questions.

Course Developer → Project Manager

LukuLab (ex. Reading Laboratory)

Dec 2017 – Dec 2021
  • Helped grow the business from a single course to 5+ programme tracks, with participation up 40% in the first year, while the team grew from four people to twenty.
  • Held personnel responsibility: onboarding and training new colleagues, development conversations, work environment questions and rehabilitation.
  • Led the rollout of new digital systems and trained 30+ colleagues; planning time down 20% with no interruption to service.
  • Owned first consultations and needs analysis — around 30% converted to paying customers.
  • Collected and analysed feedback from 300+ participants; satisfaction and engagement up 25% year over year.

Context: Education company: online school for ages 6–16 and a course platform.

Educational Program Coordinator

HSE University Lyceum

Jan 2019 – Aug 2021
  • Course planning, scheduling, communication and results follow-up; 88/100 average against a national average of 70.
  • Named 'Best Teacher' three years running.

Earlier — English Teacher

EF English First

2018

    Education

    MSc Pedagogy & Organizational Leadership

    Stockholm University, 2023–2026

    Swedish as a second language, SFI and SVA 1–3 (C1)

    Campus Nyköping, 2022–2023

    MSc Linguistic Theory and Language Description

    HSE University, 2019–2021

    BA Fundamental and Computational Linguistics

    HSE University, 2015–2019

    Programming, statistics and mathematical linguistics. Foreign qualifications assessed by UHR.

    Languages

    Russiannative
    Swedishfluent (C1)
    Englishfluent
    SpanishA2
    GermanA2

    Beyond work

    curiosity
    integrity
    collaboration

    Published fiction author — «The Room of Solace» (Polyandria NoAge, 2025); a second novel is forthcoming in December 2026. Writing, events and press: halfnotruth.pages.dev Outside work: books and creative writing, food and culinary exploration, mindfulness, and discovering new cultures and perspectives.