Vladimir Sitnov graduated from the Samara State Economics Academy in 2001 and completed the course called LBS-Sberbank Programme in Management and Finance from Centre for Management Development Company Limited.
While in college, he started working at Sberbank as the senior inspector of the lending department with one of the lender's territorial banks in 2000. In 2013, he was put at the helm of Sberbank's Povolzhsky office to be appointed as Senior Vice President of Sberbank's Corporate and Investment Business in 2018.