Jan 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Part of the leadership team in seed stage startup, driving the product vision, changing from one-sided creator-focused to a two-sided marketplace for bot creators and investors.
• Setting standards for the product development process, ensuring the product squad (incl design, data, QA, customer experience) operate effectively and work in the same direction.
• Launched new flagship product with 6% of overall app usage, increasing conversion by 3X.

Feb 2021 – Apr 2021 · 2 mos

• Delivered 6 sessions in an all-round module on Product Management for senior engineers at cohorts of 50+ members.

Dec 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Responsible for leading the platform product team at Fave
• Building an integrated product strategy across consumer and merchant products, as well as internal tools
• Coaching product managers to run successful product cycles with their engineering and product design team

Jul 2020 – Dec 2020 · 5 mos

• Collaborating with Product Design, Business, and Engineering on an everyday basis to provide exciting and relevant experiences to our consumers.
• Setting direction for Fave's platform strategy and driving implementation of integrated products across platforms
• Improving product processes for end-to-end product & engineering team

Sep 2019 – Jul 2020 · 10 mos

• Launched Fave's Takeaway product, working closely with all areas of the company to strengthen our F&B products, driving product development for our ordering products on both Merchant and Consumer side.
• Led several initiatives during MCO & post MCO to revitalize business and to stay relevant for our merchant and consumer base

Oct 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Regularly delivering sessions on Product Management for aspiring and junior product managers at cohorts of 15+ members.

Sep 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Having regular monthly check-ins with 3 mentees
• Open for further one-time consultancy across various topics in product management: product strategy, product development process, communication, etc...

May 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Dublin

• Educatly is the digital ecosystem for international education, where students can obtain a digital verified academic profile and apply for educational opportunities worldwide and where educational institutions can easily access international student markets and recruit international students for their programs with 20x less the cost they currently spend.
• Heading Product and Tech department
• Building tools and implementing solutions to help scale all areas of the business
• Managing the product backlog and prioritize the work to be done by our external development partner
• Taking critical decisions as part of the board, to steer the direction of the Start Up on an everyday basis

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr

• Managing IT and Marketing stakeholders
• Led the development of a Global information system project
• Final responsible for AIESEC’s Global information systems availability, security, and long-term sustainability
• Final responsible for AIESEC's brand placement, marketing activities and online presence
• Relationship management with the IT vendors including all legal aspects such as negotiations, contracts, pricing, project delivery, service level agreements, licenses, and budget
• Leadership & management team member, responsible for all strategic decisions and investments
• Creation, communication and implementation of long-term IT strategy and digital transformation
• Leading implementation of General Data Protection Regulation in global IT systems and across 120+ national subsidiaries.

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Being part of the global management team and being responsible for the strategic development of a multisided platform as product for the global nonprofit AIESEC, which connects 35.000 young people from all around the world with organisations to provide them leadership development experiences through volunteering and internships every year.
• Product Manager for the customer facing platform (https://aiesec.org). Reassessing and challenging the existing user flow, drastically improving page size and load speed, implementing a notifications system and GDPR compliance.
• Evolvement of existing user-centric processes to gather learnings to improve the platform based on agile project management and human-centered design.
• Facilitating the vision, conceptualisation, development and launch of a new mobile application.
• Implementation of a customer support framework across 70 national offices.
• Management and tracking of two external development teams.
• Utilisation of data to prioritize development roadmap to drive strategic direction.
• Leading a cross-cultural, virtual team of 10 members.

May 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Spearheading the organization's digitalisation strategy as a member of the executive board of the German national office of the global nonprofit AIESEC, which connects 35.000 young people from all around the world with organisations to provide them leadership development experiences through volunteering and internships every year.
• Facilitating and managing the change management process of all internal procedures from a Salesforce based system to an internally developed system.
• Launching a new mobile-optimized website.
• Ensuring initial steps of GDPR compliance.
• Implementation of agile-process for the in-house development team Management and tracking of two external development teams.
• Managing priorities for and leading a virtual development team of 6 members.

Oct 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Stuttgart Region

• Student Assistant in technical biochemistry
• Computer and network administration
• Independently responsible for research projects
• IT support

May 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Stuttgart Region

• Student Assistant in lab automatisation
• Computer and network administration
• Independently responsible for long-term software projects
• IT support