Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

• Leading the Global Technical Program Management organization (20+ TPMs) across NYC, Munich, and India.
• I serve as the operational architect for the Engineering organization, ensuring alignment between Product Strategy and Technical Execution across AI, Data Platform, and API verticals.
• ● AI-Native Operations: Spearheaded the internal "AI for TPM" strategy, creating a GenAI Use Case Library that automates status synthesis and risk detection. Reduced administrative overhead by deploying LLM-driven workflows for the TPM org.
• ● Global Org Scaling: Built and scaled the TPM function from individual contributors to a mature organization of 20+. Established the India Engineering Hub strategy, hiring the founding team to enable 24/7 "Follow the Sun" development cycles.
• ● Strategic Program Delivery: Oversee a portfolio of 30+ concurrent high-impact programs. Successfully delivered critical infrastructure upgrades in Data Ingestion and Platform stability, directly impacting enterprise customer retention.
• Member of the Engineering Leadership Team.
• Member of the NYC Site Leadership Team representing Engineering.

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Organizational Design: Defined the "TPM Operating Model" from scratch, establishing standard frameworks for OKR planning, quarterly roadmapping, and dependency management across 40+ engineering squads.
• Platform & Data Execution: Led the technical delivery of core Process Mining and Data Platform initiatives, coordinating across Engineering, Operations, and InfoSec to ensure SOC2 and ISO compliance.
• Community Building: Founded the internal TPM Community of Practice to uplevel skills across the organization.

Feb 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Lead the Technical Program Management (TPM) team globally for all Celonis Engineering
• Build the team from scratch across Engineering since Jan 2022 from 0 to 12 TPMs
• Overseeing the Program Portfolio for 20+ strategic programs driving the next innovations for Celonis Platform
• Built an internal TPM community from scratch among Engineering, Operations, InfoSec, Services
• Giving back to the community by hosting virtual and in-person TPM Trails Community events (latest: July 2024 in Madrid, November - December 2024) to bring together 50+ TPMs

Dec 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Building out a program management team from scratch by growing from 0 to 5 PgMs/TPMs
• Established a standardized program and project management framework
• Executed programs across Product & Engineering organisation (Vulnerability Management, Jira Cloud Migration, Open Source Software, Patent Framework, Platform reliability, customer migration)
• Maintained and updated controls to achieve continuous retention of SOC2 Type 1/2, ISO9001, ISO27001, and ISO 27701
• Leading and executing Technology & Product Due Diligence

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Reporting directly to the CTO and Co-Founder
• Member of Product & Engineering Leadership team
• Setting up standards for people operations (hiring, budgeting), software development life cycle (SDLC), • Program Management Office (grow a team from 0 to 5 PgMs) to double the Product & Engineering organisation YoY
• Leading M&A technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration
• Building a demo platform for the go-to-market team for central demo availability from scratch called TryCelonis (now known as Celonis Gallery)
• Leading roadmap alignment and process across Product & Engineering and presenting it to customers
• Established controls based on TSCs to achieve ISO 9001, ISO 27001, SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2. Celonis is the first process mining vendor to achieve SOC2 Type 2
• Developing and executing strategic customer programs for co-innovation (Siemens, LyondellBasell, Citibank)
• Hosting and speaking at customer exchange workshops in Europe and North America
• Leading product & engineering involvement for positioning Celonis in Analyst report as leader in the Gartner Market Guide for Process Mining, Everest Group PEAK Matrix, NelsonHall, or Forrester. Foundational for the 2023 published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Tools.

Jan 2019 – Nov 2019 · 10 mos

• Product Management Lead for Process Analytics, Celonis 4, and PQL Engine
• Driving strategy and roadmap for all product areas with a focus on bringing solutions to the Celonis Intelligent Business Cloud
• Scaling, growing, and advising the growing Product Management Team incl. onboarding of new product managers
• Leading the SAP Premium Qualification for Celonis Process Mining 4 successfully
• Product Management and roll-out of the Stateless Query Engine (highly scalable PQL Engine to drive the IBC) increasing the performance of the PQL Engine to billion of rows.
• Speaker at Celosphere 2019 & Keynote Preparation for the Celosphere 2019
• Working on product requirements with customers from the US market to address process mining requirements
• Presenting externally on Product representative for Customer Exchange workshops in EMEA & US

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos

• Serving as one of the first Product Managers @Celonis
• Core Team member in building the world-first Process Mining cloud solution - the Celonis Intelligent Business Cloud (IBC)
• Product Management for Process Analytics and Celonis 4 (on-premise)
• Building product management from 4 to 20 product managers
• Continuously innovated and improved the core Process Mining components such as Process Explorer, Variant Explorer, Conformance Checker
• Presenting externally on Product representative for Customer Exchange workshops in EMEA & US
• Working with Solution Engineering, Go-to-Market on ensuring successful roll-outs of the first process mining cloud solution to customers
• Driving customer success by working with customers such as ABB, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, 3M, Airbus

Dec 2017 – Feb 2018 · 2 mos

• Had the pleasure of starting to work within a dedicated team of 15+ Solution Engineers in EMEA and contributing with data science expertise (Python) and contributing to customer pre-sales projects