Product Management & Leadership

1/2018 – 9/2019

As the Head of Product at Wunderflats I was responsible for:
* Growing the Product and IT team from 3 to 20 employees
* People management and career development for the entire department
* Coaching and mentoring for a team of 3-4 Product Managers
* Setting up a department wide team structure, processes and goals for multiple cross functional teams and their individual contributors
* Aligning multiple mid- and longterm Product roadmaps with the company vision, stakeholder expectation as well as available resources and budgets
* Supporting all ongoing projects from a Product, UX, tech, planning and communication point of view
* Moving the companies planning approach to OKRs
* Reporting and communication within the management team

Product Owner

9/2016 – 9/2017

* Leading the product development by crafting a product roadmap and gathering all requirements from other departments
* Directly responsible for the product team, consisting of Product Management, Business Intelligence, IT and UX team members
* Leading all digital projects throughout all departments as the project management part and consultant for other team leads
* Aligning all departments and stakeholders to achieve a consistent roadmap and project structure for the entire company

Projektmanagement (IT), Product Owner

12/2015 – 4/2016

* Responsible for the web development of a global classifieds platform for real estate. This included planning, designing and delivering new features in by-weekly release cycles
* Main tasks were to construct the new, restful Core API for all applications from a Product perspective while balancing the ongoing product releases based on stakeholders interests and the shaped product vision
* Furthermore, I was resposible for redesigning the Lamudi iOS app, the Lamudi Android App and supervising the development of a dedicated app for real estate agents (Lamudi for Agents, Android exclusive)
* While being responsible for the web development I was also training a Junior Mobile PM and provided general assistance to the Mobile Development team with user-flow, design, technical and process related questions.

Product Owner

8/2014 – 11/2016

* Product Owner for both native iOS and Android apps. Main responsibilities included the supervision of the product development with an external agency and internal teams at the same time, definition of new features, planning of backend and API related requirements and shaping a Mobile Roadmap for both native apps
* Furthermore, the integration and release of two sister-brands apps on Android and iOS was part of my reposibilities
* Close cooperation with Marketing and BI departments enabled the company to reach a stable tracking, marketing and reporting structure for all applications within several tools like Google Analytics, Adjust, Accengage and the internal data warehouse.

Product Owner

2/2014 – 7/2014

* Junior Product Manager for two Rocket Internet ventures, Carmudi and Lamudi, simultaneously * Main task was to kick off the product development of Lamudis and Carmudis Android app with several external agencies and being responsible for launching both apps in over 30 countries
* Furthermore responsibilities included rolling out Lamudis and Carmudis web application in over 30 countries and creating a company wide tracking concept using Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and an internal data warehouse solution for all stakeholders

Product Owner

3/2013 – 2/2014

Coordination of projects between IT, Product and Marketing departments
* Supervision and definition of frontend related web features via Scrum
* Creation and delivery of a tracking strategy via both Google Analytics and Webtrekk
* Integration of service tools for several departments, e.g. Zendesk for Customer Care and Zanox for the Marketing department.

Product Owner