Freelance Product Strategy/Product Delivery Manager

4/2019 – 9/2021

Motivate and coach employees to evolve in the agile setup and embrace experimentation (4 direct reports/32 product team members)
• Responsible for performance and achievement of products teams – 30% performance increase in 1 year
• Responsible for data driven and customer experience focused feature roadmap planning
• Ownership of the IT roadmap for all online products (web, Android, iOS)
• Rolled out innovative new solutions for customer identification and increase average time
from 24 hours to 10 Minutes
• Rolled out new website in the US/Europe with 10% conversion increase

Product Owner

4/2018 – 4/2019

Transformed the traditional IT setup into an agile organization
• Motivated and coached employees to be best in their new agile roles (30 direct reports)
• Increased employee satisfaction from 67 to 93% in one year
• Implemented a new release process covering all requirements from all VW brands including
the rollout of 2 million new cars on the platform
• Responsibility of connected car roadmap delivery for all VW brands
(Seat/Skoda/Audi/VW/Lamborghini/Porsche)

Product Owner, Systems Engineering

5/2015 – 4/2018

Built up a new global test management organization with 100+ colleagues and 25 million Euro portfolio (10 direct reports/ 90+ matrix)
• Defined test disciplines for traditional and agile setup
• Increased software quality by 30% and automation rate by 50%
• Implemented test tools and a CI/CD full automated pipeline
• Ownership of the global test management roadmap and contracts

Programm-Management