Product Operations & Management Coach & Consultant

9/2020 – offen

As a mentor and community lead for the Prod MBA it's my mission to ensure our community members get value out of the Prod MBA even long after they've completed their course.

Highlights:
- Created community onboarding & Slack workspace structure based on member needs
- Regular 1:1s with community members, in person or virtually
- Facilitation of peer-coaching workshops
- Internal & external communication of upcoming workshops, events, and courses
- Planning & execution of in-person meet-ups in Berlin and London

Kommunikation (allg.), Veranstaltungsmanagement, Schulung / Coaching (allg.)

6/2020 – 12/2020

Tasked with growing a Product Management team from scratch and being at the forefront of all development efforts, there was never a dull day at LivingPackets.

Highlights:
- Co-defined product roadmap in collaboration with founding team
- Introduced agile processes & mutualised team operating model
- Led scrum team and developed & launched product improvements in collaboration with design & engineering leaders for our B2C mobile app, B2B mobile app, as well as our partner and logistics web dashboards
- Hired & onboarded 1 PM & 1 PM intern
- Collaborated with business teams on digital partnership capabilities

Lean Startup, Produktmanagement

2/2019 – 6/2020

As a member of Acrolinx’s Product Team, my main mission was to deliver value to our B2B users.

Highlights:
- Created & launched plagiarism checker, including continuous improvements to the algorithm based on real-life data
- Planned & executed 'Capture': A year-long effort to rebuild the Acrolinx product from the ground up to reduce onboarding time, increase usability by laypeople, remove legacy capabilities, and mutualise technical requirements
- Active member of 'Product Leadership Group' focusing on improving ways of working and introducing product-led principles to the R&D team

Produktmanagement, Scrum

10/2017 – 8/2018

Originally hired as a QA Manager, my path at Asana Rebel led me to introduce processes from scratch and help the company scale from 30 people to over 200.

Highlights:
- Set up QA department from scratch, introducing lean processes & hiring QA staff, and ultimately handing QA responsibilities over
- Close collaboration with co-founder on app improvements, including user story creation & management of scrum team
- Facilitation & moderation of all agile ceremonies (including stand-up, sprint planning & review, and retrospectives)

Produktmanagement, Projektmanagement (IT), Scrum

10/2016 – 10/2017

As Head of QA at OKpanda I was involved in and responsible for every single facet of Quality Assurance. From defining workflows best suited to testing iOS and Android apps in an Agile environment, to manually testing new features, I oversaw and actively engaged in every step of the process.

Highlights:
- Creation and maintenance of test protocols for all OKpanda products
- Management of test resources
- Overseeing and coordinating of app releases and deployments
- Planning of test cycles vis-a-vis engineering

Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA (IT), Technisches Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA

6/2014 – 7/2015

I joined Rockstar North as a Game Tester on nightshift. I gained vital knowledge of Quality Assurance and was quickly given extra responsibilities.

Highlights:
- Creation & management of logging process for multi-location online sessions
- Report creation & communication to QA leadership
- Multi-console testing of latest GTA online builds on all available platforms, including GTA online heists
- Testing of cross-platform & cross-gen player character transfers & real money transactions

Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA (IT), Technisches Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA