Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Master (CSM) & Agile Coach

Freelance Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries. Last projects:

• Adevinta, Technical Project Manager: Responsible for the coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world's largest classifieds multi-tenant platform
• Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company), Product Manager: Implementation and business-side verification of a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers
• Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf, Product Manager Mobile: Responsible for advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS Apps

HRS Innovation Hub Leadership Team Extended HRS Leadership Team for Product Development & IT

Responsibilities:

• Defining and delivering a next generation Search & Book platform
• Using data, machine-learning and recommendation technology to identify the lowest and best-matching rates for customers
• People management responsibility for a team of up to 5 motivated and talented individuals from Product Management, Software Engineering and UX/UI design
• Interim lead Finance for the Product Development & IT part of the HRS Innovation Hub from 11/2018 to 06/2019

Key achievements:

• 48% conversion rate uplift on the new Search & Book platform
• Up to 450,000 USD additional monthly savings for company's largest account

Responsibilities:

• Driving forward the development of a platform rewrite for the web-based applications ensuring a cutting-edge search experience
• Refinement of existing agile and lean working approaches to foster the collaboration between the Product and Engineering departments
• Strengthening the market position and economical value of the native mobile applications through conversion rate improvements and close collaboration with external partners like Google.
• People management responsibility for a team of up to 10 motivated and talented Product Managers from junior to senior level

Key achievements:

• Android App team received the Google Play Top Developer award
• Invitation by Google to the Chrome Dev Summit 2015 in Mountain View to pioneer new functionality in the automotive industry
• Invitation by Google to collaborate on attribution and customer lifetime value models

First full-time Product Manager for mobile applications at mobile.de Representative for eBay Advertising in the Association of Online Research (AGOF) 2012-2013

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of web-based and native mobile applications across various form factors and platform ecosystems
• Ensuring maximum user and business value through regular user testing, usability testing, A/B testing and analysis of tracking data
• Identification and delivery of measures to increase the Net Promoter Score of products
• Conception and implementation of measures in collaboration with Mobile Advertising, Mobile Performance Marketing and Product Marketing

Key achievements:

• Rewrite of an existing iPhone app with limited functionality into a feature-complete app resulting in 57% more monthly unique users than direct competitor (AGOF mobile facts 2013-I)
• Envisioned and delivered a native Android application for both phone and tablet resulting in 107% more monthly unique users than direct competitor (AGOF mobile facts 2013-I)
• Envisioned and delivered a state-of-the-art web-based mobile website resulting in 56% and 173% more monthly unique users than the company's own iPhone and Android apps (AGOF mobile facts 2013-I)