Alexandros Shomper

Growth Advisor

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Munich, Germany

Experience

Jul 2025 - Present
6 months

Growth Advisor

Alexandros Shomper

  • Consulting and advising startups in Product-Led-Growth strategies.
  • After working on countless products, Alexandros has learned first hand how important growth is for longterm success of products and how user onboarding & activation can make or break a startup.
  • Positioning
  • User Onboarding & Activation
  • Product Analytics
  • User Retention & Engagement
  • User Psychology
Jul 2025 - Present
6 months

Startup Coach & Mentor

UnternehmerTUM

  • Coaching startups for Germany’s most influential tech incubator, working hands-on with early-stage teams on their Product-Market Fit and Product-Led Growth strategy.
  • Helping startups identify their activation and retention levers early on, shaping a strong foundation for scalable growth.
Jun 2024 - Present
1 year 7 months

Side Project

BudgetEasy

  • Created a yearly personal budget planner using Next.js.
  • Tool helps users manage and plan their finances efficiently, offering features such as effective monthly budget and expense tracking.
Mar 2024 - Present
1 year 10 months

Side Project

FeatheredHooks.com

  • Launched a fly fishing blog aimed at exploring topical authority techniques to reach 10k monthly visitors in a year.
  • Blog provides in-depth articles, tutorials, and insights on fly fishing, establishing a strong online presence in the niche.
Nov 2023 - Present
2 years 2 months

Side Project

CookCook.it

  • Developed a recipe social media platform using the MERN stack.
  • Platform allows users to share, discover and collect video recipes, integrating social media features to enhance user engagement.
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
3 years 11 months

Chapter Lead Product Design

Knauf Digital

  • Managed product design & growth initiatives across various products and programs, providing leadership and guidance to ensure high-quality output.
  • Contributed to and executed a 5-year product strategy, aligning with global stakeholders and company OKRs resulting in a significant improvement in user retention and product-market fit.
  • Hired and mentored high-potential designers, fostering a culture of excellence.
  • Continuously advanced UX maturity level across all teams of the company.
  • Implemented simplified frameworks and tools, increasing design team efficiency and reducing time to market for new features.
  • Provided customer centricity and UX training for senior leadership and product management.
  • Product vision
  • UX strategy
  • Product workflow development
  • UX training
  • Product analytics
  • Stakeholder management
  • Growth strategy
  • Change management (Retention & Engagement)
  • Hiring & team building
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
1 year 2 months

Product Owner & UX Lead

Knauf Digital

  • Supported global company in digitizing the construction industry as UX/UI Lead.
  • Successfully launched and iterated multiple products globally, including a B2B account and admin tool, order tool, floorplan material calculation tool, and the new centralized corporate website.
  • Established a user experience research repository to centralize and filter research insights, supporting data-driven design decisions.
  • Developed a design system to rapidly create consistent, high-quality products with integrated usability, accessibility, and growth hacking methods.
  • Corporate venture building
  • Journey mapping
  • UXR repository development
  • Hypothesis generation and validation
  • Design system development
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Problem validation
  • Rapid researching
  • Solution validation
May 2017 - Nov 2019
2 years 7 months

Product Manager & UX Lead

Occhio

  • Responsible for the user experience at Occhio, serving as UX manager and product owner of the online platforms, leading a complete and consistent relaunch of the digital ecosystem.
  • Managed cross-functional teams and coordinated directly with C-level executives to align on strategic initiatives.
  • Initiated high-impact campaigns and collaborations, significantly enhancing brand visibility and market position, including sponsoring the German pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia.
  • Product ownership
  • Persona development
  • Project management
  • Customer journey mapping
  • Technical leadership of project team members from 4 divisions
  • Concept & design of the partner/store finder
  • Dev & design agency leadership
  • Checkout concept
  • Design direction & digital brand management
  • Newsletter concept & design
  • Digital workplace setup
  • Strategic & conceptual development & planning
  • Processes & tools setup
  • B2C & B2B
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
1 year 7 months

Designer | Project Manager

Occhio

  • Coordination with C-suite
  • Digital transformation (communication, project management, automation)
  • UX design & concept refresh of the store finder and checkout
  • Concept of the flagship-store opening event Cologne
  • UX design & concept of the product configurator development
  • Design agency management
  • New store branding concept
Oct 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 3 months

Designer

Occhio

  • Coordination with CEO
  • UX design & concept of the partner portal
  • UX design & concept of the configurator
  • Design agency management
  • Development of a new cross-product portfolio price list system
  • UX design store finder
  • Advertorial design
  • Event design
  • Editorial design
Aug 2012 - Jun 2014
1 year 11 months

Art Director

Wächter & Wächter Advertising

  • Core responsibilities included account management for Stabilo & Magirus, as well as Nature Gourmet, Crown, Fendt, and Mediven.
  • Layout & concept development for ads and editorials
  • Preparation & support of film & photo shoots
  • Print support and proof approval
  • Responsibility of UX/UI design and information architecture of all websites
  • Concept & wireframes
  • Setting up the internal team structure and workflows
  • Print campaigns as well as online campaigns

Skills

  • Customer Centricity
  • Data Driven
  • Strategic Mindset
  • Design Thinking
  • Agile Project Management
  • Figma
  • React
  • Maze
  • Mongodb
  • Next
  • Google Analytics
  • Jira
  • Asana

Languages

English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Italian
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2008 - Jun 2011

Akademie U5 Private University

Diploma · Communication Design & Art Direction · Munich, Germany

Oct 2004 - Jun 2006

Rainer-Werner Fassbinder Vocational School for Design

Arts & Design · Munich, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Product Psychology

Growth.Design

Professional Scrum Developer

scrum.org

User Retention & Engagement

Reforge

Data Visualization

freeCodeCamp

Front End Libraries

freeCodeCamp

Design Thinking

IDEO

Design Sprint Master

AJ&Smart

Digital Strategy & Leadership

Google | Avado

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