Alexandros Shomper
Growth Advisor
Experience
Jul 2025 - Present
6 monthsGrowth 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 monthsStartup 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 monthsSide 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 monthsSide 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 monthsSide 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 monthsChapter 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 monthsProduct 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 monthsProduct 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 monthsDesigner | 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 monthsDesigner
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 monthsArt 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
AdvancedFrench
AdvancedItalian
AdvancedGerman
IntermediateEducation
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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