Benjamin Faas
Freelance Consultant
Experience
Freelance Consultant
Freelance
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Freelance
Freelance Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach
Freelance
Freelance Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile Coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Freelance Product Owner, Project Manager & Agile Coach
Freelance
Freelance Product Owner, Agile Coach & Project Manager in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in industries like finance and travel.
Sabbatical
Rest from work to focus on personal goals and definition of next career steps
Product Manager Mobile
mobile.international GmbH (an eBay Inc. company)
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)
Junior Product Manager
Youtailor - BFB Handels GmbH
First Product Manager for a start-up in the online retail business for made-to-measure clothing.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for continued development and optimization of the tailored garments configurator
- Managing product inventory via the underlying e-commerce system
- Supporting the Marketing and Customer Support Departments through the creation of audiovisual and written content
Key achievements:
- Scaling of the existing business to further countries
- Diversification of existing product lines
Technical Project Manager
Adevinta
Responsible for the coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform
Product Manager
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company)
Implementation and business-side verification of a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers
Product Lead Mobile, Search and Engagement
AutoScout24 GmbH (a Scout24 AG company)
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
Product Manager Mobile
Consorsbank (a BNP Paribas company)
Creation of a financial assistant chatbot for Android and iOS
Product Manager
HRS Innovation Hub (a HRS Group company)
Returned a large rewrite project for a multi-tenant hotel booking platform into feasible timelines and a manageable scope
Head of Product Platform Innovation
HRS Innovation Hub GmbH (a company of the HRS Group)
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
Product Manager Mobile
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf
Responsible for advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS Apps
Director Product
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company)
Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering Department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Defining and delivering a 3-5 year horizon Product Strategy including a Product Vision & Mission connecting to existing Company Strategy and strategies from adjacent departments
- Refining an existing OKR process together with OKR Master and Directors of other departments with the goal of increasing focus and thereby outcome
- Supporting the Director Engineering in creating a Platform Transformation strategy with the goal of transforming a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establishing a domain-based organizational setup
- Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 Head-level colleagues as well as 17 operational team members from Product Management, Data and UX/UI design
Key achievements:
- Defined and delivered a 3-5 year horizon Product Strategy including a Product Vision & Mission
- Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen
- Creation of a career path framework for the Product Team defining roles and responsibilities from Junior to Head level positions
Languages
Education
University of Cambridge Judge Business School
MPhil · Innovation, Strategy and Organisation · Cambridge, United Kingdom · With Merit
University of Tübingen
MA, Main focus on Sociology of Finance / Sociology of Economics, Political Economics, Local politics · Political Science and Sociology · Tübingen, Germany · Good
Certifications & licenses
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
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