Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Engineer at heart who found his passion in building great products. Proven track record of developing successful teams & companies from scratch and supporting existing ones, both as CTO and CPO. Highly adaptable to different work environments and industries by having significant experience in a variety of company sizes and types - from small startups to huge corporates, from classical B2C eCommerce to Fintech. Motivated by working with a passionate team of professionals who admire lack of politics, high level of agility and the shared goal to solve problems efficiently.
Flexible Warehousing for B2B, eCommerce and Retail Fulfillment
With lieferheld.de, pizza.de and foodora.de Delivery Hero Germany is the largest food delivery product in Germany. Successful exit to Takeaway.com for >1bn€ in April '19. In my role as Chief Product Officer I am responsible for building up an outstanding local product team and transform the existing product into an industry leading one. By scaling the team up to >20 product mangers / designers / researchers we improved conversion and revenue significantly, ultimately leading to the successful Exit to Takeaway.com. My further responsibilities are including but not limited to: - Reporting to the CEO and being a strong driver in the management team - Working closely with the product leaders of Delivery Hero's worldwide brands - Building & managing the full product development lifecycle (product vision & quarterly roadmaps, OKRs etc.) - Working closely with the CTO to ship our product efficiently - Built up a User Research & Experimentation team from scratch which helped to generate in-depth insights into customer behaviour - ultimately shaping the product roadmaps significantly
Rocket Labs was a venture from Rocket Internet to create highly specialised products that support the global Rocket Internet eCommerce sphere. With its main product, "Seller Center", we allowed eCommence ventures around the world to open their platform to marketplace merchants. Seller Center was running in >80 countries, serving >2m merchants, >50m products, >5m monthly orders. Successful exit to the Global Fashion Group. In my role as Chief Product Officer I was responsible to build upon the existing base product and lift it up to be an efficient, highly scalable and professional product for a wide audience. My further responsibilities were including but not limited to: - Reporting to the CEO and being a strong driver in the management team - Building a market strategy to make the product public outside of the Rocket ventures - Building & managing the full product development lifecycle (Product Vision & Quarterly Roadmaps, OKRs etc.) - Managing the product organisation and hiring new talent - Working closely with the CTO to ship our product efficiently
Rocket Internet incubates and invests in internet and technology companies globally. In total >100 companies and ∼€30B evaluation. My time at Rocket Internet can be best described in three different phases: 1) In 2012 I was responsible as Project CTO to grow 5 new eCommerce startups around the world. The rapid rollout was possible by using Rockets standard eCommerce technology stack and customising it for the individual needs. For each new startup we formed an engineering team that I was managing. In addition to developing & launching a new platform I was responsible to find, coach and hand over to a local engineering team to take over long-term ownership for the newly incubated company. 2) Due to my gained experience about Rockets technology stack and different ventures in 2013 I was able to support a variety of more mature ventures in difficult technology times. Highlights were working for 3 months as interim CTO for theiconic.com.au in Australia as well as bringing the technology of the rapidly growing zalora.com back on track. 3) From end 2013 until end 2016 I was working full-time at Lendico and Rocket Labs while being an advisor as Senior Vice President Engineering for other ventures and the Rocket HQ.
Lendico is a Fintech venture from Rocket Internet that provided P2P lending. It connects private as well as commercial investors with private persons or SME. Successful exit to ING Diba. In my role as Chief Technology Officer I started on Day 1 of Lendico and was responsible for building up an engineering team and develop the platform from scratch. Achieving compliance with the regulations in the different markets Lendico is operating in made this project especially interesting, yet challenging. My further responsibilities were including but not limited to: - Reporting to the Managing Director and supporting the management team on creating the company vision - Supporting the product organisation in various expects when a CPO was not in place