Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Built and led a 35+ person cross-functional team (Product, Engineering, Data Science) spanning AI Products, Hyperautomation, and Ops Platforms • Defined and own the company-wide AI strategy & product roadmap, secured C-suite buy-in and multi-million € investment for AI-first initiatives • Launched GenAI and Agentic AI products into production - including LLM-powered Ops initiatives achieving 70% automation • Scaled ML-driven initiatives across Risk, Operations, and Customer Experience, delivering measurable cost reduction and quality improvements • Drove the Ops Platform and Hyperautomation roadmaps, combining AI with workflow orchestration to reduce manual operational effort at scale
• Created and led a 25-person organization (4 teams) owning AI & Automation, Data & Insights, Digital Platform, and Delivery Management across all Operations • Defined the first company-wide AI strategy - identified use cases, built and validated the business case
• Managed 3 teams (20 people): Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, and Digital Solutions for Customer Ops and Anti Financial Crime Ops • Took ownership of strategic planning and budgeting for a 500+ person Customer Operations department • Built the Salesforce Operations capability end-to-end
• Facilitating AI Product Management certificationn
• Peer reviewer and published thought leader for AI in Digital Banking research
• Launched and led a cross-entity task force defining the Group's target operating model for AI • As a Product Manager, delivered AI products: pricing engines, recommendation systems, NLP-based customer insights - deployed across multiple entities • Presented the Group's AI vision and achievements at VivaTech 2019 (60,000+ attendees)
• Managed multidisciplinary agile teams delivering AI & Data products (consumer insights engines, recommendation systems) for a global food services leader
• Defined end-to-end Digital, Data & AI strategies (use case roadmaps, operating model, demand management) for a global quality-of-life services company and for a global luxury brand
• Digital transformation for banking and financial services - incl. mobile payment for the UAE Banks Federation, CRM for a Corporate & Investment Banking, service model for a Consumer Finance institution