Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Execution-focused product design and product management professional with a strong background in digital brand design, user experience and leadership. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams (design, product, engineering and marketing) and delivering complex product initiatives. Passionate about creating user-centered product experiences and driven by an entrepreneurial mindset and goal-oriented approach to managing products from concept to launch and growth, building high-performing teams.
→ Built and managed high-performing product management teams, attracting top talent to deliver quality products and services → Drove a performance and goal-oriented culture in the tech department, playing a leading role in achieving business objectives → Led cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products and services, prioritizing B2C and B2B initiatives to improve efficiency and user satisfaction → Collaborated closely with CDO and CTO to restructure product teams, resulting in a clear purpose and focus → Improved operational excellence and efficiency by working closely with COO and operations teams, resulting in enhanced customer service and productivity → Successfully led the global relaunch of a legacy CRM system, resulting in increased efficiency and user satisfaction → Rolled out lead management platforms across multiple countries, boosting lead handling capacity by up to 300% → Managed stakeholders effectively, rebuilding trust in the technology department across all markets
→ Successfully established a Product Design department within Engel & Völkers, driving product success through design and innovation. → Recruited and built a team of 6 top Product Designers, fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration, resulting in successful design and development of a wide range of products and services. → Co-Led the global brand relaunch process, resulting in a more cohesive, consistent, and impactful brand presence across multiple departments. → Redesigned the legacy CRM system, resulting in increased efficiency and user satisfaction. → Managed stakeholders effectively, effectively communicating the design vision and aligning design efforts with business objectives. → Established a global design system following the new brand guidelines, which ensures consistency and cohesiveness across the brand's various touchpoints.
→ Developed and presented a compelling pitch to secure funding from Google DNA to build a proof of concept empowering advertisers to create programmatically embedded behavioral text-to-speech ads for podcasts and audio news articles. → Built a high-performing team of three freelance engineers (Java, React) to deliver the project. → Delivered a successful proof of concept presentation that showcased the project's potential.
→ Successfully positioned and developed the brand for a patented material Flexarbon, through strategic digital branding and naming. → Innovatively designed a fully digitized workflow, resulting in increased efficiency and reduction of pre-order costs from frame design to production to shipping. → Pioneered the market by launching the first online configurable and designable frames. → Secured ~€500k in a crowdfunding campaign, which was used to extend the marketing budget and increase sales. → Recognized as a winner of the eyewear new comer award in Paris 2019, which further solidified the brand's reputation in the market. → Kerl Eyewear was acquired by IC!Berlin in 2022.
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