Sabine Schmidt

AI Product Manager @Vodafone 📲 :: Digital & IT 👩🏻‍💻 :: Certified Systemic Coach 🌐

Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

AI Product Manager & Systemic Coach with 14+ years in telecommunications. I turn complex transformation into real, tangible outcomes — combining strategy, execution, and people focus. 
Passionate about building AI-driven products and empowering teams to do their best work.
 Always curious, always learning. 🙏

Experience

  • Vodafone (Hybrid)
    • Senior AI Product Manager | AI Products & Governance IT
      Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

      Development and delivery of AI products and solutions for the Digital & IT division in Germany, together with a cross-functional product team. Organized into various chapters, using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

    • Systemic Inhouse Coach | Vodafone‘s Coaching Community
      Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Within Vodafone Germany I offer coaching sessions to colleagues where I accompany them to find their individual solution to their challenge or question, to make their own decisions and that they can outgrow themselves.

    • AI Product Manager/Product Owner | CoE Artificial Intelligence IT
      Jan 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Driving Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Vodafone Germany within the Center of Excellence for AI in Digital & IT division. Cross-functional AI product development with a team size of four to seven. Parental leave from Aug 2025 to Feb 2026.

  • Vodafone Business (Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
    • Program Manager | Fiber Marketing & Rollout
      Apr 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Responsible for a cross-functional fiber optic infrastructure marketing & sales program with a total of eight project streams for footprint expansion and customer acquisition in the B2B segment (e.g. sales management/steering, data selection, process management, evaluation/analysis). Direct reporting line to the Director/SVP Fiber Marketing & Rollout. Successful completion of the part-time master's degree in July 2019.

    • Project Manager & Scrum Master | Fiber Marketing & Rollout
      Mar 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

      As (agile) Project Manager part of a newly founded organizational unit within Vodafone Germany for the marketing, expansion and rollout of fiber optic technology in Germany. Direct reporting line to the Director/SVP Fiber Marketing & Rollout. Main fields of activity: • Member/Scrum Master of an agile squad for B2B customer network connection and activation, using Scrum method • Lead of the overall internal fiber communication • Support the Director/SVP in preparations for various internal and external meetings and events (e.g. ExCo, Vodafone Group, City/Community Council)

  • Vodafone (Greater Dusseldorf Area)
    • Project Manager | External Communication & Service Strategy
      May 2017 - Feb 2018 · 10 mos

      Responsible for the service strategy and roadmap as well as the external/service communication of Vodafone Germany. Professional responsibility for various external communication channels, e.g. the "Service Newsletter" with a reach of 7.7m+ existing customers. This includes steering external agencies, managing editorial appointments and regular reporting to the COO.

    • Project Manager | Internal Communication & Change Management
      Dec 2014 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Permanent position in a staff unit team of the COO with a direct reporting line to the Director/SVP Programs & Communication. Responsible activities, e.g.: • Editorial responsibility for various internal communication channels, e.g. Intranet, newsletters (target group: 4.5k+ employees) • Accompaniment of change management projects within the scope of a reorganization • Organization and coordination of employee events for the whole business unit Successful completion of the part-time bachelor's degree in August 2015. Start of a part-time master's degree in International Management at HRW in Mülheim a.d.R., Germany in March 2017.

    • Trainee | Study & Work Program (B.A.)
      Sep 2011 - Nov 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Three-and-a-half year program with rotating practical assignments in various departments within the Commercial Operations and Digital Transformation divisions in addition to a part-time bachelor's degree at FOM in Essen, Germany.

  • Production Assistant | Thermoforming Process at Georg Utz GmbH, Deutschland
    Jul 2011 - Aug 2011 · 2 mos

    Student job in the production department in three shifts between leaving high school (A-levels) and starting the traineeship program („Study & Work“) at Vodafone Germany in Düsseldorf and FOM in Essen, Germany.

  • Unternehmensgruppe K. Wessling (Geeste, Lower Saxony, Germany)
    • Administrator | Internal Sales
      Jun 2010 - Jul 2010 · 2 mos

      Full-time job in the inside sales department after successful completion of vocational training. Main activities: Order processing in SAP R/3 and customer service management. Afterwards: One-year full-time vocational high school with a focus on economics for the general qualification for university entrance (A-levels).

    • Industrial Manager | Apprenticeship (IHK)
      Aug 2008 - Jun 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Two-year vocational training as industrial manager with focus on inside sales, administration and communication after graduating from school in economics („Fachabitur“).