Curriculum vitae

Fifteen years of product work, in full.

Product leader with more than a decade of agile product development for fast-growing start-ups, scale-ups and international enterprise SaaS platforms, with complementary expertise in software engineering.

Built, led and scaled product development departments 20× into cross-functional teams, led subscription mobile apps with more than 5M users, and worked throughout on long-term product strategy, product and software architecture, and the mentoring that makes teams deliver.

Professional experience

Where the work happened

since 05/2026

Principal Product Manager, Platform

Cint

  • Own the multi-year product vision for Cint's API and platform strategy, spanning the public API surface, shared platform capabilities, and increasingly MCP and other machine-consumable interfaces for developers, partners and AI agents.
  • Lead product direction, discovery and delivery in a product trio with Engineering and Product Design, working through customer needs, product decisions and architectural trade-offs together.
  • Translate complex technical and customer problems into a platform strategy people can make decisions against, from senior leadership and R&D to the teams bringing it to customers.
  • Validate opportunities through customer research and data, define priorities and product requirements, and partner with R&D leadership on solution and architecture decisions.
  • Connect platform strategy across R&D, Data Science, Commercial, Operations, Legal and Marketing, turning shared capabilities into products and experiences customers can actually adopt.
01/2024 – 08/202511/2021 – 12/2023

Senior Group Product Manager, Platform

SmartRecruiters GmbH, Berlin

previously Lead Product Manager, Platform

  • Co-led the Platform & Ecosystem group (30+ employees across up to 7 cross-functional teams), as part of a leadership triad of Product, Design and Engineering, jointly responsible for strategic direction, execution and the scaling of core platform capabilities across the company.
  • Aligned platform investments with long-term product strategy, balancing technical scalability against near-term business needs.
  • Drove adoption of platform capabilities across 12+ internal product teams, ensuring consistency, reusability and efficiency in building on shared infrastructure.
  • Contributed to shared product principles and platform frameworks, championing a Platform as a Product mindset to strengthen alignment and usability across Product, Design and Engineering.
  • Aligned go-to-market efforts for user-facing products with teams across EMEA, NAMER and APAC: customer-centric delivery, successful launches and consistent messaging across regions.
  • Managed strategic partnerships and integrations with key ecosystem players including LinkedIn, Indeed, Twilio, Visier, VONQ and HiredScore, working with the internal Partner Success team so technical delivery met customer and partner expectations alike.
  • Improved product discovery and delivery practices, resulting in a 17% cycle time reduction over three quarters.
  • Hired, led and developed a team of up to 4 product managers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
01/2021 – 10/2021

Head of Product Management

Greator GmbH, Cologne

  • Led the product management team of 5 PMs and worked cross-functionally to elevate product practices and establish a strong internal product community.
  • Co-shaped the product portfolio strategy beyond the mobile app, defining and aligning key product initiatives across the company.
  • Worked closely with C-level and the product leadership team to align roadmap, discovery culture and delivery goals with the shift toward a digital-first coaching business.
  • Launched the Greator app on iOS and Android, achieving 5× user growth within 4 months.
  • Stepped in temporarily as interim Head of Product Design and later Head of Engineering to support leadership continuity during team transitions.
09/2018 – 12/2020

Senior Product Manager

Chefkoch GmbH, Bonn

  • Evolved product vision and strategy supporting 20M+ monthly active users across the full chefkoch.de portfolio: web, apps and smart assistants.
  • Launched the subscription offering "Chefkoch Pro" on Android, resulting in a 168% increase in ARR.
  • Increased active subscriptions across Android and iOS by 124% in 18 months by leading roadmap and continuous delivery for two cross-functional mobile teams.
  • Raised the average App Store rating from 2.7 to 4.8 stars in six months.
07/2011 – 01/201802/2018 – 08/2018
03/2010 – 06/2011
11/2009 – 02/2010

Head of Product & Engineering

Studitemps GmbH, Cologne

previously Scrum Master · Product Manager · Online-Marketing Manager

  • Joined during the early growth phase and moved from product management to leading the entire tech organization: 30+ direct reports across Product, UX, Engineering and Agile Coaching.
  • Scaled the company from ~10 to 400+ employees and ~€70M annual revenue, with a key role in organizational development, tech capacity planning (>€2M annual budget) and multiple high-value funding rounds.
  • Oversaw multiple B2B and B2C platforms including jobmensa.de, internal HR systems and customer portals, supporting 50,000+ contract processes and over 13,000 monthly signups.
  • Built and scaled a cross-functional product organization: hired, coached and mentored PMs, developers and designers.
  • Introduced agile practice (Scrum, Kanban, XP) and Domain-Driven Design, and led the transition from a monolithic system to an event-driven microservice architecture, enabling platform scalability and team autonomy.
  • Fostered a transparent team culture through company-wide Open Spaces, early Slack adoption, peer recruiting and self-managed learning budgets.
Education, qualifications & engagement

The rest of the record

Education

Online-Marketing Manager WAK, 2011: Westdeutsche Akademie für Kommunikation, Cologne · Online-Marketing (part-time)

Thesis: development and marketing of the senior citizens' portal "SeniorenNet"

Communications Manager WAK, 2009: Westdeutsche Akademie für Kommunikation, Cologne · Marketing-Communication (part-time)

Thesis: communication concept for the introduction of speed-reading seminars

Languages

German (native), English (full professional)

Programming

HTML, CSS, HAML, SASS; basic knowledge in PHP, MySQL and Ruby on Rails

Trainings

Effective Enabling Teams, Team Topologies Academy (02/2024) · Product Led Certified (08/2023) · Product Analytics Certified (03/2023) · Domain-Driven Design Workshop, Marco Heimeshoff (08/2019) · Certified Scrum Professional: Product Owner (03/2018) · Certified Scrum Professional: ScrumMaster (03/2018) · Event Storming Facilitation Workshop, Marco Heimeshoff (11/2017) · Certified Agile Leadership (10/2017) · Certified Scrum Product Owner (08/2017) · Certified ScrumMaster (10/2013) · Ruby on Rails from Scratch, Railslove GmbH (06/2012)

Speaking

Guest at Digital Product Insights Podcast: "Remote First Product Management"

Panelist at Product League AMA: "Hiring and Building Product Teams"

Speaker at Working Products 2019, "User-centric product development: strategy and organization at Chefkoch"

Speaker at PO Monthly Meetup "Tacheles", June 2019: "Strategic management of historical legacy"

Speaker at Product People, Spring 2019: "User-centric product development at Chefkoch"

Engagement

Co-organizer of the event series "Lean Coffee for Product Owners", Cologne (04/2017 – 11/2022)

Mentor at Product League (since 04/2021) · Scrum user group Cologne · Scrum user group Bonn

Enough history, let's talk.

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