My Professional Experience
I am working as a team lead in the Parship Group since more than 6 years and love to hire and develop motivated Product People.
Before I have worked more than 4 years for the great live event ticketing company CTS EVENTIM Sports. Building a totally new Ticketing Web Shop for our Sports partners and improving the backend for the well-known Sports Clubs in Europe.
So I have more than 11 years experience working for digital products based on Scrum and Kanban.
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After my studies I took my first job at Europcar Germany and worked there for almost 8 years in various functions in the Marketing department like market research, cooperation and loyalty/CRM.
I joined a market research agency full-time during my studies and completed various internships.
As part of my self-employment, I was also able to implement some exciting projects with companies in the Kiel area (Schleswig-Holstein).
In 2006, I graduated from Kiel University with a degree in business administration and a minor in computer science and econometrics. In the meantime, I was able to spend a semester at the university in Tilburg (Netherlands).
Parship Group (more than 6,5 years)
03/2023 – Today Head of Product
11/2018 – 02/2023 Product Lead
Exciting and versatile product work to improve the online dating products Parship, ElitePartner and eharmony. Being able to help singles find love has motivated me enormously. The agile work and the responsibility for a team of talented product managers is a very powerful experience.
My responsibilities:
- Professional and disciplinary leadership of 5 Product Owners (Junior, Regular, and Senior levels) plus working students
- Prioritization and tracking of feature roadmaps in alignment with the product vision
- Revenue responsibility for projects and KPI targets
- Driving business value and enhancing user experience
- Stakeholder and requirements management / clarifying mandates
- Execution of A/B tests to measure the performance of features and initiatives
- Conducting user research to evaluate customer needs and user experience
- Developing project initiatives, concepts, and feature ideas as part of the roadmap
- Coordination for go-live, release communication, and analysis of feature success post-rollout
CTS EVENTIM Sports (4,5 years)
09/2016 – 10/2018 Senior Product Manager / PO
05/2014 – 08/2016 Product Manager / PO
Anyone who has ever bought a ticket for an event knows the anticipation that comes with it. This has always motivated me to improve the ticketing experience for our sports clubs and their customers in an agile and iterative way.
My responsibilities:
- Functional responsibility for the further development of multi-tenant backend systems and online shops
- Responsibility for e-commerce performance (SEO, SEA) of the online shops
- Functional leadership of a Scrum development team as Product Owner
- Creating and executing the product roadmap based on the product vision
- Stakeholder management and mandate clarification with national and international clients
- Project management and coordination of internal and external project participants
- Conceptualization of features and preparation of requirement specifications
- Presenting new products/features during internal training sessions and external workshops
Europcar car rental Germany (about 8 years)
06/2006 – 04/2014
(Junior) Product Manager and Key Account Manager responsible for different business areas in the Marketing team (CRM/Loyalty, Market Research, Cooperations, Airport Advertising) at Europcar Germany
At my first employer after graduating, I was able to gain experience in many areas. I started as a junior and was later able to build up my own team. I learned a lot during this time and was able to gain a lot of experience in the areas of marketing, loyalty/CRM, OM, key accounting, market research, cooperations and airport advertising.
Dr. Parge & Partner Research + Consulting (1,5 years)
02/2005 – 08/2005 Project Management Assistent
08/2003 – 07/2004 Junior Project Manager
This was a great opportunity for me to gain my first professional experience during my studies. I was able to gain my first experience early on in many exciting projects.
Let’s get in touch
I am looking for a new challenge. Feel free to contact me and let’s have a chat.