AI-Consultant & Transformation Lead | Product & Project Management | Roadmapping Workshops | Trainer für KI & PM

5/2022 – 8/2023

Reporting to the CEO, shaped the company's strategic direction to enable product-led growth and organizational scalability for AI-driven process automation.
Aligned product and IT strategy with market demands:
- Continuously translated market trends and customer requirements to shape and refine the SaaS business strategy.
- Established actionable strategies for product, cloud architecture, and operational scaling to support rapid growth.
- Developed robust product vision and roadmap with strong resonance from customers, investors, sales and developers.
- Implemented OKR and KPI frameworks for data-driven collaboration, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Transformation to Scale-Up:
- Led the transformation from an AI technology start-up with proven product-market fit to a scalable business.
- Established product management with 4 high-performing FTE, significantly improving strategic alignment and operational efficiency.
- Drove critical cross-departmental change initiatives, including infrastructure consolidation and SaaS adoption, through effective influence and lateral collaboration
Key Achievements:
- Directed a scalability project for the data science team, developing templates and generic AI models (utilizing NLP and computer vision) for process automation, resulting in a 50% reduction in time-to-value, a 30% decrease in project costs, and the acquisition of 2 new key accounts.
- Spearheaded an IT architecture consolidation and SaaS adoption project that reduced computing costs by 70%, significantly improving the company's financial performance.

IT-Strategieberatung, Produktmanagement

3/2018 – 11/2018

Assuring data security, customer success and efficient project delivery by:
- analysing customers' data protection strategies and requirements
- negotiating service agreements and taking full responsibility for project delivery
- taking care of the Professional Services team as direct line manager for 12 employees
- owning P&L responsibility for a professional services organization with $3m revenue
Success Stories
- During these 9 months, I was able to empower the EMEA services organization by restoring efficiency and profitability through a healthy reorganization project to convert the organisation into a matrix environment.

Consultant, Cyber Security, Management (allg.), Teamleiter technischer Dienst

7/2013 – 3/2018

- Engagement management for strategic, global accounts
- Pre Sales engagements, creation of presentations, quotations and contracts, responses to RFI and RFP
- Assessing local market and trends and delivering on the localization and go-to-market projects in APAC, Europe and South Africa
- Agile project management and hands-on requirements engineering
- Driving organization projects to ramp up technology, reseller and delivery partners

Business Analysis, Business Consultant, Internationalisierung, Technischer Vertrieb

11/2011 – 7/2013

Securing the IT world with responsibility for project and customer success in Data Loss Prevention (DLP). This included project and program management for strategic global accounts.

Cyber Security, Projektmanagement (IT)