Product-led growth, AI-first transition, digital transformation and project management

9/2024 – 6/2025

Responsible for driving digital transformation across country organizations.
- Initiated the digital transformation roadmap for five countries, ensuring alignment with global group strategy.
- Built and led a high-performing digital transformation consulting team, expanding delivery capacity from one to three value streams and thereby fast tracking the roadmap from 3 to 2 years.
- Acted as strategic advocate for 5 country organizations, ensuring group-wide cross-functional alignment.

Digitale Transformation, IT-Projektleiter, IT-Strategieberatung, Teamleiter

11/2023 – 8/2024

Spearheaded the AI-first transformation and product strategy for 10 SaaS products (>$38m ARR), reporting to the CEO, to drive increased profitability and market competitiveness.
- Led and mentored 7 product leaders in the strategic development and launch of AI-powered features, enhancing product functionality and user experience.
- Initiated and led company-wide AI hackathons (200+ employees), accelerating the development of 12+ AI innovations now in productization, including automated customer support.
- Implemented data-driven processes to improve predictability for engineering capacity ($1.2m), resulting in a 15% increase in on-time delivery.
- Managed make/buy decisions and partner relations (>$0.5m contract value) to optimize time-to-market for AI features.
Key Achievement:
- Transformed product operations into an agile, AI-first discipline, reducing average time-to-feature delivery by 25% through the adoption of AI solutions for product discovery, market research, and user analytics, contributing to a 10% increase in overall product adoption.

Anforderungsspezifikationen, Digitale Transformation, Machine Learning, Prozessoptimierung

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