Benjamin

Über mich

I am a Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Master (CSM) & Agile Coach with 15 years of experience reaching from small startups to multi-national enterprises. Companies I have worked with include eBay, Scout24 Group, HRS, Axel Springer and many others. I have worked in an agile way from the very beginning of my career and have gained both theoretical and practical training in Scrum and Kanban. I hold active certifications from Scrum Alliance as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). In Product Management, I have held positions ranging from Junior- up to Director-level, meaning I have broad experience in both hands-on creation of products as well as leading teams in doing so.

Skills

Expert:in

Produktmanagement

Scrum

Agile Coaching

Kanban

Beratung

Fortgeschritten

Agiles Projektmanagement

IT Projektmanagement

User Research

Usability Testing

Google Analytics

Cucumber

User Testing

Testmanagement

Agile Testing

Amazon Web Services

Confluence

JIRA

Junior:in

MySQL

Software Testing

Coaching

Projekte

Building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform

Adevinta · Internet und Informationstechnologie

2023 — 2024

Technical Project Manager:

Responsible for the coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform
Digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers

Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company) · Internet und Informationstechnologie

2023

Product Manager:

Implementation and business-side verification of a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers
Rebuild of Android and iOS Apps

Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf · Konsumgüter und Handel

2022

Product Manager Mobile:

Responsible for advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS Apps

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Berufserfahrungen

Director Product · Vollzeit

Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin · Internet und Informationstechnologie

2021
Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering Department together with the Director Engineering

Responsibilities:

Defining and delivering a 3-5 year horizon Product Strategy including a Product Vision & Mission connecting to existing Company Strategy and strategies from adjacent departments

Refining an existing OKR process together with OKR Master and Directors of other departments with the goal of increasing focus and thereby outcome

Supporting the Director Engineering in creating a Platform Transformation strategy with the goal of transforming a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establishing a domain-based organizational setup

Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 Head-level colleagues as well as 17 operational team members from Product Management, Data and UX/UI design

Key achievements:

Defined and delivered a 3-5 year horizon Product Strategy including a Product Vision & Mission

Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen

Creation of a career path framework for the Product Team defining roles and responsibilities from Junior to Head level positions
Head of Product Platform Innovation · Vollzeit

HRS Innovation Hub GmbH (a company of the HRS Group), Berlin · Tourismus

2018 — 2021
HRS Innovation Hub Leadership Team

Extended HRS Leadership Team for Product Development & IT

Responsibilities:

Defining and delivering a next generation Search & Book platform

Using data, machine-learning and recommendation technology to identify the lowest and best-matching rates for customers

People management responsibility for a team of up to 5 motivated and talented individuals from Product Management, Software Engineering and UX/UI design

Interim lead Finance for the Product Development & IT part of the HRS Innovation Hub from November 2018 to June 2019

Key achievements:

48% conversion rate uplift on the new Search & Book platform

Up to 450,000 USD additional monthly savings for company’s largest account
Product Lead Mobile, Search and Engagement · Vollzeit

AutoScout24 GmbH (a Scout24 AG company), Munich · Internet und Informationstechnologie

2015 — 2016
Responsibilities:

Driving forward the development of a platform rewrite for the web-based applications ensuring a cutting-edge search experience

Refinement of existing agile and lean working approaches to foster the collaboration between the Product and Engineering departments

Strengthening the market position and economical value of the native mobile applications through conversion rate improvements and close collaboration with external partners like Google.

People management responsibility for a team of up to 10 motivated and talented Product Managers from junior to senior level

Key achievements:

Android App team received the Google Play Top Developer award

Invitation by Google to the Chrome Dev Summit 2015 in Mountain View to pioneer new functionality in the automotive industry

Invitation by Google to collaborate on attribution and customer lifetime value models

Alle Berufserfahrungen ansehen

Experienced Product Manager, enthusiastic about creating products to solve user and business problems while working with talented and motivated people in an agile and lean way.

Über mich

Skills

Projekte

Building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform

Digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers

Rebuild of Android and iOS Apps

Berufserfahrungen

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Benjamin ist Freelancer:in bei Junico