Hasso Plattner Institute @ University of Potsdam, Germany
09/17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Taiwan
01/17 - 04/17
Semester at Sea with academic partner Colorado State University, USA
👨💻 Experience
08/23 - 12/24
Scholarship Recipient & Social Media Intern | DAAD, Haitai @Tokyo & Okinawa, Japan
- ~90k€ scholarship to become a “japan expert” (9-month language school & 6-month internship) - Internship: Rebuild shopify page & end-to-end social media strategy (brought avg. views 4k → 25k)
12/20 - 11/22
Product Manager | Kausa (B2B SaaS AI product) @Merantix AI Venture Studio, Germany
- Brought Kausa from prototype to product market fit → X0k€ annual recurring revenue with a quarter over quarter growth of 150% in 2022 (with Kolibri Games & Trivago as first paying customers and >5 customers starting in the next 2 month) - Led continuous product discovery (ran weekly user tests, created prototypes paper to Figma, structured problem space with leadership, …) → Kausa saves “2 hours/day/user acquisition manager”
- Managed stakeholders being first point of contact for users → 0 % churn and tight collaboration - Validated key product assumptions creating personas by leading the user research process
- Advised Federal Ministry of Health in building a health research data center (records of 73M citizens) - Co-authored European Health Research Data Center Report conducting 6 benchmarking interviews
- Developed and lead 2 prototypes conducting >40 user research & testing interviews → Basis for product requirements document of health research data center
10/18 - 09/19
PM & Solutions Engineering Intern | SAP Conversational AI Palo Alto, USA [reference] [reference]
10/17 - 07/18
Full Stack Java Developer | Idealo.de with Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
10/16 - 08/17
Design Thinker | HPI School of Design Thinking (Basic- and Advanced Track program), Germany
- Applied user-centered innovation methods in 4 projects (in coop with Stanford’s d.School) - Conducted >X0 qualitative user research interviews - Designed & tested >12 physical & digital prototypes (incl. wireframes) informed by user research
🏆 Awards
04/15 -09/18
Scholarship Recipient | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (freiheit.org)
04/15 - 10/17
Won 4 Hackathons
🧩 Volunteering / Leadership
01/20 - 03/20
German Cast Representative | Up with People On Tour, USA
12/14 – 12/16
Editor-in-Chief | IT-Gipfelblog @ Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
