Building the systems that process thousands of orders, transactions, and parcels every day – order management, payment reconciliation, and a 3-way match that turns manual back-office work into self-running products.
Curriculum Vitae
- LocationZurich, Switzerland · full address on request
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Fifteen years building products and teams – from pricing and marketplace operations to order management, finance, and workforce planning. The short version is below; the longer story is under About.
Core Competencies
Experience
Steering the Product Area Order Management, Finance & Workforce Planning at Digitec Galaxus, Switzerland's largest online retailer (CHF 3.8bn platform revenue, +17% in 2025). The area's order, payment, and financial processes underpin the entire platform.
- Lead a product area of 9 Product Owners plus engineers and data specialists across order management, finance, and workforce planning.
- Drive data-driven product strategy across the area; introduced intelligent process automation with data-feedback loops to cut manual work.
- Run empowerment-driven leadership: autonomy over control, clear ownership, fast learning from failure.
Built and scaled the Product Area Category Management & Finance.
- Scaled the product area from 5 to 10 engineering teams and led up to 9 Product Owners.
- Steered data-driven prioritization across product data, sourcing, pricing, availability, financial processes, and HR systems.
- Drove internationalization readiness and platform scalability for cross-border growth.
- Built a highly dynamic, automated pricing landscape with engineering, business, and external partners.
- Defined, prioritized, and shipped pricing features, tracking performance against business KPIs.
- Promoted to Head of Product.
- Led UX, PM, and web analytics for apps serving 60M sessions and 4M+ unique visitors per month.
- Coordinated large digital projects across all platforms and devices, engaging stakeholders across business, design, and engineering.
- Defined and monitored KPIs; ran user testing to balance UX with business needs.
- Managed internal and external service providers and design agencies.
- Drove app development across 6 major applications with 15M sessions per month.
- Gathered user and business requirements; coordinated cross-platform delivery with internal teams, external providers, and design agencies.
- Defined and monitored KPIs; balanced UX and business needs through user testing.
- Engaged large stakeholder groups across business and technology.
- Owned UX across all channels for 4M+ unique visitors per month; Deputy Head of Audience & UX.
- Defined, prioritized, and shipped features, content, and tools across platforms in agile mode with engineering and design.
- Built deep user understanding through quantitative and qualitative research; ran competitor and market analysis.
- Balanced business, user, and technical requirements; defined and reported KPIs to leadership.
- Grew the measured base from 120 to 212 websites and total audience from 12M to 42M unique clients across the Swiss traffic-measurement study.
- Owned budget, quality, and market penetration; headed the engineering team, coordinated service providers, and prioritized development investments.
- Communicated results to market, clients, and media; kept tools and publications up to date.
- Interim Head of User Research (2011).
Education
- Behavioral influence, behavioral interventions, pre-post-surveys, social influence.
- Practice-oriented research role with case studies and cooperation with private and public institutions.
- Publications in scientific journals; national and international conferences.
- Major – Psychology: focus on Social Psychology, applied to health and environmental behavior; foundations in cognitive, clinical, and developmental psychology and statistics.
- First minor – Linguistics: pragmatics, language acquisition and development – including multilingualism and media use – and generative grammar.
- Minor – Modern History.
Languages
- GermanNative
- EnglishProficient
- FrenchFluent
- ItalianConversational
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Product OwnerScrum Alliance
Other
- 2015 – 2016 Sabbatical & Parental Leave – 9-month family trip across Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland.
- 2005 – 2010 Co-Editor & Reviewer · out-of-space.ch – Album and concert reviews with fellow music enthusiasts.