Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

• Business consulting, interim management, and coaching
• Independent acquisition and delivery of consulting projects in the areas of strategy & innovation, processes, organization, and business transformation

• Drove key experience streams in the redesign of a large-scale telecommunications e-commerce platform focusing on mobile plan selection, product configuration, and digital contract completion.
• Delivered scalable Figma-based white-label solutions within a multinational Scrum setup to enable efficient multi-brand rollout.

• Manage and oversee various software development projects between product management and agile dev teams of external service providers
• Communicate with all stakeholders
• Promote transparency and focus on project topics
• Facilitate alignments between business units and external partners
• Support product managers and product owners in preparing and managing requirements in workshops and tools
• Use short feedback loops to optimize agile collaboration
• Support hybrid and agile collaboration

• Coached teams in Agile methodologies and Scrum framework implementation.
• Aligned the product roadmap with business goals such as increasing bookings, improving user experience, and expanding supplier integrations.
• Collaborated with developers and third-party providers to ensure smooth API integration and end-to-end functionality.
• Created and continuously refined the product backlog with user stories, bugs, and technical improvements.
• Prioritized backlog items based on business value, revenue impact, and regulatory deadlines.
• Worked closely with backend and frontend teams to clarify dependencies and prioritize technical debt.

Further development & digitalization of key sales and application processes in a regulated banking environment, including requirements structuring, roadmap work, and AI-supported use case evaluation

Responsibilities & impact:

• Support of existing digital products in the sense of stable operations (keep the lights on) amid growing regulatory complexity
• Product vision and derivation of a consistent, feasible roadmap
• Identification, structuring, and evaluation of AI-supported use cases at the interface of business, IT, and the regulatory environment
• Analysis, structuring, and translation of complex business requirements into epics and user stories
• Moderation of team, stakeholder, and alignment formats to ensure clarity of goals, collaboration, and decision-making
• Maintenance of transparent structures and documentation (LeanIX, application profiles, runbooks)

Contribution to results:

Stabilization and further development of key financial processes under high regulatory and technical complexity. Improved transparency, decision-making, and implementability through structured requirements, reviewable documentation, and AI-supported ways of working.

• Planning and controlling qualification tests and the delivery of software components (SWC)
• Consulting and support in stakeholder management
• Checking work packages for compliance with ISO 29119
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the Porsche and Bentley brands
• Regular reporting to the customer and internal management
• Tools / processes: KPM, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, ISO 26262

• Responsibility for the specialist department
• Effective stakeholder management
• Management and prioritization of the backlog
• Resource and capacity planning
• Risk management
• Cost calculation and budget control
• Compliance with security guidelines and data protection regulations in a high-security environment (Bank regulations)
• Creation and monitoring of project timelines
• Planning and execution of workshops as well as the creation of user manuals
• Development and coordination of architecture maps with service providers and internal IT
• Creation and tracking of milestone plans
• Recording, analysis, and documentation of defects, including retesting until final approval for launch
• Coordination and execution of penetration tests
• Organization and management of User Acceptance Tests (UAT)
• Definition of Go / No-Go criteria for the launch
• Collaboration and organization of multinational teams

• Led the migration of local SharePoint sites to SharePoint Online, including planning, coordination, and communication
• Advised on governance, security, and data protection
• Created project documents: project charter, project plan, communication strategy plan, risk and risk mitigation plan, scope of work documents
• Analyzed manual processes and developed automated solutions

• Led 5+ CEO-facing workstreams across GTM, partnerships, fundraising, Uzbekistan expansion, marketing delivery, and backbone planning; turned priorities into action plans (owners, timelines, reporting).
• Ran weekly exec reporting: status, risks, decisions needed, and next steps across workstreams.
• Led cross-functional teams of 4-8 (design, marketing, project contributors) to deliver investor- and partner-ready materials on accelerated timelines.
• Helped secure a government-level MoU in Uzbekistan through stakeholder relationship building and negotiating a mutually beneficial project plan.
• Supported fundraising towards a €10M+ target: maintained model assumptions, prepared pitch/diligence materials, and supported investor Q&A (10 qualified investor meetings).
• Represented company in high-stakes external meetings with government officials, institutional partners, and strategic stakeholders.
• Managed external vendors (design/marketing) with €75k+ spend; tracked deadlines, flagged risks early, and fixed issues to keep delivery on track.

• Ensuring the overall project goal with the Product Owner
• Onboarding a new service provider, including sourcing and contract negotiations with relevant stakeholders (e.g., procurement, legal)
• Implementing and executing the necessary governance processes
• Integrating new extraction software/GenAI tools to improve data extraction and processing within a document management workflow
• Ongoing agile management of deliverables, including building the project organization and controlling time, quality, and costs in the context of the overall project
• Sub-project organization, especially requirements management, structuring, agile planning, and prioritization
• Organizing and optimizing workstream communication for an end-to-end process
• Facilitating and leading meetings and workshops
• Change management consulting through targeted influence, coaching, and incentive systems

• Business analysis of payments for the introduction of Wero EPI in Germany.
• Analysis and optimization of merchant processes in the context of acquiring and issuing.
• Analysis of interfaces for instant payments.
• Analysis of SCT-Inst processes, settlement mechanisms and reporting processes.
• Identification and clarification of gaps in merchant processes.
• Analysis and documentation of clearing and settlement processes.
• OSPlus process analysis and documentation.
• Coordination and alignment with scheme management as well as various payment service providers and financial institutions on merchant processes.
• Preparation and follow-up as well as active participation in EPI meetings on technical coordination and regulatory topics in payments, including content familiarization and prioritization.
• Preparation and documentation of project and steering committees in the EPI environment.
• Creation of status reports for the subproject.
• Maintenance and structuring of Confluence pages for project documentation.
• Coordination and alignment with the issuing teams on individual customer processes as well as aligning with bank processes and acquirer processes in the Wero environment.
• Communication with payment service providers regarding merchant and bank processes in the Wero environment.
• Organizational support for project management in special tasks in the EPI and Wero environment.
• Digital filing and documentation in Confluence and Microsoft Teams.
• Planning, implementation and tracking of work packages and steps.
• Quality assurance and project control.
• Consulting on IT strategy, IT architecture and interface management in the EPI and Wero environment.
• Technical environment: Jira, Confluence, XML, JSON, MS Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint), SharePoint, Draw.io, Innovator, 3rd-level support, ITIL, creation and updating of software documentation, interface management, OSPlus, Scrum, KYC, payment, European Payments Initiative (EPI), Wero, Microsoft Loop, Instant Payments, SCT-Inst.

• Close collaboration with development teams to ensure alignment with project goals
• Assessment of in-scope assets, requirements definition and support of the public tender process up to vendor selection
• Creation and maintenance of UML sequence diagrams to document system interactions
• Intensive use of Agile/Scrum methodology and the Spotify model
• Development and implementation of cutover and rehearsal plans together with the application managers

• Preparing and conducting workshops for Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Salesforce Sales Cloud
• Training key users in standard Salesforce capabilities for Sales Cloud & Marketing Cloud, customization capabilities, live demos, including hands-on exercises
• Tools / languages: Marketing Cloud, Sales Cloud