David S.-Digital Expert
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Experience
Co-Founder
Hire On Fire
- The shortage of skilled workers affects many companies in the DACH region.
- HireOnFire has made it its mission to move the employee search of medium-sized companies away from traditional job portals and toward social media channels and search engines.
- With a mix of social recruiting and performance marketing, we reach target groups where they spend their time.
Co-Founder & CTO
CarsharingCheck
- CarsharingCheck is the largest comparison portal for carsharing providers in German-speaking countries.
- Through targeted SEO and social media activities, it has built a strong reach in recent years and generated thousands of customer contracts with carsharing providers.
Co-Founder & Product Owner
DiBooq GmbH
- DiBooq's mission is to develop the future digital industry standard for holiday rentals and connect all market participants in one network.
- It ensures that holiday apartments can be booked in real time by providing customized, contract-based applications for owners, agencies, portals, and tenants.
Head of Digital
Scholz & Friends Berlin
- As Head of Digital, I led the digital transformation of one of Germany's most renowned advertising agencies and was responsible for building a team of more than 50 people in the areas of web development, content, social media, conception, and design.
Freelance Consultant
Extraordinary Digital
- As a freelancer, I have worked for clients such as Bundesdruckerei, Boston Consulting Group, TÜV-Verband, BW Bank, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, ZEIT online, and many others.
- Depending on the requirements, I take on various roles, from Product Owner, project manager, and growth strategist to user experience designer or web developer.
Co-Founder & CEO
E-Pixler IO
Event Manager & Member of the Management Board
Bplus-Gruppe (heute: Vaterblut)
DiBooq
- DiBooq is a state-of-the-art SaaS network for holiday rentals.
- As Co-Founder and Product Owner, my role covered team leadership across business strategy, UX design, UI design, application development, and growth marketing.
- Several business angels have invested in DiBooq, and 10,000 users are part of our network (as of the end of 2024), with around 20,000 bookings arranged.
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
- Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is a German financial institution headquartered in Stuttgart.
- With total assets of around 324 billion euros, it is the largest Landesbank in Germany.
- The client needed a redesign of its portal, which had grown to more than 1,400 subpages over many years, requiring the coordination of a dozen business units with more than 60 stakeholders.
- I developed the entire relaunch strategy and led the Scholz & Friends agency team across content, UX, UI, and SEO.
- Our joint efforts led to a transformative leap in the client's user experience, design, and content quality.
TÜV-Verband
- The TÜV Report has been published regularly for more than 50 years as a special issue of Auto Bild and provides an overview of the defect statistics for the most important used-car models.
- More than 10 million data points from the five major TÜV organizations are collected, reviewed, and processed once a year.
- In collaboration with the client, I was able to design a digital platform for data management and report creation and support its development as part of a 1.5-year project.
- My main areas of focus included user interviews, UX design, software architecture, project documentation, and stakeholder management.
TÜV-Verband e. V.
- TÜV-Verband e. V. represents the interests of technical inspection associations in Germany and Europe.
- I led the relaunch of its web portal, a comprehensive platform with content from five different departments, an email newsletter, and an e-commerce shop.
- My responsibilities included content analysis and strategy, team building, content development, UX and UI design, project management, cost planning, and coordinating around 20 stakeholders.
- This complex project lasted more than a year, during which we successfully revitalized the portal and positioned it for future growth and impact.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Advertising, Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, Professional Services, and Government and Administration.
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Experienced in Marketing, Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Strategy, and Human Resources.
Summary
Since 2001, I have been supporting companies with the marketing of their products and services, the development of digital applications, and change management.
I started as an event manager at a Berlin communications agency, where I was soon able to work with well-known brands such as Procter&Gamble, ARD, Wrigley, Bombardier and many others.
Strong self-taught skills, combined with a passion for all things digital, gradually led to a strong focus on online marketing and digital product development.
Over time, I gained experience in all disciplines, from project management, UX conception, UI design, and app/web development to search engine optimization and performance marketing. Working with current IT applications, iterative process optimization, and managing teams of almost any size have always been an integral part of my work.
Since 2014, I have worked exclusively in the digital space and have had the opportunity to count well-known companies among my clients.
Skills
Digital Strategy
Content Strategy
Data Analysis
Product Ownership
Project Management
Performance Marketing
Seo / Sea
Content Management
Ux Concept
Ui Design
Html
Css
Php
Javascript
Figma
Hubspot
Scompler
Jira
Confluence
Photoshop
Illustrator
Sketch
Invision
Premiere
Ms Office
Miro
Trello
Zapier
Visual Studio Code
Php Storm
Mailchimp
Cleverreach
Wordpress
Typo3
Magento
Drupal
Meta Ads Manager
Google Analytics
Google Ads
Matomo
Languages
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Profile
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David is based in Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany.
David speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).
David has at least 23 years of experience. During this time, David has worked in at least 7 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 3 months. Note that David may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, David would be well-suited for roles such as: Co-Founder, Co-Founder & CTO, Co-Founder & Product Owner.
David's most recent position is Co-Founder at Hire On Fire.
In recent years, David has worked for Hire On Fire, CarsharingCheck, DiBooq GmbH, and Extraordinary Digital.
David is most experienced in industries like Advertising, Information Technology, and Banking and Finance. David also has some experience in Media and Entertainment, Professional Services, and Government and Administration.
David is most experienced in business areas like Marketing, Information Technology, and Product Development. David also has some experience in Project Management, Strategy, and Human Resources.
David has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Media and Entertainment.
David has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
David will be available part-time from September 2026.
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