Martin Kottbusch-Project Lead - Product Management
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Experience
Project Lead - Product Management
heycar Group
- Designed and built frontstage eCommerce journeys and supporting backstage customer journeys
- Requirements creation and management for all product aspects: Core user experience (online), supporting business processes and service design (online, offline and hybrid)
- Project management for country rollouts, aligning business, product and tech workstreams to assure timely delivery
- Business strategy, commercial/revenue model, rollout planning
Senior Product Manager
MVP Factory
- Product management lead working with MVP Factory team on a Personal Finance Management and Wellbeing App
- Exploration and validation of product and user experience concept
- Target group refinement, user journey mapping, prototyping and concept testing, product vision and roadmap
- Business model validation and monetization options
- Technical product concept - target architecture, prioritization and development team setup
Chief Product Officer
kollex GmbH
- Leading a team of designers (UX/UI) and product managers
- Design and development of a B2B platform product for the food and beverage market, merging 2 distinctive apps into 1
- Managing the overall product: Mobile & Web Apps used by close to 100 merchants with thousands of B2B customers
- Established the kollex Product Innovation Lab, introduced innovation and ideation methods
- Initially freelance product and venture coach introducing squads, agile methods, product roadmap, processes & planning
Product and Venture Coach
Körber Digital
- Supported POs and venture teams at early stages, guiding them from ideation phase (value innovation discovery) to MVP
- Design and MVP launch of a digital process twin for production optimization based on algorithms which predict settings
- Concept design, test and validation of a digital marketplace and trading platform for the tissue industry
- MVP concept and launch of an augmented reality solution for pharma producers, a self-improving solution learning from data
- UX strategy, design and product launch of a sensor data enabled web application for producers, helping them to reduce waste, understand production issues and receive concrete recommendations
Head of Product
Smartfrog
- Created an IoT platform and devices for the connected home with a team of product owners, UX designers and product managers
- Headed up software development until CTO was hired (6 months)
- Designed, developed and optimized mobile apps, web app, IP camera (with industrial designer partner), SaaS cloud platform
- B2C e-commerce web shop design and development, B2B partner integrations into the platform
- Won IFA preview award 2017 for "most innovative product"
Director Consulting and GM Latin America
BT Telconsult
- Acquired and delivered consultancy projects in the telecommunications sector with focus on Latin America market
- Worked with incumbent telecom operators as well as financial investors and new market entries
- Delivered product and tech expertise in consulting projects (IPTV, product portfolio optimisation, platform design)
- Led the business processes practice
VP Product and Marketing
Deutsche Telekom - Click and Buy Group
- Established and led agile product and development teams combined with product marketing
- Scaled a mature payment platform and e-wallet both technically and commercially; the platform was used by more than 15,000 merchants (incl. iTunes) and 10 million consumers globally
- Technical integration of Clickandbuy into the Deutsche Telekom "MyWallet", a SIM-card based secure mobile wallet
- Developed and managed mobile app, web app, platform architecture with APIs, payment gateway, cloud architecture
Director Products & Services
Telefónica Group
- Established and led a product team to build up a mobile network operator in Germany (new market entry)
- Launched a complete mobile product portfolio: Voice, Data, Content Portal, Handsets and SIM cards in just 6 months
- Responsible for all technical and commercial product aspects from product engineering to product marketing
- Later launched the brand "Telefónica" in the German market along with a full portfolio of internet service provider products
Director Products
dtms AG
- Lead a team of product managers, sales engineers and product marketing
- Created mobile payment, mobile web applications and directory services to integrate with 3rd party content services and applications
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and Automotive.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Product Development, Information Technology, Strategy, Operations, and Project Management.
Summary
Guided by empathy and a getting things done attitude. I love to work with open-minded, high-energy teams. Putting user experience first I help teams to create digital products and platforms advancing from prototypes to product-market-fit and scaling.
Skills
- Product Strategy, Design And Execution
- Product Innovation
- User Experience Strategy
- Product Management And Coaching
- Project Management
- Service Design
- Behavioral Design
- E-Commerce
- Internet Platforms & Marketplaces
- Fintech And Payments
- Iot / Data
- Telecommunications
Languages
Education
MBA · MBA
Certifications & licenses
Behavioral Design
Product Leadership
Product Owner and Scrum Master
Service Design
UI Design
User Experience Strategy and Design
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Experience
Expertise
Qualifications
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Martin is based in Berlin, Germany.
Martin speaks the following languages: German (Advanced), English (Advanced).
Martin has at least 6 years of experience. During this time, Martin has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 3 months. Note that Martin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Martin would be well-suited for roles such as: Project Lead - Product Management, Senior Product Manager, Chief Product Officer.
Martin's most recent position is Project Lead - Product Management at heycar Group.
In recent years, Martin has worked for heycar Group, MVP Factory, and kollex GmbH.
Martin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Food and Beverage, and Banking and Finance. Martin also has some experience in Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, and Automotive.
Martin is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology, and Strategy. Martin also has some experience in Operations and Project Management.
Martin has recently worked in industries like Food and Beverage, Banking and Finance, and Automotive.
Martin has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology, and Strategy.
Martin holds a Master in MBA.
Martin has 6 certificates. Among them, these include: Behavioral Design, Product Leadership, and Product Owner and Scrum Master.
The availability of Martin needs to be confirmed.
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