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Janis A.

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Analytics - Paid Media - CRM

Cologne
Janis A.

Last position:

Performance Marketing & E-Mail Automation Expert at INeKO Institute at the University of Cologne

  • Planning, optimization, and analysis of SEA and Meta campaigns
  • Planning and execution of automations and mailings
  • Optimization of landing pages (funnel, structure, copy, image)
  • Creation of creatives, media plans, and reports
  • Planning and support for the move to server-side tracking
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Piet A.

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Senior Product Engineer / Automation Developer

Cologne
Piet A.

Last position:

Founder at RubberMetrics.com

  • Self-hosted table tennis equipment platform.
  • Development of a custom “Racket Builder” that uses a co-evolutionary genetic algorithm to identify, evaluate, and recommend the optimal combinations of racket blades and rubbers based on physics heuristics and player data within a search space of over 4 billion combinations.
  • Development of a custom fully automated web crawler to capture equipment specifications, integrating an automated pipeline for image normalization as well as data harmonization via DeepSeek.
  • Cloudflare Edge Workers written in Rust to perform low-latency data searches and offload computationally intensive simulations from the main server.
  • High performance and accessibility standards across a large Nuxt 4 codebase achieving 95–100/100/100 Lighthouse scores.
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Till Z.

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Product Guy

Köln
Till Z.

Last position:

Product Owner at OPED / Mawendo

  • Interim PO for a DiGA-listed digital therapy platform, ensuring compliant product development in a highly regulated SaMD environment (BfArM, BSI) while maintaining delivery pace.
  • Challenge: Regulatory complexity combined with hands-on delivery responsibility and only one week of onboarding time.
  • Impact: Introduced AI-assisted product development workflows with clear quality standards and reinstated regular short release cycles for faster, more precise delivery. Currently optimizing product development workflows and reducing AI-generated bloat in tickets and documentation.
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Maurice H.

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Senior Product Owner

Hürth
Maurice H.

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Senior Product Owner at Hydra Lynx Ltd

  • Unified AI initiatives through the central coordination and integration of artificial intelligence projects to increase efficiency and business value.
  • Identified and prioritized AI use cases through business process analysis and translated them into structured product backlogs and roadmaps.
  • Led change management activities, including the introduction of new digital tools, communication strategies, and training concepts to support cultural change.
  • Managed requirements and processes through end-to-end requirements analysis, process modeling, and organizational optimization.
  • Scaled agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, OKRs) and promoted cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Supported company-wide digital transformation by leading technical change initiatives and strengthening collaboration models.
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Simon K.

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Senior Digitalization Consultant

Cologne
Simon K.

Last position:

Senior Digitalization Consultant at Ginkgo Management Consulting

  • Consulting and implementation of digitalization projects nationally and internationally for start-ups, SMEs and large corporations
  • Focus areas: design systems, RAG & automations
  • Tools and technologies: Claude, GPT, Gemini
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Thomas P.

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Conversation Design · AI Content Systems

Wesseling
Thomas P.

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GenAI Customer Experience Lead at Samsung Electronics

  • Leading initiatives to improve the retrieval and representation of Samsung support content in AI-generated answers, including authoring editorial standards and educating stakeholders on representation risk.
  • Developing initial frameworks to measure and evaluate brand representation in AI-generated answers (LLMs, Google AI environments), including prompt baselines and scoring models.
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Vitaliy M.

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Web Development, SEO, Online Marketing, Project Management

Cologne
Vitaliy M.

Last position:

Team Lead Development with a focus on lead generation at one of Germany's largest insurance companies

  • Backend WordPress web development.
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Melanie T.

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UX/UI Designer

Köln
Melanie T.

Last position:

Founder and Game Director at MELLOW Games UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

I won the "serious games funding" from the state of NRW in Germany at the end of 2023 for my game Blueberry. This gave me the chance to put together an international team of freelancers for programming, art, animation and audio. I developed the complete UI and UX as well as level and narrative design for the game, implementing the UI in Unity in close collaboration with my programmer. Blueberry will be released on Steam, Xbox, PS5 and Switch on 28th May 2026.

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Rebecca P.

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Freelance Art Director | UX/UI Designer

Cologne
Rebecca P.

Last position:

Art Director | UX/UI Designer at Freelance

Concept, design, and implementation of digital brand and communication solutions for companies, practices, freelancers, and agencies.

Concept and design of corporate websites, shops, landing pages, app and interface concepts, as well as complex design systems – from strategy, information architecture, mobile-first approaches, and UX/UI design to Figma prototyping, content structure, SEO-relevant content, and image concepts, all the way to implementation (in WordPress) and maintenance.

Independent project management including client consulting, quote and budget coordination, quality assurance, and collaboration with development.

Focus areas: UX/UI design, art direction, web design, e-commerce, corporate websites, complex design systems, Figma, WordPress, marketing

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Isabel G.

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Founder & CEO

Cologne
Isabel G.

Last position:

Founder & CEO at VA Village Adventures UG

  • Travel brokerage
  • Development and management of a digital travel booking platform
  • Management, controlling, sales
  • Concept and implementation of online marketing (SEO, ads, social media)
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Alexander R.

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IT Consultant

Monheim am Rhein
Alexander R.

Last position:

Business Analyst at Financial Services Provider Landesbank

The Helaba ATLAS project aims to modernize core systems and make them future-proof. As part of the subproject, the existing legacy system for international payments is being replaced by a modern web-based application.

  • Analysis of functional and technical requirements
  • Analysis and optimization of business processes
  • Process modeling
  • Preparation and facilitation of workshops
  • Defining project scope and prioritizing requirements
  • Business process management (analysis, modeling, and optimization)
  • Specification of user stories
  • Designing business and authorization concepts
  • Testing and acceptance
  • Designing mockups in Figma
  • Creating the UI/UX style guide for web applications Approach: Scrum (agile) Technologies: Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, Conceptboard, Java, Vaadin, Figma
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Christian C.

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Senior UX/UI Designer & Accessibility Expert

Cologne
Christian C.

Last position:

UI Design Lead · Mobile App & Design System at Penny Markt GmbH

  • UI design of the Penny mobile app and ongoing maintenance of the company-wide design system — carried out with a senior UI designer from the Artyspark team.
  • Managing, briefing, and quality control of all design decisions; close coordination with Penny's internal product team in product management and development.
  • Ensuring consistent UI standards across the app and design system; reviewing and approving components, tokens, and guidelines.
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Michael O.

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Senior UX UI Designer

Cologne
Michael O.

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UX UI Designer at Robert Piper

Concept development and redesign of a real estate sales platform, AI-driven ideation with Claude

Real Estate Conversion Optimization Claude

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Armen M.

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Interim CTO | Transformation Leader

Odenthal
Armen M.

Last position:

CTO/CPO Platform & Technology at Green Mobility Holding

  • Overall responsibility for platform transformation across ERP, CRM, PIM, and AI-driven process automation
  • ERP transformation: Implementing and migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • CRM & growth stack: Implementing HubSpot as the central CRM and a platform for lead and marketing automation
  • Product data & commerce enablement: Introducing an ePIM to scale category management and digital commerce processes
  • AI-driven process automation: Designing and implementing agent-based AI workflows to automate processes in business services, accounting, tender management, and marketing
  • Building a scalable platform organization including product development, DevOps, UX, cloud engineering, and corporate IT
  • Implementing modern product and portfolio governance (e.g., OKRs, portfolio boards, value-based roadmaps) to manage technology-driven initiatives
  • Harmonizing heterogeneous system landscapes and transforming them into a modular, scalable platform architecture (ERP, CRM, PIM, integrated customer journeys)
  • Coaching and developing product owners, tech leads, delivery managers, and UX teams to build a scalable product organization

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Statistics of experts using Figma

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

16 years (Germany: 15 years)

Figma experts in Cologne have 16 years of professional experience on average. It is 1 year more than in Germany, where the average stands at 15 years.

Position duration

2.4 years (Germany: 2.9 years)

Figma experts in Cologne stay in a single position for 2.4 years on average. It is 0.5 years less than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.9 years.

Positions per freelancer

9

Figma experts in Cologne have completed 9 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Product Development, Information Technology, Marketing

Figma experts in Cologne have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Product Development, Information Technology, and Marketing.

Top industries

Information Technology, Advertising, Media and Entertainment

Figma experts in Cologne are most in demand in Information Technology, Advertising, and Media and Entertainment.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Figma experts in Cologne earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

90% (Germany: 93%)

90% of Figma experts in Cologne hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 3% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 93%.

Master's degree or higher

43% (Germany: 50%)

43% of Figma experts in Cologne hold at least a Master's degree. It is 7% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 50%.

Certifications per freelancer

2

Figma experts in Cologne hold 2 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

Figma experts in Cologne most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

97% (Germany: 98%)

97% of Figma experts in Cologne speak two or more languages. It is 1% lower than in Germany, where the rate stands at 98%.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

0 3 6 9 12
One of the Figma experts in Cologne charges less than €320 per day.
One of the Figma experts in Cologne charges between €320 and €480 per day.
5 of the Figma experts in Cologne charge between €480 and €640 per day.
11 of the Figma experts in Cologne charge between €640 and €800 per day.
6 of the Figma experts in Cologne charge between €800 and €960 per day.
One of the Figma experts in Cologne charges between €960 and €1120 per day.
One of the Figma experts in Cologne charges €1120 or more per day.
<€320 €320-​480 €480-​640 €640-​800 €800-​960 €960-​1120 €1120+

The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Cologne are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Cologne using Figma

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 704 €
Germany avg. 737 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 720 €
Germany median 760 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Figma experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (70%)
  • Advertising (60%)
  • Media and Entertainment (53%)
  • Professional Services (47%)
  • Retail (47%)
  • Banking and Finance (30%)
  • Insurance (30%)
  • Education (27%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

Collaborative product design

Figma is a browser-based platform for creating user interfaces, prototypes and shared design work. Teams use it to explore ideas, define screen layouts and review changes in one collaborative workspace. Its cloud-based files support distributed product work without relying on local design files.

Interfaces and prototypes

Figma supports everything from early wireframes to detailed product interfaces. Experts use components, variants, auto layout and interactive prototyping to create consistent experiences for websites, mobile apps, SaaS products and internal tools. Designs can be tested and refined before implementation begins.

Figma ecosystem

The wider ecosystem includes FigJam for workshops, whiteboarding and journey mapping. Plugins and widgets extend workflows for accessibility checks, content management, research synthesis and asset preparation. Strong specialists also understand design tokens, responsive behavior, libraries, version history and developer handoff through Dev Mode.

Common project needs

  • Establish or restructure a shared Figma library
  • Turn product requirements into wireframes and clickable prototypes
  • Create responsive interface patterns for web and mobile products
  • Prepare annotated screens and assets for implementation
  • Facilitate workshops and alignment sessions in FigJam

When to bring in expertise

Companies often seek freelance support when a product team needs a reliable design system, a rapid prototype or a clearer path from research to implementation. This is useful during a new product launch, a redesign, a migration from Sketch or Adobe XD, or a period of rapid feature delivery. In Cologne, remote collaboration can work well for distributed teams, while on-site workshops may help when stakeholders need close alignment.

What quality looks like

A strong Figma professional thinks beyond polished screens. They structure files clearly, name components consistently, document decisions and keep shared libraries maintainable. They ask about users, content, accessibility and technical constraints, then produce prototypes and handoff material that product and implementation teams can use with confidence.

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Frequently asked questions

Not sure where to start with Figma? These answers cover the essentials.

Figma is used to create wireframes, interface designs, prototypes, design systems and reviewable product flows. It supports websites, mobile apps, software products and internal tools from early exploration through implementation handoff.

Figma is browser-based and built around shared files, multiplayer editing and centralized libraries. Sketch and Adobe XD can still fit particular workflows, but companies often choose Figma when cross-functional collaboration, easy access and real-time review are priorities.

A strong Figma specialist usually understands interaction design, responsive layouts, accessibility, user research and design systems. Useful adjacent knowledge includes FigJam, prototyping, design tokens, content structure and clear handoff to implementation teams.

The right Figma experience depends on the work, not on a fixed time period. A simple prototype may need focused product knowledge, while a complex library or redesign calls for proven systems thinking, careful file structure and experience coordinating reviews.

Figma works well for remote teams because files, comments, prototypes and libraries are available in the browser. Cologne-based companies can combine remote delivery with on-site workshops when German-language communication, stakeholder alignment or sensitive product discussions make local collaboration useful.

FigJam is better suited to open-ended collaboration such as workshops, brainstorming, journey mapping and research synthesis. Figma is the stronger workspace for structured interface design, reusable components and interactive product prototypes.

Review whether Figma files are easy to navigate, components behave consistently and prototypes explain the intended user flow. Ask to see how the specialist handles accessibility, responsive states, documentation, feedback and handoff rather than judging visual polish alone.

A Figma freelancer should clarify the product goal, target users, existing libraries, review process, delivery format and implementation constraints. They should also confirm who owns decisions, how feedback is consolidated and whether the work must fit an established brand or design system.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Figma in their recent projects is 88 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 704 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Figma in their recent projects, 90% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 43% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Figma in their recent projects have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Figma in their recent projects are German (100%), English (97%), and French (17%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Figma in their recent projects are Information Technology (70%), Advertising (60%), and Media and Entertainment (53%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Cologne, Germany who have used Figma in their recent projects are Product Development (90%), Information Technology (87%), and Marketing (73%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Figma

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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