Search Engine Optimization Experts in Hamburg

Goal: Future readiness and succession readiness

• Business model assessment: Conducting Business Model Canva workshops to assess the current business model and understand collaboration (3 areas)
• Systemic structural and cultural pattern analysis & role clarification: Conducting employee interviews to clarify responsibilities, interfaces, and decision-making logic in depth.
• Strategy operationalization: Breaking down the company's strategy, mission, and vision into concrete principles and operational goals that can be lived in everyday work.
• Establishment of a feedback system

Co-founded headroom, an XR consultancy, and continue to work hands-on with emerging immersive technology. We use virtual reality to help teams collaborate effectively regardless of their physical location (TeamVR).

With Brandancy, I take on marketing leadership for companies that want to move forward strategically but cannot or do not want to fill a permanent CMO position. Two models: embedded as a Fractional CMO for several months or project-based as a specialist for performance marketing and SEA.

Responsibilities

• Development of marketing strategy and positioning, from analysis to a concrete action plan
• Building and managing funnels, campaign structures, and conversion optimization
• Responsibility for paid media budgets in Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, and LinkedIn
• Technical foundation: tracking setup, GA4, GTM, Search Console, reporting structures that are understood outside of marketing as well
• SEO and GEO, meaning visibility in classic search and in AI-supported answer systems
• Integration of AI into existing marketing processes: content production, research, reporting, lead qualification
• Building and leading internal marketing teams, managing agencies and service providers Onboarding successors and documenting everything so structures continue after the mandate

Results

• Built a complete digital setup for a real estate company in six weeks, from tracking to campaigns to content
• As Fractional CMO, on site monthly in Madrid, built a digital team and took responsibility for funnel and UI/UX strategy
• Consolidated the LinkedIn presence of a B2B FinTech holding with seven subsidiaries and established a content strategy
• Handed over marketing onboarding and documentation for a new Head of Marketing, and operations continued without interruption

Focus areas

• Fractional CMO for mid-sized companies, growing businesses, and startups
• Performance marketing and SEA with more than 14 years of hands-on experience
• AI in marketing processes, as a way of working rather than a tool demo

• work in the Developer-Experience team to improve developer experience and tooling for all teams of the RTL+ streaming platform
• development of reusable GitLab CI/CD components to standardize processes and automatically enforce code quality and security gates
• infrastructure automation with Pulumi
• operation and monitoring of GitLab Runners in AWS with Kubernetes
• integration and automation of Renovate in GitLab pipelines for continuous dependency updates
• extension of Backstage as the central developer platform to optimize internal workflows and self-service capabilities
• development of various tools and automations in TypeScript, Go, and Python

• Project leadership for the relaunch of the B2B online shop based on SAP Commerce (previously Shopware 5)
• Coordination of internal and external resources
• Stakeholder management and requirements management
• Support with the functional design of features
• Preparation of project reports and execution of SteerCo meetings
• Leadership and moderation of regular meetings and coordination sessions
• Consulting on the company’s E-Commerce strategy
• Sparring partner for the Head of E-Commerce

• Global P&L responsibility for direct-to-fan, e-commerce and merchandise, including onboarding regional markets and steering budget and resource allocation
• Managed an international team of more than 40 FTEs running all e-commerce activities for the company's various brands
• Implemented a global technology overhaul, replacing legacy systems and building and improving a Magento-based technology infrastructure
• Developed content, marketing and CRM strategies while continuously improving design and usability (UI, UX) with a focus on improving conversion rates
• Contributed to 25% year-over-year growth over two years and played an integral role in the 2021 relaunches

• Lead Generation
• Affiliate Program Setup & Launch
• Interactive Lead Funnels & CRO
• Lead Quality
• Monitoring CRM Processes: Integration & Management of Incoming Leads in CRM Systems
• Publisher Management
• Strategy Development & Execution (Marketing Strategies)
• Publisher Acquisition
• Campaign Planning, Management & Optimization
• Evaluation via KPIs
• Tracking
• Marketing Campaigns (Online & Out-of-Home)
• Retargeting & Display Campaigns
• Data Analysis & Reporting
• Budget Planning & Management
• Data Feed Management
• Lead Quality Monitoring & Control
• Lead Landing Page Creation
• Transactions & Billing
• Networking & Industry Events
• Direct Partnerships Setup (incl. Health Insurance Providers)
• SEO Optimization: Content Creation, On-Page Optimization based on SEO Tools

• Digital strategy and brand repositioning.
• Website relaunch with UX optimization.
• Digitization of the recruiting process.
• Leadership of cross-functional teams.

• Industry: SaaS (Customer Success Management) – B2B

Comprehensive GEO implementation (Generative Engine Optimization) for a B2B CSM SaaS startup with a focus on AI Search Visibility and AI Citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews – including a GEO workshop and a prioritized implementation roadmap.

• GEO Workshop & Roadmap: Conceptualized and delivered a GEO workshop (how LLMs work, AI Search Architecture, citation strategies); translated it into a prioritized implementation roadmap with impact/effort estimates
• Technical GEO Foundation: Robots.txt & llms.txt, Core Web Vitals & page speed, XML sitemaps for AI crawlers
• Schema & Structured Data: Gap analysis, implementation of Product/Service, FAQ, Article, Author and Organization schema, validation of coverage
• Content Architecture & GEO: Flat content architecture, topic clusters (pillar-and-spoke), 200–300 word chunks and answer-first content structure, E-E-A-T rollout through author pages
• Query Fan-Out & Prompt Anticipation: User prompt mapping, query fan-out, content gap analysis based on prompt coverage
• Citation & Backlink Strategy: AI citation analysis (news, Reddit, Wikipedia, listicles) and development of outreach and backlink strategies

Tools & technologies: Otterly.AI, PeecAI, Qforia (iPullRank), Schema Markup Validator, OpenAI Tokenizer, Prompt Coverage Monitor, ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Semrush, Ahrefs, Framer CMS

• Development of a central platform for the digital implementation of health promotion measures in daycare centers and schools
• Responsible for project management, requirements management, and technical coordination

Freelance work for a large German family office

Built and further developed a modular B2B SaaS platform for professional wealth management and family offices, alongside freelance delivery of production-ready AI, data management, and automation solutions for the wealth management sector.

• Developed an AI governance framework for regulated finance and asset management workflows, aligned with DORA, BaFin-related governance expectations, and data protection requirements, including role definitions, access levels, and decision rules.
• Designed an agentic system with a locally operated open-source language model, including Qwen2.5 via Ollama, for secure querying of an asset database through text-to-SQL-to-text workflows.
• Built AI-supported analysis and reporting capabilities that generate structured answers, tables, and charts from asset data, with domain validation through resolver logic and RAG elements.
• Developed production-grade data import workflows for financial service provider data from CSV, PDF, and API sources, including validation, plausibility checks, and reconciliation with existing asset data.
• Solved the asset matching problem without a cross-system primary key through multi-stage validation rules and human-in-the-loop approvals.

Results:

• Secured EUR 250,000 in SaaS revenue in 2024, exceeding the forecast by 20%.
• Acquired family office clients with EUR 1.6bn in assets under management.
• Reduced manual effort for the largest client by approx. 3 days per month through automated data import and reconciliation processes.
• Reduced operational error risk through structured data validation, multi-stage asset matching, and human-in-the-loop approvals.

• Technical management/setups including TikTok Shop, Merchant Center, Meta Shopping
• Strategic & operational campaign management (Meta, Google, TikTok)
• Creative development

• Planning, management and monitoring of the Corporate Responsibility Tech Enablement project for IT
• Design and implementation of the EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation)
• Design and implementation of the Eco-Design Regulation
• Continuation of projects as part of the Corporate Responsibility strategy
• Definition and review of requirements (e.g. governance, success metrics) and, where necessary, analysis and resolution of problems
• Overall management, marketing, communication and quality assurance of the projects
• Creation of the project plan including timeline/roadmap, budget and resources
• Ensuring compliance with budget and deadlines
• Defining project management guidelines, methods and priorities
• Planning and tracking resources & efforts, also in cooperation with other IT departments
• Evaluation of projects and preparation of results (reporting to management)
• Identification and reduction of risks
• Regular communication with stakeholders
• Management of internal and external stakeholders and service providers (Jira, Confluence, backlog management, task tracking, Sharepoint, MS 365 Platform etc.)
• Development of standards and automation of processes
• Technical design and documentation of the Digital Product Passport
• Selection and evaluation of potential software providers
• Training and workshops on Osapiens

Label: Azure Cloud, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, SAP BW, AWS, Miro, Bee360, Draw.io, Sharepoint, MS 365 Platform, Trello, Osapiens, Naravero etc.

• Translated technical style guides for corporate branding (Porsche, BMW, Health AG)
• Collaborated with copywriting teams on pitch development
• Recorded professional voice-overs for corporate branding videos