User Research Experts in Berlin

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• Further development of the content marketing strategy, increasing SEO website traffic via the heat pump info hub (blog) by over 300%
• Project responsibility for the website/content area and management of external agencies and service providers
• Concept and implementation of a lead nurturing strategy with an email sequence incl. lead magnet
• Setting up data tracking and reporting for the SEO area

I served as the Lead Designer for two cross-functional teams at Casavi, a software platform for property managers. Casavi is a central platform for all aspects of digital property management, which streamlines operations and business processes.

SmartTask: The team focuses on ticket management, workflow automation, AI integration, enhancing communication between property managers and their clients.

Customer app/portal: The team is dedicated to fostering community engagement among residents of managed properties. The customer portal in combination with the Casavi app solves the challenges for property and facility managers.

My role spans the full design lifecycle, covering UX/UI design, user research, usability testing, and strategic design planning, across Casavi's web platform, mobile app, and customer portals. Each team comprises around 10 members, including a project manager, designer, developers, and QA testers. I am also responsible for the accessibility assurance of the whole product.

Design unit role: In addition to my core responsibilities, I actively contribute to the development and maintenance of the company's design system and style guide ensuring consistency and scalability across all products. Mentor junior designers is my official and moral responsibility.

• Leading UX for a Property Management System, an all-in-one solution for vacation rental agencies and tourism regions, covering marketing and rental of holiday apartments and houses
• UX audits, conception, and implementation of UX strategy with a focus on regulatory, security, and user-centered requirements
• Advising C-level stakeholders on UX strategy and design best practices
• Planning and conducting research with agencies and property owners
• Design system strategy and definition of UX architecture

• As UX Manager and UX Team Lead, my focus is on creating the conditions for excellent UX design – not only by improving results, but also by investing in people, culture, and systems. I am convinced that sustainable UX design comes from a combination of autonomous teams, clear rituals, and a shared vision of product and user value.

• My job is to enable successful UX design within a company. This includes setting up and growing the UX team, establishing a design system, designing design processes, defining and developing UX maturity and UX culture within the company, and developing strategies that combine business requirements and user experience design.

• Consulting and conceptual support in UX and product topics (project-based)

• Deepening strategic topics: UX Strategy, Organizational Design, UX Maturity

• Market and role orientation with a focus on Head of UX / UX Leadership positions

• Leading end-to-end UX for two AI SaaS products in closed beta, including LLM-interaction design, prompt-UX, and human-in-the-loop patterns with commercial distribution signed for launch in Q3 2026
• Built a self-built LLM reframing and RAG-correction pipeline powering multi-profile CV and case-study generation in production use
• Shipping real code alongside research, including Three.js/GLSL portfolio work, Figma-API tooling, and a Chrome MV3 extension for session-sync automation

• Designing UX for a B2B AI SaaS platform covering the full software development lifecycle, including an orchestration transparency panel showing users which AI model is active at each stage, reducing AI opacity and building user trust in multi-model workflows.

• Concept and implementation of data-heavy platforms for enterprise customers
• Design of complex AI-based interactions (chatbots, voice control, semantic search)
• Stakeholder management with more than 10 participants in cross-functional teams
• User research: interviews, usability tests, value validation
• Definition of quality metrics and execution of value analyses

Tools & methods: Figma, Adobe XD, Miro, Chat GPT, Claude | Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean UX

Selected clients: VW Group, Volkswagen, BMW, Cariad, ABUS, Gieseke & Devrient, Hamburg Senate Chancellery, German Red Cross, Deutsche Bahn, Immoscout24, Relynk

• Led end-to-end discovery and exploratory research to assess user needs, market readiness, and product viability for a workflow management and collaboration proposition
• Identified structural misalignment between concept assumptions and real engineering workflows, preventing premature delivery escalation and investment exposure
• Demonstrated through research evidence that the initial proposition was premature, preventing delivery escalation
• Reframed the value proposition based on evidence and initiated a renewed discovery cycle grounded in observed field practices
• Designed research plans and synthesis frameworks to inform roadmap prioritisation and reduce delivery risk
• Contributed to research operations setup, clarifying team roles and collaboration patterns to support continuous discovery
• Supported alignment between product, delivery, and leadership stakeholders through structured insight communication
• Scale: global platform launched as Think Hub (EU, UK, US, Asia)

• Built a JTBD-based prioritization framework for 3,000+ accumulated feature requests, identified 27 broker jobs, validated 8 through 25 user interviews, and used the resulting job map as a live prioritization filter for all incoming channels (Upvoty, CSAT, consulting tickets).
• Responsible for the Scout24 Lighthouse initiative: Document Intelligence with full RAG architecture (semantic chunking, bge-m3 embeddings, pgvector, BM25+Dense hybrid retrieval).
• Reduced lead time of customer feature requests to 3.1 days through code analysis, ticket specification, and independent implementation using a coding agent (Codex).
• Developed an LLM-based support agent (GPT-4o mini, Codex-generated merge requests) that reduced 3rd-level escalations from 40% to 5% of all monthly tickets.
• Integrated six partners through technical coordination, specification, backlog and release management, and led seven full stack developers.
• Eliminated regulatory exposure for brokers in six weeks through risk analysis (BGH ruling on distance selling/GDPR), new audit features, and coordination with legal and data protection officers.

Embedded in the global MarTech organisation, I led strategic initiatives to shift towards a data-driven product operating model, strengthening decision-making, planning, and accountability across global marketing and product teams.

• Introduced and owned a structured OKR and quarterly planning cadence, coaching Product Managers and Leaders to move from output-driven delivery to outcome-focused prioritisation
• Designed and implemented a global analytics solution serving stakeholders across Marketing, Product, and Regulatory functions, reducing time-to-insight by 70%
• Established user behaviour analytics for internal tools, shifting product decisions from anecdotal input to evidence-based trade-offs

I run my own freelance agency based in Berlin and help startups and teams.

• I helped 100+ businesses achieve the digital products they wanted.
• Took ownership of the design process, collaborating with other teams.
• Conducted design thinking, user research, and competitive analysis.
• Developed design concepts, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Optimized websites and their conversion rates to reach more clients.
• I help clients in tech, hospitality, luxury, real estate, and professional services.
• I work with long-term products and clients like Accor, Corso Da Vinci, Webwavers, and ImmoTrust.

• Cut first-30-day post-subscription churn 45% to 20% by revamping onboarding and optimizing time-to-value.
• Drove 3x LTV in 6 months through retention and monetization experiments across the customer lifecycle.
• Owned app redesign and feature delivery leading to lifting active-user NPS from 6.3 to 8.5.

• Developed a first communication framework for the Wholesale division, significantly improving both internal and external interactions
• Created essential internal onboarding materials to facilitate smoother team integration
• Developed and maintained partner-facing enablement materials to strengthen external partnerships
• Implemented effective tooling and processes to support ongoing communication efforts
• Drove product adoption through strategic positioning, multi-channel communication plans and enablement materials
• Served as the primary liaison between topic specialists and brands, ensuring clarity in partner updates
• Enhanced copy and content strategy by leveraging analytical insights and optimizing brand guidelines

• Executive Advisory: Lead an integrated fractional practice connecting research, data, and commercial strategy for C-suite and product leaders across e-commerce, media, and tech.
• Commercial Strategy: Structure ambiguous market challenges into high-stakes, actionable decisions that directly influence product roadmaps and revenue growth.
• Mixed-Methods Delivery: Direct customer journey mapping, stakeholder alignment workshops, and mixed-methods research, leveraging AI synthesis alongside 20 years of strategic judgment.