XING Experts in Germany
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Angelika B.
Last position:
Sr. Consultant Transformation/Organizational Development at Asset management and real estate developer
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
Tatjana M.
Last position:
Recruiting & Sales Team Lead at SalesPotentials
- Professional and disciplinary leadership, coaching and performance tracking of the Active Sourcing and Recruiting team
- Recruiting and Active Sourcing of specialists and managers in the tech sales sector, from Account Executive to CSO level
- Interim recruiter for various companies
- New customer acquisition by phone, email and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Process optimization through AI
- Optimization of the careers website and job profiles
Daniel R.
Last position:
Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Zenithmedia x Publicis | The Walt Disney Company
- Served as point of contact for Disney Studios GSA
- Identified growth hacks to increase cinema ticket bookings, maximize reach, optimize frequency, and achieve 100% VTR
- Managed stakeholder relationships and collaborated with an interdisciplinary team
- Performed hands-on optimizations based on operational implementations on Meta (Facebook, Instagram), TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit, and Snapchat
Thomas K.
Last position:
Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer (SAFe) – Product & Cross-functional Delivery Focus at Autonomous Driving / Connectivity (OEM, confidential)
- Orchestrate cross-functional delivery across organisational units in the Connectivity domain, aligning teams around integrated end-to-end, customer-testable value rather than isolated component delivery.
- Drive a shift from local component optimisation towards shared outcomes and a common delivery goal, increasing focus and enabling significantly faster integrated delivery.
- Coordinate across 15 cross-functional organisations in a highly complex OEM environment; bring Product, Engineering, Programme Management and specialist functions together to resolve dependencies and improve decision-making.
- Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and stakeholders on product responsibility, prioritisation, outcome orientation and aligned backlogs.
- Use Claude through an AWS Bedrock integration to analyse Jira and Confluence content, identify patterns, dependencies and quality gaps, and support structured product and delivery decisions.
- Establish AI-native requirements excellence with LLM-supported quality gates for epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps and task breakdowns; scale adoption through templates and prompt playbooks.
Klaus Z.
Last position:
Head of HR, Machinery and Plant Engineering at Interim Management (freelance)
- Acting as a professional sparring partner for management and leaders on HR topics
- Advising employees on HR matters
- Maintaining department capability during transition
- Analyzing weaknesses in the performance appraisal process
- Integrating the SAP appraisal tool
- Negotiating and organizing short-time work
- Analyzing and consolidating employment contracts
- Preparing references and recruiting
- Advising on organizational development
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
Timo J.
Last position:
Co-Founder & Technical Lead at cubular GmbH
Co-founded a software agency building custom web and cross-platform products. I owned the technical decisions across the whole portfolio and led 12 people, while carrying delivery planning, process and client relationships for 11 clients across 3 industries.
Technical leadership: owned the technical decisions for the codebase across every project — stack, architecture, code conventions and the tooling the team worked with — and led the developers on how work got built through code reviews, pair programming and mentoring across a team ranging from junior to senior, keeping the codebase coherent as the portfolio and the team grew
Delivery planning against the financial plan: built the company's financial plan and derived from it the billable hours each developer had to reach per month and the hours each project could absorb to stay within budget; planned capacity and scope against those figures and negotiated budgets and delivery dates directly with clients
Client ownership: technical contact across the portfolio — requirements gathering and prioritisation, scoping and estimates, timeline communication, budget negotiation, and consistent transparency throughout delivery
Team and people: owned the hiring and interview process end to end and took responsibility for offboarding where it was needed; designed an onboarding that got new developers productive within 1–2 days; cleared blockers daily and kept a close eye on where effort was creating value and where it was not
Process ownership: consolidated a micro-service landscape spread over 15+ repositories into a single monorepo, cutting backend development time by ~40% and simplifying releases for 6 engineers; set up deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI; ran retrospectives and turned the feedback into concrete changes; introduced AI agents into day-to-day development
Delivered short-staffed: when the team shrank from 8 developers to 2, restructured scope, introduced AI-assisted development to hold the schedule and took on Go backend work alongside my own frontend scope
Architecture and code: defined the architecture for every project in the portfolio — the structure the rest of the team built within — and wrote roughly 90% of the frontend code myself, from SSR applications with Next.js and Remix to cross-platform apps with Capacitor
From zero to production: took a practice management platform — administration, inventory, integrated online shop, chat messenger — from an empty repository to production. Live in 7 markets with at least 7 more coming up, serving tens of thousands of users
Delivery under pressure: built and shipped a replacement online shop for a Fortune 250 client in 4 days, restoring order intake while their global shops had been offline for several weeks
Design system: built a cross-project design system used across 7 products, so new projects and features started from a shared, consistent base
Cross-platform and real-time: built iOS and Android apps with Capacitor for a client live event with 1,000+ participants — web sockets and push notifications for real-time content, Stripe payments supporting PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards
Key technologies: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Remix, GraphQL, ConnectRPC, Redux, Zustand, Go, Node.js, Turborepo, Nx, Capacitor, Ionic, WebSockets, Stripe, PostgreSQL, Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, Storybook, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
Lutz E.
Last position:
Founder & Principal InfoSec Recruiter at Cyber Defense Recruitment / Lutz Eichenhofer HR Consult
Specialized headhunting and recruitment consultancy for cyber security in the DACH region.
- End-to-end recruitment of cyber security specialists and executives.
- Precise matchmaking for Security Engineers, CISOs, SOC Analysts & GRC Consultants.
- Direct sourcing via LinkedIn Recruiter, active sourcing & professional networks.
- Consulting on salary structures, talent analytics, and NIS-2 compliance skill sets.
Nino S.
Last position:
Interim Recruiter — Sales & Commercial at Hanseft
- Scaled the sales organisation by hiring 60+ employees in 6 months across Sales, Account Management, Product Management and Head of Sales, with an average time-to-hire of 27 days
- Partnered with senior leadership to define role requirements and drive end-to-end hiring strategy
- Owned full recruitment lifecycle: sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management and onboarding
- Built scalable talent pipelines to support rapid organisational growth across multiple functions
Janine S.
Last position:
Virtual Assistant to Management / Business Administration at TBN – Technische Beratung
- Managing the operational back office
- Handling quotations and invoicing
- Supporting preparatory accounting
- Coordinating appointments and operational alignments
- Interface management between management, clients, and external partners
- Structuring administrative processes in day-to-day business
By taking over operational back office tasks, management is noticeably relieved. Administrative processes run in a more structured, reliable, and efficient way, creating more time for clients, projects, and entrepreneurial decisions.
Christina K.
Last position:
Founder | Freelance & Interim Talent Acquisition | Recruiting Consultant at Christina Sophia Knappe Consulting
- 100% Remote | Germany & Europe
- Freelance and interim support in talent acquisition, recruiting and executive search
- Flexible and short-term support for companies during recruiting peaks, temporary resource shortages and project-based talent acquisition needs
- Fast assumption of operational recruiting responsibility through many years of experience in in-house recruiting, RPO and recruitment consulting
- End-to-end recruiting from requirements analysis through active sourcing, direct search and interviews to selection, offer management and onboarding
- Targeted support for hard-to-fill positions through active sourcing, direct search and executive search
- Advising HR and hiring managers on recruiting, sourcing and hiring strategies
- Support with recruiting process optimization, standardization and further development of existing recruiting processes
- Independent management of parallel vacancies and recruiting projects with a short onboarding period and a high degree of operational independence
- Project-based engagement without long-term headcount expansion – 100% remote and flexible in Germany and Europe
Stefan D.
Last position:
Online editor and content manager at Federal Employment Agency
- Content responsibility for two areas (careers and continuing education, as well as school, training and studies) and coordination with specialist departments
- Topic research and content planning for the online portal
- Web-friendly creation of target-group-relevant and SEO-optimized content for the online portal
- Building and maintaining multimedia content in the online portal CMS (Drupal)
- Monitoring the content of the online portal using Google Search Console and Matomo
- Ensuring the quality of the online portal through tests and analyses
- PowerPoint presentation of work results in topic conferences with BA specialist departments
- Supporting the existing online presence and analyzing and fixing errors
Marc F.
Last position:
Interim Talent Acquisition Manager at doctari
- Building a cross-functional product team to develop a super app
- Advising and mentoring to support the team and provide input (technical & soft skills)
Paul P.
Last position:
Independent Consultant – Industry/ Embedded/ IoT at Self-employed
Consulting and support in the areas of sales/business/technology/development/marketing:
- Sales, Key Account Management
- Business Development, business/corporate development
- Partner management
- Program/project management
- Product management & marketing
- Technical marketing, content marketing
- New business, innovation and technologies
Until July 2021 active as advisor and consultant for Mixed Mode in the areas of Key Account Management, Project Management and Business Development.
From Q3/2021 successful delivery of various customer projects in the area of Business Development, corporate development, consulting, coaching, technical content management, sales and marketing:
- EMS service provider and PCB test house, inspection systems: revision of company portfolio and presentation. Integration of specialized distribution for optical inspection systems from Japan: content management, marketing, communication, web, sales automation, lead generation
- Full service marketing agency – technology marketing for industry: expansion of the existing B2B and B2C marketing portfolio with industrial and technology topics: content management, presentation and focus on "technical marketing", web, target market and customer analysis, lead automation, consulting
- Software product manufacturer & software development in the field of security for Embedded & IoT: company alignment and portfolio definition for an IoT and Embedded Security company with a SaaS solution for IoT device management: building a partner network to offer complete Embedded/IoT security solutions, technical content, company alignment and portfolio definition, strategy & planning, target market and customer analysis, product marketing/USPs for the security device management tool "IoT-Suite", standards and regulations for cyber resilience (e.g. CRA, NIS2, RED), web content, SEO, management of marketing and sales agencies, CRM, sales, presentations, trade fairs, congresses, building company webinars & events
- Software engineering service provider/system house for IoT, Embedded, web, mobile and desktop applications: business development, content creation, customer acquisition and sales
- Manufacturer of memory products with security features as an add-on: memory products in standard form factors (SD, CF, SSD...) are extended with security modules such as HSM, TPM or secure elements and thus offer users secure data storage, transfer and access. Also interesting as an upgrade or retrofit solution to meet the coming new regulations and requirements regarding cybersecurity such as CRA, RED and NIS2. Business & New Business Development for the area "Embedded IoT Solutions & Security", sales & marketing. Expansion of the pure semiconductor business to include security solutions and services. Interface between management, marketing, sales and product management. Building business partners, technology partners, system integrators and resellers from the Embedded, IoT, OT and IT environment. Creating reference designs/demos/lighthouse cases and proof of concepts for cross- and reference selling. Co-marketing with security partners. Technical content creation for web, sales and marketing, webinars, social media etc. Networking, participation in trade fairs, congresses and events. Lead generation, qualification, follow-up and conversion to customer. Product definition, USPs, features. Analysis of competitors, market positioning, target markets - strategy, concept and measures - go to market.
- Marketing agency group with sales and management consulting: consulting for companies on restructuring, market analysis and market entry, go-to-market concepts, customer acquisition and expansion, new customer generation, lead generation and management, concepts and execution of campaigns (web, mail, social media, phone outreach in person or with AI voice assistant, webinars...). Processing and managing customer product data for PIM product information and DAM data asset management systems. Focus on customers in the industrial and technology environment with products and services that need explanation.
Mario B.
Last position:
Career Break / Round-the-World Trip
After our wedding, my wife and I decided to take a multi-month break and traveled to various countries.
Since May 2026, I have been fully available for new professional challenges.
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Statistics of experts using XING
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
3.2 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Human Resources, Project Management, Marketing
Top industries
Professional Services, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Human Resources, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
48%
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
1
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
99%
Based on our profile pool as of 9 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
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Explore rate insightsAverage rates of experts in Germany using XING
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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 9 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
XING experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Professional Services (80%)
- Information Technology (66%)
- Manufacturing (41%)
- Retail (39%)
- Banking and Finance (33%)
- Media and Entertainment (30%)
- Advertising (29%)
- Automotive (29%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
XING as a professional network
XING is a professional networking service focused on the German-speaking business market. Companies use it for professional profiles, business contacts, recruiting, employer branding and job advertising. It was formerly known as OpenBC, a name that still appears in older documents and searches.
Recruiting with XING
XING supports the full path from employer visibility to direct talent outreach. Specialists use company pages, job postings, search filters and personal messages to reach relevant professionals. XING TalentManager adds tools for structured sourcing, pipeline work and contact management.
Profiles and employer brands
A strong XING presence combines an accurate company profile with clear role descriptions and credible content. Experts refine profile structure, messaging, visual assets and publishing routines so that potential applicants understand the company, its work and its expectations. German-language communication is often central for companies hiring in Germany.
Connected workflows
XING work rarely stands alone. Professionals may connect recruiting activity with applicant tracking systems, HR databases, campaign tools, analytics and calendar workflows. Depending on the project, they work with exports, approved integrations, data quality rules and access permissions rather than treating the network as an isolated channel.
When companies need specialists
- A recruiting team needs a repeatable XING sourcing process
- An employer profile needs clearer positioning and content
- Outreach messages need better targeting and response tracking
- A hiring campaign needs support for German-speaking audiences
Freelance expertise is useful when internal teams lack capacity, need an objective review or are preparing a focused hiring campaign. The scope can cover setup, execution, documentation or team enablement.
What strong professionals bring
Effective XING specialists understand both the platform and the human side of professional outreach. They define a relevant search profile, use precise filters, write respectful messages and document consent, responses and next steps. They also distinguish sourcing activity from hiring outcomes and report on useful signals without relying on vanity measures.
They ask about the target audience, employer proposition, language, approval process and existing HR tools before changing anything. For remote work across Germany, clear access rules, regular handovers and written documentation keep campaigns consistent. Strong professionals leave behind a process the internal team can maintain.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about XING, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Companies use XING for professional networking, employer branding, job advertising and direct talent sourcing. It can support both ongoing recruiting activity and focused campaigns for specific specialist profiles.
XING has a strong focus on the German-speaking business market, while LinkedIn has broader international reach. The right choice depends on the target audience, language, industry coverage and whether a company needs local depth or global distribution.
A capable XING specialist may also bring experience in recruiting operations, employer branding, copywriting, campaign planning and applicant tracking systems. Knowledge of German business communication and data protection practices is useful when the work targets Germany.
The required experience depends on the scope. A profile review may need focused platform knowledge, while a sourcing process or integration project calls for stronger skills in workflow design, documentation and stakeholder coordination.
Yes, much of XING work can be handled remotely through shared documents, scheduled reviews and controlled account access. On-site sessions can help when teams need workshops, process training or close coordination with HR and communications.
For German-facing XING campaigns, German language skills are often important for search terms, profile content and outreach messages. English may be sufficient for internal coordination when the target audience and employer communication are international.
Ask a XING professional to explain the target profile, search method, outreach logic and reporting approach. Good work is relevant, respectful and documented, with clear handover materials rather than a large volume of poorly targeted contacts.
XING was formerly called OpenBC, short for Open Business Club. A freelancer should recognize both names when reviewing older company materials, historical profiles or search data, but current platform work should use the XING name.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used XING in their recent projects is 94 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 755 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used XING in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 48% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used XING in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used XING in their recent projects are German (100%), English (99%), and French (37%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used XING in their recent projects are Professional Services (80%), Information Technology (66%), and Manufacturing (41%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used XING in their recent projects are Human Resources (67%), Project Management (66%), and Marketing (61%).
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