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Unsere Produkt-Mannschaft

Ob Aufbauphase, Turnaround oder Skalierung: ARISE Produktmanager:innen und Berater:innen übernehmen unterschiedliche Rollen entlang der Produktreise – strategisch, operativ und hands-on – und machen Teams, Prozesse und Entscheidungen nachhaltig lieferfähig.

Whether in the startup, scale-up, or turnaround phase, ARISE’s product managers and consultants take on various roles throughout the product lifecycle—strategic, operational, and hands-on—, ensuring sustainable teams, processes, and decisions that deliver results.

Julian and Andreas—the founders of ARISE—provide direction, help clarify decisions, and step in when it counts—both as strategists and as temporary team members on your project.

Super-Connector – A successful e-commerce manager with over 15 years of experience in a wide range of roles, always passionate about projects. You too can benefit from Julian’s expertise in growth management, business consulting, and proactive team leadership to ensure the long-term success of your project.Makes the impossible possible – since 2005, a successful interim Product Manager and servant leader in senior roles such as CPO, VP of Product, and Head of Product, with a track record of successful projects and a strong hands-on approach. With his wealth of experience in servant leadership, strategic thinking, and digital transformation, combined with his agile mindset, Andy will help your project succeed.

Interim product managers and consultants who translate discovery, delivery, and enablement into clear strategies with measurable results.

I bring highly technical platform and infrastructure products to life—from identity and access management to multi-tenant developer services. I combine deep technical expertise with a clear business focus to turn complex systems into usable products.- **Platform Product Management**: Developer Platforms, IAM, Cloud & Infrastructure, Security, Business Process Management
- **Strategy & Prioritization**: Roadmaps, Portfolios, OKRs, Decision Frameworks, Risk & Governance
- **Delivery & Enablement**: Developer Experience, SDLC/Tooling, Interaction Design, Cross-Team Alignment & Implementation- Scaled identity and security solutions for over 1,000 Kubernetes clusters and 1,000 users.
- Scaled from 0 to 7,000 MAU and helped build a base of 200 monthly active enterprise customers (~$10M in new ARR).
- Successfully built and scaled technical teams and product trios multiple times (50 FTEs).
- Developed developer tools and process building blocks as the foundation for 1,000 projects and 25,000 CRM users.**End-to-End Responsibility**: Product manager with 8 years of experience in designing user-centered digital experiences: from validating product-market fit to large-scale rollout.

**Technical Expertise**: With a background in consulting and tech organizations, I have developed a deep understanding of the developer journey. This includes the tools needed to develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications.

**Leadership Approach**: I inspire teams to embrace the “why” behind our work—and create spaces for self-directed contributions, driven by transparency, trust, and empathy for users.- Achieved momentum and trust for the joint portfolio roadmap across 5 product lines with 15 product owners in a private cloud initiative by efficiently managing dependencies.
- Portfolio management, including a portfolio of products with an ARR of over $44 million.
- Improved data quality and latency by 10% and 13%, respectively, in logistics.
- Built a new product organization and achieved PMF as the first Product Manager of an early-stage deep tech startup
- Led go-to-market efforts across 11 countries and achieved a 300% annual growth rate in transactions for airline partners of a logistics startup- Erreichen von Momentum und Lieferfähigkeit für die gemeinsame Portfolio-Roadmap über 5 Produktlinien mit 15 Produktverantwortlichen im Rahmen einer Private-Cloud-Initiative durch effizientes Management von Abhängigkeiten.
- Portfoliomanagement, einschließlich eines Produktportfolios mit einem ARR von über 44 Millionen US-Dollar.
- Verbesserung der Datenqualität (10 % +) und der Latenz (13% -) im Logistikbereich.
- Aufbau einer neuen Produktorganisation und Erreichen des PMF als erster Produktmanager eines Deep-Tech-Startups in der Frühphase.
- Leitung der Markteinführungsmaßnahmen in 11 Ländern und Erzielung einer jährlichen Wachstumsrate von 300 % bei den Transaktionen für Airline-Partner eines Logistik-Startups.Industry-spanning product and delivery leader with 20 years of experience building and running complex initiatives from early discovery to rollout at enterprise scale.

Specialised in automotive ecosystems, platform modernisation, and integration-
heavy environments, bridging business, engineering, architecture, compliance, and
stakeholders to deliver scalable outcomes.

Trusted to operate in regulated, high-stakes environments while still delivering fast, pragmatic outcomes that stick.

Execution-driven and commercially minded, combining PRINCE2-style project
discipline (documentation, governance, risk control) with hands-on product leadership to deliver measurable impact—turning complexity into momentum.* Recognized as Top 100 Women in Supply Chain (2020) for leadership and impact in procurement innovation
* Built a product narrative and growth trajectory strong enough to help secure Europe’s largest B2B VC funding round (scoutbee)
* Protected a multi-million customer contract by delivering a differentiated product advantage within months, strengthening the customer’s internal positioning and external market impact across their importer ecosystem.
This led to VW recommending my work internally to other VW Group brands and enabled further collaborations (VW Group / Avantgarde)
* Drove innovation that earned industry recognition, including a Gartner “Cool Vendor” award for a newly launched product (Chain IQ)
* Rebuilt a traditional procurement department into an end-to-end procurement services business that scaled rapidly and remains successful today (Chain IQ)
* Co-shaped regulatory direction and delivered the prototype for Germany’s Battery Passport initiative, laying groundwork for mandatory adoption and future expansion toward European product passports (Circulor)
* Pioneered Data Vault modelling at Swiss Life, working directly with inventor Dan Linstedt and Michael Olschimke to establish scalable enterprise data governance foundations (SwissLife)
* Led a major global transformation program at Microsoft, supporting the consolidation and streamlining of Microsoft Consulting Services across regions (Microsoft)
* Built AI-driven investment automation at Swiss Life, helping define the algorithms and decision logic powering automated investment decisions at scale.Hello, I’m Johannes Schmidt, Senior Product Manager at Arise.

I oversee digital products and product organizations during phases where strategic ambition must align with operational reality—with the clear goal of significantly reducing time to market and consistently driving the shift from output to outcome.

My background lies in the hands-on development of digital products: data, software, and architecture. A startup of my own nearly 20 years ago, which was not successful, has permanently sharpened my perspective: customer value is not an option, but a prerequisite for economic success. This experience continues to shape my work to this day.

I work where product development comes under structural pressure: When strategy isn’t translated into effective decisions, when organization, architecture, and technology aren’t seamlessly integrated, or when speed and stability need to be rebalanced.

I have worked both within and alongside established organizations such as Otto, IBM, Fielmann, Galeria, XXXLutz, and Intersport, as well as in growth environments like Parship, Statista, Redcare, and, back in the day, StudiVZ.

My contribution is to align product strategy, operating models, and technology decisions in such a way that teams become capable of making decisions and customer value is scaled in an economically viable manner.

At Arise, I do this as Interim Head of Product or Product Manager. I delve deeply into the organization, architecture, and domain, and make the necessary strategic decisions to build robust, scalable digital products and high-performing product organizations.I help organizations develop digital products that deliver real business impact.

I operate at the intersection of business, product, data, and tech, ensuring that requirements are translated into clear priorities, actionable solutions, and measurable results.

My experience lies particularly in complex organizations with many stakeholders, international structures, and significant financial responsibility. In these settings, I combine domain expertise, data-driven product work, and close collaboration with engineering teams to accelerate decision-making and achieve real impact throughout the customer journey.**Product Management & Discovery**: Customer journey analysis, product discovery, hypothesis development, and the creation of effective product solutions.

**Strategy & Prioritization**: Structuring complex backlogs, roadmap management, and decision-making based on business impact, effort, and time-to-impact.

**Business & Domain Expertise**: Translating business requirements and economic goals into scalable product solutions.

**Data-Driven Product Development**: A/B testing, funnel analysis, and data-driven validation of product decisions.- Increased the add-to-cart rate by 16% through data-driven optimization of mobile product listings.
- Conducted over 20 A/B tests as part of an international CRO initiative; 38% of the experiments had a statistically significant positive effect on the conversion rate.
- Increased the interaction rate with ratings and reviews by +1,727% through UX and product optimizations.
- Established structured prioritization processes for feature requests in an international setup involving 10 country organizations and multiple product teams.

Recruiting, administrative support, and operations—we take care of the back-end tasks so the product team can stay focused and move at the right pace.

I help product teams align discovery, delivery, and growth with a crisp strategy and measurable outcomes.- Product foundations (strategy, discovery, prioritization)
- Growth & analytics (activation, retention, experimentation)
- Delivery & ways of working (team rituals, roadmaps, operating cadences)- Led pricing and packaging refresh → +18% revenue per account
- Shipped lifecycle experiments → +22% activation
- Built cross-functional launch playbooks across 6 teamsI help product teams align discovery, delivery, and growth with a crisp strategy and measurable outcomes.- Product foundations (strategy, discovery, prioritization)
- Growth & analytics (activation, retention, experimentation)
- Delivery & ways of working (team rituals, roadmaps, operating cadences)- Led pricing and packaging refresh → +18% revenue per account
- Shipped lifecycle experiments → +22% activation
- Built cross-functional launch playbooks across 6 teamsI help product teams align discovery, delivery, and growth with a crisp strategy and measurable outcomes.- Product foundations (strategy, discovery, prioritization)
- Growth & analytics (activation, retention, experimentation)
- Delivery & ways of working (team rituals, roadmaps, operating cadences)- Led pricing and packaging refresh → +18% revenue per account
- Shipped lifecycle experiments → +22% activation
- Built cross-functional launch playbooks across 6 teams
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