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Our Product Team

Whether it’s a startup phase, a turnaround, or scaling up, ARISE product managers and consultants take on various roles throughout the product journey—strategic, operational, and hands-on—and ensure that teams, processes, and decisions are sustainably capable of delivering results.

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.

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.**Product Leadership & Transformation**: Director of Product Mandate | Aufbau von Produktorganisationen | Product Operating Models

**Strategie & Business Development**: Produktstrategie | Plattform- und Ecosystem-Strategien | Partnerschaften & Wachstum

**Organisation & Leadership**: Servant Leadership | Team Enablement | Coaching von Product Leadern

**Product Excellence & Methoden**: Outcome Driven Product Management | Discovery & Delivery | OKRs | Produktmethoden- Aufbau und Führung mehrerer **Product Organisations in Director-of-Product Mandaten**
- Transformation von Teams zu **Outcome-orientierten Produktorganisationen**
- Skalierung von **Produktteams, Plattformprodukten und digitalen Geschäftsmodellen**
- Aufbau von **Partnerschaften und neuen Geschäftsfeldern**
- Gründung und Aufbau von **ARISE als Boutique-Beratung für Product Leadership**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.**Product Leadership & Strategy**: Product Vision, Roadmaps, OKRs, Stakeholder Alignment, Interim Product Leadership

**Digital Commerce & Platform Products**: SAP Commerce Cloud, B2B Ordering, Fleet & Leasing Solutions, API-basierte Plattformen

**Delivery & Program Execution**: Cross-team Delivery, Release Management, Jira/Confluence Governance, End-to-End System Integration

**Team Leadership & Organisation**: Aufbau und Führung internationaler Produkt- und Delivery-Teams, Teamstruktur, Alignment zwischen Business und Tech- Leitung komplexer **E-Commerce und Plattformprogramme im Automotive Umfeld** mit internationalen Teams (EU & CN ).
- Erfolgreiche Umsetzung von **B2B Order- und Fleet-Lösungen**, inklusive ERP, CRM, Payment und Logistics Integrationen.
- Verantwortung für **Personalisierungs-**, Retention- und Cross-Selling-Strategien im internationalen E-Commerce Umfeld. Entwicklung und Umsetzung datengetriebener Maßnahmen zur Optimierung von Checkout-Prozessen, Steigerung der Conversion Rate sowie Reduzierung der Retourenquote.
- Zusätzlich Leitung eines **internationalen E-Commerce-Projekts mit Launch in 17 Ländern** sowie Aufbau automatisierter Marketing- und Kampagnenprozesse zur Skalierung von Kundenbindung, Cross-Selling und Umsatzpotenzialen.

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 startupIndustry-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.I build and scale technical products at the intersection of product, technology, data, and AI. I help organisations turn complex technical capabilities into valuable, usable products—aligning teams, technology, and business outcomes from strategy through to delivery.- **Technical Product Management**: Platform Products, Cloud & Infrastructure, Payments, Data Platforms, AI/ML
- **Product Strategy & Discovery**: Product Discovery, Customer Feedback Loops, OKRs, Product Strategy & Roadmaps, Prioritization, Stakeholder Alignment, Business & Technical Requirements
- **Delivery & Enablement**: Agile/Scrum, Release Management, SDLC, Cross-Team Delivery, Process Design, Automation, Technical Documentation
- **Data & Architecture**: Data Lakes, APIs, Kafka, Data Pipelines, Systems Architecture, Data Governance, Analytics & BI- Led product ownership across **Payments, Reconciliation and Data** for a globally distributed payments platform.
- Redesigned release management and deployment architecture, **distributing release ownership to 20 individual product teams**.
- Launched a customer-centric reconciliation product enabling onboarding of Enterprise clients adding to a pool of SMBs.
- Delivered ML-driven solutions across **customer management, dispute processing, monitoring, translation and pricing**.
- Designed and operated data and infrastructure systems supporting an international e-commerce business across **15+ countries and languages**.

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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