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Career & selected work

Product leader with 10+ years building and scaling consumer products across fintech, real estate and e-commerce — currently running company-wide initiatives at N26. Below is my career at a glance and a selection of work deep-dives. The full case studies with impact numbers and the CV download are available for recruiters via access code.

Career

  1. Mar. 2022 – today

    Lead Product Manager · N26, Berlin

    Company-wide initiatives at a fully licensed digital bank: home-screen platform, accessibility at scale, AI/LLM products, rollouts across 27 markets with Legal & Compliance.

  2. Nov. 2017 – Feb. 2022

    Senior Product Manager · ImmoScout24 (Scout24 Group), Berlin

    Consumer journey on Germany’s biggest real-estate platform: mobile search funnel, listing creation, first rebrand in 20 years, ML-driven personalization.

  3. Nov. 2016 – Oct. 2017

    Product Manager · Caterwings (Rocket Internet), Berlin

    Product strategy and roadmap from scratch; built and led a 7-person cross-functional team digitizing the entire business model.

  4. Dec. 2013 – Oct. 2016

    Product Owner UX/UI · Lieferando (Takeaway.com Group), Berlin/Amsterdam/Utrecht

    Responsive web platform for a Europe-wide rollout, landing-page toolkit, CRO program; frontend delivery across 12 people in 3 offices.

Education

  • M.Sc. Media Economics, Technical University Ilmenau
  • B.Sc. Media Economics, Technical University Ilmenau

Certifications

  • 2× Certified Scrum Product Owner
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified & Outstanding Mentor — The Mentoring Club (platform retired 2026)
  • AI Prototyping for Product Managers — Maven, 2025
  • Coaching Fundamentals — Product Academy, 2024
  • Becoming an AI-First Product Leader, 2020
  • ML & AI Foundations: Value Estimations, 2019

Selected work

A selection, not a complete record — shipping in two-week cycles for over a decade means most releases never make it into a portfolio. These are the ones that tell the story best.

N26 Pulse — accessibility at scale

N26

Lead Product Manager (initiative steer) · 2024 – 2025

A 30-team initiative to bring a banking app from near-zero to broad WCAG AA compliance — new design system, phased rollout, and a self-built live tracking tool.

  • Accessibility
  • Design systems
  • Program leadership
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Modular Home — rebuilding N26's home screen

N26

Lead Product Manager, Home team (Engagement) · 2024 – 2025

Transitioned the home screen of a fully licensed digital bank from a static transaction feed into a personalized, scalable product dashboard — validated step by step through experimentation.

  • Product strategy
  • Experimentation
  • Fintech
  • Platform
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Multi-Account Experience (MAE)

N26

Lead Product Manager, Home team (Engagement) · 2024 – 2025

One home for every account type — an experiment-driven roadmap that turned account access into a growth lever for regulated banking products.

  • Growth
  • Experimentation
  • Fintech
  • UX
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The experimentation engine

N26

Lead Product Manager · 2022 – 2025

A structured A/B-testing program across Home, Finances and Onboarding — hypothesis templates, health metrics, and the discipline to stop what doesn't work.

  • Experimentation
  • Analytics
  • Statsig
  • Process
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AI-Insights — LLM features in a regulated bank

N26

Lead Product Manager · 2024 – 2025

An LLM-powered feature giving users personalized, context-aware financial recommendations — one of the bank's most legally sensitive builds, shaped with Legal from day one.

  • AI / LLM
  • Fintech
  • Compliance
  • Product discovery
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"A unique blend of humor, professionalism, and sharp product insights made collaboration not only enjoyable but also incredibly productive."
— colleague recommendation, LinkedIn
"Markus, as being a structured wide range thinker, had truly useful and good suggestions and guidelines on what to execute to get closer to my goal. Supportive & smart advisor."
— mentee feedback, mentoring page

Guest Area

Full case studies — including impact metrics — and the CV download are available with an access code. You'll find it in my application documents, or request it via the contact form.

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