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Conny T.

Strategic Product Leader & Digital Transformation

€1,400/day
Leipzig, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Conny

I am a strategic Product Leader and Transformation Consultant with over ten years of experience in digital customer-facing products, scaling teams, and driving real business impact.

Most recently, as Director of Product at Verivox, I led the Insurance Business Unit, overseeing five cross-functional teams, full product and budget responsibility, platform modernization, and growth strategy in a regulated market. Prior to that, I worked as a Product Transformation Consultant at VMware Tanzu Labs, guiding corporations in Automotive (Audi, Daimler, BMW, VW), Health (Abbott), Public Services (EU, Federal Agencies), and other industries through digital transformation.

What I bring:
- Product Strategy & Vision, from problem to roadmap, from idea to scalable product
- Team and Organizational Development, building cross-functional teams, developing PM careers
- Lean Discovery & Experimentation, Dual-Track Agile, KPI steering, data-driven prioritization
- Workshop Facilitation, Design Thinking, Design Sprint, OKR Framing, Stakeholder Alignment
- Business Coaching, certified, leadership development for executives and teams

I work remote-first, am fluent in German and English, and my experience spans over two decades of international work (Germany, South Africa, UK, EU), bringing a perspective that extends beyond the German market.

Hourly rate: 175 EUR/h (1,400 EUR/day)
Availability: By arrangement · Projects from 2 weeks
Languages: German (native), English (fluent)
  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Leipzig (up to 50km), Berlin (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Verivox GmbH
    Director of Product
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)
    04 Leipzig, Germany
    I co-lead the Insurance business unit alongside the Managing Director, with responsibility for Product, UX, Agile Coaching, and Engineering across five cross-functional teams. My accountability spans digital product strategy, business cases, budget, and platform execution. I drive platform modernisation, replacing legacy architecture with a scalable, unified stack, while coaching my teams to stay aligned around customer outcomes and company objectives. Beyond my core product responsibilities, I have integrated AI-driven workflows into how I run discovery, shape strategy, and accelerate delivery. My team is actively exploring AI-driven customer use cases with a focus on generative AI and agentic approaches. I work hands-on with the tools I advocate: Claude, Claude Code, Figma Make, and Magic Patterns are part of how I think and build, alongside the standard PM stack.
  • VMware Tanzu Labs
    Product Transformation Consultant
    January 2020 - January 2023 (3 years)
    Berlin, Germany
    As a Product Transformation Consultant I guided enterprise clients through digital transformation and the adoption of cloud-native architectures. I built lean product teams from the ground up and introduced KPI-focused prioritisation models, mentoring product managers and facilitating C-suite leadership workshops across global organisations including Audi, Daimler, BMW, VW, Abbott, German Federal Institutes and the European Union.
  • Zalando SE
    Lead Product Manager
    January 2018 - January 2020 (2 years)
    Berlin, Germany
    I owned the full product strategy for Zalando Lounge, the shopping club serving millions of members across web and native app. I led a team of 7 Product Owners through agile transformation and drove end-to-end retention and loyalty programmes from discovery through to delivery, with direct impact on top-line revenue.

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Education

  • M.S.
    TU Berlin
    2003
    M.S.
  • Systemic Business Coach
    IHK The Key GmbH
    2021
    Systemischer Business Coach

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