About Katharina
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Czech
Conversational
Experience
- Amazon, Alexa AI,Senior Product Manager – TechSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGFebruary 2024 - January 2026 (1 year and 11 months)Berlin, Germany- Leading product management for Amazon’s LLM-based voice assistant (“Alexa+”), with responsibility for European markets and contribution to the global Alexa+ strategy.- Drove the integration of Alexa+ into BMW’s in-car voice assistant, aligning cross-functional teams across Product, Applied Science, and Engineering to deliver multilingual, natural conversational experiences.- Defined roadmap and KPIs for generative AI features across 24 markets, ensuring scalability, reliability, and local linguistic quality.- Partnered with UX and NLU research teams to optimize user satisfaction, response latency, and model accuracy for multilingual generative dialogue.- Provided strategic consulting for automotive and consumer product launches in the EMEA region, enabling seamless deployment of next-generation voice technologies.
- Amazon Alexa AIManager, Language Engineering & Analytics (Senior)SOFTWARE PUBLISHINGDecember 2019 - February 2024 (4 years and 2 months)Berlin, GermanyRamped up and managed global cross-functional team of 30+ people (Engineers, Analysts, Linguists, Program/Operations Managers). Promotion to Senior level in 2020. After June'22, additional leadership for globally distributed analytics team (lateral management).• Created and facilitated business and NU model performance KPI reporting and tracking for Alexa experiences in 18 markets (58% of WW traffic) on VP level; designed KPIs and quality metrics.• Launched 8+ business analysis and NLU tools: e.g. automated NLU artifact authoring saving 52% capacity and reducing model failure by 76%.• Owned NLU model performance and releases for 3 languages in 6 markets (20% of WW traffic) fueling Alexa customer experiences in 41 domains (e.g. Entertainment, Automotive, SmartHome, eCommerce); deployment of 250+ Alexa features and improvements per year.• Successfully completed 9+ global top level company goals increasing NLU model product quality by ~30%; lateral management of 5 global teams.• Ramped up/down teams incl. recruiting (300+ interviews): E.g. revamped French NLU team closing model and team performance gaps, stabilizing release operations within 8 months.
- Amazon Alexa AILanguage EngineerSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJuly 2018 - November 2019 (1 year and 4 months)Berlin, Germany• Designed and implemented Alexa feature for German and French ML models: e.g. enabled Alexa customers to listen to audioplays (e.g. Bibi und Tina).• Lead NLU model accuracy improvement projects with functional leadership for 12+ peers.
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Education
- MA Linguistics;Humboldt-University of Berlin2015
- BA Sprach- und TextwissenschaftenUniversity of Passau2012