Johannes Braun

Angestellt, Product Director Search & Discovery, SoundCloud Ltd.
Berlin, Germany

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Product Management
Data Science
Machine Learning
Search
Recommender Systems
Scrum
Agile

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Johannes Braun

  • Current 6 years and 11 months, since Jul 2019

    Product Director Search & Discovery

    SoundCloud Ltd.

  • 2 years and 3 months, Apr 2017 - Jun 2019

    Head of Product, Search & Personalization

    OLX Tech Hub Berlin

    Driving Search Relevance and Personalization for OLX Emerging markets Challenges: >> Redesign of search query assistance, query understanding, retrieval and ranking >> Prediction of Ad quality and availability >> Developing hybrid recommender systems to enable browsing through related unstructured content in a cold-start data scenario >> Personalized hyperlocal feed generation >> Structured attribute extraction from user generated image and text data

  • 1 year and 11 months, Jun 2015 - Apr 2017

    Senior Product Manager, Personalized News

    Axel Springer SE

    Scaling the news aggregator UPDAY for Samsung* from 0 to 10m+ monthly users while constantly improving highly personalized news feeds significantly increasing open rate and time spent in app Ownership of Personalization vision and feature roadmap. Running multiple cross-functional scrum teams Challenges: >> Multilingual news feed crawling, automated genre classification and duplicate clustering >> Topic extraction, entity linking to wikipedia knowledge graph >> Sentiment and style identification

  • 4 months, Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

    Student

    Data Science Retreat

    datascienceretreat.com

  • 1 year and 3 months, Sep 2013 - Nov 2014

    Senior Product Manager, Recommender Systems

    eBay Inc.

    Design and implementation of recommender systems to create contextualized and personalized suggestions of either similar, inspiring or complementary products to EBAY buyers Ownership of product vision / feature roadmap and communication to senior leadership. Leading multiple agile Scrum teams of >15 data scientist and engineers to innovate algorithmic merchandising and significantly increase user engagement

  • 1 year and 1 month, Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

    MSc Artificial Intelligence

    KU Leuven

    Focus: Speech and Language Technology, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning Final project: Learning to rank for Product Search, EBAY Inc.

  • 1 year and 9 months, Jan 2011 - Sep 2012

    Product Manager, Search Science

    eBay Inc.

    Design and implementation of ebay's search ranking algorithm “Best Match” to improve relevance, quality and trust in search results while improving visitor conversion Working with US based product development to define international solutions and prioritize resources. Communicating best practices to customer support and seller community

  • 2 years, Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

    Senior Analyst, Search

    eBay Inc.

    AB-testing process owner for EU including traffic allocation, statistical analysis and communication Support Search Science product management by analysing financials and behavioural metrics to understand and quantify success

  • 1 year and 6 months, Aug 2007 - Jan 2009

    Analyst, Buyer Experience

    eBay Inc.
  • 7 months, Nov 2006 - May 2007

    Trainee: IT-Consulting

    Detecon Inc.

  • 6 months, Mar 2006 - Aug 2006

    Diplomand: CRM, Data Mining

    WEB.DE GmbH

  • 4 months, Nov 2005 - Feb 2006

    Praktikant: Produktmanagement

    WEB.DE GmbH

  • 1 year and 6 months, May 2004 - Oct 2005

    HiWi: Vertrieb/Marketing

    Insiders Technologies

Ausbildung von Johannes Braun

  • 1 year and 1 month, Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

    Artificial Intelligence

    KU Leuven

    Focus: Speech and Language Technology, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning Final project: Learning to rank for Product Search, EBAY Inc.

  • 5 years and 11 months, Oct 2000 - Aug 2006

    Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen

    TU Kaiserslautern

    Informatik

Sprachen

  • German

  • English

  • Portuguese

  • French

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