Nikolai Stosch

* Managed product discovery phase including problem definition, market research, customer interviews, ideation, and designing an MVP with a group of curated alpha users * Gathered and prioritized customer feedback, ideated and iterated product features * Responsible for product features, initiatives, and long-term product roadmaps * Creating feature specs, PRDs, and strategy docs * Owned project management for several Go-To-Market initiatives * Owned product marketing and product growth measures

* First senior hire to join and grow a new European product design team based in Berlin * Led new product work for a cybersecurity product from scratch with a team of designers * Established a UX research practice and process in the global team * Developed ux design quality framework and research guidelines * Advocated internally for user-centered design by conducting workshops and presentations

* Led a global research project for Autodesk including field research in 4 countries * Managed product experience project for Fleetboard (part of Mercedes-Benz) to improve the fleet management experience for a telematics solution * Responsible for customer research, product vision, and strategy, facilitating workshops, aligning stakeholders, defining product roadmap, and monitoring final product delivery

* First senior hire to join the founding team and establish foundational product and design processes * Facilitated design sprints in the discovery phase to find diseases that can be tackled with xbird’s core technology * Project management for conducting medical studies in joint partnerships with health providers and pharmaceutical companies

* Joined the company as its first product manager * Worked closely with the CEO and CTO to optimize the checkout funnel to maximize revenue * Became part of the management team, representing the product and design department * Developed new approaches to widen the top of the funnel for new customer acquisition * Worked in international expansion to 5 European markets * Managed a complete website relaunch with improved UX and visual design * Facilitated workshops to align internal stakeholders

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Creativity, Design

Marketing, Interkulturelles Management