Sebastian Bayer

Angestellt, VP Product - New Business, StayFriends GmbH
Berlin, Germany

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Produktmanagement
Agile Methods
Change Management
Business Intelligence
Teamleitung
Teambuilding
Product Strategy
Product Design
Agile Softwareentwicklung
Analytics
Mobile Application Development
SaaS
Product Management
User Experience Management
Software Projektmanagement
Pricing-Strategien
Scrum
Softwareentwicklung
Projektmanagement
Mobile Solutions
API-Entwicklung
Product Life Cycle Management
Mobile Software-Entwicklung
Conversion Optimierung
Product Development
E-Commerce
User Experience
Teamentwicklung
Mobile
Key Performance Indicators

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Sebastian Bayer

  • Current 8 years and 11 months, since Jul 2017

    VP Product - New Business

    StayFriends GmbH

  • 1 year and 9 months, Oct 2015 - Jun 2017

    Head of Product Management Portal

    PAYBACK GmbH, Part of the American Express Group

    • Product strategy and roadmap for PAYBACK’s web, and affiliate BIZ • Relaunch of the Rewards Shop, PAYBACK’s eCommerce offering • Products Prospektbox and PAYBACK Internet Assistant (PIA) • Contributes to agile / lean transition of the organization (SCRUM/KANBAN/Lean Product Development) • Revamped affiliate business backend and processes

  • 3 years and 1 month, Jun 2012 - Jun 2015

    Director Product Management

    Sleepy Giant Entertainment / adaptiv.io, Newport Beach, California

    Led SGE's Product Management Team. SGE provides B2C eCommerce and community experiences as well as backend services for mobile, web, console, and PC games. • Led agile transformation = Agile and lean processes across all teams • Built effektive product management team • Managed Projects include Disney Infinity, Zenimax Elder Scrolls Online, Ubisoft, BBC, Tera, Fox • Webby award nomination for Disney Infinity • Led product strategy for the adaptiv.io mobile marketing automation platform (now SWRVE)

  • 3 years and 8 months, Oct 2008 - May 2012

    Senior Product Manager

    StayFriends GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

    Headed core business PM team for European sites of Classmates.com •  25M+ users • 5 countries • Subscription + ad based revenue. • Leadership for core business product team • Pricing models and discount strategies • Monetization and UX for core business features: eCommerce, checkout process, alumni database, registration process, contacts, messaging • Conversion optimization: payment and registration process • Product management and agile development processes

  • 9 years and 6 months, Apr 1999 - Sep 2008

    CTO und Founder

    cardamon beratung.gestaltung.programmierung

    Co-founded business, offering tech consulting and software development services • Designed and built software solutions for automotive, manufacturing, and tourism industry • Managed software development teams with up to 7 developers (+QA, Designer) per team • Gathered software dev experience with Java, C++, PHP, ASP.net, PL/SQL, SQL Plus, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.

  • 3 years and 7 months, Jun 2001 - Dec 2004

    Geschäftbereichsleiter

    IFB logistics & process consulting GmbH

    Managed budget and strategy for the software development business unit of a Fraunhofer Research Institute spin-off. • Managed entire product lifecycle for online survey platform »Infoluchs« • Sold 90 licenses and 28 customization projects to market research institutes • Licensed QA technology to Volkswagen and implemented it in two VW plants; now collecting and analyzing data for more than 2000 cars produced per day

  • 3 years and 11 months, May 1995 - Mar 1999

    Research Assistant

    Fraunhofer-Institut für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung

    Parallel to my CS studies: Software development and IT Consulting for • Industrial logistics • Factory automation • Research projects Clients: • Siemens • Carl Zeiss • BSH • Volkswagen

Ausbildung von Sebastian Bayer

  • 1997 - 1998

    Mining Engineering Computer Simulation

    University of Idaho

  • 1994 - 2001

    Informatik

    Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg

    Technische und betriebliche Informationssysteme

Sprachen

  • German

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • English

    C1 (Fließend)

  • Spanish

    B1-B2 (Gute Kenntnisse)

  • Russian

    A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)

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