Description

Product Manager with a strong foundation in software engineering

and hands-on experience in AI-driven product development. Skilled in

building and scaling B2C and B2B SaaS products, mobile apps, and

professional networking platforms. Brings an entrepreneurial mindset shaped

by co-founding a consumer news app, combined with a proven ability to

bridge technical and business teams to deliver user-centric, data-informed

solutions across complex ecosystems.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Albanian
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Jacando GmbH,
Product Manager
August 2024 - January 2025 (5 months)
• Led and shipped a secure, client-focused e-signature solution adopted by over 200 customers, enhancing workflow efficiency and digital compliance.
• Conducted competitor research and drafted detailed Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) to define core features for the e-signature product.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to shape the initial product vision and roadmap, ensuring a streamlined and secure user experience.
Product Strategy User Research
New Work SE,
Product Manager
June 2021 - July 2024 (3 years and 1 month)
• Led response to regulatory pressure from the Bundesagentur für Arbeit by analyzing and fixing inaccuracies in XING's salary estimation product, protecting 60% of job inventory from delisting.
• Increased model accuracy by 60%, expanded salary coverage by 80%, and launched compliant, user-focused features in collaboration with data science, legal, and engineering teams—safeguarding an estimated €50M+ in annual job-related revenue.
• Spearheaded user research and iterative testing on salary transparency features, improving clarity and boosting user trust metrics.
• Defined, implemented, and analyzed metrics using Adobe Analytics and Tableau to measure product success and inform data-driven decisions.
• Defined product requirements and wrote PRDs to align cross-functional teams around compliance and user needs, accelerating feature delivery.
New Work SE,
Software Engineer
July 2017 - June 2021 (3 years and 11 months)
Hamburg, Germany
• Led development and maintenance of the XING design system as part of the frontend architecture team, leveraging React, GraphQL, and cloud technologies to ensure a consistent and scalable design language used by over 150 front-end engineers.
• Headed the front-end community, fostering collaboration and driving best practices adoption across a large engineering team.
• Collaborated closely with designers using Figma to translate UI/UX concepts into robust, user-friendly front-end architecture.
• Organized company-wide JavaScript meetups, enhancing cross-team knowledge sharing and professional networking.