Grover

🚀 Leading the team responsible for the user journey from the first visit to renting a product, including Homepage, Search, Product Listings, PDPs and Checkout.

🚀 Drove continuous homepage optimization, increasing homepage interactions by +82% YoY and lifting interaction-to-order conversions by +13%.

🚀 Redesigned website header and navigation based on user research (using Card Sorting, Tree Testing, Interviews and A/B testing), leading to a +32% YoY uplift in Category-to-Order conversions.

🚀 Simplified and optimized B2C Checkout, reducing friction and improving usability, resulting in up to +2.5% higher order conversion rates.

🚀 Rolled out a new Point-of-Sale (POS) system to 459 MediaMarkt Saturn stores in Germany and Austria, expanding Grover’s retail and product accessibility.

🚀 Conducted 30+ user interviews (incl. Jobs-to-be-Done), surveys (Nielsen), and 28 experiments, informing product strategy and driving measurable gains.

Product Lead (Consideration & Conversion)

🚀 Led two cross-functional product teams (2 designers, 2 EMs, 9 engineers), driving initiatives across i. a. Search, Filters, Product Lists, and Homepage.

🚀 Rebuilt internal search engine, migrating from Elasticsearch to Typesense and launching a new UI, cutting global search exits by 39% and increasing submitted orders by 3.9%.

🚀 Transformed iOS and Android apps from WebView to React Native, leading 8 product teams and designing a new app-wide navigation pattern, boosting app order share by +29% YoY and driving conversion lifts of up to +17.4%.

🚀 Designed and launched Brand pages to promote ecosystem storytelling, driving +9.5% PDP views, +15% higher site retention, and +12% uplift in order rate vs. standard product listings.

Senior Product Manager

MYTOYS Group

The MYTOYS GROUP (part of Otto Group) is one of Germany’s most successful E-Commerce shops and Europe's No. 1 in family shopping.

🚀 Led a cross-functional team of 4 to enhance the UX across homepage, product listings, search results, and CMS interfaces.

🚀 Developed dynamic and static content solutions in the “Explore” part.

🚀 Managed redevelopment of the internal Content-Management-System.

🚀 Responsible for the product vision & roadmap.

Product Owner (Platform Management/UX)

DefShop GmbH

🚀 Key achievement: grew app revenue from 0 to > €1.3 Mio./month.

🚀 Guided a 7+ person team incl. developers, UX designer and marketers.

🚀 Built the DefShop native apps (iOS & Android) from scratch.

🚀 Met over Ø 91 % YOY monthly app revenue growth (2018 to 2020).

🚀 Created >815k installs, collaborating with Apple, YouAppi, and Taptica.

🚀 Happy users: 4.7 stars and >10.853 ratings (iOS & Android).

App Product Manager & Head of Promotion (Email & Onsite)

🚀 Key achievement: email as the most efficient cost-turnover-channel at DefShop.

🚀 Trained and guided 3+ marketers.

🚀 Managed > 76 Mio. newsletter, trigger- and transaction emails/year.

🚀 Lifted trigger campaign YOY revenue by 35% while lowering costs.

🚀 Improved productivity by implementing a company campaign plan.

🚀 Run brand campaigns with Lacoste, New Era, Nike, et al.

Head of Promotion (Email-Marketing & Onsite)

Hytera Mobilfunk GmbH

Praktikant Marketing

Product Lead @ Grover 🦄 | In love with building great products

Hi there!

I’m a passionate product leader with a deep love for innovation, e-commerce, and turning bold ideas into products that users genuinely love. Since 2015, I’ve been on an exciting journey—navigating the fast-paced world of digital retail and transforming abstract concepts into thriving realities.

My career started with a daring leap: building the DefShop app from scratch. That project taught me invaluable lessons in resilience, creativity, and innovation, pushing me to think outside the box to solve problems. Today, as Product Lead at Grover, I’m shaping the future of online shopping, guiding teams to develop solutions that are as functional as they are user-friendly. From redesigning the homepage to optimizing search algorithms, I've been fortunate to work on projects that make a real difference in how people shop.

But my journey is not just about the work; it’s about the people. Early in my career, collaborating with global brands like Lacoste and Nike taught me the value of effective communication and empathy. Understanding the diverse needs of different user groups became my guiding principle—whether I’m mentoring a team member or brainstorming with cross-functional teams, I believe in the power of collective intelligence.

Beyond my daily work, I’m deeply passionate about sharing my experiences and learning from others. LinkedIn has become a space where I write and speak about the areas that excite me most:

🔥 Leading Product Teams & Driving Innovation
🔥 Product Strategy, Growth & UX
🔥 The Future of Technology & Sustainability
🔥 Collaboration & Cross-Disciplinary Innovation

I’m always eager to connect with fellow professionals who are as excited about product innovation as I am. If my story resonates with you, or if you’re curious about e-commerce, user-centered design, or the future of product development, let’s connect! I’m open to learning from your experiences and sharing insights that can help us both grow.

Let’s collaborate, exchange ideas, and build the future of digital products together.

Thilo Schinke

One Ten Communications

🔥 1:1 COMMUNICATION COMBAT TRAINING 
This isn’t coaching. It’s combat. 

You speak. 
I give feedback. 
You fix. 
We repeat — 30x in 60 minutes. 

No fluff. Just direct (but kind) feedback to eliminate blind spots in your content and delivery.

◾ If you get nervous speaking, this isn’t for you. If you want to be an elite speaker, step into the ring.
◾ Satisfaction guarantee:  Love it or your money back. Simple as that.
◾ $500 per session: You pay to get better, not to be told you're doing well.
◾ DM "combat" to book your first session.


⚡ WHO IS THIS FOR?

I take great communicators and make them better. If you’re a CEO, founder, or executive, you already know how to communicate clearly. But high-stakes communication isn’t just about clarity — it’s about alignment & action. And you can’t fix misalignment until you find the blind spots causing it.


🛠 COMMON FIXES:

- No passion or conviction behind your words 
- You give off nervous energy 
- People can't hear you (low volume & articulation)
- Sheer overwhelming amount of information
- Confusing examples, instructions, or analogies
- You lose people's attention
- You do everything 'right', but don't break beliefs, so people don't buy-in and take action.

Founder

Keldar Leadership

How do you walk into a room full of strangers, build trust and rapport, and challenge how they think?

That is my daily battle.

Standing in front of professionals—some with 25 years of experience, some with just two months — I learned quickly that training isn’t about information. It’s about energy. It’s about breaking resistance. It’s about giving people a reason to listen.

At Keldar Leadership, I lead workshops for everyone from new hires to VPs, guiding them through leadership training that forces them to rethink how they work. And over time, I noticed something.

Leaders like 'Laura' — smart, passionate, driven — would stand up to speak… and completely lose the room. It wasn’t just her. It was a pattern. A blind spot they couldn't see for themselves.

And once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.

That’s when I started studying:

🔥 Why do some messages land while others fall flat?
🔥 Why do some people command attention while others get ignored?
🔥 How do you break through when no one is listening?

Those questions led me to writing The Big Book of Communication Blind Spots — a deep dive into the invisible mistakes that kill conversations, speeches, and leadership moments before they even begin.

Because in the end, great leadership, great training, and great communication all come down to one thing:

Understanding the humans in the room.

Workshop Facilitator

LawDepot

Most execution problems are communication problems in disguise.

Fast-growing companies expect chaos.

Shifting strategies. Rapid decisions. Teams sprinting full speed ahead.

But when things break, it’s almost never the strategy.

It’s misalignment.

Decisions at the top don’t make sense at the bottom.

Leaders see the bigger picture, but teams act blind without context.

This causes businesses to stall — not because people aren’t working hard, but because they aren’t working together.

At LawDepot, every bottleneck I fixed led back to the same root cause: communication gaps.

So I mapped it.

🔥 Why did messages get ignored?
🔥 Why did some leaders get buy-in while others fight uphill battles?

The answer wasn’t what they said.

It was how they said it.

Clarity isn’t what you say.

It’s what others understand.

That realization changed how I worked—and how I saw business.

Most companies don’t have execution problems.

They have communication problems.

Which is why I'm writing The Big Book of Communication Blind Spots.

To expose the invisible breakdowns that slow execution.

Create friction.

And make leadership harder than it needs to be.

Because when you fix how people communicate…

You fix how businesses grow.

Process Improvement Analyst / Product Operations

Business Data Analyst / Product Owner

Darren Young

You ever feel like you’re running full speed but getting nowhere?

That was Robert.

Brilliant. Best at what he did. But when his team dropped the ball? He picked it up. Every. Single. Time.

At first, it felt right. Leaders lead by example, right? Except—here’s the kicker—he was the reason they kept failing. By always stepping in, he was telling them: You can’t do this without me. And they believed him.

His VPs? They saw a guy who got things done, not a leader who pushed back. So when they had 'another great idea', guess what happened.

Meanwhile, Robert? Drowning.

- Midnight emails.
- Wall-to-wall meetings.
- In the trenches doing the work
- No time to think, let alone strategize.
- No time to focus on the family.

And still—never enough.

That’s where I came in. Not to give him generic productivity tips. He didn’t need more hacks. He needed to see how he was keeping himself stuck.

Because here’s the truth: Your actions are always sending a message—whether you realize it or not.

When Robert saw his blind spot? Everything changed.

- His team stepped up instead of waiting on him.
- His VPs saw him as a leader, not a workhorse.
- He made it home for dinner instead of drowning in his inbox.

And that’s when I realized—this isn’t just a Robert problem. This is every high-performer who’s too deep in the grind to see how they’re sabotaging themselves.

That’s why I'm writing The Big Book of Communication Blind Spots.

Because careers don’t die from lack of effort. They die from the unintended messages you send every day.

So, if you’re sick of grinding harder and getting nowhere—maybe it’s time to look at what you aren’t seeing.

Let’s talk.

Independent Consultant

Beaverbrook Group of Companies

You ever hit the goal you’ve been chasing for years—only to realize it was the wrong goal?

That was me.

Youngest project manager in the company. Leading multi-million-dollar developments. Sitting across from execs and investors twice my age. On paper? Crushing it.

Sold out three developments. Put an extra $1-2M in shareholder pockets. Even in a recession, we moved $35M in land.

But something felt off.

The people around me — hardworking, experienced, insanely good at what they did — were struggling. Not because they weren’t capable, but because they didn’t always feel comfortable speaking up.

It wasn’t anyone’s fault.

The pace was fast. The stakes were high. And when you’re focused on keeping everything moving, it’s easy to assume that no news is good news.

But I saw it.

The frustration that never got voiced. The stress people carried but never talked about. The quiet resignations—not just from the company, but from caring as much as they used to.

And then it hit me:

Success isn’t just numbers. It’s making sure people feel seen, heard, and understood. And if no one else was going to do that — maybe that was my job.

That was the moment everything changed—not for the company, but for me.

People asked, “Why would you leave when you're on top?”

Because sometimes, the thing that got you here—isn’t the thing that’ll get you where you’re meant to go next.

And that’s why I'm writing The Big Book of Communication Blind Spots.

Because the biggest breakdowns in business—and in life—aren’t about skill, strategy, or effort. They’re about misalignment. The words left unsaid. The messages misunderstood. The silent struggles no one addresses.

I saw what happens when communication fails. 

This book is about fixing that. 

Because when we learn to listen better, speak clearer, and connect deeper — everything changes.

Project Manager

Colliers International Canada

Research Assistant

Canada ICI Capital Corporation

Research Analyst

Building world-class public speaking skills in 2024 and sharing everything I learn along the way.

Your strategy was clear — So why is your team confused?

- The decision was made.
- The strategy was solid.
- You were clear, logical, and decisive.

Yet four weeks later, you're still stuck in meetings trying to realign everyone.

Why can’t they just get it?!

It's because clarity isn’t what you say—it’s what people hear.

Most leaders believe:

1/ If I communicate clearly, my team will clearly 'get it'.

2/ If my plan is perfect, execution is simple — just follow the plan!

But if that were true… why do so many well-communicated plans still fall apart?

You don’t have an execution problem — you had a Decision Clarity problem before execution got started.

WHAT I DO:

Management consultants fix misalignment after your team is already off track.

That’s not what I do.

I make sure misalignment never happens in the first place.

I find the hidden blind spots that would slow execution, kill buy-in, and cause misalignment.

And I fix those issues before work even starts, so execution runs smoothly.

But knowing the problem isn’t enough — you need the right tools to prevent it.

WHAT I'M BUILDING:

1️⃣ The Clarity Canvas – A one-page framework to surface hidden decision blind spots before execution begins.

2️⃣ The Break. Prove. Move. Framework – Present high stakes decisions in a way that breaks beliefs and gets full buy-in before work starts.

3️⃣ Communication Combat Training – Rapid-fire practice for first-time CEOs to cut uncertainty, build conviction, and get your team fully bought in and moving.

4️⃣ The Big Book of Communication B.S. (CEO Edition) – The playbook for high-stakes leadership communication that should exist—but doesn’t.

WHO I WORK WITH:

✅ First time CEOs, founders, and executives who are already strong communicators — but whose decisions still aren’t translating into aligned action.

✅ Leaders who want to proactively fix hidden misalignments before they derail execution.

✅ Companies where miscommunication is the hidden bottleneck to scale.

If you’ve ever thought:

- “Why does my team nod along but never execute?”
- “Why do I keep repeating myself?”
- “Why isn’t my clear plan actually clear to others?”

You’re exactly who I’m building these tools for.

Follow along as I build in public.

LinkedIn is where I share everything.

I appreciate your time,

Darren

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