2025 - 2026

Product Designer — Pirate Ship, Hamburg

As Senior Product Designer I collaborate with different Product teams to enhance the user experience of our shippers.
My Role: Advance product discovery together with the product teams and design solutions and user experiences based on the learnings.

2023 - 2024

Designer Experience Design Team — Jimdo, Hamburg

The XD Team at Jimdo is responsible for ensuring a unified user experience across all Jimdo products.
My Role: I ensured a unified experience of AI products by creating a dedicated AI component library and AI branding guidelines.

2023

Productdesigner AI Exploration — Jimdo, Hamburg

Focused on discovering the possibilities and boundaries of AI within the Jimdo product ecosystem.
My Role: As a product designer in a small team, I worked closely with the product manager on the design of AI experiments and was responsible for the UX and UI design.

2022 - 2023

Product Designer Financial Services — Jimdo, Hamburg

The FinServ Team was responsible for creating and developing a fintech product for Jimdo from scratch.
My Role: Product Designer - From the initial concept flows to the final designs, I was responsible for the UX and UI design of a new banking app that expands the Jimdo product portfolio for our customers.

2018 - 2021

Lead Designer Growth Team — Jimdo, Hamburg

The Growth Team was tasked with defining and leveraging a growth system for Jimdo, discovering customer problems to define strategic opportunities, and shaping experiments to discover growth potential.
My Role: Growth Designer - Initially, I focused on designing and owning experiments. Later, the focus shifted more towards exploring and validating strategic opportunities.

2015 - 2018

Lead Designer Conversion Lab — Jimdo, Hamburg

The Conversion Lab was a team focused on increasing conversion and revenue of our core product, with a strong emphasis on pricing and packaging.
My Role: Generating ideas and creative ways to increase product conversion, delivering concepts for UX and UI.

2011 - 2015

Lead Designer & Team Lead — Jimdo, Hamburg

The Web Team was responsible for the creative direction, technical implementation, and further development of the technical infrastructure of Jimdo’s company and marketing pages.
My Role: Lead Designer and Team Lead of a small team of 5 colleagues.

2009 - 2011

User Interface Designer, Design Team — Jimdo, Hamburg

In the early days of Jimdo, the design team was responsible for everything related to design, from branding and marketing to product design to print advertising material.
As part of this team, I was responsible for all design tasks that arose. Over time, a clear focus emerged for the checkout process and the Jimdo marketing homepage.

2008 - 2009

Senior Interaction Designer — Lycos Europe, Gütersloh

As Interaction Designer I was responsible for the UX and design of several new community products like Lycos iQ and Jubii Mail. Working closely together with the product managers I was able to contribute to planning and implementation of user testing in the early design process.

2006 - 2008

Web Designer — Lycos Europe, Gütersloh

In a small team of designers I was responsible for various web design related tasks. Designing landing pages, ad formats and maintaining the design of various Lycos products, like the website builder, the chat, the mail product or the dating platform were part of my daily work.

2006

Internship web design — Medienwerft, Hamburg

During the internship in the web design agency Medienwerft in Hamburg I was able to gain first practical experiences working on web design projects for clients like Baur, Otto, Hawesko or FC St. Pauli.

2000 - 2006

Bachelor of Arts — Bielefeld University & University of Applied Sciences

I completed the Media design degree program. This study program was a collaboration between Bielefeld University and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts and combined design and computer science.