Tech Unicorn Builders

Hands-on Growth Studio for Scaleups: automations, AI MVPs, product analytics, and insights, CPTO coaching. Short-term high-impact projects that help you grow your revenues and minimize chaos. Build faster, automate smarter, and grow with data. We help you scale product, team, and market with AI, analytics, and hands-on execution.

Co-Founder

EffizienzAgent

Automation specialist helping German SMEs eliminate manual processes. GDPR-compliant solutions delivering ROI within 1-2 months. Remote-first approach for cost-effective implementation across DACH region.

Automating what annoys you. 🤖

Founder, CEO, Consultant

Diving Nomads

Bridging the gap between deep focus and deep dives. I’m co-building a community for certified divers who work remotely — curating remote-work friendly dive spots, organizing colivings and pop-up divecations, and creating spaces for meaningful connection both online and in real life.

We're building a platform where freedom meets flow — for freelancers, founders, and creatives who live and dive differently.

🌍 divingnomads.club

unblocked.engineering by INOCEA Consulting Ltd.

Technical Leadership, Technical Advisory, and Lean Software Development for SaaS Startups from Seed to Series B.

Founder, Fractional / Interim Tech Lead, Tech Advisor, Trainer & Mentor

Seed-Stage Startup

Introducing Product Discovery and Sync processes, enabling the team to work on the most important things. Running product strategy workshops with the team to enable better decision-making on all levels. Product management for a mobile app. Technical coaching for dev teams, introduction and facilitation of retrospectives and continuous improvement of ways of working. Introducing infrastructure as code and increasing automation of the deploy process.

Interim/Fractional Senior Product Manager & Technical Agile Coach

The Mentoring Club

Helping young software professionals from around the world with their next step. Mentoring on topics like leadership, software engineering and architecture, agile & lean, remote work, SaaS/Cloud, developer experience and organizational design and culture.

https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/tobias-mende

Mentor

Stealth Startup

Technical Advisor and Technical Agile Coach

Supporting the founding team in technical and cultural questions and decisions to ensure quality, scalability and development speed. Coaching and mentoring the team in development (technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Vue, Go, GCP, Mongo, Elastic). Architecture and code reviews and recommendations for action. Coaching of junior developers. Development of prototypes and proofs of concept. Increasing testability and reducing the complexity of architecture and code. Development of tech vision and strategy.

Fractional CTO and Technical Advisor

BRYTER

Founded and led a cross-functional platform team to improve developer experience and productivity, implementing continuous delivery, reducing the development lead time by 75%, and driving cultural and technical changes toward engineering excellence.

Developer Experience Engineer and Technical Lead

PAYONE

Development of payment connectors and fraud prevention systems. Refactoring of monolithic applications into independent services. Reduction of development lead time by 50%.

Senior Software Developer / Architect

Dräger

Application development for distributed gas detection systems. Teaching Git, Git workflows and TDD. Promoting awareness of software craft and introducing Continuous Integration in multiple teams and projects.

Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Coach and Trainer

I help SaaS companies with up to 250 employees build a high-performing engineering organization by utilizing my expertise in (technical) leadership and developer productivity.

🚀 Helping Founders Build Businesses That Run Smoothly — Without Becoming the Bottleneck

You started your business with passion and vision. But as it grows, new challenges emerge:

⚡ More and more decisions demand your input.
⚡ Your team hesitates to take full ownership.
⚡ Delegation feels impossible — things still land back on your plate.
⚡ The quality isn’t where you want it to be, and stepping away seems risky.

This is a natural stage of growth, but it doesn’t have to stay this way.

I help founders break free from being the bottleneck by building self-sustaining businesses — where teams take ownership, make smart decisions, and keep things running smoothly without constant oversight. The goal? A business that thrives, even when you step away.

👥 What I Do

I work as a sparring partner, advisor, and trainer for founders of growing startups and SMBs, helping them:

🔍 Uncover blind spots – Identify what’s slowing down decision-making and execution.
🛠 Enable smart leadership – Build structures that empower your team to take real responsibility.
📈 Streamline operations – Reduce complexity, eliminate bottlenecks, and free up your time for what truly matters.

The result? Less stress, fewer roadblocks, and a company that works — with or without you.

🌍 Who I Am

I’m Tobi — entrepreneur, leadership advisor, and sparring partner for founders who want high-performing businesses without unnecessary stress.

As a digital nomad, I’ve worked with founders worldwide and seen firsthand how different cultures approach leadership, decision-making, and collaboration. I know that “right and wrong” are often contextual, that true resilience comes from adaptability, and that great companies are built on trust and autonomy.

🌊 Home is wherever the ocean is. As a rebreather diver, I know that true freedom comes when you trust your system, stay calm under pressure, and let things run smoothly — just like in a well-functioning business.

Tobias Mende

KPMG UK

Management consulting services for CxOs. Enterprise & functional Operating Model design and implementation to create sustainable organisations with improved organisational agility and able to focus on the work that matters most for their customers and business.

Includes: Ways of working, mindset and behaviours, lean portfolio management, governance and funding, strategic alignment and quarterly business review process, OKRs, org structure, value streams, product teams, ways of working, people and engagement. 

Client case:
Helped a bank organise to compete better. Helped them move to value streams so they could provide better customer experiences, faster and improve employee satisfaction.
- Helped design value streams anchored to key customer journeys for specific lines of business and the team types and teams to bring the value streams to life. 
- Designed a portfolio management capability (Lean Portfolio Management) and team with job descriptions and processes to help the bank better prioritise and fund the right work and enable faster flow of value through the new value streams with a pull based model. 
- Designed leaner governance to minimise bureaucracy.
- Designed an Centre of Enablement to create cohesive enablement for new ways of working and enable continuous improvement. This was vital to help make the organisation’s journey a sustainable one.
- Designed the business architecture capability to enable iterative op model evolution as the organisation matured in its use of value streams and new ways of working 
- Coached in new ways of working and mindset change to GRC functions, Finance and HR and provided subject matter expertise across the overall change programme.

Senior Manager

Client case 1:
An IT organisation wanted to become customer-centric with a strong focus on employee satisfaction. 
- Designed a TOM and implementation roadmap, with a product-centric approach
- Enabled the IT function to demonstrate how it would enable its parent organisation to deliver on a newly defined employee experience and journeys

Client case 2:
A security organisation was struggling with delivery timelines and internal customer satisfaction.
- Helped newly formed teams establish clear purposes to better convey the value their products bring to their internal customers
- Implemented a sustainable bottom-up innovation and continuous improvement approach. Supported teams to identify and define key improvements using Aspirational OKR’s (Objectives & Key Results). Created a rhythm of managerial review and facilitated exec / management oversight with teams to aid strategic alignment of improvements, but  ensuring psychologically safety for all.

Manager, Technology Strategy & Effectiveness

UK National Audit Office

Established better business analysis practices. 

Bridged IT and Change Management functions to improve project delivery and user adoption. 

Advised on change project, programme and portfolio management. Supported change impact analysis and project definition to achieve desired business capabilities and align with business strategy.

Provided input to NAO business architecture including Target Operating Model and capability mapping. 

Engaged with stakeholders and users across NAO senior leadership, non-exec directors, Finance, HR, frontline Audit, Press Office, WGA, governance, policy and facilities, as well as external stakeholders in HM Treasury.

Typical project example: Performed user experience, requirements gathering & journey mapping ensuring smooth deployment and good adoption for an office-wide MS Office 365 implementation.

Business Analyst

Established a portfolio of repeatable, packaged consulting services serving EMEA, APAC and US regions for the Global Services org in a $1b software vendor.

Set Portfolio vision and strategy, managed road-map, defined products/services, business cases, marketing messaging and built, released and maintained those products/services.

Collaborated with Customer Services, Sales, Marketing and R&D to bring to market compelling and differentiating products/services that helped customers create and improve their product development system, their products and their business.

Provided compelling messaging and structure to regional go-to-market planning, campaigns and pre-sales bid pursuits.

Drove Portfolio adoption across Professional Services, Cloud Services and Sales. Oversaw service pilot delivery.

Product Manager / Portfolio Manager

Helped manufacturers across Northern Europe deliver operational efficiencies, improve product quality, lower product development cost and achieve regulatory compliance.

Led large enterprise Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) projects and programmes that improved the way customers create, reuse, collaborate on, and manage their product designs.

Advised project stakeholders on risk, the technology road-map, scoping, planning and benefits definition. Gathered requirements and performed Business Process improvement.

Career development manager for other consultants

Awarded for methods development and services thought-leadership

Principal Product Lifecycle Management Consultant

Led international project teams implementing Product Life-cycle Management enterprise solutions for manufacturers.

- Provided specialist expertise in Configuration Management, Engineering Change Management, Global Collaboration, Classification, Parts & Document Management
- Provided Business Analysis, Process Improvement, and Solution & Infrastructure Architecture
- Led on-site and remote teams
- Work included: workflow / process automation, data modelling for client's product taxonomies, role/group/user access management, security hardening of web-based solutions, software integrations to ERP and other systems, architecture of custom solutions to enable competitive advantage.

Senior Product Lifecycle Management Consultant

Product Lifecycle Management Consultant

Sabbatical break

Time out to write music.
Followed-up on ideas generated after being involved in two bands.

- Wrote, recorded and produced an EP
- Wrote, recorded and produced a theme tune for a pilot movie. Worked closely with the movie Director and two collaborators

Music Producer

SDRC (Structural Dynamics Research Corporation)

- Computer Aided Design (CAD) Consultant with SDRC I-DEAS Master Series. A founder member of SDRC’s Ford Program Office. Devised component and assembly modelling methods and techniques for easier CAD tool adoption and better design team collaboration for Ford’s Diesel Engines and Visteon Automotive Interiors organisations. Ran live techniques demo’s and Q&A’s for groups of 80+ engineers.
- Technical trainer
- Technical support L1/2 for CAD and simulation products

Senior Computer Aided Design Consultant

Smiths Group PLC

Design Draftsman

I help organisations create more value, more efficiently to achieve better outcomes for their customers. 

I believe this requires a shift towards a focus on customer and business value creation throughout the org. I encourage an enterprise-wide operating model approach that improves the whole system of work from the front- to back-office.

An op model isn’t an org chart. It is all the dimensions of how your organisation operates from people to process, tech to governance to investment, and more.

The kind of change needed to achieve better outcomes for customers is an ongoing journey of improvement. Each organisation’s needs are unique to get started and succeed along the way. 

I can help plan and build the right capability, cross-org structures, alignment, and teams. And I can help establish practicing and embedding of new practices and behaviours.

I care about respectful, humane working practices. Creating the right environment for high-performing teams improves employee satisfaction and helps attract and retain the best people. 

My background in product management, organisational change, tech, consulting, and business architecture helps me balance customer, employee, and business needs, and work effectively across functions in organisations.

I work closely with leaders, managers and teams to help them work and collaborate better together and develop beneficial mind-sets, behaviours, ways of working, tools, processes, and information. 

Please contact me if you need help:
- Planning or assessing a new value stream or product approach.
- Establishing new ways of working sustainably, and with happier employees.
- Managing complex change portfolios.
- Getting more value from technology.

Skills:
•	Digital, Enterprise, Agile, & Product Operating Models, incl. cultural change, mindset, behaviours, ways of working, process, tools, value stream & team design, value stream management, platforms, portfolio, governance, strategy and execution (outcome planning / OKRs / QBR), org & role design.
•	Product Management & Product Portfolio Management
•	SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
•	Agile & Waterfall
•	Organisational Change Management
•	Product Life-cycle Management
•	Business Process Improvement
•	Engineering Release, Engineering Change & Configuration Management
•	Project & Program Management
•	People career development

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