Grover

> Responsible for the overall Product & Design organization at Grover
> Team responsibility encompasses 14 Product Managers and 12 Product Designers across various domains, ranging from Acquisition, Consideration, Checkout, Payments, Supply Chain, Engagement, Embedded Finance and Value-Adding services
> Reshaped the overarching Product Vision of Grover and defined an actionable Product Strategy 
> Completed an organizational reorg of 14 teams, to enable an outcome-first mindset approach and dedicated ownership and accountability
> Led multiple strategic initiatives related to unlocking new revenue streams
> Built up a strong product team, reduced attrition to an all-time low, and established a career development framework for the product organization
> Continuously improved the product management quality by setting up a dedicated opportunity management pipeline in Jira Discovery, PM masterclass training for PMs, structured approach to road mapping, effective Product Discovery, and streamlined the way the organization delivers new products 
>Part of the Global leadership team and reporting to the CEO

VP of Product

Co-responsible for the overall product and design organization at Grover
Reporting to the CTO

Sr. Product Director

> Driving the product strategy and group development of Grovers Embedded Finance & Engagement Group 
> Responsible for the development, launch and scale of the Grover Card, a neo-banking type of Product offering focused on increasing engagement and retention with a unique cashback value proposition
> Conceived Grovers loyalty and reward scheme (Grover Cash), which became the underlying user incentive across the various parts of the user journey to encourage particular actions and retention
> P&L responsibility for the Card Program with Solarisbank & VISA 
https://www.grover.com/de-en/card

Product Director, Head of Financial Services

Visa

> Responsible for setting up Visa's new product development process which has been rolled out across Europe
> Lead the product validation strategy for several new initiatives to explore and validate new propositions and product capabilities for Visa

Director, Product Innovation Strategy

Responsible for planning and running Product Discovery initiatives ("co-creations"), with internal product teams at Visa, as well as external clients such as established issuers, tier 1 merchants, and startups, to identify and validate new business opportunities,  leveraging design thinking & and modern product discovery techniques.
Initiatives ranged among others from a new installment proposition for Europe, Visa's Sustainable banking offering, as well as new card propositions for FinTechs.

Director of Engagement, Innovation & Design

FinLeap

Stephan joined Finleaps Product and Tech team as Venture Development Manager, to streamline and structure the process around new venture development
> Lead discovery and validation of two new major FinTech opportunities with cross-disciplinary validation teams 
> Responsible for structuring and streamlining, FinLeaps venture-building process
> FinLeap is a European company builder, specialized in developing FinTech products and companies such as Solarisbank, Clark, and Element.

Venture Development

Pioneers.io 

> "Pioneers Discover" is Pioneers' innovation consulting arm, which enables established organizations to explore new product opportunities through co-creation with startups (providing services such as innovation strategy consulting, design thinking workshops, prototyping sessions etc.)
> Stephan has been co-responsible for growing & developing the business unit from 2 to +10 employees, as well as growing the service offering and revenue permanently over 3 years.
> While being responsible for the management and delivery of +20 consulting projects in Europe & Asia together with leading multinational corporations, such as Daimler Financial Services, Cisco, Konica Minolta, Erste Group, Raiffeisen Bank, Nikkei or REHAU.
> Stephan's industry focus has primarily been set on emerging fintech products & business models.

Head of Pioneers Discover Interim & Lead Fintech (Acquired 2018)

Senior Analyst (Lead Fintech)

Analyst (Fintech)

Viereck | Smart Menu

> Conceptualized, launched and operated “Austria’s first tablet ordering restaurant & system”
> Co-responsible for 10 employees
> Company Sold/ Acquired 2014

Co-Founder

Student-Card AT GmbH

> Student Card AT has been a loyalty network for students in Austria, that provides a variety of exclusive discounts at selected partners such as IKEA, Levis, Hervis Sports etc.
> Project/ founding experience in parallel to university

Product Strategist who specializes in Digital Product Management with an industry focus on FinTech, E-Com and subscription based offerings. 
I have gathered multifaceted experience working in big tech companies, venture builders, early-stage startups, and scale-ups going through hypergrowth.

I strive to empower organizations and teams to discover, validate and create new digital products, in a structured and efficient manner, leveraging modern product methodologies & human-centered design. 

Before that, I gained +3 years of hands-on entrepreneurial experience at the age of 20 by co-founding and building a company next to university (sold).

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