HI, I’M THOMAS.
A MOONSHOT ORCHESTRATOR.
Director of Product Management / Head of Product / VP of Product Management
1) What Does Moonshot Orchestrator Mean?
Moonshot reflects my ambition to think big and pursue unconventional strategies to create unique outcomes. As an Orchestrator, I use bold visions to inspire my product teams, provide clear product strategies to accelerate progress, and transform visions into real products for sustainable business success.
2) The Value I Bring
Achieving Product-Market Fit: I encourage data-driven decisions by deeply understanding our customers, the market, and our product. I oversee the strategic roadmap to reduce risk and foster innovation to outpace rivals.
Balancing Strategy and Operations: I combine big-picture thinking with detailed execution, ensuring targets are met with operational excellence. I balance empathy, intuition, and analytical judgment to achieve this.*
Empowering Product Teams: I build product organizations where contributors own the journey to solutions. By offering mentoring support and clear frameworks, I enhance team performance for high-performing outcomes.
3) Where I Excel
I thrive in high-stakes environments marked by uncertainty, volatility, and risk. I communicate with urgency and clarity about threats, uniting product teams around a clear mission to focus on opportunities. I take calculated risks to navigate the product jungle, remaining conservative when it comes to our core product strengths and stability.
4) What I’m Most Proud Of
Achieving hockey stick growth by pivoting from 50 to 25,000 new users per month in EdTech through structured customer development and a fast go-to-market.
Transforming old single solutions into a seamless HR Tech platform, releasing to new customers while migrating tens of thousands under a compelling vision.
Ensuring multi-million profit and growth for an event product portfolio during the COVID-19 lockdown by rethinking strategic focus.
5) My credo
“Einfach machen” – Simply get started and keep it simple. This philosophy underpins everything I do, ensuring that complex problems are met with clear, actionable solutions.
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* Based on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, I am a Protagonist (ENFJ), a rare personality type characterized by Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Judging traits. According to the Clifton Strengths Finder, my top five strengths are Strategic, Relator, Woo (Winning Others Over), Activator and Arranger. In the Predictive Index, I am considered a Maverick. In the Belbin Team Roles I am identified as a Shaper, Resource Investigator, and Plant.
Thank you to everyone involved in supporting me to shape my talent profile:
My career coach, Ann Krombholz, my former bosses, clients and colleagues, such as Kati Rittberger (former Managing Director at XING Events), Torsten Sosat (former Director of Product at XING), Henrik Mitsch (former Senior Manager at Mozilla Open Innovation), Philipp Walz (Ex-Co-Owner and Associate at SMP GmbH), Jef Kalil (Senior Product Manager for Elsevier) and Steffen Bunzel (former Managing Director at Pentland Firth)