Taking some time off of work after three amazing years at Parloa to focus on family, friends, voluntary work as well as some own personal goals. One of which was starting my own consulting business.

Hiked the northern section of the CDT before deciding to come back to Germany and spend the remainder of 2024 with family, fiancée and friends, building something for myself and investing more time into voluntary work.

+ Pre-Seed ($4m funding) to post Series B ($66m funding from Altimeter) and 20 to 270 employees+ first commercial hire as BDR+ built up Growth department from scratch with 20 companions in 3 teams on 2 continents - BDR engine in Germany and US (in- and outbound) - global Lead Management & Growth Operations - core to 3X YOY Growth of the company+ high performing department - >100% yearly target achievement of department YOY - 50% global pipeline generation responsibility - every BDR bringing in $5.5m in qualified pipeline through outbound + fostered highly performance and value oriented culture - >90% NPS score of department in company wide survey, 3x in a row - 9 promotions within the team & next generation of leaders through strong focus on coaching, training & personal development - <5% attrition rate+ built a lot of foundations for the commercial team - focus on verticals, target industry lists - RevOps until Q3/22 - part of commercial leadership team - spearheaded US expansion - handover & qualification frameworksQuit to hike the CDT and take time for family, friends and own personal goals.

If you are1. interested in joining Parloa (especially the Business Development team)2. interested in our Conversational AI platform3. absolutely certain that we need your product in Salesfeel free to contact me or put a meeting into my calendar.📧 elmar@parloa.com📱+49 30 16639236📅 https://calendly.com/parloa-elmar-schaaf

We at Parloa believe in the revolution of how businesses talk to their customers with the help of artificial intelligence. Ever since our company was founded in 2017 in the heart of Berlin, Parloa has become one of the leading SaaS platforms for Conversational AI. Our aim is to build the most comprehensive solution in this sector for enabling every company in the world to have better automated conversations with their customers on phone, chat, and voice.

- Project Manager + Product Owner for new SaaS product- Project Manager for the company rebranding - Optimizing and restructuring internal processes across divisions- Developing an Agency Program for Austria + Switzerland- Planning, implementing and controlling marketing activities- Planning and creating sales materials- Coding web-crawlers for lead generation for sales team- Working with and directly reporting to the CEOs

Generating market entrance strategies for international markets, creating marketing concepts, analysing internal processes and identifying new business partners.

Responsible for social media and Google AdWords. Helping in the organisation of the appearance at fairs as well as helping in the internal marketing.

Generating market entrance strategies for international markets, creating marketing concepts, analysing internal processes and identifying new business partners.

Working in the internet division of Evangelisches Medienhaus, Stuttgart. I implemented the requested changes of websites and supervised existing websites.

Tutoring students in the lecture accountancy.

Internship in the group for conception and development of the B2C products and the website.

Tutoring students in the lecture accountancy.

Internship in the online division implementing a pay-wall. www.sdz-medien.de

Internship in the marketing and media design division. www.sdz-medien.de