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Giessen, He, De

Berlin, Berlin, De

Berlin, De

Berlin, De

Led a dynamic role, spearheading strategies and initiatives in tech recruitment, employee engagement, employer branding, data-driven marketing, business development, and company culture building.Key Achievements:- Performance Management: Pioneered the company's performance review strategy, launching the Leapsome people enablement platform. Conducted workshops on feedback culture, leadership training, competency frameworks, performance score calibration, and performance improvement plans.- Client Engagement: Developed a robust business development outreach strategy, significantly enhancing engagement with both potential and existing clients.- Employer Branding: Engineered an impactful employer branding strategy through values workshops and employee interviews. Introduced the EVP - "Your Futurepath is here," integrated into recruitment, onboarding, and offboarding communications.- Data-Driven Marketing: Led the implementation of SEO and data dashboard tools, transforming marketing activities with a data-driven approach.- Brand Identity: Revamped the brand's identity, refining image style, tone of voice, and brand guidelines to align with the distinctive VW Group universe.- Company Culture: Organized quarterly onsite and offsite events and hosted workshops on cultural humility, feedback, and well-being, in order fostering a sense of community and continuous learning across the company.

Berlin, De

Vienna, At

Key Achievements– Held a keynote lecture at the Space is for Everyone networking event hosted by The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) that secured a futurezone Award nomination for the “Mobility of the Future” category. The company ended up winning the award.– Ideated and established a key partnership with a battery swapping station partner in order to expedite the company’s product offering to micromobility operators. – Series A fundraising support for the CEO and COO with activities such as investor reach outs, pitch deck storyline and design, etc. – Created a webinar/podcast series from the ground up to position the company as a thought leader in the mobility services industry.– Developed the company brand to more clearly communicate value to a broader target audience. Vehicles for brand development included a website redesign, SEO strategy and implementation, creation of design assets such as internal presentation templates, external pitch documents, and exhibition collateral (pop-ups, business cards, etc.). – Produced the first company commercial from conceptualizing, scripting, and planning to filming and editing.– Improved social media performance. Visitors and page views grew by 1,400% in one year. Engagement grew by 3,000% in one year.

Vienna, At

Berlin, Be, De

Berlin, Be, De

Promoted to help establish the Marketing Department at Surve Mobility by taking responsibility for and developing all digital creative content such as graphics, photos, and videos, as well as support the company’s marketing strategy. Additional responsibilities include managing the company's internal #GreenTeam and heading up external sustainability initiatives via Urban Sustainability, a community of businesses in and around the mobility industry dedicated to making our cities more liveable. Key Achievements (Marketing & Sustainability)• Carried Surve Mobility GmbH through a full rebrand by collaborating with a branding agency on the new name and new aesthetic and ensuring a smooth implementation of the new brand across the entire company. This included designing graphics for internal presentation templates, social media channels, apparel, and vehicle branding.• Developed the rebrand UI for the company website.• Founded Urban Sustainability, a community of businesses in and around the mobility industry dedicated to making our cities more liveable through learning, impact, and inspiration opportunities. • Founded the company's #GreenTeam, an internal initiative to get employees involved in both the company's and personal sustainability efforts. #climatechange #socialsustainability• Created the company’s vision video from conceptualizing, scripting, and planning tofilming and editing.

Berlin, Be, De

Recruited to direct and expand all carsharing and micromobility operations in Berlin through projected forecasting, efficient resource planning, operational process improvements, and employee development.• Developed and implemented day-to-day operational processes to increase operational efficiency and meet targets.• Monitored and analyzed key metrics of daily performance to identify obstacles as well as potential areas for improvement.• Managed the procurement of goods as well as resource allocation.• Hired personnel, oversaw employee onboarding, and managed a team of professionals.• Built and maintained relationships with all department heads, external partners, and vendorsto make decisions regarding operational activity and strategic goals.• Upheld organization policies and standards, ensuring legislative regulations were followedregarding facilities, operations, and employees.Key Achievements Increased the average quarterly revenue by 70% by identifying crucial points for improvement. This included task order, daily average number of completed tasks possible per agent, and agent strength. This reinvented the operational workflow around these points to increase efficiency.• Designed an internal audit protocol in order to ensure that tasks were being completed in alignment with the organization’s quality standards. This audit has also become the foundational tool used to direct the company’s incentive program.• Grew the operational capacity in Berlin by over 300% in just two months by hiring and onboarding over 40 employees and training them to be able to support the needs of all of the company’s clients.

San Francisco, California, Us

Recruited to work with Germany’s contingent workers, employees, 3rd party vendors and leaders within the organization to streamline nation-wide processes and procedures for Lime.Streamline and own Germany’s national contingent workforce on-boarding and off-boarding processes.• Administer Germany-wide payroll and maintain staff records; advise on pay and other issues.• Interpret and advise on German employment legislation; develop and implement policies on a variety of workplace issues eg. disciplinary procedures, absence management, working conditions, performance management and equal opportunities.• Analyze training needs in conjunction with Berlin operation managers; plan and deliver training, including staff inductions.• Submit Germany-wide purchase requests/purchase orders pertaining to contingent workforce related costs.• Provide weekly and ad-hoc reports, as needed.

Houston, Tx, Us

Responsible for securing all graphic needs of the academic team at Accelerate Learning in order to help create textbooks and online resources for teachers and students to use so as to reinvent the STEM learning experience in the classroom through visually appealing and content correct graphics. This requires leading, inspiring, and professionally developing a team of graphic designers, establishing process workflows, designing graphics, digital asset management, print production, and copyright alignment for all assets.Key Achievements1) Increased the rate of print and digital media asset production by 150% in one year. This was achieved by customizing and introducing new software such as a DAM which allowed for better cross-functional team communication, project oversight, and process workflows.2) Created the brand identity for two new products, STEMrangers Science Night and DIVE-in Engineering, which included logo creation, packaging design, and print layout and production.3) Cultivated an imaginative, determined, and positive team culture among my team of 14 supervisees. This culture has enabled the production of new products, such as a suite of math games, which are outside the scope of yearly objectives, consequently, allowing the company to generate more opportunities for revenue as well as increase its impact on students.

Houston, Tx, Us

I am responsible for all content creation, publishing, and marketing of STEMcoach.com - the professional development wing of Accelerate Learning, Inc.My responsibilities include: 1) Content creation. Requires knowledge of STEM education, videography (camera functionality, filming, editing, and live broadcasting), photography, graphic design (Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator), and copywriting.2) Copywriting & Copyediting. Requires knowledge of writing and grammar skills to ensure consistent voice, tone, and style of writing. 3) Web Design. Requires knowledge of HMTL, CSS, platforms that use WYSIWYG functionality such as Word Press and Dreamweaver, and web functionality and usability.4) Marketing. Requires knowledge of Google Analytics (research skills), social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest), SEO, branding, graphic design (Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator), copywriting and editing, print creation, merchandising, media relations, etc. 5). Project Management. Requires detailed planning to devise editorial calendars as well as the management of a team and contractors to ensure all projects are coming through with high quality and on time. Scheduling of filming, photography, and other events is also a project management responsibility.5) Finance. Requires mathematical and analytical skills in terms of being responsible for the annual project budget.

Houston, Tx, Us

My job description is project based at STEMscopes™. I have worked on projects that range from uploading and maintaining website content to creative development. Below are job descriptions for two projects of which I have been/am the supervisor of.Career Connections Project Manager- In charge of leading the film team toward developing Career Connections Videos (for YouTube, Vimeo, and the STEMscopes™ website) that highlight STEM professionals and careers so as to provide students with knowledge of different careers and how to get into those careers.- Pre-production, production, and post-production scheduling and planning.- Recruiting STEM professionals- Conducting interviews- Transcribing film footage- Editing, color correcting, and audio enhancing film footageCreative Lead of Big Books - As creative lead of this project it was my responsibility to design the look and feel of 20 children’s books - Big Books. - Used InDesign to layout text and pictures- Copy edited each book- Photographed pictures for some of the books- Used photoshop to edit and enhance pictures

Houston, Tx, Us

- Manage projects- Recreate educational material in both Excel and Powerpoint - Other office duties include data entry, internet research, copying, filing, document delivery, running errands on campus, preparing materials.

Lead wedding videographer. I was responsible for the production and post-production of wedding highlight and cinematic cut videos.

Practitioner Of Modern Leadership, Organizational Leadership

Master'S Degree, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), German Studies & Sociology