Nina Schneider Email & Phone Number

Zurich, Ch

Leading the product team developing and running Sherpany’s meeting management software used by 400+ enterprises and 13’000+ users.Responsible for the whole product organization including product management, pricing, product design, engineering, security and devops. Leading 9 direct reports and 50+ people working remote worldwide.

Zurich, Ch

Co-led the product team developing and running Sherpany’s meeting management software used by 350+ enterprises and 11’000+ users together with the CTO.Responsible for product management, product marketing, pricing and product design, leading a team of 14 including product managers, product design lead, UX, UI and CX.Achievements:- Appreciated leader and happy team - Employee NPS of the product team above 50 - Leadership survey rating of direct reports 4.8 out of 5- Defined roles & responsibilities and transformed processes towards outcome driven development - Increased focus in research and discovery, running monthly research and testing labs and regular design sprints, interacting with more than 10% of our users yearly - With better handover from discovery, delivery (in storypoints) increased +30% - Achieved measured behaviour changes with new functionality launched (e.g. time to prepare for meetings in our software doubled)- Customer centricity focus - Introduced Product Satisfaction Score (PSAT) measurement, feedback yearly from 40% of our users with a score of 4.1 of 5 - Won CX award for our established feedback loop integrating PSAT & NPS feedback in our roadmap- Break-through in “killing zombies“ and raising the adoption of product functionality - Eliminated all features with an adoption rate below 5%, increasing adoption or deprecating and removing the functionality - All new features launched surpass the 10% adoption mark from the start- Launch of new pricing aligned with our strategy - Improved in all measured dimensions for customers and for the company, overall rating + 25%

At TEDxZurich we are committed to ensure continuity while leaving room for new ideas and evolution. After two years as co-head of the organizing committee and handing over to new co-heads in 2019 I have had the honor to be elected to the board.

Together with my co-lead Fareena Chaudhry we built and managed the team of 30 volunteers in charge of curating, funding and organizing TEDxZurich events as part of theTEDx program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experiences. During our time as heads of committee we set the focus on strengthening the TEDxZurich community by creating more occasions throughout the year to meet and exchange while keeping the high quality standards of TEDxZurich events. We curated the following events:The main TEDxZurich event with 600 attendees in 2017 and 2018 at the SRF studios with 15 speakers and performers.Launched TEDxZurichSalons as new event series with 4 events between 2017 and 2018. Each event with its own topic and location bringing together a curated audience of 50-150 attendees and fostering discussions in different formats.Hosted TEDxZurichLive 2017 and 2018 to give our community the possibility to watch the screening of the global TED conference.Brought back TEDxZurichWomen in 2018 with live speakers and screening of the global TEDWomen conference at the offices of Tamedia.

TEDxZurich is part of the golbal TEDx Program of designed to help communities, organizations and individuals to spark conversation and connection through local TED-like experiences. TEDx events are planned and coordinated independently, under a free license granted by TED.TedxZurich 2016 was live at the SRF Studios on November 11 with 600 attendees.As Head of Finance & Legal I was responsible in the volunteer team behind the TEDxZurich organization for contracts with all partners sponsoring the event and for the budget, finance and accounting of the vent.

Zürich, Zh, Ch

Owner of the go-to-market and product strategy across the full product stack including Banking Solutions, Software Products and Service Offerings. Member of the Leadership Team. Department head, successfully managing a distributed cross-functional team: Product Marketing, Subject Matter Experts, Product Managers, UX, 22 people in Zürich & Chiasso.Achievements:- Defined a focused GTM strategy and repeatable sales playbook to drive product-market-sales fit- Transitioned offering from perpetual to subscription-based license model, ARR growth 50-70%- Launched 3 new banking solutions and a new product line enabling up-sell/cross-sell on existing clients- Strategic partnerships with Microsoft Azure and Salesforce, launch on their marketplaces

Zürich, Zh, Ch

In charge of building and institutionalizing product thinking and product management in the company. Product Manager for the Appway Platform. Member of the management team.- Scaled the product organization together with the CTO and CEO of Appway. From 10 Engineers to 60 Product Managers, Engineers, UX Designers, Testers, Tech Writers- In charge of delivering 2 minor and one major release and launched two additional products, from planning to roll-out internally and externally- Appway Platform usage went from 100 to 225 financial institutions, from 175k to 420k users and from 1000 to 2000 developers.- Introduced scrum for product development and whole9yards as Appway's Product Management methodology- Hired and led a team of 4 Product Managers- Led the UX domain in the platform

Zürich, Zh, Ch

In charge of driving strategic initiatives to scale whole product, tools and processes to support Appway’s growth.Achievements:- Beta Launch of a community platform for Appway developers. Built from scratch and released to more than 300 existing users. Handed over to a community manager hired as part of the initiative- Implementation of a company-wide recruiting process able to handle 800 applicants in the first two months. Handed over to HR team.- Set-up of a new office location and a distributed team collaboration structure to hire talents close to home and exploit their know-how throughout the company- Development of a showcase platform for all Appway products to drive sales efforts with a unified message. Used for sales initiatives for two years.- Redesign of the academy material and offering and set-up of a trainers' practice to deliver professional trainings on a global scale. Handed over to the head of Customer Services hired as part of the initiative.- Set-up an internal team to build and maintain the company's business and process management software built with the Appway Platform.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

Board Member. Supporting Product Management Night, a local product management event where all members of the community are invited to join for an evening of exchange, knowledge and learnings.

Zürich, Zh, Ch

- Collaboration in two successful client projects for the Swiss Cooperative Society of Music Authors and Publishers. In charge of the following activities• Interviews with department and team heads for the documentation of two internal processes• Creation and design of content, screens and workflows for the process documentation solution built with Appway• Preparation, wrap-up and documentation of weekly workshops with the IT-management team• Financial analysis and benchmarking of the IT department• Creation of the final IT-Strategy documentation- Assistance of the CEO and COO and Professional Services Director on the following internal projects:• Development of the new internal strategy• Set-up of a client feedback process- Responsible for the implementation of the following internal projects:• Creation of marketing collaterals: client success stories and factsheets• Implementation of a Swiss wide banking survey on the status quo of client onboarding. Through the campaign 100 leads and 30 contacts were created

Brussels, Be

Worked on a large scale procurement project for a major international airline. Perparation and wrap-up of weekly meetings, data analysis and interpretation, elaboration of conceptual papers to be published company-wide. Support of the following workstreams:□ Benchmarking and analysis of business areas with regards to their procurement organization and resource distribution□ Mapping of the process landscape and modeling of the future procurement processes□ Development and design of a procurement controlling□ Conceptualization and optimization of a performance measurement methodology for the procurement organization□ Conceptualization and finalization of a procurement audit to gauge the level of professionalism in the procurement organizations

Part of the program team for the organization of an international conference. Responsible for managing the contact before, onsite and after the conference with the guest speakers: more than 200 decision makers, business leaders, scientist and researcher from all over the world. Introduced a new online survey replacing the old paper based one and thereby greatly enhancing ease of use for customers and automating evaluation.

Master, Strategy And International Management

Product Management Executive Program, Product Management, Networks, Change Management, Negotiations

Meeting Leader Course, Excellent Meetings

Mba, Strategy And International Management

Stride Lab Uncertificate Of Completion (Equivalent Of 1 Ects), Community Building

Jlpt 3, Japanaese Language

Bachelor Of Arts Ba Hsg, International Affairs

Education record

Education record

Meeting Leadership Certification, Meeting Management