TIMOTHY PAYTON
Hamburg
Summary
Experienced Product Manager with 10+ years of industry expertise, strong leadership skills, and a background in development. Skilled at driving successful product launches and managing cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives. Native English speaker with permanent residency in Germany, enabling effective communication and collaboration within international environments.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior PM With Leadership Responsibility
NEW WORK SE
Hamburg, Germany
07.2022 - Current
- Assigned at onlyfy (our recruiting brand), the company is a conglomerate and owns XING
- Responsible for 3 PMs, each working with own development team of ~6 developers each
- Responsible for all active and passive sourcing products, 50M€ revenue
- Trained/Mentored junior PMs to fully take on dev team PM role.
Senior Product Manager
XING GmbH & Co
Hamburg, Germany
01.2019 - 06.2022
- German-speaking countries business network with 20M€ user base
- Led re-design of all product emails across 10+ teams, increased CTR up to 20%
- Responsibilities grew to include all product email notifications, while still responsible for entire networks push notifications, navigation badges
- Determine OKRs/roadmap for 15 person development team, managing 10+ stakeholders, and mentored other PMs.
Product Manager
XING GmbH & Co
Hamburg
01.2014 - 01.2019
- Launched flexible push notification system allowing instant changes without app deployment
- Led release of new notifications, e.g., contact has new job, job search alerts
- Responsible for all push notifications, navigation badges, and several internal admin tools
- Determine roadmap for 10-person team, managing 10+ stakeholders.
Senior Manager Engineering
XING GmbH & Co
Hamburg
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Led launch of mobile web app and web-based iPad app, growing to 50K+ MAU
- Tech lead of 6-person team, including backend, frontend, and QA engineers
- Established code patterns, decided technologies and managed stakeholders.
Junior Manager / Manager Engineering
XING GmbH & Co
Hamburg
01.2008 - 01.2011
- Worked on events product and jobs product
- Created web-applications in Ruby on Rails as part of 4 to 10-person team
- Also worked in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
English Teacher & Meditation Instructor
Freelancer
Various
01.2004 - 01.2008
- Trained groups of 5 to 100 people in stress management and meditation
- Conducted in several countries around the world with diverse audiences
- Taught private, business, group, individuals, adults, children in English usage, including design of instructional materials and course content.
- Developed innovative lesson plans to engage students in English language learning.
Law Enforcement Detachment Officer-in-Charge
U.S. COAST GUARD - Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team
San Diego, California
01.2000 - 01.2003
- Teams deployed to U.S
- Military ships for conducting law enforcement operations
- Team participated in the largest cocaine seizure in history at 10+ metric tons
- Cross-functional teamwork in command of counter-drug, migrant interdiction, homeland security and special operations
- Led 12-person team, training, travel, equipment and administration.
Communications Officer / Deck Watch Officer
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute
Saint Petersburg, Florida
01.1998 - 01.2000
- Led ship navigation team of up to 12 people in dynamic ocean environment
- Managed of 4-person team, responsible for external communications
- Held Top Secret clearance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
New London, Connecticut05.1998
High School Diploma -
El Capitan High School
Lakeside, California06.1994
Skills
- People Management
- Product Management
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Git
- Github
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- Python
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Miro
- Agile
- Mentoring
- Tableau
- Project Scheduling
- Scope Management
- Training and mentoring
- Requirements Gathering
- Project planning and development
- Project tracking
- Stakeholder Communications
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Agile Methodology
Languages
English
German
Hobbies and Interests
- Meditation
- Wave Surfing
- Dungeons & Dragons
Training
- Structuring & Planning
- Communication
- Leadership Transformation Training
- Lateral Leadership
Timeline
Senior PM With Leadership Responsibility
NEW WORK SE
07.2022 - Current
Senior Product Manager
XING GmbH & Co
01.2019 - 06.2022
Product Manager
XING GmbH & Co
01.2014 - 01.2019
Senior Manager Engineering
XING GmbH & Co
01.2011 - 01.2014
Junior Manager / Manager Engineering
XING GmbH & Co
01.2008 - 01.2011
English Teacher & Meditation Instructor
Freelancer
01.2004 - 01.2008
Law Enforcement Detachment Officer-in-Charge
U.S. COAST GUARD - Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team
01.2000 - 01.2003
Communications Officer / Deck Watch Officer
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Resolute
01.1998 - 01.2000
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
High School Diploma -
El Capitan High School
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