Patrik Schmitt, Product Manager in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Patrik Schmitt

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Product Manager

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Toptal member since October 31, 2022

Expertise
Product Strategy ConsultingAgile Product Management
Bio

Patrik is a product manager with eight years of professional experience in the industry, five working as a product manager specializing in B2B SaaS products. He has worked for well-known companies like Google and Booking.com. Patrick combines a business and finance background with the expertise of coding and building his own B2B SaaS business from scratch.

Expertise

  • Agile
  • B2B
  • New Product Development
  • Product Development
  • Product Management
  • Product Strategy
  • Product Strategy Consultant
  • SaaS

Work Experience

Founder

2022 - PRESENT
Striveeo
  • Built a bootstrapped B2B SaaS platform for objectives and key results (OKRs) management from the ground up.
  • Helped customers define and organize their company's strategy by setting better goals and OKRs.
  • Launched and executed marketing strategies to gain market traction.

Product Manager (Freelance)

2022 - 2022
Easygenerator
  • Worked with the company's CEO and senior management to define a new strategic direction and identify new opportunities.
  • Interviewed customers and performed market research to define and develop the product's MVP.
  • Collaborated with the tech team to establish technical requirements and identify the debt that needed to be addressed.

Product Manager

2018 - 2022
Booking.com
  • Managed two cross-functional product teams of a total of 14 members within pricing.
  • Built new products and improved existing ones reaching millions of hotel partners and travelers.
  • Set up a new product team focusing on data insights and intelligence to help customers navigate Booking.com's vast product portfolio.

Account Strategist

2015 - 2018
Google
  • Provided support to the Nordic market's top advertising customers and agencies to successfully execute their Google advertising programs.
  • Managed the operations of a team of 20 full-time equivalents plus vendors.
  • Trained other Googlers, customers, and startups on Google Analytics and Google Ads for analytics and online advertising.

Project History

Striveeo

Built and launched a B2B SaaS platform for companies to manage their objectives and goals.

Striveeo is an online platform developed to help companies manage their objectives and goals. The platform was designed and developed by myself as a side project that subsequently became a business and is currently used by several organizations.

Geo Targeted Rates for Booking.com

https://partner.booking.com/en-gb/solutions/country-rates

Led design and development of the Booking.com Country Rates and US State Rates targeting products, reaching millions of reservations annually.

The US State Rates product enables hotels to target customers from specific countries and states with a discount. I was this product's manager, plus all the other countries' Booking.com targeting products.

For this project I:
• Worked with hotel owners to define their price targeting and revenue management needs.
• Collaborated with the team's UX designer to develop a viable solution to meet the hotel's and the customer's needs.
• Executed and delivered the product with the development team.
• Worked with GTM and marketing to bring the product to the market and get it successfully adopted.

Market Insights and Analytics for Booking.com

Created and led a new team that provided our hotel partners with data insights and recommendations around revenue management. Increased some pricing product adoption by double-digit percentage numbers.

Booking.com has an extensive portfolio of pricing products, which can be difficult for our hotel partners to navigate. Based on the comprehensive data we had access to, we could provide hotels with insights and recommendations around how to structure their pricing strategy and understand the impact of their pricing actions.

Education

2013 - 2014

Master's Degree in Finance and Investments

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2010 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in International Business

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Skills

Tools

Zoom, Jira, Slack, Financial Data

Paradigms

Agile, Scrum

Other

Product Management, Product Strategy, SaaS, Product Development, Strategic Planning & Execution, B2B, Product Strategy Consultant, New Product Development, Business, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Strategy, Organizational Design, Investments, Risk Management, Financial Modeling, Data, Pricing, Market Insights, Account Management, Tech Sales, Web Analytics, Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Product Delivery, Node.js, Vue, Web Development, E-learning, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Customer Interviews, New Products, Startups, Go-to-market Plans, Big Data

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