Twelve years inside complex financial products — from the bench, not the deck.

Founder & Principal Consultant

7×.consulting · Frankfurt / Remote

Independent practice serving tier-1 banks, fintech scale-ups and product-led organisations across Europe. Embedded research, design and product engagements — typically 8 to 16 weeks.

• —Six tier-1 financial services engagements shipped to production
• —Recurring advisory for two European fintech scale-ups
• —Coached three in-house heads of design through their first year

Lead User Researcher

Deutsche Bank — Private & Commercial Bank · Frankfurt

Founded and led the user research practice within the digital private banking division. Grew the team from one to nine, instrumented a bank-wide research repository, and partnered with product on the wealth onboarding redesign.

• —Built the research practice from scratch in a regulated environment
• —Shipped a research repository adopted across six product lines
• —Lead researcher on the wealth onboarding redesign (–58% time-to-account)

Senior UX Researcher

European brokerage platform · Frankfurt / London

Embedded researcher on the institutional trading platform team. Built the trader research panel that is still in use today.

UX Designer & Researcher

Digital consultancy · Cologne

Generalist design and research work across banking, insurance and B2B SaaS clients. The years that taught me how things really get built.