Product Leader & Builder · Berlin

I build great digital products.
And the teams that
make them possible.

17 years building digital products across marketplaces, e-commerce, and platform businesses. I combine deep customer centricity and data-driven thinking with strong strategic execution — and a genuine passion for using AI to move faster, smarter, and more creatively than traditional approaches allow.

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Helmut Fritz
Helmut Fritz
17
years building products
50+
people led
20+
global markets
€1B+
GMV impact

What I bring

Strategy, execution, and the people in between

🧭

Product Strategy & Execution

From 0→1 to scaling across 20+ markets. I connect vision to roadmap to delivery — and make sure the team owns the outcome, not just the output.

🤝

People & Team Leadership

I build teams where people genuinely do their best work. Strong on coaching, feedback, and creating psychological safety in high-pressure environments.

📊

Data, AI & Commercial Thinking

Behavioural analytics, experimentation, AI/ML product design, marketplace dynamics. I make decisions from evidence and build systems that track what actually matters.

🏗️

Organisational Design

I've restructured product orgs through mergers, hypergrowth, and strategic pivots. I know how to design teams, processes, and decision-making frameworks that scale.

Work with me

Available for consulting & fractional work

Looking for senior product leadership without the full-time hire? Here's how we can work together.

🧭On-demand

Strategic Product Advisor

Support founders and executive teams as a strategic product advisor, helping connect vision to execution and scale high-impact product organisations.

📐Consulting

Product Leadership Consultant

Help companies strengthen product strategy, build effective teams, and drive execution from early traction to growth stages.

⚡Fractional

Fractional Head of Product

Providing fractional product leadership to organisations seeking clarity, alignment, and scalable systems across strategy, delivery, and team performance.

🎯Consulting

Product & Organisational Design

Helping companies design product organisations, improve decision-making systems, and align product strategy with business outcomes.

🔄Fractional

Fractional Product Manager

Run discovery, define what to build, prioritise the roadmap, align stakeholders, and drive delivery — embedded in your team.

💻Build

Product Developer

Turn ideas into live products. I use AI tools to build custom apps, websites, and systems — fast, without a large engineering team.

Experience

Career timeline

Kattan PeopleFractional Head of Product
Nov 2025 – Present

Advising founders and leadership teams on product strategy, operating models, and organisational design.

Just Eat Takeaway.comGroup PM → Senior Group PM
Apr 2019 – Apr 2025

6 years across platform, loyalty, and customer experience. Led 50+ FTE product org. Owned €400M+ GMV/year area across 20+ markets. Delivered JET+ subscriptions, StampCards, OneProduct consolidation, and AI-powered personalisation.

Delivery HeroSenior Product Manager
Jan 2019 – Mar 2019

Led product transition following Delivery Hero's acquisition by Takeaway.com.

Simplesurance GmbHSenior Technical Product Manager
Aug 2015 – Dec 2018

B2B and B2C insurance products, API integrations, international expansion across UK, France, and the Nordics.

DievisionProduct Manager
Nov 2014 – Jul 2015

End-to-end product delivery across client and internal digital initiatives. Drove retention and loyalty-focused improvements in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Engineering & early PMBackend Developer → Team Lead & PM
2008 – 2014

Koombea (Barranquilla, Colombia), Experteer (Munich, Germany), Vilango (Linz, Austria). Started as a backend developer and grew into product and people leadership, managing a team of ~15 FTEs at Koombea.

Selected Work

Work that moved the needle

A few projects from my time at Just Eat Takeaway.com — each with real stakes and measurable outcomes.

Platform · Marketplace

OneProduct

Led the 3-year consolidation of Just Eat and Takeaway.com — two major consumer products — into a single platform across 20+ international markets.

20+
markets unified
+€400M
GMV impact
−25%
engineering duplication
Growth · Subscriptions

JET+ Subscriptions

Launched a new subscription program to counter 13% churn to a competitor, partnering with Amazon Prime and running a full go-to-market across multiple markets.

1.6M
signups
€200M
annualised GMV
64%
placed an order
Compliance · Risk

Omnibus & DSA Compliance

Led cross-functional alignment across product, tech, marketing, sales, and customer service to implement unexpected regulatory requirements at scale.

€600M
in fines avoided
20+
markets compliant
10%
of annual earnings protected
AI · Personalisation

AI-Powered Ordering Experience

Partnered with AI/ML and data science teams to design and launch a personalised ordering experience for millions of users across multiple markets.

+€100M
GMV/year
+6–8%
reorder rate
+€95M
incremental from frequency

AI Lab

Things I've built

I don't just think about product strategy. I use AI tools to build and ship things. This is where I experiment.

Get in touch

Let's talk

Open to roles mainly in Berlin, Barcelona, or fully remote. Also available for consulting and fractional work.

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