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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