Dominik Schmidt
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French Elementary proficiency
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Richard Weber
At Cliqz, I had the chance and pleasure to work with Dominik for more than 4 years. Dominik is an all-purpose-weapon, able to cover a broad scope in UX, product management, and business questions. Moreover, Dominik has built a strong thought-leadership within and beyond the Cliqz team, driving ideation and new product development as well as representing Cliqz as an ambassador to the outside world. He pioneered Cliqz’ collaboration with the Mozilla Corporation and launched Cliqz’ paid product as the responsible team lead. Among the Cliqz team, Dominik enjoyed highest respect due to his achievements as well as his great people and leadership skills, earning him a tightly connected followership in his own team as well as a position as go-to person for all problem solvings. I highly recommend Dominik for product-related leadership positions and congratulate anyone who has the chance to work with him.
Richard Weber
At Cliqz, I had the chance and pleasure to work with Dominik for more than 4 years. Dominik is an all-purpose-weapon, able to cover a broad scope in UX, product management, and business questions. Moreover, Dominik has built a strong thought-leadership within and beyond the Cliqz team, driving ideation and new product development as well as representing Cliqz as an ambassador to the outside world. He pioneered Cliqz’ collaboration with the Mozilla Corporation and launched Cliqz’ paid product as the responsible team lead. Among the Cliqz team, Dominik enjoyed highest respect due to his achievements as well as his great people and leadership skills, earning him a tightly connected followership in his own team as well as a position as go-to person for all problem solvings. I highly recommend Dominik for product-related leadership positions and congratulate anyone who has the chance to work with him.
Richard Weber
At Cliqz, I had the chance and pleasure to work with Dominik for more than 4 years. Dominik is an all-purpose-weapon, able to cover a broad scope in UX, product management, and business questions. Moreover, Dominik has built a strong thought-leadership within and beyond the Cliqz team, driving ideation and new product development as well as representing Cliqz as an ambassador to the outside world. He pioneered Cliqz’ collaboration with the Mozilla Corporation and launched Cliqz’ paid product as the responsible team lead. Among the Cliqz team, Dominik enjoyed highest respect due to his achievements as well as his great people and leadership skills, earning him a tightly connected followership in his own team as well as a position as go-to person for all problem solvings. I highly recommend Dominik for product-related leadership positions and congratulate anyone who has the chance to work with him.
Richard Weber
At Cliqz, I had the chance and pleasure to work with Dominik for more than 4 years. Dominik is an all-purpose-weapon, able to cover a broad scope in UX, product management, and business questions. Moreover, Dominik has built a strong thought-leadership within and beyond the Cliqz team, driving ideation and new product development as well as representing Cliqz as an ambassador to the outside world. He pioneered Cliqz’ collaboration with the Mozilla Corporation and launched Cliqz’ paid product as the responsible team lead. Among the Cliqz team, Dominik enjoyed highest respect due to his achievements as well as his great people and leadership skills, earning him a tightly connected followership in his own team as well as a position as go-to person for all problem solvings. I highly recommend Dominik for product-related leadership positions and congratulate anyone who has the chance to work with him.
Experience
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Plantura
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Germany
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Digital Product
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Dec 2020 - Present
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Cliqz GmbH
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Germany
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Product
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Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Leading product development for privacy browsers, product analytics, UXResponsible for a cross-functional team of 15 (engineering, QA testers, and UX)Member of leadership team, reporting to the CEO
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Product Manager
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Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Lead efforts from conception to successful launch of a subscription-based mobile privacy browser with a product team of six
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Team Lead User Experience
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Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Established UX as an essential part of product development, built and lead a UX team of five. Implemented data processing pipelines for product and company metrics (Python, PySpark).
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User Experience Researcher
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Feb 2015 - May 2017
Owning qualitative (e.g., usability studies) and quantitative (e.g., AB testing) UX researchResponsible for prototyping and interaction designDrove implementation from architecture to rollout of a search-as-you-type feature (JavaScript)
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Hasso Plattner Institute
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Germany
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Higher Education
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200 - 300 Employee
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Postdoc Researcher
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Jul 2012 - Jan 2015
Academic HCI research lab. Built and investigated large-scale natural user interface systems, resulting in four publications at top-tier conferences. Co-taught HCI lectures and supervised students. Academic HCI research lab. Built and investigated large-scale natural user interface systems, resulting in four publications at top-tier conferences. Co-taught HCI lectures and supervised students.
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Co-founder
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Jan 2008 - Jun 2012
Early-stage startup. Co-founder and main developer (Ruby on Rails). Enabling users to create and format professional CVs online. Early-stage startup. Co-founder and main developer (Ruby on Rails). Enabling users to create and format professional CVs online.
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Intern
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Jun 2011 - Sep 2011
Microsoft Research HCI lab. Designed and built hardware & software for pico-projector-based interaction techniques, resulting in patent application. Microsoft Research HCI lab. Designed and built hardware & software for pico-projector-based interaction techniques, resulting in patent application.
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Education
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2008 - 2012
Lancaster University
Ph.D., Computer Science -
2007 - 2007
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science -
2005 - 2007
Center for Digital Technology and Management
Honors Degree, Technology Management -
2002 - 2007
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Diplom (Master Equiv.), Medieninformatik (Media-Related Computer Science) -
2005 - 2006
Wayne State University
Computer Science
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