Experience

mantro product studio

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Geschäftsführer

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  My day is filled with pitch calls, coming up with content to win projects and spreading ideas of how to improve our company. Together with an amazing team, I grew mantro product studio from 7 to 30 people in 12 months. If you ask me what I am actually good at - designing solutions, motivating teams and building organisations. mantro product studio helps you to develop innovative business models that drive the future of your industry. We turn ideas into products that make money - step by step from Prototyping / Validation to MVP development, go-to-market and scaling readiness.



yannicmetz.com

• Events Services

• Speaker and Investor

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  How can we get the work done that comes after the workshop, and bring an idea from the lab out to the market and make it successful? I speak at events and companies - about my experience of actively launching 10 products in the past 8 years. I speak about applying the lean startup principles in corporate innovation and the kind of set-up that is required to make innovation initiatives successful. My favorite talk: - Turn ideas into successful businesses: everything starts with the right people! Also good: - The work after the workshop: go to market or die trying! | 100 Tage nach dem Workshop, Auf dem Markt oder auf dem Friedhof! - Learnings from selling prototypes: why people buy from you! | Warum Sales anders funktioniert als die meisten von uns denken! - Talk about it! Why no one is going to steal your shitty start-up idea! | Warum das Risiko falsch zu liegen größer ist als kopiert zu werden!



mantro

• Germany
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of mantro product studio

  • May 2021 - Sep 2021

  I tell stories about how to get from 0 to 1. I help to understand how to approach business building and product innovation. Talk to me if you find it interesting what mantro is doing and are curious if we could work together. We go the whole journey of end-to-end innovative product development for and with you, from the first workshop to market launch and all the way until product scaling. We don’t just talk or consult on strategic levels - we also execute the product development on all necessary levels of development, marketing, sales and operations. With 10 years of experience in different Innovation roles, in corporates, startups and corporate startups, I design innovation solutions for your individual situation and go the journey with you to execute these solutions.

• Podcaster

  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2021

  Gewinnwarnung is about looking behind the minds of Innovators and pioneers in Germany's corporate landscape, to find out how they succeed in times where budgets are shortened and initiatives are put on hold. Follow the links to find us on apple podcast or Spotify:https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/gewinnwarnung/id1482604269?l=enhttps://open.spotify.com/show/5tqFN8me5NdD32awAl1Xhl?si=WOYFnpGdQfaIEaKtTwvoKw

• Building new Products and Businesses

  • Jan 2016 - May 2021

  At mantro we build ventures together with established companies for the future of our economy.Ideas win games, execution wins the championship - that’s why I focused fully on how to bring products from idea to market as fast as possible while developing a sound business model for the product. That situation where no one knows where to start and what to do next, that’s where I feel most alive. My job is to make sure that where there is nothing in the beginning there is a problem solving product and viable business in the end. A product that creates real value for clients and realizes a substantial business development for the involved parties. We do this by strictly following a hypotheses driven approach in our design and development process, assuming that we know nothing and have to test every single assumption of our product design with real customer feedback. I am not a consultant or coach, I am a product designer, developer and marketeer. Meaning that as a venture team lead, I do these tests myself and don’t tell others how to do them.#leanstartup #build-measure-learn #hypothesesdriven #creatingbusinessvisions



Ferroso

• Germany
• Mining

• Co-Founder

  • Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

  We started out to revolutionise the steel recycling industry and ended up building a new platform to order materials. We started out to revolutionise the steel recycling industry and ended up building a new platform to order materials.



zentor GmbH

• Germany
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Co-Founder and CPO

  • Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

  As early stage CPO I take over the complete technical development of our initial MVP and beta-product, defining necessary features and product design together with our CEO. As early stage CPO I take over the complete technical development of our initial MVP and beta-product, defining necessary features and product design together with our CEO.



The Philipp University of Marburg

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant

  • Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

  Development of a Project Management Reportery Grid for Professorial Chair Initiatives and supported Start Ups (Start Now Initiative). Preparation and Holding of Seminars for Bachelor and Master Students of the Technology and Innovation Management Chair Development of a Project Management Reportery Grid for Professorial Chair Initiatives and supported Start Ups (Start Now Initiative). Preparation and Holding of Seminars for Bachelor and Master Students of the Technology and Innovation Management Chair



Life Qro

• Querétaro Area, Mexico

• Co-Founder

  • Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  Life Qro was an event agency mainly running student events and doing promotional work for bars and clubs in the city of Querétaro. Occasionally Life Qro would also organize and run culture trips that were bundled and sold through sales representatives. At its peak, Life Qro had a number of 20 team members. Life Qro was an event agency mainly running student events and doing promotional work for bars and clubs in the city of Querétaro. Occasionally Life Qro would also organize and run culture trips that were bundled and sold through sales representatives. At its peak, Life Qro had a number of 20 team members.



Atos IT Solutions and Services A/S

• Denmark
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior Management Consultant

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

  Internal Management Consulting within the Operations Department of Atos Germany: In my role as a Junior Consultant for the Operations department, I developed and executed a reporting tool for workforce utilization in the Business Unit Germany and took responsibility for the successful reporting to the top management team. I had the responsibility for top management initiatives that served to strengthen the organisations efficiency: Including transforming the organisation, increasing workforce billability and redeveloping pricing models.



Atos IT Solutions and Services A/S and former Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH

• Munich Area, Germany

• IT and Management Consultant Apprentice

  • Sep 2009 - May 2012

  6 Internships (6-10 weeks) in the areas of Business Consulting, IT Consulting and Management Assistance for the Service Unit Consulting and Systems Integration. In my role as a Consulting Intern, I gained knowledge in the areas of IT Outsourcing, IT transformation in cases of divestment and Knowledge management & brokering during the first part of the program. In my role as a Management Assistant and Business Consultant I gained knowledge in the areas of Account Management, organizational business transformation and internal business process optimization.