About Me, Myself and I

I help connect brands with customers through intelligent user experience & strategy

After I studied BWL in Münster I moved to Groningen for my Marketing Master. During internships at Telecom and Philips I quickly realized that I had a huge interest in optimizing digital appearances & developing product ideas

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Brands I worked with

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Minutes Yoga each day to relax

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Presentation & Pitches I held

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Cups of Matcha Latte

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02/2023

elbkapitäne

I worked for elbkapitäne as a freelancer and really enjoyed the team, the projects and their way of working, so I am glad to be back in a fulltime job! We are a middle sized team of quite senior professionals and realize mostly website relaunches using Pimcore as our technical base.

UX Strategy Consultant

08/2022 - 02/2023

Self Employed

Enjoyed the short but intense time as a freelancer and worked for different agencies during that time - 50% as a UX Designer and 50% as a Strategist. I used this time to work remote and schedule my working days as I liked. However, I missed working within a team after a while. I also followed my second passion which is photography and had the time to schedule a lot of freelance photography jobs which is a great and refreshing alternation to my desktop heavy job.

UX Strategy Freelancer

03/2022 - 08/22

awork

awork is a SaaS startup from Hamburg, offering modern workmanagement software, targeting the needs of creative teams, like agencies. I accompanied the whole product development flow: from defining the roadmap, to user testing, concepting and release communication. new work and thereby driving digitalization in other companies was a main topic at awork which caught my interest.

Senior Product & 
UX Manager

01/19 - 02/22

deepblue networks

Digital UX Strategist

  • I worked three years at deepblue networks a digital agency based in Hamburg, which is a part of the Scholz & Friends Family. As a digital strategist with focus on UX I was the analytical part of the creative teams, often doing a debrief with customers or working sessions to better understand their problems. Together we developed new product ideas and further in the product launch cycle I took over the UX Lead part, developing concepts and bringing the ideas to live.
  • "What is the problem?" understand user problems, company pain points, market challenges
  • "What do we want? Where should we start?!" develop a vision + define working mode
  • "How can we solve this problem?" visualize ideas, new concepts, set goals
  • "Are we actually solving our problem now?" measure performance, analyze insights & drive constant optimization

03 - 12/2018

Ampd Energy

Product & UX Manager

I worked one year in Hong Kong at Ampd Energy a startup driving green energy usage. Working in a foreign B2B market was exciting and challenging - mainly driving website optimization, setting up a B2B acquisition funnel and defining market potentials.

03/17 - 03/18

foodboom

Junior Product Manager

My most delicious job was at foodboom - a startup creating food content, based in Hamburg. I was responsible optimizing the website - so everyone would find the yummy recipes as fast as possible. The content management did not fit our needs, so we also developed a proper CMS, that would make it super duper easy for our content creators to hack in the videos, recipes steps and ingredients. As a brand the goal was to support the user through his whole cooking journey. So, what would be more handy than having an own food recipe app? 🤳 Or even an Alexa skill, reading the steps to you, while your hands are busy chopping? Well, let's say I did both and only one of them was really successfull.

What they think

"Very goal-oriented and tasks are carried out super efficiently. Her estimates regarding timing and effort are always realistic and reliable. Her fresh and energetic nature is highly appreciated from our customers!"
Alice Katt
Team Lead, Deepblue Networks
"At FOODBOOM, Ms Mantik played a key role in the strategic positioning and development of digital products including App, Website and Backend. She encourages innovation in terms of technology and content and was therefore gladly incorporated in decision- making processes."
Sebastian Heinz
CEO, Foodboom
"As a self starter Shirin was capable of seeking additional opportunities especially in the field of digitalization across Asia and EMEA. Moreover, she proved absolute familiarity with design, user research and innovation processes."
Daniel Chan
VP of Development, Hong Kong

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