Michael Martens is Interim Head of Product at keinstandard and a Chapter leader of The Design Thinking Association's Hamburg Chapter

Michael Martens

Michael Martens uses his human-centric mindset, strong system-thinking skills, entrepreneurial spirit and North-German Gelassenheit to leverage your team's full potential in workshops and ensure a high-quality product delivery in time and on budget.

Michael Martens is a broad generalist who wears multiple hats, able to analyze and understand super fast, asking uncomfortable questions and motivate teams. He has 9+ years of experience in the „Digital World“ with roles like COO, management consultant, product owner, product manager, agile coach, service designer, user researcher, entrepreneur.

Michael Martens clients range from corporates to SMEs to startups. Often with a focus on healthcare, life sciences, corporate tools and diversity & inclusion topics. He has facilitated and managed the complete process from project request to delivery for 55+ projects with up to 1.2M€ budget responsibility. Michael Martens flexibly manages engagements from 1 day to 6+ months, both on-site and remotely.

Michael Martens enjoys fun and serious play, especially Lego, which he finds key for team building, ideation, research, strategy and getting involved in the development process.

If you need hands-on support for your product development or someone to temporarily lead your product team as a CPO/Head of Product, Michael Martens is used to join and manage existing development teams very fast and deliver value from day 1.

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