Karim Attia

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Personal Information

Karim Attia
Trottenstrasse 20 | CH-8037 Zürich
mail+professional@karimattia.ch
+41 76 421 35 22

About me

  • Senior Product Manager (B2B) and Economist by training
  • AI-first and entrepreneurial mindset
  • Known for a strong sense of ownership, data literacy for decision-making, and creating clarity and alignment
  • Lean, iterative approach, I prototype with AI (Codex / Cursor) to validate ideas before building
  • Can support with organizing best practice product processes
  • Based in Zürich, work smoothly in English & German with distributed teams

Professional Experience

2023 - presentTeam Lead Product Management @ Timly.com (2024 - present)
Senior Product Manager (2023 - 2024)
Timly is an inventory management B2B SaaS scale-up
  • Developing and coordinating the product strategy with the product team
  • Built the product to support growth from 700K to 3.5M ARR within 3 years
  • Built the Timly ticketing system module (paid upgrade) with currently 456 customers
  • Prototyping, building and evaluating our AI features
  • Hired an amazing design team (2 designers)
  • Built onboarding tour for trial users increasing conversion to personal demo call
  • Leading the redesign of the whole app
2022 - 2023Product Manager @ Yousty.ch
Yousty is the largest job portal for apprenticeships in Switzerland
  • Responsible for apprenticeship seeker experience (B2C side of two sided marketplace)
  • Developed our B2C strategy and derived our roadmap from it
  • Introduced a career choice journey that guides apprenticeship seekers from career exploration through application
  • Responsible for our analytics setup (operational and strategic KPIs)
  • Rebuilt our career fair onboarding flow resulting in 15'000 user registrations with detailed job preference data in 2022
2020 - 2021Business Analyst @ Revver (formerly Quant Technologies AG)
Revver builds a point of sale solution for convenience stores
  • Built the product with the engineering team and managed the implementation at the largest partner of the customer
2016 - 2020Senior Consultant @ Synpulse Management Consulting (2018 - 2020)
Consultant (2016 - 2018)
Synpulse supports banks and insurers with technology-driven solutions
  • Built a chatbot pilot (product role)
  • Built a text mining tool (product role)
  • Assessed and developed business cases of machine learning projects
  • Wrote an IT investment proposal for a commercial insurer
  • Internal topics I owned: Blockchain, Chatbots, Lean Startup methodology
2012 - 2014Finance Workstudent @ IBM (70%)
  • Created controlling reports for IBM Europe's consulting business
  • Structured financial data in order to effectively fulfill executive management requests
  • Developed flexible Excel controlling tools for the regional business units reporting to us
2011 - 2012Tutor Informatics for Business I @ University of Zurich (15%)

Education

2021Product Owner Certification
2013 - 2016Master in Economics @ University of Zurich
  • Grade: 5.5 (summa cum laude)
  • Exchange semester @ University of Copenhagen
2010 - 2013Bachelor in Economics @ University of Zurich
2004 - 2010Kantonsschule Limmattal, Urdorf, Switzerland

Languages

GermanNative speaker
EnglishFluent - Cambridge Advanced Certificate B

Interests

In my free time, I like to
  • Take care of my plants
  • Snowboard
  • Play chess and card games