Karim Attia

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Personal Information

AddressKarim Attia
Josefstrasse 26
CH-8005 Zürich
Date of BirthSeptember 18, 1992
Emailmail+professional@karimattia.ch
Phone0041 76 421 35 22

Professional Experience

05/2023 - presentSenior Product Manager @ Timly
04/2022 - 12/2022Product Manager @ Yousty.ch
With 209'256 application sent through us in 2021, Yousty.ch is the largest job portal for apprenticeships. I was responsible for the apprenticeship seeker experience (B2C). Together with my B2B counterpart and my team, consisting of four software engineers and a designer, we strived to create a perfect match between apprenticeship seekers and companies.
  • Developed our B2C strategy and derived our roadmap from it
  • Introduced a career choice journey that accompanies apprenticeship seekers during the time they choose their career and apply for jobs
  • 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
04/2020 - 04/2021Business Analyst @ Quant Technologies AG
Quant Technologies builds a cloud-native point of sale solution with payment and fuel integrations for gas stations. At the time, we were rolling out our product to the gas station network of our first large corporate client.
  • Managed and prioritised our vision and backlog
  • Gathered requirements and feature requests of our first customer
  • Collaborated closely with our developers to effectively build our product
11/2016 - 05/2020Senior Consultant @ Synpulse Management Consulting (07/2018 - 05/2020)
  • Product owner: Developed a text mining tool (commercial insurer)
  • Wrote an IT investment proposal for a commercial insurer
  • Piloted live video inspections for risk engineers to reduce travel costs
  • Ran an internal Lean Startup education course
  • Chatbots: competence center topic owner
Consultant @ Synpulse Management Consulting (11/2016 - 06/2018)
  • Assessed and developed business cases of machine learning projects
  • Product owner of a chatbot pilot
  • Developed a smart contract proof of concept on the Ethereum blockchain
07/2012 - 08/2014Finance Workstudent @ IBM (workload of 70%)
  • Created controlling reports
  • Structured financial data in order to effectively fulfil executive management requests
  • Developed flexible Excel controlling tools for the regional business units reporting to us
09/2011 - 01/2012Tutor Informatics for Business I @ University of Zurich (workload of 15%)

Education

08/2021Product 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