Liam Hess's Resume

Liam Hess

Product Owner who thinks in products, designs in Figma, and builds with code.

Cologne, Germany

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About

Product Owner with 3+ years at ZEISS Group, shipping features to 200,000+ users across mobile and web. Grown from Designer to PO, I sit at the intersection of sharp UX, solid engineering, and a deep understanding of the people using the product. My background across business informatics, frontend development, and design lets me work fluently across disciplines — from roadmap to Figma to code. I've led cross-functional teams spanning 6+ countries, managed full product roadmaps, run user research, and still jump into Figma and code when it counts.

Work Experience

ZEISS Group
  • Remote
  • Mobile
  • Web
  • Product Management
  • UX

2024 - Present

Product Owner — ZEISS Secacam App

Responsible for the development roadmap of the ZEISS Secacam Mobile & Web App — the digital interface for ZEISS trail cameras — with a combined user base of 200,000+. Managing frontend development teams, aligning stakeholders across multiple teams, and driving the product from concept to release.
  • Shipping features to 200,000+ users across mobile and web
  • Leading frontend development teams
  • Aligning stakeholders across multiple teams
  • Driving the product from concept to release
  • Remote
  • Mobile
  • Web
  • Product Management
  • UX

ZEISS Group
  • Part-time
  • Figma
  • UX
  • Mobile
  • Proxy PO

2023 - 2024

Designer & App Manager

Working student supporting the ZEISS Secacam App from the ground up. Designed the full app UI, wrote PRDs and feature concepts, and later became Proxy Product Owner for the web development team of 4 developers.
  • Designing the full app UI
  • Writing PRDs and feature concepts
  • Becoming Proxy Product Owner for the web development team of 4 developers
  • Part-time
  • Figma
  • UX
  • Mobile
  • Proxy PO

ZDH-ZERT GmbH
  • Part-time
  • Hybrid
  • WordPress
  • UX
  • Newsletter

2022 - 2023

Webdesign and Marketing

Led the redesign of the company website from concept to launch. Managed the newsletter end-to-end from content creation through to analytics. Supported automating the certification process by building automatic form inputs for certificates.
  • Part-time
  • Hybrid
  • WordPress
  • UX
  • Newsletter

Freelance
  • Remote
  • Freelance
  • WordPress
  • Figma
  • E-Commerce

2021 - 2023

Freelance Web Designer & Developer

Designed and built custom websites for four clients across different industries, from concept to deployment — starting with a fully functional e-commerce store. Managed requirements, design, and implementation end-to-end while studying.
  • Remote
  • Freelance
  • WordPress
  • Figma
  • E-Commerce

Carl Zeiss Consumer Products GmbH
  • Remote
  • Part-time
  • JIRA
  • CRM
  • Amazon

2020 - 2022

Customer Service

Supported customer service operations, Amazon channel management, and internal process improvement. Built an internal problem-tracking process in JIRA that streamlined issue resolution and improved response times across the team.
  • Remote
  • Part-time
  • JIRA
  • CRM
  • Amazon

Tops.net
  • On Site
  • Internship
  • HTML
  • SQL

2018 - 2018

Web Development Intern

School internship providing first hands-on exposure to web development — building simple websites and working with databases.
  • On Site
  • Internship
  • HTML
  • SQL

Education

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

2021 - 2024
Bachelor of Science, Business Information Systems — Grade 1.2, top 20 graduate in the program's 10-year history

Vietnamese-German University

2023 - 2024
Exchange Semester, Business Administration & Computer Science — Grade 1.1, DAAD PROMOS Scholar

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2020 - 2021
Bachelor of Arts (incomplete), Asian Studies / Sinology

Gymnasium am Ölberg

2012 - 2020
Abitur — Grade 2.0

Skills

  • Product Management
  • UX Design
  • Figma
  • React Native
  • React.js
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Roadmap Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • User Research
  • SCRUM
  • Localisation
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • SQL

Side projects

Dynamic Localisation System (Bachelor's Thesis)

Developed a dynamic localisation system for the ZEISS Secacam Mobile App enabling real-time UI and feature adaptation per region without a new App Store or Play Store release. Grade: 1.2.

  • Unleash
  • Lokalise
  • Feature Flags
  • React Native

Freedom Calc
github.comliamskydamien/freedom-calc

Web-based financial freedom calculator built with two Vietnamese students during exchange semester. Visualises wealth growth vs. life costs over time and generates an optimised asset portfolio based on Markowitz Portfolio Theory.

  • TypeScript
  • React.js
  • Financial Modelling

Aldavia — Student Job Platform
github.comliamskydamien/Aldavia

Student job platform built for HBRS as part of the Software Engineering 2 module. Delivered in two sprints with a team of six as Product Owner Proxy, Software Architect, and Programmer. Grade: 1.0.

  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • Vaadin
  • JPA
  • SCRUM

IW-Junior Bundeswettbewerb — Voting App

Designed a digital engagement layer for a national student company competition: a voting app where event guests could virtually invest in participating startups. Delivered as a fully interactive Figma prototype.

  • Figma
  • Design Thinking
  • Mobile

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