Benjamin Ranft
B2B SaaS | airfocus
I am a Senior Product Manager at airfocus, the home for products and teams. Together with a team of developers, designers, product managers and visionaries we are building a modular product management platform, enabling thousands of product managers to make the right decisions and create clear roadmaps.
Web App | Spotown
Your favourite spots
in town
I designed and developed my first project Spotown as part of the 3-month Full Stack Development bootcamp I completed at neuefische in Hamburg. It is an all-in-one web app to save, organise and share your favourite locations. Save new discoveries, revisit them and share them with friends.
Startup | Cutnut
Stories
Made Simple
Cutnut is a B2B startup based in Hamburg, simplifying vertical story production for companies. I’ve been co-founder and chief product officer for five years and have led the development and market launch of the desktop software, mobile apps and API services.
Startup | Storypepper
Automatically turn
content into stories
Storypepper is a joint venture of Zazu (Cutnut) and Contentpepper providing an API service that automatically converts web articles into visual stories and publishes them to the web and Instagram. I have been leading this project, securing the initial funding from the Google DNI Fund and managing the development to market launch.
Startup | Lieblingslicht
Your favourite light
Handmade in Bavaria
Lieblingslicht is a small lighting manufacturer based in Munich, which I co-founded in 2016. Our luminaries are handmade from mouth-blown glass by a famous manufacturer in Frauenau near Zwiesel and turned solid brass from a metal workshop in Munich. I’m responsible for the company’s digital and marketing strategy.
About me
Currently, I am a Senior Product Manager at airfocus, the home for products and teams. Together with a team of developers, designers, product managers and visionaries we are building a modular product management platform, enabling thousands of product managers to make the right decisions and create clear roadmaps.
I love to dig into problems and to bring order into chaos. I have co-founded three startups and have led our teams through from organic bootstrapping to venture capital funded hyper growth. Simplicity lies at the core of my work and defines the products that I create, scale and optimise to create value for their users.
I like to express my creativity through photography, videography and design and have been freelancing in the digital media space for over 15 years.
I received my education at ie Business School and Cornell University from which I received my B. Sc. in Business Administration with honours. Additionally, I also graduated from a full-stack development coding bootcamp to expand my tech stack.
