Ramona Furter
Product Manager · Growth
Zurich, Switzerland, planning the move to Dubai · Swiss citizen · available with notice
ramona.furter@icloud.com · +41 78 907 14 47 · linkedin.com/in/ramona-furter · ramona-dubizzle.pages.dev
Growth product manager with 10+ years in product, e-commerce and venture building. Owns funnel conversion end to end: research, structured A/B testing programs, Google Analytics, roadmaps, PRDs and delivery with cross-functional engineering and design teams. Lifted conversion +9% and checkout step rate +15% on a CHF 100M+ e-commerce business. Leads AI-driven automation at Swiss Post. Bank and insurer partnership experience with UBS, Baloise and Die Mobiliar.
Experience
Jan 2026 to now
AI Project Lead, Business Development
· Swiss Post, Advertising · Zurich
- Leads AI-driven business models: opportunity sizing, prioritised roadmap with KPIs, delivery from concept to launch.
- Cut time spent on sales by 30% through automation and AI implementation.
- Cut feedback time on proposals and pitches by 90% with a synthetic pitch-check avatar I built.
- Builds the mockups and prototypes used in C-level presentations.
Aug to Dec 2025
In between jobs and own ventures
- Built smedium (branding and website studio): first clients, shipped sites, AI workflow automation.
- Grew Pedal Peak, my live cycling platform (SvelteKit, Cloudflare, Strava API, n8n); deep AI tooling work. Cycled Togo and Benin.
Oct 2024 to Jul 2025
Senior Product Manager, Lead E-Commerce
· Ifolor Group · Zurich
- Owned e-commerce ecosystem and strategy for a CHF 100M+ business, reporting to C-level.
- +9% conversion and +15% checkout step rate via user research, A/B testing and analytics.
- Led a cross-functional team and external agencies; owned budget, resourcing and KPIs.
Jun 2023 to Sep 2024
Lead Project Manager
· Brixel · Zurich
- Owned partnerships with financial institutions (UBS, Baloise) that drove growth.
- Main bridge between senior client stakeholders and the internal product team.
Mar 2020 to May 2023
Marketing & Growth Lead, Founding Team
· WePractice (Sparrow Ventures / Migros Group)
- Founding team of a health venture: two funding rounds closed; grew to 10 locations, 23 people, 170+ customers.
- Built the full go-to-market, hypothesis-and-data driven: 1000+ client matches in year one; led marketing and sales after Series B.
Sep 2019 to Sep 2022
Growth & Venture Builder
· Sparrow Ventures · Zurich
- Built growth and go-to-market for several internal startups, validation to scale-up; experimentation to lift conversion and cut CAC.
Jan 2017 to Aug 2019
Intrapreneur, Innovation
· Die Mobiliar · Bern
- Market pilots from MVP to launch inside a Swiss insurer: Smide, XpertCheck, Lizzy; Design-Thinking market experiments steering product and marketing decisions.
- Job rotation in digital marketing: SEO/SEA campaigns, ad creatives, KPI tracking with web analytics.
2005 to 2016
Commercial and product-marketing foundation
- Junior Trade Marketing Manager, Promena · Junior Product Manager, Cruspi · Assistant Product Manager, Domaco · Accountant, Kuoni and AMAG · commercial apprenticeship, Bridgestone Switzerland.
Education
- 2012 to 2015 · BBA Business Administration, Zentrum Bildung Baden
- 2020 to 2021 · Certified Mental Health Coach, IPC Academy Zurich
- 2019 to 2020 · CAS Digital Marketing, HWZ Zurich
- 2016 to 2017 · CAS Innovation, BFH Bern
- 2016 · Diploma Online Marketing incl. Google Ads
- 2005 to 2008 · Commercial Employee, Federal VET Diploma, KV Baden
Skills & Tools
- Funnel conversion, CRO, structured A/B testing, RICE prioritisation
- Google Analytics, Google Marketing Platform, SEO/SEA, KPI dashboards
- Roadmaps, PRDs, user stories, backlog, sprint delivery, QA coordination
- Wireframes, user flows, clickable prototypes
- AI/LLM daily practice: Claude incl. Claude Code, ChatGPT, prompt engineering, n8n automations
Languages
- German native · English fluent (C1) · French conversational (B1)