Vanessa Braun

S

Senior Product Manager at L'Oréal · Marketplaces · trust & safety, unit economics

L'Oréal
Berlin, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
10+ years experience
Sorbonne University
English, German
AdvisingCo-founder
Messaging unavailable

Overview

10 years in product management, the last 2 at L'Oréal, where I work on the marketplace team. Took marketplace activation from 18% to 44% in three quarters. Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 10 days to 4. Before that: Arcadia Software and Volkswagen Group. Most at home with payments and trust & safety.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Advice on marketplaces
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Crypto token projects
  • SEO and link-building offers

Replies within two days

Skills
paymentsunit economicstrust & safetymatching
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: marketplaces and payments

Topics
marketplaces, matching, unit economics
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

10 years of marketplaces. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Berlin, Germany · remote OKmatchingtrust & safetypayments
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for pet insurance for nonprofits

The idea
Pet insurance for nonprofits
Stage
Idea
I bring
14 years in marketplaces
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Berlin or remote

I bring 10 years of marketplaces (currently L'Oréal). Ideally you've led a design team. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Berlin, Germanytrust & safetymatchingunit economics
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Product Manager
    May 2024 - Present
    L'Oréal · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Took marketplace activation from 25% to 52% in three quarters.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 17 days to 4.
    • Launched the marketplace product in 10 markets.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Feb 2022 - May 2024
    Arcadia Software · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Launched the marketplace product in 4 markets.
  3. Product Manager
    May 2020 - Nov 2021
    Volkswagen Group · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 14 days to 1.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Jun 2018 - May 2020
    Amazon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 20 days to 1.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
    Nestlé · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Launched the marketplace product in 13 markets.
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

Projects

Open-source matching toolkit
2026

A small library for marketplaces that 857 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a recipe search engine
2025

Built with matching and unit economics. 528 people used it last year.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. Sorbonne University
    Licence, Engineering
    2013 - 2016

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections

Trusted Partners

Sponsored