Chiara Schwarz-Weichhart

Experience

AUG. 2024 – TODAY

Apoplex medical technologies

Product Owner (since Jun. 2025) / Product Manager (Aug. 2024 - Jun. 2025)

Work Reference

Developing, maintaining, and communicating product roadmaps for the R&D organization in close collaboration with internal stakeholders
Discussing and elaborating product ideas together with physicians, taking clinical requirements into account
Translating clinical and stakeholder input into structured product concepts and wireframes
Deriving, documenting, and maintaining product and system requirements from a market and customer perspective
Creating and maintaining system requirements specifications
Establishing and managing the software development ticketing system using ClickUp, including sprint planning, backlog management, and workflow definition
Preparing and conducting sprint reviews with internal and external stakeholders
Introducing and facilitating agile retrospectives within the development team
Planning and coordinating product releases
Designing usability questionnaires and conducting surveys
Independently planning, conducting, and evaluating usability tests
Analyzing qualitative and quantitative usability data to support regulatory activities in accordance with the MDR
Contributing to regulatory strategy development for new products
Organizing and delivering internal product training sessions

JUN. 2024 – AUG. 2024

Neodigital

Sales Manager

AUG. 2022 – JUN. 2024

PixelFree Studio

Executive assistant and Project Manager

Work Reference

Coordinated product development roadmap for design-to-code conversion platform supporting 6+ programming languages
Managed feature releases and sprint planning for low-code front-end development tool improvements
Facilitated cross-functional collaboration between development, design, and sales teams
Coordinated user testing sessions and collected feedback for platform optimization
Executive assistance covering scheduling, prioritization, and operational support in a fast-paced startup environment
Set up Salesforce from scratch for the team
CRM and project management tool setup and maintenance
Communication with business partners, customers, and potential investors
Trade fair participation and coordination, including ICT Spring, We Are Developers Berlin, Web Summit Lisbon, SLUSH Helsinki, and CES Las Vegas
Software demonstrations conducted for sales, marketing, and social media purposes
Product Hunt campaign planning and execution
Social media marketing and Google Ads campaign planning and execution

JUN. 2021 – JAN. 2024

Reiseritter GmbH

Legal employee

SEP. 2017 – NOV. 2018

juris - Das Rechtsportal

Working student - Legal

Education

2022 – 2025

Fernuniversität Hagen

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - studies

2016 – 2022

Universität des Saarlandes

Law (coursework completed - no degree)

2014 – 2016

Landau SÜW Klinik

Registered Nurse

Skills

Project Management

PSPO I & II Training (DelSt), ISTQB Certified Tester
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Asana, ClickUp, GitLab

Usability Engineering

For ISO 13485 & MDR (Software as a Medical Device) — NN/g's UX Certification in progress

Regulatory Affairs & QM documentation

ISO 13485, ISO 27001, ISO 62366 (Usability Engineering), MDR, AI Act, Audit (planned, led technical part)

Software development

Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS, Python, Java, SQL

CRM Systems

Hubspot, Salesforce

Other technical tools

Visual Studio Code, AsciiDoc, Notion, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams), Visio, Keynote, Gather, GitLab, Miro, Draw.io, Superset, Adobe Cloud, Figma

CRM Systems

HubSpot and Salesforce

Online Marketing

German Academy for Management, Product Hunt, Social Media, Meta Ads, Google Ads

Writing in the Sciences

Coursera

Languages

German

Mother tongue

English

Fluent

French

Intermediate

Italian

Basic knowledge

Portuguese

Beginner

Business Development Certificate (PDF)

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