Head of Digital Business & Automation (f/m/d)

Trusted Shops SE (DE) • Cologne

Cologne

from today / asap

Your duties

At Trusted Shops, we're on a mission to build Europe’s Community of Trust – a platform where more than 40 million consumers and tens of thousands of businesses connect with confidence. To scale this mission, we’re unlocking the power of self-service and automation for our business members. We believe that great digital experiences require smart, seamless systems backed by data, AI, and intuitive design. As Head of Digital Business & Automation for our self-service customers, you’ll be at the helm of this transformation. 
 
 
Your role  

As a hands-on leader, you’ll lead both the strategy and the team driving growth, engagement, and retention in our self-service tier segment. You’ll coordinate cross-functional efforts and empower your team to deliver impact through automation, AI, and funnel optimization: 

 

  • Develop and execute business strategies to drive ARR and NRR growth. 

  • Translate company objectives into impactful, scalable initiatives in collaboration with Marketing, UX, and Tech. 

  • Lead and manage a cross-functional team (Growth Marketing, Retention, Engagement, Data, Automation) with clear ownership of funnel performance. 

  • Define operating models, conversion paths, and value propositions tailored to self-service customers. 

  • Set and align team OKRs with lifecycle metrics such as acquisition, activation, engagement, conversion, and retention. 

  • Own and optimize the full customer journey—from acquisition to winback—with a focus on onboarding, adoption, and upsell. 

  • Drive an automation-first, AI-powered approach to enhance customer experience at scale and reduce manual effort 

  • Increase the effectiveness of digital touchpoints, such as the Trusted Shops Business Control Center, upgrade pages, in-app notifications, and help content. 

  • Monitor and improve performance across key KPIs: ARR, NRR, TTV, GRR, CSAT, CAC. 

  • Use behavioral data and funnel analytics to inform continuous improvement and experimentation 

Why join Trusted Shops?

  • Shape the future of self-service in a mission-driven tech company focused on trust, transparency, and digital growth. 

  • Work with cutting-edge technologies including AI, automation, and behavioral analytics to design scalable, customer-centric solutions. 

  • Join a diverse, international team where collaboration, learning, and experimentation are core to how we work. 

  • Benefit from a hybrid working model, personal development budget, and supportive leadership that values impact over hierarchy. 

  • Contribute to a product used by millions of consumers and thousands of businesses across Europe—with the freedom to innovate and make decisions. 

  • Experience a culture that combines startup agility with meaningful purpose, driven by shared values and a clear long-term vision. 

Your profile

  • 5+ years of experience in digital business management, product-led growth, or SaaS operations. 

  • Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams. 

  • Strong understanding of self-service funnels, B2B marketing, and automation strategies. 

  • Comfortable working with data-driven decision-making and performance tracking. 

  • Solution oriented mindset with a hands-on approach to challenges and opportunities. 

  • Strong communication skills, able to align diverse stakeholders and motivate teams. 

  • Fluent in English; German is a strong plus 

What we offer you

  • Hybrid work: Combine flexible remote work with team time in the office

  • Workation: Temporarily work from a destination of your choice within the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway

  • Permanent contract with Europe's trusted brand

  • 27 vacation days + 3.5 additional days off at Christmas, New Year's Eve and Carnival

  • Buddy programme (an experienced trustee is at your side)

  • Individual training opportunities

  • Events (Team Events, Unit Events, etc.)

  • Health Pass (free online and offline sports, fitness and health courses)

BUILD A COMMUNITY OF TRUST WITH US - #cometotrust


Not sure if you are what we are looking for? Apply!
At Trusted Shops, we are interested in you as a person - whether you fit in with us is
independent of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity. Trusted Shops is clearly committed to diversity and against discrimination.

Contacts
Adrian Philippovits

Adrian Philippovits

 

Your benefits in product

New work

Work from wherever you feel most comfortable. Whether in one of our 5 offices or temporary from another location in Europe.

Health Pass

Stay fit – physically and psychologically. Our company health management offers you a wide range of courses, presentations and workshops.

International flair

With a team from more than 40 different nations, it never gets boring. We celebrate our diversity and the countless new perspectives it gives us.

Individual development opportunities

Unleash your talent and improve your individual skills that support you in your work.

Buddy programme

Your buddy will help you settle in when you first start out with us. Later, you can also share your experience with new colleagues.

Team events

Whether in summer, winter or whenever it suits your team – we enjoy spending time together.

Agile coach

Agile coaches are available to you and your teams so that you can be successful together.

Guilds

In cross-team guilds, we work on current topics in a self-organised and practical manner, e.g. in the Architecture guild or the DevOps guild

Knowledge marketplace

Everyone can offer knowledge or search for it on a kind of bulletin board. This creates spontaneous training sessions with each other

Our values

Transparency

Open and clear communication gets us to our goals quickly. Address your topics openly – we will find a solution for everything together.

Respect

Every single one of our colleagues is a valuable part of our community. Respectful interaction and openness are prerequisites for our work.

Trust

We know you’re doing a great job – otherwise you wouldn't be here. We trust you, your skills, ideas and intentions.

Employee reviews

Thibaut Charprenet
Thibaut Charprenet
Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer, I work as part of the Advertising Product team. Together, we get to make most of the critical decisions about our products and enjoy plenty of freedom in the way we shape our roadmap.

My daily work never gets boring and always looks different depending on what phase of a project we are working on: in the discovery phase, I take care of the user research and data collection that will inform our decisions. In the conceptual phase, I deliver the user journey and the wireframes before moving to the more final graphic design. Finally, I also drive the user testing rounds or customer interviews to validate our new releases and establish the next UX improvements.

Every step of the way, I can rely on our in-house UX team to help me organise workshops, get feedback or support me with more advanced graphic tasks, such as illustrations and animations. Among the many excellent reasons to join Trusted Shops, the amazing UX team and our great diversity of profiles and colourful personalities would probably be my number one!

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