Martin Förster
Director Produktmanagement at Make it nice GmbH
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMartin Förster is a product leader with eight years of focused experience scaling SaaS product organizations and driving cloud transformations across PE-backed and enterprise environments. Currently Head of Product Management Housing at Aareon DACH, he leads migration from legacy ERP to modern SaaS while embedding customer-driven discovery and transparent prioritization to reduce churn and accelerate growth. Previously he delivered pan-European SaaS rollouts at Wolters Kluwer, combining AI-enabled support reductions with double-digit revenue improvements and improved NPS. He advises SMEs through his firm Make it nice, helping leadership teams professionalize product practices and embed evidence-based decision-making. Known for turning around underperforming portfolios, Martin blends operating discipline with a creative background in photography and marketing to align product strategy with commercial outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Photography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Photography at Middlesex UniversityBusiness Administration, Business Administration at University of Applied Sciences CologneMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Marketing and Media Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Marketing and Media Management at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln
English, Arabic, German, French
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Github Skills (15)
windows10
mobile10
app-framework10
material-design10
web-framework10
macos10
ios10
fuchsia10
cross-platform10
mobile-development10
dart10
android10
skia10
flutter10
homescreen4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Ownii/Bash-Commander
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 44 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Ownii/switchbot_gateway
Jun 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:31 pushes in 2 years
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