ABOUT

Product leader. AI builder. Translator between worlds.

I'm David. I've spent 10 years turning complex product questions into shipped products, sharper strategies, and better growth paths. Regulated industries, data-heavy environments, organizations where humans, machines, and business logic need to find a way to work together.

I started in banking, with an apprenticeship and early years in client-facing roles. What sounds like a detour turned out to be my biggest advantage: I learned how customers actually think, where compliance helps and where it blocks, and why most digital projects in regulated industries fail — not because of the technology, but because nobody translates between the worlds.

Today I'm Head of Product at anybill, leading an AI-driven data product in retail-tech. In parallel, I'm doing my Executive MBA at TUM with a focus on Innovation & Business Creation, and building an AI-native consumer app from scratch as part of the TUM.ai Entrepreneurship Lab.

What drives me: the moment a vague hypothesis turns into a prototype that real users hold in their hands — and when that prototype becomes a business.

Beyond work: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, cooking, and everything around design, art, and fashion.

Portrait of David Pierre Kittel

HOW I WORK

Five principles I keep returning to.

  1. 01Outcomes over output.A delivered roadmap ticket isn't success. A measured outcome is.
  2. 02Hands-on, not just strategic.I prototype myself, write SQL, ship things in Cursor and Lovable. Strategy without execution is an expensive slide.
  3. 03Discovery before delivery.Before anything gets built, it has to be clear: for whom, why, and how we'll measure success.
  4. 04Human and machine, not human or machine.The best products don't replace human judgment with AI — they amplify it. I build for that intersection.
  5. 05Business and product aren't opposites.Pricing, monetization, and GTM are product topics, not "later" topics.

CAREER

The path so far.

Oct 2022 – Present
Oct 2025 – Feb 2026
Oct 2021 – Sep 2022
Oct 2019 – Sep 2021
May 2018 – Oct 2019
Oct 2017 – Apr 2018
Apr 2017 – Jun 2017
Jan 2015 – Oct 2017

EDUCATION

Formal training, applied in the field.

Executive MBA — Innovation & Business Creation

2024–2026 (expected)

TUM — Technical University of Munich

  • Thesis: Consumer Digital Twins (Prof. Hartmann, TUM School of Management)
  • Class Representative, TUM EMBA Class of 2026
  • Member of TUM.ai · Study trip to UC Berkeley Haas

B.Sc. Business Administration & Psychology

2017–2020

FOM — University of Applied Sciences

  • Thesis: Technology acceptance and privacy in digital identity solutions
  • Specialization: Leadership Psychology & Change Management

SELECTED CERTIFICATIONS

Growth Series (Reforge, 2024) · Professional Scrum Master (scrum.org, 2020)

LANGUAGES

German (native) · English (fluent)

Want to explore a collaboration?

hi@davidpierre.io