Summary
Nicolai Ridani is a product leader based in Berlin with five years of experience designing and scaling user-centered digital services, currently serving as Senior Produktmanager at DigitalService. He has progressed from growth roles into product management within the same organisation, bringing a strong background in growth, community building and user research from prior roles at Django CMS, LexFox and Questback. Nicolai blends social-science training (Diplom in Social Sciences) with hands-on growth and product practice to turn complex public-sector problems into usable, accessible digital services for citizens. He excels at cross-functional collaboration—aligning designers, developers and stakeholders—and has a knack for translating community insights into measurable product impact. Colleagues would describe him as curious, empathetic and a pragmatic communicator who injects humor into high-stakes projects.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Sozialwissenschaften (Soziologie VWL), Diplom Sozialwissenschaften (Soziologie VWL) at Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
Political Science Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science Middle Eastern Studies at American University of Beirut
German, English