Key data
Job description: CEO & Co-founder
Company: UNIspotter
I work in: Vienna/London
I’ve worked here since: 2014 (Company founded 2016)
My contact
What I do
Connecting the right students with the right universities. Universities spend €3.4b on agent commissions (doubling by 2024). UNIspotter is transforming a broken industry and ending the education agent marketplace by digitising 80% of the agent process and adding super high level human touch where necessary. UNIspotter is a mobile app for students for the international university application – adding ease, accessibility and transparency.
Why I love my job
- Working on a problem I had myself
- Helping young people to set them up for a better life
Important skills in my job
- Sales/Marketing
- Product Development
- Leadership
- Building a performing team (hiring, company culture, team management…)
- Fundraising / Investor relations
- Strategic planning
The best experiences in my job
Getting positive feedback from students using UNIspotter is everytime a great experience. I also love to create a team around our mission and a positive and challenging work environment. In 2017 I was very honored to be on the Forbes 30 under 30 list (as it’s one of my favorite business magazines). All together we were able to raise €1 million from international angel investors & venture capitalists. We now have 5 offices across the globe in Vienna, Tallinn, London, Sydney and Coimbatore (India). All those successes were only possible through a great team effort.
How I found my current job
Created it 😉
What I learned for this job during my studies at FH JOANNEUM:
- Fundamental understanding of different business aspects (coming from a technical school / HTL before)
- Cultural understanding and awareness (probably the biggest one with currently a team of 7 people from 5 very different cultures)
Job prospects in my field
I think entrepreneurship is not the right career choice for everyone but I want to encourage everyone who is interested to take the step to at least try it out!
I am
- Strategic thinker
- Efficient
- Resilient
- Positive thinker
About my job
As the CEO my main roles right now involve strategic planning, hiring & company culture, investor relations and sales. Still I’m involved in product, marketing & other areas and as we are small team I’m still spending 70% of my time executing things.
