Zürich, Switzerland

Building products that serve billions.

Former Senior Director of Product Management at Google and former startup CEO. I led products that served billions of users and generated billions in revenue.

Today I advise management teams in building leading products and product orgs. I am also an angel investor.

Former Google Exec Product Advisor Angel Investor
Raphael Leiteritz
Experience

Things I worked on

Google Maps

As part of the early Google Maps team I was head of the Geo Product group in EMEA for seven years. I was responsible for some of the largest global features on Maps, including Directions by car, public transportation, biking and walking. I led the EMEA rollout of features like Street View, managed the global emerging markets strategy and was the global privacy lead for Geo. Maps is one of Google's few products with over 2 billion users.

Google Shopping

Google Shopping is a multi-billion dollar business driving product searches on Google and connecting hundreds of millions of users with the biggest retailers in the world such as Walmart, Target, Macy's and Amazon. For 5 years I led global Product Management for all retailer aspects (data, merchant tools, user interfaces, systems) of this two-digit billion dollar business.

Product Management Festival

Since 2013 I am Co-Chair of the Product Management Festival, a yearly PM focused conference with thousands of participants from over 45 countries. We amplify the impact of Product Management. Also check out our Product Leadership Program in cooperation with INSEAD.

Thiga

I am a partner and board member of Thiga, a company specializing in product management consulting, training and conferences in France, Spain and Switzerland. My own startup Peak Product merged with Thiga in 2024.

Explore

More on my expertises

Let's connect

The best way to reach me is through X/Twitter and LinkedIn. Please contact me there directly.

Important I promise I will read every single message that I get but I can't reply to all of them.
For funding requests I normally follow investors I know into funding rounds. This is for time & capacity reasons. This means I most likely won't be able to engage in your project if it's not a co-investment opportunity out of my network.