N26’s head of product is building a better bank

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Fintech startup N26 recently reached a new milestone as it now has five million customers
The company launched onstage at A Technology News Room Disrupt five years ago.The premise was simple
In this wide-ranging discussion, we talk about her role in the organization, how the product and design team communicates and how she finds
inspiration for game-changing ideas
The interview was slightly edited for clarity and brevity
almost 15 years now, mostly on the marketplace side of things
My product career took me from Australia to Hong Kong, where I set up a business there under another company
I did lots of different things and ended up in Germany working on the IPO for a company called Scout24, which is a property classifieds
business
That was about four years ago
After I left, I went back to Australia