Mert Filizay

I bring products into new marketsand build the tools that make teams faster.

Product Manager at Zeops, leading its German market entry.Finishing my M.Sc. at TUM in Munich.

pre-launch interviews with German companies, in GermanZeops
12
of them became design partnersZeops
4
internal tools and reports for Finance and SalesClimatePartner
15+
saved each week by AI checks on the German productZeops
~30 h

Experience

  1. Zeops

    08/2025 – present

    Product Manager, German Market Entry · B2B HR and payroll software

    • One of three people running the German market entry, working with the founders.
    • Ran 12 pre-launch interviews with German companies, in German. Four of them became design partners.
    • Adapted the payroll module to German tax and social-security rules in-house in about six weeks, where a consultant had quoted €30k+ and 5+ months. Designed the interim DATEV setup until our product is certified.
    • Automated the review of the German product: AI workflows check every page for language, GDPR and leftover Turkish-version issues, saving about 30 hours a week.

    zeops.de

  2. ClimatePartner

    12/2024 – 09/2026

    Digital Transformation Working Student · Munich

    • 15+ internal tools and reports, used by 30+ colleagues in Finance and Sales.
    • For Finance, an AI-supported Power Automate workflow, running in production, that matches and checks CRM data. A recurring report now takes about 70% less time, around 40 hours a month.
    • For Sales, a quote tool that builds client offers from live carbon-project data, saving up to 10 hours a week.

Earlier

  1. 03/2023 – 06/2024

    dentsu

    Junior BI Consultant · Düsseldorf (remote)

    Built 12 Power BI reporting products for three stakeholder teams, and a data-quality layer that cut about 20 hours a month of manual checks.

  2. 05/2022 – 12/2022

    Element Insurance

    Business Analytics Working Student · Berlin

    Moved Finance's recurring payment reporting from Excel to automated reports, cutting manual work by about 25%.

  3. 07/2021 – 05/2022

    kariyer.net

    Product Management Intern · Istanbul

    Ran funnel analysis with Python and Google Analytics. It fed product and SEO changes that helped raise techcareer.net conversion by about 30%, to 3.5%.

Side projects

  • Peakly

    2026

    My side project to test B2C product and growth: a training and nutrition app for multi-sport athletes, built in React Native and grown to 100 users with an automated AI content engine.

    apppeakly.com

  • Vendera

    2025 – present

    The app behind my master's thesis at TUM, a randomised experiment on AI-supported weekly goals.

    appvendera.com

  • Flup

    2023 – 2025

    During my studies I built a B2B language-learning product with a co-founder, won our first business customers and sold it to Esse Learning.

About

I taught myself tennis at nine, against a wall, and won two national tournaments in Turkey. I captained the Boğaziçi team in 2023–24 and now play for TC Grün-Gold.

German was the same.I taught myself from books.

I am an industrial engineer by training (Boğaziçi, High Honors), now finishing an M.Sc. in Management and Technology at TUM. I live in Munich, and my German is at C1.

Contact

mertfilizay@gmail.com

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