Chris Stöckl

Chris Stöckl

Product Designer

About

I’m a UX enthusiast with a passion for leadership and creating great, not flashy product experiences.

I enjoy weight-lifting, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / MMA, gaming and love to travel.

Side Projects

Ongoing
Sabbatical
  • Explored the US through a road trip from Nashville to Austin (where I fell in love with the city!), with additional stops including SpaceX's Starbase in South Texas (profile pic)

  • Currently working on personal projects and refreshing and extending engineering skills

  • Finished animations.dev

  • Currently: joyofreact.com (~50% done)

Awards

2024

According to Stackoverflows 2024 Developer Survey "Hetzner is the most-admired cloud platform the second year in a row with a 75% admire score, rising from their 70% score last year." (survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technolog…)

Work Experience

2016 — 2024
Munich, Germany
  • Joined as employee #3, contributing to the successful launch of Hetzner Cloud in January 2018.

  • Designed the Hetzner Cloud Console from scratch and scaled it with team to support hundreds of thousands of users using in-house design system.

  • Collaborated with frontend engineers to develop designs using Angular, CSS, and HTML.

  • Designed and developed API documentation in Next.js to improve developer experience.

  • Built and led the design team, onboarding and mentoring two additional designers.

2023 — 2024
Munich, Germany
  • Stepped into interim leadership to support team restructuring and transition.

  • Realigned team goals with company vision and introduced lean project management practices based on the teams feedback.

  • Hired a new lead engineer and ensured a smooth leadership handover for a team of 7 engineers (5 engineers mainly Go, and 2 Ops).

2023 — 2024
Munich, Germany
  • Established a new team responsible for developing official integrations, developer experience, and API documentation.

  • Expanded the team from 1 to 3 engineers.

  • Acted as product manager and mentored senior engineer in leadership, handing off leadership after transition period.

2019 — 2022
Munich, Germany
  • Directed six-figure advertising campaigns (e.g., Stack Overflow, Google Ads, Twitter Ads), driving brand recognition.

  • Launched Hetzner Cloud's first industry event presence at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022.

  • Developed profitable customer referral program

  • Lead conception and execution of a successful US marketing campaign for the opening of the first US location and first location outside of Europe in Ashburn, VA, USA

  • Collaborated with the parent company to modernize marketing strategies and align on a unified vision.

  • Built a team of four specialists (Online Advertising, Content Writing, Sponsorship and Events), transitioning leadership to a team member during integration with the parent company.

2015 — 2016
Munich, Germany
  • Improved the customer control panel’s user experience through iterative updates and user feedback analysis.

  • Introduced NPS analytics using Naive Bayes classifiers to guide weekly leadership discussions on product direction.

  • Led a six-figure website redesign project in collaboration with a design agency.

2014 — 2015
Munich, Germany
  • Redesigned the company blog and implemented a custom WordPress theme to improve user engagement.
2013 — 2015

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