Marta Suslow (DE)
Product & Innovation Leader
Product leader across design, engineering and business. Fast Company Innovation by Design Honoree and finalist for the German Sustainability Award.
Based in Berlin, Germany
Meet Marta at:
Boye Aarhus 26 conference
Track: Product Management
Presentation: Defining “good” - the real product skill in the age of AI
Date: Thursday, November 5
About Marta Suslow
Marta Suslow is a product and innovation leader working where hardware and software meet. Over ten years, she has taken physical and digital products from zero-to-one concepts to global launch, bringing design, engineering, research and commercial teams together around clear product decisions.
Most recently, she was a Senior Product Manager at tonies, the company behind the Toniebox. She owned several product lines with P&L responsibility, worked with the board on the three-year roadmap, developed value propositions for Book Tonies, Pocket Tonies and further formats together with the executive team, and mapped how children and parents move from the physical product into the tonies app.
Before tonies, she shaped API-based insurance products at SAP Fioneer as a service designer and product owner. Earlier, she spent six years at Beiersdorf, growing from prototyping and concept design into product management for sustainable innovation. There she led NIVEA's first refill station from concept to retail pilot in seven months, work that was named an Honoree in Fast Company's 2021 Innovation by Design Awards. She was also a core member of the team that brought O.W.N, Beiersdorf's internal start-up for AI-powered, personalised skincare, to its direct-to-consumer launch in 2021.
Marta studied service design at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. Her product thinking was shaped by Steve Blank, Christina Wodtke, Alexander Osterwalder and Clive Grinyer, all of whom she learned from directly. She is an academic mentor for Stanford's CS177 product management course, has previously mentored at SCAD and Imperial, and served on the Pentawards jury.