Kim Katharina Richter

Kim Katharina Richter has a long and varied work experience. Starting in 2009, they worked as an Art Direction Assistant at Leo Burnett Group, where they developed ad campaigns for agency clients, designed print layouts, ideated TVCs and online ads, supervised account relationships and identified main requirements of clients. In 2010, they became the Marketing and Communications Manager at Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, where they strategised marketing campaigns for special festival anniversaries, managed media bookings and agency relationships, maintained a website with CMS, supervised a festival documentary for 40th anniversary of the festival, developed and executed a social media concept for Facebook, established a YouTube channel and relaunched Twitter activity. In 2011, they worked as a Student Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Lothar Mikos at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and as a Festival Director at Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival. In 2013, they worked as a Research Assistant at Erich Pommer Institut gGmbH and as a Production Assistant for the web series “Emmas Welt”. From 2014 to 2019, they worked at Onepiece as a Head of Marketing, Marketing Manager DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and Marketing Manager (Germany). From 2019 to 2020, they worked at Away as an Expansion & Marketing Lead Germany & Nordics. Since 2020, they have been working at Klarna as a Competence Lead Partner Marketing, Market Expansion and Marketing Lead Emerging Markets. Finally, they are currently the Head of Marketing at topi, starting in 2023.

Kim Katharina Richter completed their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Media production / Media design at Hochschule Macromedia | Macromedia University of Applied Sciences from 2006 to 2009. Kim Katharina then went on to do a semester abroad (M.A.) in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Contents at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 2012 to 2013. Finally, they completed their Master of Arts (M.A.) in Media Studies at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF from 2010 to 2014.