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We drive Innovation

We believe that empowered teams are able to bring innovative products to the market faster. That’s why we work in agile feature teams.

For the World

We set new standards in the market with intelligent technology and ambitious goals.

For our Employees

Learning from each other and encouraging personal development are fundamental pillars of our culture.

MBition is a part of the Mercedes-Benz family

We are an integral part of Mercedes-Benz AG and play a key role in pushing digital transformation.

250 Visionaries, 1 Team

It is no secret that MBition has grown quickly over the past year. By now we are a diverse and international team from 42 different cultures. 

The MBitioneers

What makes us special are the people behind the software. Over 250 Talents from 42 Nations work at MBition.

Nicola von Holleben

LL.M. (Master of Laws)

I’m working on to be legal in house business enabler!
  • My role
  • Why MBition
  • About me
  • Original dream job
  • Fun fact

"I am the General Counsel."

"Coming from a legal background that includes legal advice in a start-up of a big publishing company focusing on the digitalization transition and promoting the interests of the automotive industry it makes sense to combine these experiences and to work for the next generation of mobility."

"I love skiing."

"As a child, I was dreaming of being a news presenter."

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive, who would that be?
"Barack and Michelle Obama."

Alberto Giglio

Engineering Lead

Digital cockpit UI

  • My role
  • Why MBition
  • About me
  • Original dream job
  • Fun fact
"I am responsible for the development of the next-generation digital cockpit UI. This is the whole surface of displays in front of and around the car passenger, which offers endless space for entertaining and supporting the driving and living time in the vehicle."
"After having delivered several infotainment projects to Daimler from the supplier’s side, I found the challenge to develop a wholly new product in house extremely challenging and I did not have to think twice before taking the opportunity."
"I come from the Italian Alps and before entering the IT business I was part of the national skiing team. Focus and resilience still accompany me in the daily challenges."
"I’m very much a European Union fan, so maybe I’d be sitting in Strasbourg or Brussels working for some EU agency."

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive, who would that be?
"It would be funny to have a chat with Christopher Columbus and ask him about his navigation failure."

Cassidy Schwarze

Principal Product Owner

„Hey Mercedes“ Speech Plattform

  • My role
  • Why MBition
  • About me
  • Original dream job
  • Fun fact

"I am Principal Product Owner for the MBUX Speech Platform. Together with my team, we build the hybrid platform (in-car and cloud) to power our “Hey Mercedes” voice assistant and work closely with other teams to create the foundation for the best customer experience."

"MBition brings the hands-on software development mentality from the Silicon Valley to the traditional automotive industry. It feels great to be part of this movement."

"I am passionate about bad puns."

"Researcher for Artificial Intelligence."

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive, who would that be?
"Stephen Hawking."

Gregor Zetsche

CEO

Turning MBition into the most desirable company to work for in automotive SW

  • My role
  • Why MBition
  • About me
  • Original dream job
  • Fun fact

"As CEO of MBition, my role is to build an organization that will grow and flourish and gives this team direction and guidance."

"I was immediately hooked by MBition's purpose, to revise how SW is developed in the automotive industry. This leads me to leave my previous job in sunny California for not-always sunny Berlin in the middle of winter."

"I thought I was a decent boxer until I got my butt kicked by a 50-year-old friend of mine."

"I’m already doing my dream job, so I haven’t thought about a plan B."

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive, who would that be?
"Arnold Schwarzenegger, to learn what it takes to succeed at so many different challenges (actor, entrepreneur, governor, environmentalist, ...)."

Mykhaylo (aka Michael) Chayka

Head of Core Vehicle

On top of mentioned before, I’m working on our next-generation infotainment system. As we all at MBition do. 🙂

  • My role
  • Why MBition
  • About me
  • Original dream job
  • Fun fact
"There are many items, which keep me busy and make me go to the office every morning. As “some” examples – to create the best team around embedded technologies starting from low-level and ending up at frontend/UI level, grow teams’ and Company’s expertise in this area and technical innovation, supporting our teams with strategic direction and priorities as well as ensuring delivery. At the same time, I am actively contributing to shaping MBition as Company and Employer. And as I mentioned before, there are many more."

"MBition is a unique place where spirit, technologies, software, product development, and cars are blended in the right proportion."

"I have decided that software development would be my future being 8 years old."
"I would become an astronaut or commercial aviation pilot. No jokes."

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive, who would that be?
"Leonardo da Vinci. He is genius, isn’t he?"

Falco Gottwald
CFO

Driving MBitions development into the next phase, contributing to Mercedes-Benz strategy.

  • My role
  • Why MBition
  • About me
  • Original dream job
  • Fun fact

"As CFO of MBition my major role is to grow the company sustainably focusing on strategic and commercial questions and providing best possible base infrastructure/ working environment for our software development teams."

"The opportunity to shape a new team here in Berlin in the area of automotive software development excited me from the very first time I heard of MBition."

"I love to party with my team and space travel!"

"Pilot or Astronaut."

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive, who would that be?

"Stephen Hawking."

Working together

We build the right setup for the best work experience - for Developers and Designers alike.
The user-centered design process is an interactive cycle where every step is evaluated against the initially identified requirements of the users and integrated until these requirements are met. Evaluation methods include:

The user-centered design process is an interactive cycle where every step is evaluated against the initially identified requirements of the users and integrated until these requirements are met. Evaluation methods include:

Small groups of carefully chosen participants, guided by an experienced moderator, sharing their opinions on a product

Creative and playful method to generate loads of ideas that can later be transformed into tangible projects

Regular, quick usability checks with little effort where everyone in the company is invited to chat with our customers

Combination of verbal feedback (“thinking aloud”), explicit performance measures as well as implicit data from eye-tracking

A helpful everyday tool to focus on user needs, empathize with our customers and communicate with stakeholders

A group of experts, evaluating a product based on design principles and usability heuristics

A model-based analysis method to determine which features of a product have the greatest impact on user satisfaction

In the heart of Berlin

Every morning on the way to work you pass many famous sights in Berlin – a sightseeing tour in a different way.

Tour our Office

Our headquarter was designed with our employees in mind:

Quiet offices, airy meeting rooms and communal areas were planned so that we provide the right setting for everyone to reach their goals.

Office Lounge Meeting Rooms

The MBition Experience