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Niklas Karvonen

M.Sc. Int'l Design Business Management & CEMS Club Tokyo President

Business design
Digital product development
Online marketing
Design consulting
Japan
Niklas Karvonen
Helsinki
Professional Status
Nearing graduation
Available
About Me
Ciao!

Business and Design hybrid looking for opportunities to work within human-centric business development, design consulting and strategy, online marketing and branding, and digital product development. Especially interested in the East Asian and Japanese markets!

Available for full-time positions starting late 2017
  • Facilitating teamwork
  • Reflecting on best practices
  • Aligning stakeholders
Detailed Description
  • CEMS Club Tokyo arranges business-related events and social gatherings for the CEMS MIM students and alumni at Keio University, and raises awareness of the program for local students.
  • Working in agile workflow
  • Conducting ethnographic research
  • Business modeling and pitching
Detailed Description
  • Made by Many is a digital product innovation company, based in London and New York.
    Task:
    Worked as a product manager in an intern team with a product designer and a technologist. We explored how Artificial Intelligence could improve happiness and productivity at work through user-centered and agile product development methods. Through qualitative research, sketching, prototyping, low and high fidelity testing and iteration, we created a functional digital product and pitched it to our product sponsors.

    Softwares used:
    InVision
    TrelloJIRA (kanban)
    Keynote
    PearNote
  • SEM & Social Media marketing
  • Content creation
Detailed Description
  • Dagmar is one of the biggest media agencies in Finland.

    Key learnings:
    Using quantitative data to drive online business development
    Getting to know the digital KPIs
    Optimizing online marketing

    Main tasks:
    Search Engine Marketing (Google and Bing) and Social Media marketing (Facebook)
    Performance tracking and reporting with Google Analytics
    Content creation, optimization and A/B -testing, supportive SEO tasks

    Completed certifications:
    Adwords Fundamentals
    Search Advertising
    Display Advertising
    Video Advertising (Youtube)
    Google Analytics
    Bing
Detailed Description
  • Trainee at the Embassy of Finland in Japan, Tokyo. (Economy, Energy, Team Finland, Country branding)

    Key learnings:
    Research and presenting skills in a diplomatic setting
    PR and event management
    Content creation
    Networking in Japanese

    Reports:
    Abenomics and its influence on the Japanese local economies
    Finnish companies in Japan