David Richard Cibis

VP of Product
I bring 11 years of product experience, currently working as VP of Product at Tiptap where I lead product strategy and product engineering teams alongside our CTO and leadership team.

Experience

VP of Product2023 - Present
Tiptap
Tiptap is an editor framework that lets developers create AI document applications. Building an engineering-led product organization alongside our leadership team, establishing processes that connect engineers directly to customer impact while sharing product ownership responsibilities across technical and strategic domains
Co-led strategic transition from services to SaaS model, collaborating to navigate contract obligations while building scalable product without revenue loss
Established product strategy targeting high-value ICPs, enabling the team to create the company's highest contract value product line to date
Shaping a culture of customer obsession that is driving Tiptap beyond its top 500 repository position, as of now, reaching 5% of React's npm downloads organically
Restructuring the organization to give engineers direct product ownership, reducing release cycles from months to weeks
GitHub Repo RankTop 500
Downloads15M monthly
OrganizationEngineering-led
Ext. Senior PM2022 - 2023
Smallpdf (Pdftools)
Product Lead2021 - 2022
Silverpine
Ext. Product Lead2018 - 2019
ERGO AG
Chief Product Officer2017 - 2018
Covera
Head of Product2014 - 2017
Knip AG

Education

B. Sc., Computer Science*
HTW Berlin, 2013 - 2015
Design & Photography
GLG Freiburg, 2010 - 2013

Languages

GermanNative
EnglishNative
PolishConversational
SpanishTransactional