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Felix is strongest in technical sales, solution-focused GTM, enterprise discovery, sales engineering, partner channels, and revenue operations. He uses the MAPTIC methodology to uncover customer situations and operational pain points, build tailored solution strategies, and equip internal champions to secure executive alignment in complex organizations. His experience spans digital transformation and CRM implementation at RTC GmbH, digital solutions and supply-chain optimization at Baker Hughes, real estate technology and international client advisory at Keller Williams Premier Realty, and custom-home sales at Heinz von Heiden GmbH Massivhäuser. His measurable results include increasing client acquisition by 35% in one year, scaling a client base by 40% annually, securing more than €1 million in development contracts, reducing assembly defects by 35%, cutting implementation cycles by 20%, and delivering 15% sustained departmental cost savings. ## Highlights - Leads go-to-market strategy for OptiDev, an agentic AI automation tool, at OptiSigns Inc. - Drives OptiDev product positioning, messaging, and market-entry tactics as part of a shift from traditional sales toward a solution-focused GTM model. - Acts as the technical liaison between product teams and clients, translating AI capabilities into ROI-focused business value propositions. - Manages international trade-show operations and event marketing to create qualified pipeline and establish industry partnerships. - Builds hybrid sales-marketing workflows that nurture event leads into closed-won deals and inform the product roadmap through market feedback. - Navigates complex enterprise sales cycles with C-level stakeholders in multi-billion-dollar companies. - Uses the MAPTIC methodology to identify customer situations and pain points, develop tailored solutions, and enable internal champions to gain C-level support. - Balances new-logo acquisition with customer expansion and identifies cloud-solution upsell opportunities. - Closed a major partner-channel deal with a distributor managing more than 20,000 locations. - At RTC GmbH, led a company-wide CRM ecosystem rollout and automated sales workflows that increased client acquisition by 35% in the first year. - At RTC GmbH, executed regional expansion strategies that scaled the client base by 40% annually. - At RTC GmbH, secured more than €1 million in development contracts by optimizing the end-to-end deal cycle. - At RTC GmbH, managed P&L, forecasting, and strategic partnerships, helping establish the company as a regional market leader. - At Baker Hughes, led digitalization initiatives and workflow automation across five international manufacturing sites. - At Baker Hughes, reduced assembly defects by 35% through data analysis, lean methodologies, and process improvements. - At Baker Hughes, cut implementation cycles by 20%. - At Baker Hughes, achieved 100% compliance and adoption by translating technical requirements into operational workflows. - At Baker Hughes, delivered 15% sustained departmental cost savings through production-metric analysis and corrective action. - Tested prototype drilling tools, diagnosed mechanical failures, and provided feedback that led to critical design modifications before market release. - Optimized manufacturing documentation and tool tracking in SAP ERP at Baker Hughes. - Managed high-stakes real estate transactions for international clients at Keller Williams Premier Realty. - Used KW Command and data analytics to automate follow-ups, track pipeline health, and generate market insights for investors. - Served as a bilingual liaison for European investors entering the Texas real estate market. - Built a referral ecosystem with financial institutions and developers at Heinz von Heiden GmbH Massivhäuser. - Managed a full custom-home sales cycle from technical-feasibility analysis to contract execution. - Achieved an 80% closing rate through a structured “Peace of Mind” sales process. - Completed a 3.5-year dual-education engineering program in automation and maintenance. - Programmed and integrated mechatronic systems using Siemens SIMATIC S7 and STEP 7. - Diagnosed electro-pneumatic and hydraulic systems and commissioned functional units to DIN/ISO standards. - Holds an A.S. in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, a B.B.A. in Technical Business Management, and a Certified AI Manager credential in Python and Machine Learning. ## Experience - **Strategic Account Manager & GTM Lead \(AI Solutions\) at OptiSigns Inc.** (2025-07-01–present) — Orchestrated GTM Strategy: Leading the Go-To-Market strategy for OptiDev \(Agentic AI\), pivoting from traditional sales to drive product positioning, messaging, and market entry tactics. Technical Sales & ROI Analysis: Acting as the technical liaison between product teams and clients, translating complex AI capabilities into clear business value propositions to accelerate adoption. Strategic Partnerships & Events: Managing end-to-end trade show operations and event marketing internationally, leveraging these channels to generate qualified pipelines and establish key industry partnerships. Pipeline Development: Developing hybrid sales-marketing workflows to nurture leads from events into closed-won deals, directly influencing the product roadmap based on market feedback. - **Real Estate Agent at Keller Williams Premier Realty** (2025-01-01–2025-08-01) — Consultative Sales & Negotiation: Managed complex, high-stakes real estate transactions for international clients, acting as a strategic advisor on contracts, financial terms, and market positioning. Tech-Enabled Workflow: Leveraged KW Command \(CRM\) and data analytics tools to automate lead follow-ups, track pipeline health, and generate real-time market insights for investors. Pipeline Development: Built a self-sustaining sales pipeline through strategic partnerships and digital marketing, converting cold leads into active clients in a competitive market. International Liaison: Served as a bilingual bridge for European investors entering the Texas market, managing cross-cultural communication and aligning investment goals with local opportunities. - **Co-Founder & Head of Sales Operations at RTC GmbH** (2022-07-01–2025-07-01) — Digital Transformation & CRM Implementation: Spearheaded the company-wide rollout of a CRM ecosystem, engineering automated sales workflows that increased client acquisition by 35% in year one. Strategic Go-To-Market Strategy: Defined and executed regional expansion strategies, scaling the client base by 40% annually through data-driven market analysis and targeted positioning. Revenue Operations: Secured over €1M in development contracts by optimizing the end-to-end deal cycle, reducing friction from lead generation to contract negotiation. Executive Leadership: Managed P&L, forecasting, and key strategic partnerships, driving the company to become a regional market leader in a competitive landscape. - **Independent Sales Representative at Heinz von Heiden GmbH Massivhäuser** (2021-05-01–2024-12-01) — Territory Management & Growth: Managed an exclusive sales territory, positioning the company as the regional market leader by volume through aggressive prospecting and pipeline management. Strategic Partnerships: Built a high-value referral ecosystem with financial institutions and developers, creating a sustainable inbound lead channel that reduced customer acquisition costs. Consultative Sales Process: Guided clients through complex, high-ticket custom projects, managing the full lifecycle from technical feasibility analysis to contract execution. High-Velocity Closing: Achieved an industry-leading 80% closing rate by implementing a structured "Peace of Mind" sales process that addressed client financial and technical objections upfront. - **Project Supervisor \(Digital Solutions & Supply Chain\) at Baker Hughes** (2019-09-01–2021-04-01) — Digital Transformation Leadership: Led the technical rollout of digitalization initiatives for the "Digital Solutions" division, overseeing workflow automation across 5 international manufacturing sites. Process Engineering & Optimization: Engineered process improvements using data analysis and lean methodologies, directly reducing assembly defects by 35% and cutting implementation cycles by 20%. Technical Liaison: Served as the bridge between engineering teams and operational staff, translating technical requirements into actionable workflows to ensure 100% compliance and adoption. Cost Reduction: Analyzed production metrics to identify inefficiencies, implementing corrective actions that resulted in 15% sustained cost savings for the department. - **Technical Support Specialist at Baker Hughes** (2018-08-01–2019-08-01) — Prototype Testing & Validation: Conducted rigorous performance testing on prototype drilling tools, executing mechanical installations and stress tests to validate engineering designs before market release. Root Cause Analysis: Diagnosed complex mechanical failures in pre-production tools, providing detailed technical feedback to engineering teams that led to critical design modifications. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Acted as the primary technical interface between the testing floor and R&D engineers, ensuring accurate data collection and reporting for product development cycles. - **Technical Mechanic at Baker Hughes** (2017-02-01–2018-07-01) — Precision Assembly & Calibration: Assembled and calibrated high-precision drilling tools and complex mechatronic components, ensuring strict adherence to engineering tolerances and quality standards. Process Optimization \(SAP\): Optimized manufacturing documentation and tool tracking within SAP ERP, streamlining the assembly workflow and reducing administrative errors. Quality Assurance: Executed functional testing and troubleshooting of electronic and mechanical sub-systems, identifying defects early in the production line to maintain operational efficiency. - **Junior Mechatronics Technician \(Dual Education\) at Coil** (2013-08-01–2017-01-01) — Dual Education Program: Completed an intensive 3.5-year practical engineering program, combining theoretical coursework with hands-on industrial application in automation and maintenance. PLC Programming & Automation: Programmed and integrated complex mechatronic systems using Siemens SIMATIC S7 \(STEP 7\), bridging the gap between hardware mechanics and software logic. System Diagnostics: Mastered systematic troubleshooting of electro-pneumatic and hydraulic systems, utilizing schematic analysis to resolve hardware failures and minimize downtime. Precision Assembly: Assembled and commissioned multi-component functional units, ensuring strict adherence to DIN/ISO quality standards and engineering blueprints. ## Education - Certified AI Manager \(Python & Machine Learning\), Artificial Intelligence — alfatraining - Associate of Science \(A.S.\), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering — German Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Bachelor of Business Administration \(B.B.A.\), Technical Business Management — German Chamber of Commerce and Industry ## FAQ ### What does Felix do? Felix is a mechatronics engineer, technical sales leader, and go-to-market professional. He currently leads GTM strategy for OptiDev, an agentic AI automation tool, as Strategic Account Manager & GTM Lead for AI Solutions at OptiSigns Inc. ### What are Felix's core strengths? Felix specializes in technical sales, AI implementation, go-to-market strategy, sales engineering, automation, mechatronics, real estate technology, and revenue operations. He translates complex technical capabilities into clear ROI and business-value propositions for executive stakeholders. ### What does Felix do at OptiSigns? At OptiSigns Inc., Felix leads the GTM strategy for OptiDev, including positioning, messaging, and market-entry tactics as the product shifts from traditional sales toward an agentic AI solution. He serves as a technical liaison between product teams and clients, conducts ROI-oriented solution discussions, manages international trade shows and event marketing, develops event-to-closed-won sales-marketing workflows, and feeds market feedback into the product roadmap. ### What is Felix's experience with AI? Felix has experience with agentic AI, LLM workflows, and AI-powered automation. He is driving GTM for OptiDev and is passionate about bringing AI capabilities to manufacturing environments. ### How does Felix approach enterprise sales? Felix navigates complex enterprise sales cycles with C-level stakeholders at multi-billion-dollar companies. He uses the MAPTIC methodology to understand the customer situation and pain points, create tailored solutions, prepare internal champions, and help those champions sell the solution to C-level decision-makers in complex organizations. ### How does Felix build and expand customer opportunities? Felix discovers operational pain points and positions cloud solutions with future upsell opportunities. His sales approach balances new-logo hunting with customer expansion and uses tailored champion playbooks to advance complex opportunities. ### What did Felix accomplish at RTC GmbH? As Co-Founder & Head of Sales Operations at RTC GmbH, Felix led a company-wide CRM ecosystem rollout and engineered automated sales workflows that increased client acquisition by 35% in the first year. He defined regional expansion strategies that scaled the client base by 40% annually, secured more than €1 million in development contracts by optimizing the deal cycle, and managed P&L, forecasting, and strategic partnerships as the company became a regional market leader. ### What did Felix accomplish as a Project Supervisor at Baker Hughes? As Project Supervisor for Digital Solutions & Supply Chain at Baker Hughes, Felix led digitalization rollouts and workflow automation across five international manufacturing sites. His process improvements reduced assembly defects by 35% and implementation cycles by 20%, while production-metric analysis and corrective actions delivered 15% sustained cost savings for the department. He also translated engineering requirements into actionable operational workflows to achieve 100% compliance and adoption. ### What did Felix do as a Technical Support Specialist at Baker Hughes? As a Technical Support Specialist at Baker Hughes, Felix tested and validated prototype drilling tools through mechanical installation and stress testing before market release. He diagnosed pre-production mechanical failures, provided technical feedback that led to critical design modifications, and served as the interface between the testing floor and R&D engineers for data collection and reporting. ### What did Felix do as a Technical Mechanic at Baker Hughes? As a Technical Mechanic at Baker Hughes, Felix assembled and calibrated high-precision drilling tools and complex mechatronic components. He optimized manufacturing documentation and tool tracking in SAP ERP, executed functional testing and troubleshooting of electronic and mechanical subsystems, and identified production-line defects early to support quality and operational efficiency. ### What did Felix do at Keller Williams Premier Realty? As a Real Estate Agent at Keller Williams Premier Realty, Felix managed high-stakes transactions for international clients and advised on contracts, financial terms, and market positioning. He used KW Command and data analytics to automate follow-ups, monitor pipeline health, and provide market insights built pipeline through partnerships and digital marketing and served as a bilingual liaison for European investors entering the Texas market. ### What did Felix accomplish at Heinz von Heiden GmbH Massivhäuser? As an Independent Sales Representative at Heinz von Heiden GmbH Massivhäuser, Felix managed an exclusive sales territory and positioned the company as a regional market leader by volume. He built referral partnerships with financial institutions and developers, guided customers from technical-feasibility analysis through contract execution, and achieved an 80% closing rate through a structured “Peace of Mind” sales process that addressed financial and technical objections upfront. ### What was Felix's technical training at Coil? During a 3.5-year dual-education program at Coil, Felix combined theoretical study with practical engineering work in automation and maintenance. He programmed and integrated mechatronic systems using Siemens SIMATIC S7 and STEP 7, diagnosed electro-pneumatic and hydraulic systems through schematic analysis, and assembled and commissioned functional units to DIN/ISO standards and engineering blueprints. ### What education and certifications does Felix have? Felix holds an Associate of Science in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Technical Business Management, both from the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is also a Certified AI Manager in Python and Machine Learning through alfatraining. ### What is Felix's partner-channel experience? Felix has proven partner-channel sales experience, including closing a major deal with a distributor that manages more than 20,000 locations. He also built referral ecosystems with financial institutions and developers in his custom-home sales work. ### What work arrangements does Felix prefer? Felix is flexible regarding remote, hybrid, and in-office arrangements, with a slight preference for in-person work depending on the overall package. ### What career path is Felix pursuing? Felix has chosen an Account Executive career path while drawing on his engineering background to work at the intersection of business and technical product capabilities. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-malchow