{"id":13048,"date":"2019-09-10T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wu.ac.at\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:04:46","slug":"alumni-story-masters-program-cems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wu.ac.at\/en\/2019\/09\/alumni-story-masters-program-cems-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI attended a CEMS workshop with Google, met a recruiter and ended up joining Google\u2019s marketing team full-time.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tobias Rauscher<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, Influencer Marketing Lead at Google and founding member of Social Lab<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">I first dipped into tech at the age of 14. I taught myself how to code and put together a scrappy social network, which over the years evolved into a community with profiles, chat rooms, discussion boards and a basic ad platform. The network grew to 60,000 members, before selling it in 2007.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">After my undergraduate studies in Germany, Spain and South Africa, I made it into CEMS, with WU as my home university and an exchange semester at the Stockholm School of Economics. I joined the global Student Board, representing WU, and helped develop and implement CEMS\u2019 social media strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">After graduating from CEMS in 2011, I joined Google\u2019s marketing team in Germany as an Associate Product Marketing Manager, leading \u201cOnline Motor Deutschland\u201d. The initiative aimed to help German SMBs to grow their business via trainings in more than 10 cities. A year later, I was offered a regional role in London, focused on product launches (including Google+, Google Photos, Google Hangouts), partnerships and pan-regional initiatives for Europe, Middle East &amp; Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">When marketing investment around Google+ slowed down, I initiated a task force to improve Google\u2019s social media efforts. 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