About
Hi, I'm Tanja Rüegg. I work as a senior project manager at a data science company. I currently manage multiple international client projects, co-create the strategic vision, supervise junior staff, and oversee the customer service department. Previously, I successfully coordinated a popular initiative about sustainable nutrition resulting in an impactful law change affecting 400,000 people.
In my spare time, I support the team at Modeling Cooperation. We aim to gain better insight into AI race dynamics to look for opportunities to promote safety-enhancing cooperation among race participants.
Additionally, I love to enhance my productivity and to help sentient beings — using an evidence-based approach. Combining these two interests, I created a productivity guide for people who want to do the most good with the limited resources we have.
Work
Senior project manager
Enerlytica: Currently, I work as a senior project manager at a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology which uses artificial intelligence to analyze and predict utility customer behaviour. I manage international client projects, co-create the strategic vision, define a project management framework, hire and supervise junior staff, and oversee the customer service department.
Content manager
Enerlytica: My areas of responsibility as a content manager included authoring articles for high-circulation trade magazines and communicating technically complex topics in an appropriate manner to the target audience. I also refined existing and designed new products and was responsible for the web content.
Project manager and editor
ETH Alumni Association: In my position as a project manager and editor, I was responsible for two issues of a journal with 25,000 copies in circulation. Since the projects were self-financed, I planned and executed the creation of content and the selling of advertisements. Additionally, I maintained a job platform and mentored new employees.
Sales manager, Scrum Master, and QA engineer
ESGroup: While working as a sales manager, I created and implemented the marketing concept. In my role as a Scrum Master I managed an internationally distributed five-person team and the successful launch of a new online shop. My responsibilities included planning sprints and managing releases as well as doing the software's quality assurance.
Project manager Sentience Politics Zurich
GBS Switzerland: As a project leader I built up and managed a 20-person team with which I filed a popular initiative about sustainable nutrition. It resulted in an impactful law being added to the highest constitutional level of the municipality of Zurich with a population of 400,000.
Nonprofit
Research support manager
I support the researchers at Modeling Cooperation by writing funding applications and creating budgets, reviewing drafts of scientific publications as well as blog posts presenting the research insights, and authoring a series of progress reports. Modeling Cooperation aims to gain better insight into AI race dynamics to look for opportunities to promote safety-enhancing cooperation among race participants.
Member of the board of directors
Together with my colleagues I defined the strategy and oversaw the activities of Sentience Politics. The non-profit organization aims at helping sentient beings through politics while always making sure to follow an evidence-based approach.
Interests
I'm enthusiastic about strength training because it's an ideal way to compensate for an office job. I like reading books about productivity as well as philosophy. Furthermore, I'm interested in rational & critical thinking, nutritional science, and medicine.