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Manuel JenniMJ

Manuel Jenni

Product Manager | SaaS & AI | Fractional CPO/CTO

€1,200/day
Zürich, CH
15+ years
Product Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Product Management
Business analysis
Strategic planning

Average response time: 1 hour

About Manuel

I'm a product and technology leader with 25+ years’ experience transforming ideas into successful software, SaaS, and AI solutions. My primary focus is on driving measurable customer outcomes and creating strategic value for organizations.

I bring together executive strategy, hands-on delivery, and an entrepreneurial mindset. I’m as comfortable shaping product vision as I am working with teams to turn ideas into real, working software. My background spans start-ups and global tech companies, giving me a practical, end-to-end view of how products are imagined, built, and scaled.

  • German

    Native or bilingual

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Zürich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • PEDCO AG
    Chief Product Officer
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    October 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)
    Zürich, Switzerland
    - Led the strategy and technical implementation of AuditPro, an AI-native compliance automation platform.
    - Designed and delivered advanced RAG pipelines, knowledge-graph generation, and LLM-based re-ranking to ensure high-quality retrieval and evidence-based assessments.
    - Built agent-driven workflows, evaluation logic, and scalable cloud deployments on Azure and Google Cloud.
    - Achieved up to 40% reduction in compliance costs through automation and intelligent document understanding.
    - Expanded solution partnerships to accelerate adoption and strengthen the ecosystem.

    Product Management Business development Software Architecture Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • PAN Solutions
    Founder & CEO
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    January 2021 - October 2024 (3 years and 9 months)
    Zürich, Switzerland
    - Founded an AI software company and served as lead architect/engineer for all products.
    - Built the technical foundations for PAN Privacy, SafeKids/SafeSocial, and AuditPro—including backend services, mobile/desktop client components, data pipelines, and AI-driven classification/retrieval systems.
    - Owned the entire engineering lifecycle from ideation to deployable systems, while also driving product vision, roadmap, and early customer partnerships.
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) Product Management Product Development Business development Software Architecture
  • NOKIA
    Global Head Digital Experience Services (VP)
    January 2015 - January 2020 (5 years)
    - Held senior leadership positions in Professional Services and Services Product Management, accountable for a global team of 800 and €120M in services revenue.
    - Guided revenue and margin growth through a disciplined focus on solution quality and delivery excellence.
    - Established consistent, automated processes across pre-sales and delivery to enhance predictability.
    - Strengthened operational efficiency via organization redesign, offshore capability building, reuse strategy, and targeted automation.
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Education

  • EXECUTIVE MBA
    IE Business School
    2013
    EXECUTIVE MBA
  • MSc Communication Systems
    EPFL (Swiss Institute of Technology)
    2001

Skill set

Product Strategy
Software Architecture
SAAS
Team management
Product Owner

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