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Jean N.JN

Jean N.

Product Builder and Advisor | Fintech and more

€700/day
Munich, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jean

I help startups and growing companies turn ambitious ideas into market-ready products. The customer has always been at the core of my professional mindset, and my philosophy is one of simplification and attention to detail to deliver the best possible user experience.

My career began in Customer Support & Sales, evolved into Relationship Management, and later into Engineering before I became a Product Manager at a B2B SaaS FinTech company. This unique path gave me first-hand experience across every pillar of the product journey — from understanding customers to building technology, launching products, and continuously improving them.

What sets me apart is my ability to act as a bridge between business, technology, and users. I combine strategic product leadership with hands-on skills in MVP prototyping and fundraising support (financial models, investor decks, market analysis).

I typically work on:
• Product Strategy & Roadmaps — aligning vision, scope, and execution.
• MVP Prototyping — building proof-of-concepts and user-ready demos fast.
• Fundraising Support — investor decks, market analysis, and financial models.
• Fractional Product Leadership — guiding teams without the cost of a full-time Head of Product.

Building products has become more than just my job — it’s my passion. I specialize in turning complex ideas into simple, usable, and valuable solutions, helping founders and teams bring their vision to life quickly and effectively.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

  • German

    Conversational

  • Italian

    Basic

Can work on-site
Munich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Independent Projects & Venture Advisory
    Family responsibilities & estate administration
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    March 2021 - Today (5 years and 3 months)
    • Provided product-strategy guidance to four early-stage ventures, shaping MVP scope, GTM strategy, and OKR frameworks
    • Co-opened a restaurant in Lima, investigated two other concepts
    • Built several AI-enabled SaaS and consumer MVPs
    No code Prototype Go to Market OKR artificial intelligence
  • MONC. Health
    Founder & Product
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    September 2021 - June 2022 (9 months)
    A digital platform for oncology patients informed by first-hand caregiving insights; led a 2-person team to run 20+ user inter views and prototype a suite of proposed solutions (paused pre-seed)
    User Research User Interviews Market analysis Competition Analysis Stakeholder Management
  • Kantox Ltd.
    Senior Product Manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    April 2019 - May 2021 (2 years and 1 month)
    Barcelona, Spain
    As Senior Product Manager:
    • Led a 7-person Payments & Collections squad (PMs, engineers, QA)
    • Scaled Currency Accounts from standalone tool to gateway handling 100% of Kantox FX traffic, ahead of the BNP Paribas acquisition
    • Hired, onboarded, and mentored two junior PMs
    • Member of the Product Committee

    As Product Manager:
    • Scaled Currency Accounts from MVP to a fully featured treasury product
    • Led a 5-engineer squad; Rebuilt and re-staffed the product team
    • Managed the internal operations platform, compliance & regulation, and bespoke client projects

    Product Strategy Hiring 0-1 Product Building Team management Stakeholder Management

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Education

  • Startup Funding: Pre-seed to Exit
    Cambridge Judge Business School
    2021
    Executive Education
  • Web Development Bootcamp
    Ironhack
    2017
    Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp. Technologies: Javascript, CSS, HTML5, MongoDB, Express.js, Passport JS, Node.js, Angular 2, API's with MEAN Stack. Specific: coinbase API, Google Maps.

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