Startups and scale-ups reach out to me when they know what they want to build, but can't manage to bring it to completion.
Unclear priorities, a backlog growing faster than the product, founders and developers speaking different languages. That's where I come in.
I'm a freelance Product Manager (also Fractional), with over 13 years of experience spanning corporate R&D (Ferrero, Italdesign — Lamborghini and Bugatti programs) and digital product roles in fintech, marketplaces, and AI-based platforms.
How I work:
→ Product Discovery: I turn user insights and business goals into a prioritized, actionable backlog
→ Strategy & Roadmap: from vision to MVP through the scale-up phase, with clear milestones
→ UX Architecture: I design information systems and flows that developers can actually implement
→ Delivery: I coordinate engineering, design, and business within agile teams
→ AI-accelerated workflows: I use LLM-based tools daily to speed up discovery and delivery
→ Product Discovery: I turn user insights and business goals into a prioritized, actionable backlog
→ Strategy & Roadmap: from vision to MVP through to the scale-up phase, with clear milestones
→ UX Architecture: I design information systems and flows that developers can actually implement
→ Delivery: I coordinate engineering, design, and business within agile teams
→ AI-accelerated workflows: I use LLM-based tools daily to reduce discovery and delivery time
Valentino is available for hire
Available for project-based and fractional engagements, in Italy and across the EU, in: Italian, English, German.
→ Scaled a fintech marketplace for home renovation to ~200 active operators, reducing project closing time by 20%
→ Onboarded over 35 B2B partners (design firms and construction companies) onto a B2B2C platform
→ Delivered MVP roadmaps for 3 early-stage B2C startups in the sports and music sectors
→ Analyzed over 9 million tweets using Python, turning them into more than 100 pages of visual insights ready to support decision-making