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FRACTIONAL CPO · Salzburg

Fractional CPO Salzburg

Remote-first · on-site as surchargeable add-on

Remote delivery by default. Salzburg startups skew tourism, fintech, and B2B SaaS. We have shipped product across all three. On-site days for product workshops, discovery sessions, and stakeholder interviews are available as a surchargeable add-on on top of the retainer or fixed price. Outside Austria, Munich, and Zurich, we work remote only.

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AwardedTop 100 Young Companies in Austria. #36 in 2024, #58 in 2023 (GEWINN magazine).
Shipped75+ products, 5+ years, across 17 countries.
LanguagesDeutsch, English.
ReviewsGoogle 4.7 stars. Trustpilot 4.5 stars.
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Engagement tiers and transparent pricing

Four ways to start. Each one has a clear scope and a clear cancellation policy. No hours tracked, no surprise invoices.

CPO-on-Call
Async roadmap triage, prioritization calls, discovery sanity-checks on demand.
4 to 8 hours per month
FROM €2,500/ month
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Embedded Fractional CPO
Own the roadmap and the discovery cadence. Prioritization framework, stakeholder alignment, sequenced backlog.
1 to 2 days per week
FROM €12,000/ month
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Product Due Diligence
Fixed-price product, roadmap, and market-fit assessment for fundraising or M&A. Investor-ready report.
1 to 3 weeks, fixed
FROM €8,000fixed
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Discovery + Roadmap
Two to three week deep-dive into the product. Prioritization framework and a sequenced roadmap.
2 to 3 weeks, fixed
FROM €3,500fixed
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Fixed-price engagements (Product Due Diligence, Discovery + Roadmap) are signed SoW (Werkvertrag). Wavect is legally bound on scope and deliverables. Retainers (CPO-on-Call, Embedded Fractional CPO) run as a freier Dienstvertrag and cancel weekly with no notice.

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How the network model works

Three things that make this different from hiring one product consultant with one calendar.

You hire two founders, not one consultant.

Kevin and Christof are on every engagement. One is your product and CPO interface, the other keeps the roadmap honest against what is actually buildable. No account-manager handoff, no junior on the call after week three.

The bench scales when the work does.

15+ specialists we have shipped production work with. When product decisions need deep domain input (security, ML, mobile, IoT), they plug in under the Wavect SoW. One contract, one invoice. We stay accountable for the outcome.

You stay in control of the contract.

Werkvertrag for fixed-price work (signed scope, legally bound). freier Dienstvertrag retainer for ongoing product leadership (cancel any week). No hour tracking. No scope-creep invoices. The price you sign is the price you pay.

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Who is in the room

Two managing directors. Both technical. Both on every engagement.

Kevin Riedl, Managing Director, Operations and Product

Kevin Riedl

Managing Director, Operations and Product

  • Lectures Blockchain at MCI Innsbruck.
  • 150+ podcast episodes on Web3, AI, and product.
  • 75+ products shipped across 17 countries.
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Christof Jori, Managing Director, Software

Christof Jori

Managing Director, Software

  • Architecture lead across Web3, AI, and reliability.
  • 10 years cross-domain engineering.
  • FH Kufstein Tirol graduate.
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Looking for a different city?

Fractional CPO Innsbruck →Fractional CPO Tirol →Fractional CPO Vienna →Fractional CPO Graz →Fractional CPO Linz →Fractional CPO Munich →Fractional CPO Zurich → Back to Austria →
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Proof, not promises

IKB

Live
4 years Inside the City-Scale Build

Smart City IoT for Innsbruck: hardened LoRaWAN infrastructure, evaluated and integrated multi-vendor devices, wrote the per-device …

Kubernetes LoRaWAN Docker
ENTERPRISE 2019-2023

Bond Analytics Platform

Live
2 months 0 to Enterprise

Institutional bond analytics platform, zero to enterprise-ready in 2 months; raised multiple rounds.

NestJS React Typescript
ENTERPRISE 2022

Polity

Live
7 services Unified Testing

1.5 years owning QA across seven services and multiple vendors. Quality stayed shippable through every refactor.

React Java/Kotlin Go
ENTERPRISE 2026

What clients say

LinkedIn

If you're thinking about digitization of your company, tokenization, coding... you name it, I'd strongly recommend to get in touch with Kevin. His knowledge in the field is unparalleled and working with him a sheer pleasure as he is a super nice guy, strategic thinker and proactively hard worker. Thanks for your brilliant work Kev!

Jörg Mayr CEO, alpha strategies
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LinkedIn

I got to know Kevin around 1 year ago and have been working together with him since then. His vast knowledge in tech and programming combined with his business acumen makes him the go-to person for me in regards to any tech-related topics. Regardless if it is a project in the field of blockchain, IoT, or any other software development domain, I can recommend reaching out to Kevin to benefit from his tech know-how and a business relationship based on trust and customer centricity.

Simon Nopp B2B Product & Business Model Innovation
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Trustpilot

Excellent work. The collaboration was very pleasant and you always had the feeling of being in good and capable hands.

Erhard Dinhobl

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FAQs about hiring a fractional CPO in Austria

Eleven questions Austrian founders and boards ask before they sign. Front-loaded answers.

No. A fractional CPO owns product: roadmap, prioritization, and customer discovery. Engineering leadership (architecture, hiring engineers, vendors, production accountability) is the Fractional CTO. We run both product and engineering from one head as a combined CTPO, and a fractional CPO is the product-only slice of that. If you need the engineering side, hire the fractional CTO instead, or both.
Scope. A fractional CPO owns the roadmap, prioritization, and the customer-discovery cadence. A fractional CTO owns engineering: architecture, hiring, vendors, and production. They answer different questions: the CPO decides what to build and in what order, the CTO decides how it gets built and keeps it running. Wavect offers both, starting at EUR 2,500 per month for either on-call tier and EUR 12,000 per month embedded. Pick by the hole you have, not by the title.
Stage. A fractional CPO works post-PMF, scaling a product function that already has a point of view. A Fractional Co-Founder sits beside a founder before product-market fit, when the product is still being figured out. Pre-PMF, the founder’s intuition for the customer is the company’s single most valuable asset and cannot be outsourced to a part-time CPO. If you are pre-PMF, the co-founder model (EUR 400 per week) is the right call, not a fractional CPO. Budget points the same way: at EUR 400 per week the co-founder program sits well below the CPO retainers, so if the CPO tiers are out of reach for now, the co-founder is the honest fit, not a stripped-down CPO.
freier Dienstvertrag for the retainer tiers (CPO-on-Call, Embedded Fractional CPO), because the deliverable is ongoing product judgement rather than a fixed work product. Werkvertrag for the fixed-scope tiers (Product Due Diligence, Discovery + Roadmap), where we are legally bound on the scope and the deliverables. Both are issued by Wavect GmbH (FN 575337i, Ampass, Tirol). We can sign under your standard MSA or use ours. Austrian-law jurisdiction is the default.
Two cases. First, pre-PMF: before product-market fit, product is founder intuition, and outsourcing it to a part-time CPO never works. Second, when the founder is not actually ready to delegate the product call. If you hire a fractional CPO to avoid making product decisions yourself, you get a friction generator, not a roadmap. A part-time CPO also lags a full-timer on context, so the model breaks if decisions must be made daily off conversations the CPO was not in. It works when decisions can batch weekly and the team executes between sessions. See the honest fit in the glossary.
Yes, in those cities plus the rest of Austria and Munich and Zurich. Christof is based in Vienna; Kevin in Tirol/Innsbruck. Between the two of us, every Austrian city plus Munich and Zurich is reachable by train without a flight, which is why on-site is only offered inside that DACH ground zone. On-site is always a surchargeable add-on (travel time, train, hotel, on-site hours), not bundled into the retainer or fixed price. Use on-site for product workshops, discovery sessions, and stakeholder interviews. Day-to-day product work runs remote.
Remote only. The DACH ground zone above is where we offer on-site as a surchargeable add-on, because Christof and Kevin can reach those cities by train. Anywhere else (rest of Europe, the UK, the US, Singapore, Australia, the UAE, the rest of the world) runs fully remote: same SoW, same pricing, same two founders on every call. We do not fly for on-site work, even paid, because the travel time would dwarf the benefit and discovery and roadmap work run well from a screen.
No. We charge cash, and that is the deal. Trading consulting hours for equity creates a misaligned incentive, an awkward cap-table line, and a difficult conversation when the engagement ends. If you want a product leader with skin in the game, hire a full-time CPO. If you want a fractional operator who is unambiguously on your side because you pay the invoice, hire us. Cash, monthly, cancel any week on retainer.
Minimum on a retainer is one calendar month. We do not run trial weeks, because product context compounds and the value shows up in month two once the discovery cadence is running. Fixed-price engagements (Product Due Diligence, Discovery + Roadmap) have no minimum below the published price. Maximum is unbounded. Most Embedded CPO engagements run until the founder is ready to fund and onboard a full-time CPO. We help with that hiring panel as part of the work.
NDA is signed before the first product conversation. We use yours, or our two-page template if you do not have one. All work product (roadmaps, discovery findings, prioritization frameworks, reports) is assigned to your company on payment of the invoice, with full IP transfer and no Wavect retained rights. We do not use client work in our portfolio without written permission and we will sign a no-portfolio clause on request. Our case studies on this site are all written with client sign-off.
Our CPO-on-Call tier starts at EUR 2,500 per month, the Embedded tier at EUR 12,000 per month for 1 to 2 days a week. A full-time senior CPO in Austria costs roughly 12 to 18k per month in salary alone before equity, recruiting, and onboarding time. Fractional is not a discount full-timer: it is the right shape when you need the product authority but not the full-time presence, and when product decisions can batch weekly. A full-timer wins on context once you can justify the cost. We help you hire that person when the time comes. See CPO and CTPO for the role definitions.

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