FRACTIONAL CPO · Zurich

Fractional CPO Zurich

Hybrid · train from Innsbruck via Bregenz · on-site as surchargeable add-on

Remote-first product leadership for Zurich. Paid on-site discovery, board workshops, and stakeholder interviews can be planned by rail from Tirol, with the travel visible in the quote.

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AwardedTop 100 Young Companies in Austria. #36 in 2024, #58 in 2023 (GEWINN magazine).
Shipped75+ products, since 2018, across 17 countries.
LanguagesDeutsch, English.
ReviewsGoogle 5.0 stars. Trustpilot 4.5 stars.
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Working with Wavect in Zurich

The Canton of Zurich describes a high-tech ecosystem spanning AI, computer vision, quantum computing, autonomous systems, engineering, and university spin-offs. ETH Zurich reported 37 new spin-offs in 2024, with AI and biotechnology strongly represented.

Research strength does not automatically produce product clarity. A team can have defensible technology and still need to decide which customer problem, workflow, evidence, and market sequence deserve the next investment.

That is the CPO scope. We own customer evidence and prioritization after product-market fit. We do not claim Swiss legal expertise, a Zurich office, or local clients we cannot name.

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Two Zurich situations where a fractional CPO fits

The role starts when research evidence must become repeatable customer evidence.

A university spin-off has adoption but still runs a research roadmap

Technical opportunities keep winning priority. We define the buyer, customer outcome, discovery questions, and product sequence needed for repeatable adoption.

An AI or high-tech team has many plausible markets

The technology can serve several workflows, but the company cannot learn from all of them at once. We force a segment and evidence order.
// FIRST 30 DAYS

The first 30 days with a Zurich product team

We separate what the technology can do from what the product must prove.

  1. Reconstruct customer evidence
    Review interviews, usage, pilots, sales, research claims, partner requests, and assumptions currently presented to investors or the board.
  2. Choose the product proof
    Define the target workflow, buyer, outcome, and next evidence threshold.
  3. Create the research-to-product cadence
    Set discovery, prioritization, roadmap review, and rules for when technical exploration earns product investment.
// ROLE CHECK

Zurich high tech: CPO, CTO, or CTPO?

The Fractional CPO owns customer evidence and product sequence. The Fractional CTO Zurich owns technical evidence, engineering, and production. The Fractional CTPO owns the boundary if the two cannot be separated.
// SOURCES

What we use for Zurich product context

We use these sources for local context. They do not imply a partnership, endorsement, office, or client relationship.

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Offer, pricing, and team

This city page explains local delivery and buyer context. The national Fractional CPO page owns the complete offer, engagement tiers, pricing, founder credentials, specialist network, and service proof.

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Role and region navigation

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Fractional CPO Zurich: local questions

Customer evidence, without borrowing credibility from ETH or the canton.

Not as a fractional CPO. We can run a fixed discovery scope or a Fractional Co-Founder engagement, but we will not claim a post-PMF product-leadership model fits before market evidence exists.
EUR is the default and CHF is available on request. Day-to-day work is remote. Paid on-site discovery or roadmap sessions can be planned by rail from Tirol; Wavect has no Zurich office.

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