--- title: "Fractional CPO Austria" canonical: https://wavect.io/services/fractional-cpo/ language: en description: "Fractional CPO services across Austria. Product leadership for post-PMF startups: roadmap, discovery, prioritization. From EUR 2,500 per month." image: "https://wavect.io/img/general/bak/open_graph_preview.jpg" --- FRACTIONAL CPO · AUSTRIA # Product leadership without the full-time CPO hire. We own roadmap, prioritization, and customer discovery for post-PMF startups across Austria. This is the product-only slice of our combined CTPO role: we normally run product and engineering from one head, and a fractional CPO is the product side of that on its own. We do not own engineering. For the engineering side, see our Fractional CTO. Pre-PMF, or on a smaller budget than the CPO retainers, talk to us about a Fractional Co-Founder (EUR 400 per week) instead. Fixed prices on scoped work. Cancel any week on retainers. No hours tracked. - Top 100 Young Companies Austria (#36, 2024) - 75+ products shipped - 17 countries served - DE / EN ![Kevin Riedl](/img/team/kevin.webp)**Kevin Riedl** Managing Director, Operations and Product ![Christof Jori](/img/team/christof.webp)**Christof Jori** Managing Director, Software Kevin Riedl and Christof Jori. Together on every engagement. Awarded Top 100 Young Companies in Austria. #36 in 2024, #58 in 2023 (GEWINN magazine). Shipped 75+ products, since 2018, across 17 countries. Languages Deutsch, English. Reviews Google 5.0 stars. Trustpilot 4.5 stars. // 01 ## Who hires a fractional CPO Three buyer patterns we see most often. All of them are post-PMF. If your product is still founder intuition before product-market fit, a fractional CPO is the wrong call, and we will say so on the first call. Early-traction company, no product owner You hit early traction and the founder is buried in sales. Product has no owner, so it drifts. We come in to own the roadmap, run a real discovery cadence, and give the team a sequence instead of a backlog of whoever shouted loudest. We do not own engineering: for that, see the Fractional CTO. Engineering team shipping requests, not a roadmap The team ships, but it ships whatever the loudest customer asked for last week. There is no prioritization framework and no discovery rhythm. We install both. The team keeps building while we sequence the next one to two quarters of customer interviews and roadmap calls around them. Founder ready to delegate the product call You have a point of view on the product but you are out of calendar to run it, and you cannot yet justify a full-time CPO salary. We scale a product function that already has a point of view. We do not invent one. If you are pre-PMF or not ready to delegate product authority, hire a Fractional Co-Founder or keep it founder-led. Outsourcing product intuition before PMF never works. // 02 ## 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 - Slack-first response, video when needed. - Roadmap triage, prioritization calls, discovery reviews. - freier Dienstvertrag retainer, cancel any week, no notice. 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 - Two founders on every engagement, one as your CPO interface. - Bench of 15+ specialists plug in under the same SoW. - freier Dienstvertrag. Cancel any week. Refund the last week if we missed the mark. 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 €8,000 fixed - Written report VCs and acquirers actually read. - Werkvertrag. Signed scope, legally bound to deliver. - Optional 30-day follow-up call included. Discovery + Roadmap Two to three week deep-dive into the product. Prioritization framework and a sequenced roadmap. 2 to 3 weeks, fixed FROM €3,500 fixed - Deducted from the build invoice if you continue with us. - Werkvertrag. Signed scope, legally bound to deliver. - Ends with a prioritized roadmap, not a sales pitch. 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. // 03 ## How the network model works Three things that make this different from hiring one product consultant with one calendar. 01 ### 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. 02 ### 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. 03 ### 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. // 04 ## How we cover the DACH ground zone (and everywhere else) Remote-first everywhere. On-site days available only in our DACH ground zone (Austria, Munich, and Zurich) as a surchargeable add-on. 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 offered there and nowhere else. On-site is for product workshops, discovery sessions, and stakeholder interviews. Outside that zone we work fully remote, and that is how 17 countries of clients work with us today. - [**Innsbruck**Kevin's home · on-site add-on](/services/fractional-cpo-innsbruck/) - [**Tirol**Wavect HQ · on-site add-on](/services/fractional-cpo-tirol/) - [**Salzburg**Tourism, fintech, SaaS · on-site add-on](/services/fractional-cpo-salzburg/) - [**Linz**Industrial, IoT · on-site add-on](/services/fractional-cpo-linz/) - [**Vienna**Christof's home · on-site add-on](/services/fractional-cpo-vienna/) - [**Graz**Styrian SaaS · on-site add-on](/services/fractional-cpo-graz/) Hybrid also available in - [**Munich**Hybrid · Train from Innsbruck](/services/fractional-cpo-munich/) - [**Zurich**Hybrid · Train from Innsbruck via Bregenz](/services/fractional-cpo-zurich/) Outside Austria, Munich, and Zurich Remote only. We work with clients across 17 countries. All engagements there run fully remote. On-site is not offered outside the DACH ground zone above, even at surcharge, because the travel time would dwarf the benefit. // 05 ## Who is in the room Two managing directors. Both technical. Both on every engagement. ### [Kevin Riedl](/team/kevin-riedl/) Managing Director, Operations and Product - Engineer since 13: TypeScript, C#, Rust, still in the pull requests. - Founder-led podcast, 96 episodes with 9-figure founders. - 75+ products shipped across 17 countries. ### [Christof Jori](/team/christof-jori/) Managing Director, Software - Enterprise architecture, AI, and system reliability. - Test-driven development, QA as a business enabler. - 10 years cross-domain engineering. // proof ## Proof, not promises ### [IKB](/case-studies/ikb/) - **Status:** Live - **Outcome:** Complete - Platform Handover - **Summary:** Smart City IoT for Innsbruck: extended and scaled the LoRaWAN infrastructure, evaluated and integrated multi-vendor devices, wrote … - **Stack:** Kubernetes, LoRaWAN, Docker ### [Bond Analytics Platform](/case-studies/bond-analytics/) - **Status:** Live - **Outcome:** 2 months - 0 to Enterprise - **Summary:** Institutional bond analytics platform, zero to enterprise-ready in 2 months; raised multiple rounds. - **Stack:** NestJS, React, Typescript ### [Polity](/case-studies/polity/) - **Status:** Live - **Outcome:** 7 services - Unified Testing - **Summary:** 1.5 years owning QA across seven services and multiple vendors. Quality stayed shippable through every refactor. - **Stack:** React, Java/Kotlin, Go These are selected projects, not our full portfolio. We have shipped 75+ products since 2018. ### 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! Read more → Jörg Mayr CEO, alpha strategies Original 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. Read more → Simon Nopp B2B Product & Business Model Innovation Original Excellent work. The collaboration was very pleasant and you always had the feeling of being in good and capable hands." data-quote-original=" **Hervorragende Leistung.** Die Zusammenarbeit war sehr angenehm und man hatte immer das Gefühl, in guten und richtigen Händen zu sein." data-original-lang=de> Trustpilot **Excellent work.** The collaboration was very pleasant and you always had the feeling of being in good and capable hands. Read more → Erhard Dinhobl Translated · tap for original Independently rated 5.0/5 on Clutch [Read the reviews](https://clutch.co/profile/wavect-gmbh#reviews) [![Clutch Top Digital Transformation Company in Austria 2026 award for Wavect](/img/awards/clutch-top-digital-transformation-company-austria-2026_hu_3960015146744168.webp) Verified on Clutch · 2026 Top Digital Transformation Company in Austria View our Clutch profile](https://clutch.co/profile/wavect-gmbh) ## FAQs about hiring a fractional CPO in Austria Eleven questions Austrian founders and boards ask before they sign. Front-loaded answers. ### Does a fractional CPO own engineering? No. A fractional CPO owns product: roadmap, prioritization, and customer discovery. Engineering leadership (architecture, hiring engineers, vendors, production accountability) is the [Fractional CTO](/services/fractional-cto/). We run both product and engineering from one head as a combined [CTPO](/glossary/ctpo/), available as a dedicated [fractional CTPO](/services/fractional-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. ### What is the difference between a fractional CPO and a fractional CTO? Scope. A [fractional CPO](/glossary/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. ### Fractional CPO or fractional co-founder? Stage. A fractional CPO works post-PMF, scaling a product function that already has a point of view. A [Fractional Co-Founder](/services/fractional-cofounder/) 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. ### What contract do you sign? 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. ### When is a fractional CPO the wrong call? 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](/glossary/fractional-cpo/). ### Do you work on-site in Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Zurich, Graz, Linz, or Salzburg? 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. ### What if we are outside Austria, Munich, or Zurich? 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. ### Do you take equity instead of or alongside cash? 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. ### What is the minimum and maximum engagement length? 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. ### How do you handle NDA, IP assignment, and code ownership? 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. ### How does this compare to hiring a full-time CPO? 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. 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