Top Talent like Giacomo are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.

Giacomo Poggiali

Product Manager •
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Contracts
Product Coach & Entrepreneur in Residence | Helping Startups Build Robust Product Engines | Sparring Partner, Mentor, and Product Management Expert
Great products don’t just happen—they’re built in the ring. I’m the Sparring Partner that trains you so you don't get KO'd by the market. I explore users, challenge assumptions and validate ideas, to ensure you're prepared for the punches the market will throw—because no plan survives first contact with reality. My Mission: I'm a 0 to 1 Product Manager with 7+ years in early-stage startups, ranging from concept to MVP to Series A. I aim to help 1M passionate people express themselves through entrepreneurship, transforming ideas into impactful products. After leading product efforts at three early-stage startups, I decided to give back to this mission, sharing everything I’ve learned about building, validating, and finding Product-Market Fit. Why Sparring Works: I’m not your typical coach or mentor—I’m a sparring partner. I pressure-test ideas, kill zombie concepts before they kill you, and refine UVPs until they’re battle-ready. It's about fast learning, relentless questioning, and driving toward evidence-based decisions. In the words of one of my latest clients - a Co-Founder of a Swiss startup that raised a $4M Seed: 'This is not like working with the typical startup advisor idiots that have never even done what they are selling, or give you some standard template and you still need to figure everything out yourself. It’s like having more brainpower available for thinking through critical challenges and having access to valuable experience all of a sudden. And it’s always actionable.' More about how I work here bit.ly/aboutgiacomo Ready to Spar? I’m here to help you build a product engine worth fueling. I'm always looking to connect with great founders, accelerators, innovators and venture builders who are up for a challenge. If that’s you, let’s talk!

Work History

5

Product Mentor

500 GlobalLast programs as a Product Mentor: - Egypt Seed Bootcamp Batch 3 - 500 Eurasia Batch 6 & 7 - Egypt Scale Up Batch 2 Topics I covered: - Focus on big bets: setting the OMTM - MVP strategy: build a product engine worth fueling - Growth Product Management: ignite your Product engine with growth and habit loops - Continuous Product Discovery & Delivery - From Cool to Good to Great Products 500 Global (ex 500 Startups) is the most active early-stage global venture capital firm. Notable investments in 500's portfolio include Canva, Reddit, Solana, Twilio, Udemy, Mural, Superhuman and Sendgrid. 500 runs incubation and acceleration programs worldwide, emphasizing the importance of working on Product, UX and distribution.
S

Sparring Partner for bold innovators

Sparring StartupsLast clients: 500 Global (Eurasia, MENA), H Farm (Edtech), Finnovaction, Nanabianca (Cybersec & Hubble programs), Ikigai Hub, Starta VC, B4i startups, Experify, BPER. I work as a: 1. Product EIR or Coach (Early-Stage Product / Product Discovery), for startups and innovation/(pre-)acceleration programs; Working with: 2. Fractional Product Manager for startups that need hands-on support for winning product challenges; 3. Freelance Venture builder for innovation teams, (Corporate) Venture Builders and Startup studios who want to take an idea from 0 to 1; 4. Workshop host for (pre-)acceleration programs, corporate, startups and scaleups. More about me here: https://bit.ly/aboutgiacomo
S

Entrepreneur in Residence - Product and Growth

Starta VCJun 2022 - Dec 2023 • 1 yr 7 mosProduct EIR and Lecturer for Starta's Pre-acceleration program, on topics such as: - Validation - User research - Growth Product Management
I

Innovation Advisor

INSKIP EntrepreneursSep 2022 - Jul 2023 • 11 mosINSKIP is an innovation firm assisting strategic innovation processes. I act as a Product EIR to assist the leaders of a home appliances multinational in innovating as startup founders would.
C

Head of Product

CubbitJan 2020 - Mar 2022 • 2 yrs 3 mosCubbit is a Series A startup on a mission to bring the Internet back to its roots: a distributed network crowdsourcing in the net all the resources and services needed to work (and not the backyard of a few tech monopolies). Cubbit is building the world's largest distributed data centre. I joined Cubbit as the company's first Product Manager after their seed round. My main contributions have been: - JTBD and customer discovery, generating insights used to scale the crowdfunding campaign (>€1M) and deliver the beta version of Cubbit - Established and led cross-functional teams in charge of the end-to-end product development - Led the 0 to 1 phase of 3 new products: identifying and exposing problems, collecting product ideas, testing these ideas, designing and testing wireframes, and iteratively delivering. - Owned the product roadmap to engage the teams around user needs with a problem-first mindset, using Opportunity-Solution trees and OKRs
S

Head of Product - Mobile Apps

SmanApp srlDec 2018 - Jan 2020 • 1 yr 2 mosSmanApp is a bootstrapped startup on a mission to make roads safer thanks to gamification and rewarding through their mobile app and partners network I joined SmanApp as the company's first Product Manager. My main contributions have been: - Owned the product roadmap by finding patterns in quantitative (Data Analytics) and qualitative data (interviews). - Created and led cross-function product squads, engaging the teams around JTBDs and user-related OKRs. The squads took care of the full cycle from problem identification to delivery. - Together with my team I designed and launched a new app through UX research, Design Sprint and pretotyping. This app, with its gamification dynamics, is now the company's flagship app.
S

Founding Growth Product Manager

ShippyProJan 2017 - Dec 2018 • 2 yrsShippyPro is now a Series B startup, born to help small and big online vendors manage logistics as e-commerce giants do. ShippyPro achieves this mission through a shipping SaaS for integrating sales channels with logistic partners. I joined ShippyPro with the initial kernel team (we were 3 people). As Founding PM and Head of Growth I: - Aligned our marketing and product efforts to customers JTBD - Ran experiments that got systematic acquisition channels and a strong Product-Market fit, taking our B2B users to 5,000 in 18 months - Created and designed Easy Return, one of ShippyPro's flagship products thought for managing reverse logistics - Designed the new UI (still online)
H

Co-working manager

Hub MultiversoJan 2015 - Jan 2016 • 1 yr 1 moDuring the second year of Msc, I managed the Multiverso Valdarno coworking, organizing courses about coding and digital marketing.
B

Business Analyst Intern - Mobile Subscriptions LATAM

BuongiornoJan 2015 - Feb 2015 • 2 mosUniversity internship where I learned the basis of data analytics by running KPI Analysis on mobile subscriptions in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina markets.
T

Reporter - Local TV news

Tele IrideJan 2012 - Jan 2013 • 1 yr 1 moWhile in the first year of university I side worked as a TV Journalist. I filmed, wrote and recorded 50+ TV news reportages for local television.

Education

U

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Magistrale in Scienze dell'Economia, Economia2014 - 2017
U

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Bachelor's degree, Sviluppo economico, cooperazione internazionale e gestione dei conflitti2011 - 2014
U

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Stage di ricerca e corso universitario, Maestrìa de Desarrollo Comunitario Sustentable2013

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We’ve distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea’s AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company’s niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea’s fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team’s capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We’ve combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that’s unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call
Product Coach & Entrepreneur in Residence | Helping Startups Build Robust Product Engines | Sparring Partner, Mentor, and Product Management Expert
Great products don’t just happen—they’re built in the ring. I’m the Sparring Partner that trains you so you don't get KO'd by the market. I explore users, challenge assumptions and validate ideas, to ensure you're prepared for the punches the market will throw—because no plan survives first contact with reality. My Mission: I'm a 0 to 1 Product Manager with 7+ years in early-stage startups, ranging from concept to MVP to Series A. I aim to help 1M passionate people express themselves through entrepreneurship, transforming ideas into impactful products. After leading product efforts at three early-stage startups, I decided to give back to this mission, sharing everything I’ve learned about building, validating, and finding Product-Market Fit. Why Sparring Works: I’m not your typical coach or mentor—I’m a sparring partner. I pressure-test ideas, kill zombie concepts before they kill you, and refine UVPs until they’re battle-ready. It's about fast learning, relentless questioning, and driving toward evidence-based decisions. In the words of one of my latest clients - a Co-Founder of a Swiss startup that raised a $4M Seed: 'This is not like working with the typical startup advisor idiots that have never even done what they are selling, or give you some standard template and you still need to figure everything out yourself. It’s like having more brainpower available for thinking through critical challenges and having access to valuable experience all of a sudden. And it’s always actionable.' More about how I work here bit.ly/aboutgiacomo Ready to Spar? I’m here to help you build a product engine worth fueling. I'm always looking to connect with great founders, accelerators, innovators and venture builders who are up for a challenge. If that’s you, let’s talk!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call

Top Talent like Giacomo are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.

Giacomo Poggiali

Product Manager •
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Contracts

Work History

5

Product Mentor

500 GlobalLast programs as a Product Mentor: - Egypt Seed Bootcamp Batch 3 - 500 Eurasia Batch 6 & 7 - Egypt Scale Up Batch 2 Topics I covered: - Focus on big bets: setting the OMTM - MVP strategy: build a product engine worth fueling - Growth Product Management: ignite your Product engine with growth and habit loops - Continuous Product Discovery & Delivery - From Cool to Good to Great Products 500 Global (ex 500 Startups) is the most active early-stage global venture capital firm. Notable investments in 500's portfolio include Canva, Reddit, Solana, Twilio, Udemy, Mural, Superhuman and Sendgrid. 500 runs incubation and acceleration programs worldwide, emphasizing the importance of working on Product, UX and distribution.
S

Sparring Partner for bold innovators

Sparring StartupsLast clients: 500 Global (Eurasia, MENA), H Farm (Edtech), Finnovaction, Nanabianca (Cybersec & Hubble programs), Ikigai Hub, Starta VC, B4i startups, Experify, BPER. I work as a: 1. Product EIR or Coach (Early-Stage Product / Product Discovery), for startups and innovation/(pre-)acceleration programs; Working with: 2. Fractional Product Manager for startups that need hands-on support for winning product challenges; 3. Freelance Venture builder for innovation teams, (Corporate) Venture Builders and Startup studios who want to take an idea from 0 to 1; 4. Workshop host for (pre-)acceleration programs, corporate, startups and scaleups. More about me here: https://bit.ly/aboutgiacomo
S

Entrepreneur in Residence - Product and Growth

Starta VCJun 2022 - Dec 2023 • 1 yr 7 mosProduct EIR and Lecturer for Starta's Pre-acceleration program, on topics such as: - Validation - User research - Growth Product Management
I

Innovation Advisor

INSKIP EntrepreneursSep 2022 - Jul 2023 • 11 mosINSKIP is an innovation firm assisting strategic innovation processes. I act as a Product EIR to assist the leaders of a home appliances multinational in innovating as startup founders would.
C

Head of Product

CubbitJan 2020 - Mar 2022 • 2 yrs 3 mosCubbit is a Series A startup on a mission to bring the Internet back to its roots: a distributed network crowdsourcing in the net all the resources and services needed to work (and not the backyard of a few tech monopolies). Cubbit is building the world's largest distributed data centre. I joined Cubbit as the company's first Product Manager after their seed round. My main contributions have been: - JTBD and customer discovery, generating insights used to scale the crowdfunding campaign (>€1M) and deliver the beta version of Cubbit - Established and led cross-functional teams in charge of the end-to-end product development - Led the 0 to 1 phase of 3 new products: identifying and exposing problems, collecting product ideas, testing these ideas, designing and testing wireframes, and iteratively delivering. - Owned the product roadmap to engage the teams around user needs with a problem-first mindset, using Opportunity-Solution trees and OKRs
S

Head of Product - Mobile Apps

SmanApp srlDec 2018 - Jan 2020 • 1 yr 2 mosSmanApp is a bootstrapped startup on a mission to make roads safer thanks to gamification and rewarding through their mobile app and partners network I joined SmanApp as the company's first Product Manager. My main contributions have been: - Owned the product roadmap by finding patterns in quantitative (Data Analytics) and qualitative data (interviews). - Created and led cross-function product squads, engaging the teams around JTBDs and user-related OKRs. The squads took care of the full cycle from problem identification to delivery. - Together with my team I designed and launched a new app through UX research, Design Sprint and pretotyping. This app, with its gamification dynamics, is now the company's flagship app.
S

Founding Growth Product Manager

ShippyProJan 2017 - Dec 2018 • 2 yrsShippyPro is now a Series B startup, born to help small and big online vendors manage logistics as e-commerce giants do. ShippyPro achieves this mission through a shipping SaaS for integrating sales channels with logistic partners. I joined ShippyPro with the initial kernel team (we were 3 people). As Founding PM and Head of Growth I: - Aligned our marketing and product efforts to customers JTBD - Ran experiments that got systematic acquisition channels and a strong Product-Market fit, taking our B2B users to 5,000 in 18 months - Created and designed Easy Return, one of ShippyPro's flagship products thought for managing reverse logistics - Designed the new UI (still online)
H

Co-working manager

Hub MultiversoJan 2015 - Jan 2016 • 1 yr 1 moDuring the second year of Msc, I managed the Multiverso Valdarno coworking, organizing courses about coding and digital marketing.
B

Business Analyst Intern - Mobile Subscriptions LATAM

BuongiornoJan 2015 - Feb 2015 • 2 mosUniversity internship where I learned the basis of data analytics by running KPI Analysis on mobile subscriptions in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina markets.
T

Reporter - Local TV news

Tele IrideJan 2012 - Jan 2013 • 1 yr 1 moWhile in the first year of university I side worked as a TV Journalist. I filmed, wrote and recorded 50+ TV news reportages for local television.

Education

U

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Magistrale in Scienze dell'Economia, Economia2014 - 2017
U

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Bachelor's degree, Sviluppo economico, cooperazione internazionale e gestione dei conflitti2011 - 2014
U

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Stage di ricerca e corso universitario, Maestrìa de Desarrollo Comunitario Sustentable2013

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We’ve distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea’s AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company’s niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea’s fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team’s capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We’ve combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that’s unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call
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