Available for new engagements

I help tech companies build better and operate smarter.

Fractional Product Owner. AI strategist. Systems thinker. 20+ years of shipping real products — as a developer, architect, and product lead. I step in where strategy meets execution, and stay until things actually work.

Principal Consultant
Rachel Jaro
Fractional Product Owner · AI & Automation Strategist
20+
Years in tech — dev to product
3
Companies founded
US & EU
Clients served since 2009
0
Decks without follow-through
Product Ownership AI Strategy Drupal Claude · OpenAI Laravel · VueJs Remote-first
Worked with
Promet Solutions Simplenight Tracezilla Pantheon Killer Aces
Rachel Jaro — Fractional Product Owner and AI Strategist

Not just strategy.
Actual delivery.

Most product consultants hand you a roadmap and leave. I stay in the work — leading sprints, aligning teams, and making sure what gets planned actually gets built.

Work with me →

I started as a developer in 2005. Spent years building things — Drupal projects, Laravel systems, integrations, platforms. Eventually I realized the most valuable thing I could do wasn't write the code. It was figure out what to build and why.

I moved into architecture, then product strategy, then full product ownership. I've led distributed engineering teams, launched SaaS products, built automation systems from scratch, and founded three companies — including a photography studio I scaled into a fully systemized operation with a custom-built platform.

"The edge I bring is fluency in both worlds. I can sit in a product review with stakeholders and a sprint planning session with engineers — and speak both languages without losing anything in translation."

I've been working remotely with US and EU companies since 2009. I work as a real member of your team — not a consultant who shows up for calls and disappears between them.

I'm currently available for fractional engagements. If your product needs senior ownership, or your operations need serious automation — let's talk.

Three ways I can
help your team

I don't do everything. I do these three things very well — and I'm honest when something falls outside my scope.

01

Fractional Product Ownership

I embed in your team as your Product Owner — owning the roadmap, leading sprints, writing specs, managing stakeholders, and making sure the right things get shipped in the right order.

Roadmap ownership Sprint leadership Stakeholder alignment KPI setting
02

AI Product Strategy

I help you figure out where AI actually belongs in your product — not what's trending, but what solves real problems for real users. Then I help you build it with the right tools.

OpenAI API AWS Bedrock AI roadmapping Applied AI
03

Operations Automation

I design and implement automation systems that eliminate manual work — connecting your tools, building workflows, and turning repetitive processes into things that run themselves.

Claude System integration API engineering Process design

How an engagement works

No long proposals. No discovery theater. A straightforward process to figure out if we're a fit — and move fast if we are.

1

We talk

A 30-minute call. You tell me what's going on. I ask honest questions and tell you what I think.

2

I assess

I'll tell you clearly if I can help, what that looks like, and what it costs. No fluff, no overselling.

3

We agree

Simple contract. Fixed scope or hourly retainer — whichever fits your situation better.

4

I show up

I join your tools, your standups, your Slack. I work like a real team member — because that's what this is.