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Paula Mariani Mazzoni ✦ Product & UX Leadership

Discover
what comes next.

The best opportunities rarely appear in a spreadsheet. They emerge from people, markets and real-world understanding.

Through immersive research and market understanding, I help organisations uncover opportunities before they become obvious.

Paula Mariani
★ DESIGN YOUR LIFE ★ BUILD YOUR WORK
Strategic Product Advisory ✦ Product Discovery ✦ AI & Emerging Technologies ✦ Fractional UX Leadership ✦ Keynotes & Workshops ✦ Founder Retreats ✦ Strategic Product Advisory ✦ Product Discovery ✦ AI & Emerging Technologies ✦ Fractional UX Leadership ✦ Keynotes & Workshops ✦ Founder Retreats ✦
The Offering

Three ways to work with me.

Embedded product leadership, market discovery, and keynote stages — choose the engagement that fits where you are right now.

01 Embedded · part-time

Fractional Product & Design Partner

Senior product and design leadership, embedded with your team part-time. Forged in fintech and banking — and ready for any product where the stakes are real.

See how it works
02 Field · immersive

Embedded Discovery

The best opportunities rarely appear in a strategy deck. I go into the market with your team — observing, talking to real people, understanding what the data can’t tell you — so your product decisions are grounded in something real.

Let’s map your market

New markets · Product strategy · Localisation · Opportunity exploration · Customer understanding

03 Keynotes · Workshops

Speaking Engagements and Workshops

Twenty years of building in fintech, emerging markets and AI — brought into the room. Keynotes and executive workshops designed to shift the way your team thinks, not just what they know.

See topics & availability

Product strategy · AI · Financial services · Emerging markets · Opportunity discovery

Why me

A career built between worlds.

I have redesigned my career and life across countries, leadership roles, entrepreneurship, fractional work, AI and community—without following the standard playbook.

This experience shapes how I work today: helping organisations discover opportunities others overlook, and helping experienced people build work that belongs to the life they want.

05 · The membership
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hippie
Hear the business hippie calling?

My membership for lifestyle design — mentorship and mindset for AI founders and solopreneurs who want to stay wild and free. Join on the web today; your membership carries straight into the app.

A video or audio message from me, every Saturday morning
Access to monthly member events
A global room of founders designing life on their terms
$100 / month · cancel anytime
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Saturday · 8:00 am
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Week 03 with you
Pricing for the life you want
Mindset reset · the slow-down
Audio · last Saturday · 9 min