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Paula Mariani in Auroville, India
Based between Barcelona and India, working globally

A career spent at the edge of what's next.

I've spent twenty years helping organisations define products, enter new markets and build the product and design capability to act on what they find — across European fintech, African financial inclusion, and global marketplaces and technology companies. As Director of UX at N26, Head of Product at Paysafe, and a fintech advisor across Africa and India, I learned that the biggest risk isn't building the wrong feature — it's building on top of a decision nobody properly made.

After more than a decade in senior leadership, building teams at scale, I began redesigning my own way of working — through fractional leadership, entrepreneurship and a life split between Europe and India. Today I'm the founder of WEDOAI, an India-based studio building AI products people can actually trust and use, and a fractional partner at The UX Team.

That same redesign became The Business Hippie — a space for founders and independent leaders doing what I did: turning hard-won expertise into an independent, more human way of working.

The throughline from N26 and Paysafe to WEDOAI and The Business Hippie: build on decisions someone actually made.

From European neobanks to African fintech to building an AI studio in India — the detail lives on my CV.
N26 Paysafe M-KOPA Crédit Agricole Schibsted Adevinta Property Finder The UX Team WEDOAI

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