Paniz T.

I'm a Senior Product Manager and Product Owner specializing in AI-driven products. Currently AI Product Owner at a smart-tourism startup, where I own the full product roadmap end-to-end, run sprint planning and engineering ceremonies, define LLM and RAG feature requirements, and ship production AI features across leading frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Before that, I led national-scale AI platform delivery and project management for Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education across 27 universities, including an adaptive AI tutor, a RAG-powered research platform built on the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, and a K-12 AI assessment platform. I owned the AI Solutions Nano Courses program end-to-end: 5,000+ registrations, 2,000+ live participants, and 4 multilingual onboarding webinars. What I help clients with: • Product Management and Product Ownership: Roadmaps, PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint planning, backlog grooming, stakeholder alignment, and measurable success metrics • AI product strategy: Translate ambiguous founder or exec vision into prioritized roadmaps tied to business outcomes • LLM evaluation and selection: Compare frontier models on cost, latency, output quality, and context limits before you commit engineering hours • RAG and agentic systems: Design retrieval architecture, prompt strategies, and agent workflows that actually ship rather than stalling in proof-of-concept purgatory • Project management across teams — Run cross-functional delivery in Jira, Trello, Smartsheet, Asana, and Monday platforms; concurrent multi-client and multi-program execution without quality slipping • Rapid prototyping with modern AI-first tooling(like v0 or Lovable): Validate product ideas in days, not sprints; replace static mockups in stakeholder reviews with live, deployable prototypes • EdTech and B2G delivery: Multi-institution rollouts, adoption programs for non-technical educators, and stakeholder dynamics that make government contracts work My background also includes Lean Six Sigma at Medtronic on FDA-regulated production lines, and CEO experience taking a 200+ person organization from operating losses to 15% profitability. So when I say outcomes over demos, I mean it from both an engineering-discipline and a P&L perspective. Best fit: founders shipping their first AI feature, EdTech teams scaling LLM-powered learning, product leaders who need a senior PM partner to take an idea from "we should try AI" to a working product, or organizations that need a Product Owner who can also run the project management discipline behind delivery. I'm available in the ET and CET time zones; I'm a US citizen, open to travel, and available immediately. Send a message and let's talk about what you're trying to build.