t.hegnauer@gmail.com
+41 79 399 41 12
 Zurich, Switzerland
linkedin.com/in/timohegnauer

Timo
Hegnauer

Product Leader

About

Product leader and strong individual contributor with 10+ years of product experience in fintech and insurtech, backed by a solid technical background. Helped build neon to 250k+ clients, currently leading the product team of 7 product managers and designers. Passionate about building great products that make a real difference.

Experience

neon,
Zurich

Head of Product

Product strategy, processes, discovery and execution for an innovative product with more than 250k banking clients.

  • Strategy implementation: Responsible for defining the high level product vision together with the C-level and translating it into product strategy.
  • Product roadmap ownership: Derive feature candidates based on the strategy, clarifying feasibility and prioritizing by business value and constraints.
  • Team leadership: Direct report of a team of 7 product managers and designers. Enabling them by defining and improving the overall product development process and KPIs. Fully responsible for hiring, coaching as well as hands-on support on decisive projects.
  • Partner management: End to end responsibility for partner relations, including full selection process and contract negotiation with new partners.
2025 - Present

Head of Trading

Built stocks and ETF trading at neon from scratch, growing it to CHF 800m+ in assets under management.

  • Product ownership: Own the trading roadmap and business case end to end, from feature definition through delivery.
  • Partner selection: Fully responsible for partner selection and partner management (data provider, ETF partners, technology partners).
  • Team & operations: Lead the trading team and coordinate operations across the business to keep a regulated product running reliably.
2023 - 2025

Senior Product Owner -> Senior Product Manager

Joined neon as an early-stage employee and grew with the company to become a key person in product development.

  • End-to-end ownership: Took products and features from discovery and concept through launch and iteration.
  • Agile delivery: Ran a cross-functional squad as Product Owner (Scrum/Kanban), managing backlog, requirements and delivery.
  • Technical ownership: Owned technical product, responsible for handling outages, partner issues and ensuring smooth release process.
2019 - 2023
Flink Insurance

Co-Founder

Co-founded an insurtech startup and owned the entire technology side of the business.

  • Technology ownership: Responsible for website and app, including IT architecture and technical decision-making.
  • Team building: Hired and led a nearshore development team.
  • Product & strategy: Shaped product direction and company strategy alongside the other founding members.
2016 - 2019
Swisscom

Consulting Intern

  • Delivered consulting projects in the banking and insurance sector.
2014 - 2016

Education

University of Oxford
Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme | Online course
2023
University of Zurich
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science | Summa cum laude (top 20%)
Focus on Blockchain and AI / Data Science · Thesis: Blockchain interoperability
2015 - 2019
Uni. St.Gallen /
Stanford University
Stanford ME310 | One-year design thinking programme
2015 - 2016
University of Zurich
Bachelor, Economics
Thesis: Analysis of reciprocal behaviour
2011 - 2014

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership, ensuring strategy alignment, hiring, department building, cross-functional alignment

Strategy

Product vision, roadmapping, business cases, positioning, stakeholder alignment

Ideation

Ideation frameworks, design thinking, user research, prototyping / UX-design, data analysis

Implementation

Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), Jira, software development (Python, TypeScript), AI driven development, partner management

Languages

German

Native

English

Fluent