Ro Fernandez
About
Ro Fernandez is from Spain. Ro is currently Writer at Medium, located in Toronto, ON. Ro also works as Business Mentor at Techstars, a job Ro has held since Oct 2023. Another title Ro currently holds is CEO & Co-Founder at Novatools.org. In Ro's previous role as a Director of Product Management and Operations at Play MPE®, Ro worked in Toronto, ON until Mar 2026. Prior to joining Play MPE®, Ro was a Book Author at Amazon Books and held the position of Book Author at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Prior to that, Ro was a Lead Product Manager at Versett, based in Toronto, ON from Dec 2021 to Feb 2023. Ro started working as Product Manager at Play MPE® in Vancouver, BC in Oct 2021. From Apr 2019 to Nov 2021, Ro was IBP & Marketing Instructor at ILAC International College, based in Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area. Prior to that, Ro was a CEO & Co-Founder at BoldPoint Studio, based in Greater Toronto Area, Canada from Sep 2013 to Apr 2019.
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Ro Fernandez's current jobs
Leadership & operations writer for Bootcamp, Venture, StartupStash.
Founder of Nova, helping companies implement collaborative operating models that break silos and align teams to business goals. - Run company strategy, operations, culture, product and design end to end. - Reinvented how collaborative processes are implemented in growing businesses — giving teams the clarity and structure to execute. - Building AI coworkers and an AI process coach that work alongside teams — matched to what each team actually needs — so people spend less time coordinating and more time shipping. www.novatools.org
We create high-performance cultures built on clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution. By understanding the human reality of the workplace, we help teams make better decisions and achieve goals faster with lower burnout. We trade confusion for confidence and silos for cooperation—setting every team up for success. www.playandtell.com
Ro Fernandez's past jobs
Led product, design and cross-functional operations for a radio music-distribution platform serving major labels (Universal, Sony) and independent artists. - Increased product, design & engineering velocity from 3 to 24+ releases per year (~8x) in the first 4 months by redesigning the product-development process and team operating model while reducing costs. - Defined and delivered a 3-year product roadmap, earning board and market trust and materially increasing company valuation. - Launched a new product letting artists track radio airplay across the US and Canada — a new product category established in under 9 months. - Digitalized the payment process, cutting costs ~15%, making it scalable, and unlocking a new B2C segment (independent artists) that expanded the total addressable market. - Broke silos across product, marketing, customer success and sales to align launches and roadmap decisions. - Built leadership standards, the hiring process and the employee onboarding experience for a healthy, high-performing team. - Designed and launched a Spanish-market podcast (El Micro) to grow in the latin and spanish market.
- Leading Better Meetings - The Art of Asking Powerful Questions - The Product Manager's Playbook - Yomi: Play to Win - Visualize a Pig named Pinn - The Art of Cultivating Happiness + Others
Led a team of product managers and scaled product practice across offices. - Coached and grew a group of PMs; embedded product processes and best practices in the France office. - Designed and delivered training programs and workshops for client teams across multiple engagements. - Led products including Rogers, TransLink (public transportation) an Ontario educational program, etc.
Owned the strategy and direction of a new product category, running three products in parallel. - Defined product direction and feature specs for a platform migration to React, working closely with design and engineering and their design system. - Created new team norms and processes that lifted productivity ~30%. - Lead the product strategy from vision through implementation. - Shipped machine learning into a live music-distribution product — an AI model that recognizes genre and instrumentation to make discovery dramatically faster.
Designed and taught business programs in marketing, strategy and project management. - Built curriculum, exercises and calendars for new programs. - Taught Advertising & Integrated Brand Promotion, Project Management, and Digital Media Marketing for Business Decisions.
Head of Product / Head of Operations, and take on select fractional engagements for scaling B2B, SaaS and media-tech companies — across Europe, the US and Canada for companies like QiiQ Inc, Hotel X, Barcelona appliance.