Curriculum vitae · JT Digital
Jakob Raišp
Co-founder & Head of Business, Product Strategy and Operations
Software project manager for 5+ years with 30+ delivered projects, working directly with startup founders and remote teams to turn ideas into shipped products. Scaled products from 100 to 80,000+ daily active users. Trained in sport science with a focus on team dynamics and leadership, self-taught in IT, and the co-author of a published book chapter on agile new product development. Founded PM Academy, a project management education program, and guest lectures at two University of Ljubljana faculties. Now running business, product strategy, and operations at JT Digital.
Education
Leadership from sport, software self-taught.
Sport Science
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport
Focus: team dynamics and leadership, the foundation he now applies to product teams instead of locker rooms.
Scrum Master & Product Owner
Certified in both delivery roles of the Scrum framework
Applied: agile new product development, documented in a peer-reviewed book chapter published by University of Maribor Press .
Experience
From startup delivery to a studio of our own.
Co-Founder & Head of Business, Product Strategy and Operations
Runs the business side of the studio: strategy, operations, B2B sales, and partnerships. Drives the direct and partnership pipeline for products like Everyframe and Redactio, and operates the studio's automated sales funnel system alongside product launches like jtcut.com and huluma.eu.
Product Lead
Led new product development for a social content discovery app for movie and TV fans. Diagnosed engagement and retention problems, prototyped in Figma, ran user testing, and shipped the Swipe with Friends feature. The process became a published research chapter.
Software Project Manager
5+ years and 30+ delivered projects working directly with startup founders, turning their visions into working software with distributed teams. Design-driven: visual identity treated as part of product value, not decoration.
Event Management & Analytics
Bridging technology and live experiences: running silent disco events and digitizing event analytics.
Skills
Product, business, people.
Highlights
Shipped, published, taught.
Product work in production, research in print, and project management taught at two faculties.
Product Leadership
Features shipped against measured retention problems, and the studio operations behind a portfolio of live products.
Queue · Swipe with Friends View →
A new feature that turned solo content selection into an interactive, social experience for movie and TV fans.
Built against a hard industry baseline: the average mobile app loses around 77% of its daily active users within 3 days of install. Idea, prototype, user testing, delivery.
JT Digital studio operations
Business strategy, operations, and the sales-led B2B pipeline for the studio and its products.
Second operator of the studio's automated sales funnel system, onboarded through documentation alone , no code changes needed.
Publications & Teaching
The Queue work written up as peer-reviewed research, and project management taught where he once studied.
Published book chapter View →
"Enhancing User Engagement in the Mobile App: An Agile Approach to New Product Development in the Queue App", co-authored with Domen Malc.
Published by University of Maribor Press : how NPD theory holds up when applied to a real app with real retention numbers.
Guest lecturer, FDV & PEF View →
Teaches project management and product development at two University of Ljubljana faculties.
Interactive Technology Design course: live user testing demos, Figma prototypes, and an effort-impact workshop with students as stakeholders.
PM Academy
Founded a project management education program teaching practical delivery skills.
Silent Disco Slovenija
Live events meet analytics: digitizing how event performance gets measured.
Work with Jakob
Vision in, shipped product out.
The same delivery discipline behind 30+ projects goes into every JT Digital engagement: clear strategy, honest operations, and software you can click before you sign.