Creating Confidence
out of Confusion
When the stakes are high and the org is stuck, we cut through the noise and get teams moving. Embedded leadership, not advice from the sideline.
What we do
Absolute transparency into process, methods, and insights. When we leave, you're more capable of handling what comes next — not less.
We only play with the white hat, and we play to win. If we can't win clean, we don't play.
How we work
We drop into complex situations — product launches, organizational chaos, high-stakes transitions — and create clarity.
Product Leadership
Strategy through execution. OKRs to sprint delivery. We build the roadmap and the team to ship it.
Organizational Transformation
Restructure teams around outcomes, not org charts. Turn product owners into product managers.
Crisis & Launch Management
The room is on fire. We know where the exits are — and which walls to knock down.
AI Governance & Data Privacy
Build the frameworks that let you move fast without breaking trust. GDPR, CFIUS, responsible AI.
The Engagement Model
Most engagements are 3–6 months, embedded 3–4 days per week, working directly with your C-suite and their product/engineering teams.
Data Privacy
Most product leaders can ship features. Fewer can ship features that handle sensitive data at scale without breaking trust, violating regulations, or creating liability.
We've done this work at the intersection of consumer privacy, national security, and financial regulation — not in theory, but in rooms where the decisions had consequences measured in billions of dollars and millions of users.
From authoring Grindr's GDPR data retention policy during Chinese acquisition to building Moody's AI product development lifecycle, this isn't an adjacent skill — it's the throughline that connects every engagement.
GDPR & Privacy Compliance
Built privacy frameworks from scratch at scale. Data retention, consent management, cross-border transfer.
AI Governance Frameworks
Built Moody's AI product development lifecycle and led product for its Enterprise AI Working Group. Intake aligned to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act and DORA.
Federal Regulatory Interface
Represented Grindr in federal agency briefings during CFIUS review. KOSA policy. Data privacy at national security level.
Responsible AI Product Strategy
Balancing ML-driven personalization with user trust. Built AI/ML systems that retained $2MM while staying compliant.
be a guessing game.
Originally built to align product strategy for a 10MM+ user two-sided marketplace, where the roadmap it produced delivered record daily actives within a single quarter. PlanningPoker Roadmap is the prioritization engine we now bring to every engagement.
Scores features using planning poker mechanics against weighted OKRs, then optimizes delivery across your dev team's real capacity. The math does the arguing so your team doesn't have to.
thoughtful execution.
The situations change. The playbook doesn't.
Hired as Senior Director before launch, to bring HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner into one app during a global pandemic. Inherited a team of 7, built it to 25 and earned the VP title in the process. The $3.1B launch delivered 12MM new users. Product lead through the Snyder Cut release and the ad-supported tier launch — two of the highest-pressure moments in HBO Max's early history.
Employee #48. Our data analysis of RNC convention activity went viral — Vice, John Oliver, the works. Authored Grindr's data retention policy and led the technical implementation of GDPR compliance across the entire platform. Represented the company in federal agency briefings on data privacy and security during the Kunlun acquisition — navigating the intersection of LGBTQ+ user safety, Chinese ownership, and U.S. national security review. Built the GDPR-compliant AI/ML system that retained $2MM in revenue.
Two stints, two crises. During the 2008 financial collapse, guarantor failures froze the rating system — MBIA alone guaranteed $650B in bonds. Served as operational lead for the Public Finance Group, validating rating actions through 36-hour overnight sessions while regulators, markets, and media watched. Returned in 2024 as VP of Product Management to build Moody's AI product development lifecycle from scratch — intake, risk-tiering, prioritization, executive review and disposition — and got the institution to adopt it.
Principal of Harvey Netzer Interactive. 20+ years leading product organizations through high-stakes moments — launching HBO Max during a pandemic, navigating a national security review at Grindr, keeping Moody's rating actions moving through the 2008 financial crisis, and building Moody's AI product development lifecycle.
Duke University. RYT-500 certified yoga instructor. AI governance specialist. Most recently: launch readiness for a Fortune 20 telecom's flagship app, through PwC, and jobmashup — an AI tool that rebuilds a résumé from claims it can trace, and flags any line it can't.
up at night?
Whether you're navigating a product launch, an organizational transition, or need someone who's seen this movie before — book a 30-minute clarity call. No pitch, no deck. Just an honest conversation about your situation.
cj@harveynetzer.ai →Currently: Building jobmashup, and always glad to talk through a hard product problem.