Timely
VP Product & Engineering

Marius Ørvik

Scaling B2B SaaS through AI-driven product development

Product leader in Norway with over 10 years of experience in B2B SaaS. Building strong Product, Engineering, and Design teams and delivering tangible business results through AI innovation and targeted operational improvements. Based in Oslo, working with distributed teams globally.

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Leadership Impact

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Executive Impact

  • Executive Leadership Team member with responsibility for the entire product function — the product domain — strategy, insights, delivery, and results for over 5,000 businesses
  • Key contributor in three funding rounds that secured $20M, scaling Timely through product-led growth
  • Leading distributed teams in Europe, Asia, and the USA with an efficient, asynchronous collaboration model
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AI & Innovation

  • Built AI/ML team from the ground up and created lasting competitive advantages through proprietary datasets
  • Completed advanced ML programs (Stanford, deeplearning.ai) and led product design of systems based on neural networks, SVMs, and LLMs
  • Made advanced ML understandable and useful through intuitive features used by more than 5,000 customers
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Team & Systems

  • Identified and developed PMs from non-traditional backgrounds: Marketing, Support, QA → senior product roles
  • Unified siloed Product and Engineering functions under one high-performing operating model
  • Built evidence-based decision-making culture using frameworks like Cost of Delay and Jobs to be Done
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Approach & Philosophy

I build teams with high trust, clear goals, and a high degree of autonomy. My leadership style combines strategic direction with deep product expertise, and I prioritize clarity, insight-based decisions, and rapid learning.

Product-Led Growth The product must be the engine for sustainable growth, sales and marketing are the rockets
Insight-driven I use data and insights to prioritize correctly, not speculation and gut feeling
Empowered Teams Autonomous teams that own the results both thrive better and deliver better results

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