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Precious Metals Ops · 2025 — 2026
Rebuilt a physical gold business into an operating system.
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Executive brief · two-minute read
Behnam Jafari Balalami
Chief Product Officer & Business Architect
I turn messy, complex problems into clean systems that scale — products, businesses and platforms that work in the real world and keep working as they grow.
Tehran · Open to relocation
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Evidence
Where the numbers are
The figures that carry a source — with what each one counts, and where it came from — are on the Experience page, next to the role that produced them.
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Social Reading · 2022 — 2023
Launched a national reading platform in about three months.
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Digital Philanthropy · 2023 — 2024
Closed the trust loop in digital philanthropy.
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Fit
What I am open to
Full-time, fractional or advisory. Tehran-based, open to relocation and to remote roles in any timezone that overlaps Asia/Tehran by four hours or more.
Chief Product Officer
A company with a product function that has outgrown its process.
Chief Operating Officer
A business whose growth is now limited by its own operating system.
Head of Product / VP Product
A portfolio that needs one owner and one language across it.
Fractional / Advisory
A founder who needs the architecture right before hiring the team.
Next step
That is the brief. The next move is one message.
Tell me the problem you are carrying. If I am not the right person, I will say so and suggest who might be.
I reply to every serious enquiry within 2 business days.