Product Strategy & Consulting Leader | AI Product Expert | Digital Transformation Advisor
Jees V. Kariyil is a seasoned Product Strategy and Consulting Leader with over 15 years of experience helping startups, scale-ups, and enterprises build, launch, and scale technology products across HRTech, Digital Payments, Healthcare, E-commerce, SaaS, and AI. His expertise spans product strategy, enterprise consulting, go-to-market planning, digital transformation, and AI-driven innovation.
Throughout his career, Jees has successfully led product organizations from concept to commercialization, enabling businesses to solve complex challenges through technology. He has worked closely with founders, CXOs, enterprise customers, and cross-functional engineering teams to define product vision, establish scalable product architectures, and accelerate business growth across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and global markets.
Before joining Pixelology Labs, Jees served as Head of Products at impress.ai, one of South East Asia's leading AI-powered hiring platforms, where he played a pivotal role in transforming the company from an AI screening solution into a comprehensive enterprise hiring platform. He led product strategy across sourcing, recruitment automation, interview scheduling, hiring intelligence, ATS integrations, onboarding, and Generative AI capabilities, while driving enterprise adoption among global organizations.
Prior to this, he co-founded JOBOY, one of India's pioneering hyperlocal service marketplaces, where he led product development and technology strategy, scaling the platform to more than one million users across multiple countries. His entrepreneurial journey has given him deep expertise in building digital businesses, validating markets, and taking products from idea to scale.
Today, Jees serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Pixelology Labs, a product strategy and technology consulting company that partners with startups, SMEs, and enterprises to accelerate innovation. He advises organizations on AI adoption, SaaS product strategy, platform modernization, digital transformation, customer experience, growth strategy, and product-market fit. Under his leadership, Pixelology Labs has helped organizations across HRTech, Healthcare, CPaaS, and enterprise SaaS successfully design and launch next-generation AI-powered platforms.
His consulting engagements focus on helping organizations identify market opportunities, define scalable product roadmaps, optimize customer journeys, modernize legacy platforms, and leverage Artificial Intelligence to create measurable business impact. He has also been instrumental in developing AI-powered products such as recruitment intelligence platforms, healthcare management solutions, conversational AI applications, and enterprise productivity tools.
Jees is passionate about mentoring founders, product managers, and technology leaders on product thinking, innovation, and strategic execution. He regularly contributes thought leadership on Product Management, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS strategy, Digital Transformation, and the future of enterprise software through industry forums and professional networks.
With a unique combination of entrepreneurial experience, enterprise product leadership, and consulting expertise, Jees brings a practical, business-first approach to innovation—helping organizations transform ideas into scalable, customer-centric digital products that deliver sustainable growth.
