Jarmo has worked as the Head of Drama at Yle Finnish Broadcasting Company since 2015. He graduated from ELO, Finnish Film School in 1992 and has worked as a director, scriptwriter and producer with numerous productions for cinema, television and theatre.
From 2007 to 2014, Jarmo was working as a Professor of Film Directing and Head of the Department of Film, Television and Scenography at Aalto University, Helsinki.
In recent years, Yle has produced numerous international TV series co-productions – Seconds/Germany and Denmark/N12, Paradise I-III/Spain/N12, White Wall/Sweden/N12, Helsinki Syndrome/Germany and Transport/Belgium/N12, The Cargo/UK/Malta/N12.