Fractional product leadership for startups.
I’m Tahir Shahzad, a CSPO-certified product manager and agile coach. I embed with your team a few days a week to find the real bottleneck and get delivery moving again.
Services I Offer
End-to-end support for product teams and founders to validate, build, and scale impactful products.
Fractional Product Manager for Startups
A fractional product manager who joins startup teams part-time to set product direction, prioritise the backlog, and ship a roadmap the whole business trusts — senior…
See how it worksProduct Management Consultant
A product management consultant who helps founders and product leaders sharpen strategy, prioritise the right work, and fix the process behind slow, unfocused delivery.
See how it worksTechnical Product Manager
A technical product manager who bridges engineering and product for API, platform and data-heavy products — turning complex technical work into a clear, prioritised roadmap.
See how it worksWhat Changed After We Shipped
Each case leads with the problem, the call I made, and the numbers that moved because of it.
Facial Recognition Attendance System: From 2-Hour Queues to Touchless Workforce
A large industrial site relied on thumbprint biometric attendance for nearly 30,000 workers. During every shift change, eight parallel biometric lanes operated for almost…
The system reduced industrial shift changeover time from 2 hours to 30 minutes and cut attendance queues from eight lanes to two. It reached…
FeedSanitizer.com
I had shipped Chrome extensions before, but always to a client spec. Build it, hand it over, and whether it is pleasant to use…
The extension is live and free on the Chrome Web Store for X, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Three versions shipped in the first month (1.0,…
Voice of Customer: Turning Silence Into a Roadmap Signal
The team was building features in silos, largely driven by internal opinion and assumption. There was no structured way to hear from actual users.…
The team gained a continuous survey channel reaching real users inside the product, not a one-time research exercise. Product decisions started tracing back to…
Recognized Credentials
Independently vetted by the platforms and communities I work with.
From Product Challenges to Product Clarity
Every product challenge has a root cause. My role is to identify it, prioritize it, and help your team move forward with confidence.
Discover
You're unsure whether the issue is your product, users, or execution.
I analyze user behavior, product data, and business goals to uncover the real problem.
Diagnose
Your team keeps shipping features, but growth has stalled.
Together we identify what’s creating friction, validate assumptions, and focus on what matters most.
Prioritize
Everything feels urgent, making it hard to decide what to build next.
I create a roadmap based on customer value, business impact, and engineering effort.
Execute & Measure
You launch features but don't know whether they succeeded.
We define success metrics, measure outcomes, and continuously improve through data.
Kind Words From Colleagues & Clients
Recommendations from managers, clients, and teammates I’ve worked with. Where a name is withheld, it’s because the client asked. The quote is otherwise unedited, and I’m happy to arrange a reference call.
I hired Tahir as a Sr. Web Developer at Evamp & Saanga. He was well prepared as a professional and took the responsibilities of an enterprise-level application at the time we needed it most. I am impressed by Tahir’s ability to stay up to date with the latest trends in technology, strong coordination among teams, and professional dealing with clients. As a team lead or a co-worker, Tahir earns my highest recommendation.
LinkedIn recommendation · April 2018
As our Technical Project Manager, Tahir helped bring structure to our cross-team integrations. He worked closely with engineering and business stakeholders to systematically identify blockers and clarify expectations. Over a series of sprints, we had better team alignment, quality releases and less scope creep.
Client engagement · name withheld under NDA
We were running in chaos. Nothing was shipping, the team was working, marketing was complaining, and all the metrics were static. Tahir’s approach to agile transformation was collaborative rather than prescriptive. He spent time with the team and stakeholders, looking into our current workflows—building on what was already working while helping us address areas of friction. Through incremental adjustments to our sprint cycle and retrospectives, he helped our teams build a healthier cycle of analyzing and adapting, which steadily improved our delivery pace and reduced process friction.
Client engagement · name withheld on request
Tahir was a valuable addition to our product team, bridging the gap between stakeholders, customer support, and engineering. He helped align competing roadmap priorities, led key UI and UX improvements, and established a stronger customer feedback loop backed by real user data. His structured approach improved product discovery, made backlog prioritization more evidence-based, and enabled the team to focus on delivering high-impact features that created measurable value for our customers.
Client engagement · name withheld on request
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Giving Back. Growing Together.
Actively contributing to the WordPress ecosystem through WordCamps, meetups, and online communities. I believe in empowering others and building open, inclusive spaces for learning and collaboration.
- Organized and volunteered at multiple WordCamps globally
- Active contributor to WordPress community initiatives
- Mentoring and helping new contributors grow in the ecosystem
- Strong believer in knowledge sharing and community impact