Product Leadership · Fractional
I join your team as a fractional product manager — embedded a few days a week — to give scattered efforts a clear direction, a prioritised backlog, and a roadmap the whole business trusts. Senior product leadership without a full-time hire.
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 leadership without the full-time cost.
Who this is for
The problem
The backlog is a wishlist. Without a ranking anyone believes, the loudest stakeholder wins and the roadmap changes with every meeting.
Features go out the door but the metrics that matter do not move. Effort is high, outcomes are unclear, and nobody can say why.
Sales, engineering and leadership each carry a different version of the plan. Alignment meetings quietly replace actual alignment.
What you get
A ranked, evidence-backed plan tied to business goals — one everyone from sales to engineering can point to.
Clear specs and a steady rhythm so engineering builds the right thing once, instead of the wrong thing twice.
Every priority call is written down with the reasoning, so why are we building this always has an answer.
Rituals, templates and a healthy backlog your team keeps running long after the engagement ends.
How it works
Interviews, data and a backlog audit to map where the product actually stands today.
A ranked roadmap tied to outcomes, agreed with stakeholders — not imposed on them.
Tight specs, a delivery rhythm, and hands-on unblocking so work keeps moving.
Rituals and templates documented so your team owns the product function next.
Deliverables
A fractional product manager acts as your product lead on a part-time basis — setting direction, prioritising the backlog, writing specs and running delivery — without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. You get senior experience applied exactly where it is needed.
You get a senior operator immediately, with no ramp and no long-term headcount commitment. I also leave behind the process and templates, so your eventual full-time hire inherits a healthy function instead of a mess.
Typically two to three days a week, adjusted to what the stage of work demands. I flex up around launches and discovery, and down once the rhythm is steady.
Whatever your team already uses — Jira, Linear, Notion, Miro. I adapt to your stack rather than forcing a migration mid-engagement.
Discovery usually begins within a week of our first call. You will have a first cut of the prioritised roadmap inside the first two weeks.
A 30-minute call to pressure-test where your product stands and whether I am the right fit. No pitch, no obligation.
