Tahir Shahzad Product Manager & Community Builder
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Product Consulting · Advisory

Product Management Consultant

Independent product management consulting for founders and leaders who need sharper product decisions — strategy, prioritisation and process, without adding headcount.

12+
years advising teams
40+
products shaped
6
industries served
100%
independent, no upsell

A product management consultant who helps founders and product leaders sharpen strategy, prioritise the right work, and fix the process behind slow, unfocused delivery.

Who this is for

Founders unsure what to build next Leaders inheriting a messy product Teams with no real product process Boards wanting an outside product view Startups before or after a raise

The problem

The symptoms are familiar. The cost is quiet.

Strategy lives in your head

The plan makes sense to you, but the team cannot act on what they cannot see — so execution drifts.

You are not sure it is the right work

The team is busy and shipping, but you have no confident way to tell strategic work from noise.

Process is tribal knowledge

How things get decided lives in a few people. It does not scale, and it breaks the moment they are busy.

What you get

Outcomes, not activity.

A clear product strategy

Written down, defensible, and tied to where the business is actually going.

A prioritisation method your team trusts

A transparent way to rank work that survives the next loud request.

A lightweight product process

Just enough structure to make good decisions repeatable — no bureaucracy.

Confident, defensible decisions

A rationale behind every major call, so you can explain the why to anyone.

How it works

A clear path, step by step.

  1. Diagnose

    A fast, honest read of your product, team and process — where the real friction is.

  2. Frame

    Turn the problem into a clear strategy and set of priorities everyone can see.

  3. Recommend

    Concrete, sequenced recommendations — not a vague strategy deck.

  4. Enable

    Hand your team the frameworks and templates to keep running it themselves.

Deliverables

Tangible things you keep.

Product strategy brief The direction, on a page or two
Prioritisation framework A method your team can rerun
Product process playbook How decisions get made
Decision log template Rationale captured, not lost
Metrics framework What success looks like
Advisory sessions Ongoing sounding board
Engagement model
Advisory retainer or project
Typical timeline
One-off to ongoing
Pricing
Custom to scope
Questions

Before you get in touch

I help founders and product leaders make better product decisions — clarifying strategy, setting up prioritisation, and fixing the process behind slow or unfocused delivery. Depending on the engagement, that ranges from pure advisory to rolling up my sleeves on the work.

Both. Some clients want a sounding board and frameworks; others want me hands-on shaping the roadmap. We agree the balance up front and adjust as we go.

Anything from a one-off strategy sprint to an ongoing monthly retainer. We start with a clearly-scoped first piece so you see value before committing further.

Always. The goal is to make your team stronger, not to work around them — so most of the work happens alongside your people, with the process left behind for them to own.

Usually the gap between your strategy and your backlog: whether the work in flight actually ladders up to where the business is trying to go. That gap is where most product problems hide.

Want a sharper product direction?

Book a call to talk through where your product is stuck. No pitch — just a clear next step.

Book a free consultation 30 minutes. No pitch, no obligation.