Fractional CPO / Product Management

Product leadership for companies ready to build the right things, better

I help tech startups and software companies make better product decisions, build durable product practices, and lead complex initiatives from strategy through delivery via fractional, part-time engagements to balance practical needs with business reality.

Let’s talk about your product

You may need a fractional product leader if…

You don’t need another person to maintain a backlog. You need someone who can bring clarity, create momentum, and leave your org stronger than they found it.

Navigation Assistance

Your team is shipping, but there’s no shared strategy or clear process for tradeoffs

Growing Pains

Your systems, processes, and leadership strategies can’t keep up with growth

Commitment Issues

You need senior product leadership before it makes sense to hire a full-time CPO

Too Big To Fail

A platform, workflow, data, or engagement initiative is now too strategically important for informal management

Misaligned Work

Product, engineering, data, marketing, and sales are moving in different directions and feeling frustrated

Player/Coach

You need someone who can establish product as a function while also helping to deliver the work

What I Help Build

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Product Direction

Clarifying the customer and business problem, setting product strategy, prioritization, and creating a roadmap every department can actually use.

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Product Organization

Establishing planning rhythms, decisioning, product metrics, discovery practices, career paths, hiring processes, and productive cross-functional partnerships.

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Systems that Deliver

Leading platform modernization, workflow improvements, data and AI-enabled operations, customer engagement systems, and iterative execution.

How I Help You

These are some of the gaps I help to fill in a product org to maximize results in ways that minimize operational and organizational risk.

Fractional CPO / Head of Product

Ongoing executive product leadership: strategy, roadmap and investment decisions, executive alignment, team leadership, hiring, operating cadence, and delivery oversight.

Interim Product Leadership

Hands-on leadership during a transition, growth period, reorganization, parental leave, critical launch, or search for a permanent product leader.

Product
Foundations

A defined engagement to diagnose what is holding product back and establish the essential strategy, operating model, metrics, and roadmap to move forward.

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Trusted Excellence

I build the structures that let product teams succeed

Product Process

At an enterprise document management company, I joined as the company’s first external product manager and helped establish career ladders, interview loops, onboarding, roadmapping, quarterly planning, Agile practices, and its first product intelligence data team.

Measurable Impact

At a Series B fintech startup, I led greenfield product strategy for a platform that processed $1.56 million in its first three months, while building and leading two engineering teams.

Performance at Scale

At a Fortune 50 entertainment conglomerate, I led global product management for marketing platforms serving 84 markets, supported more than 100 million emails and 195 million push messages annually, and delivered 50% cost savings through vendor and budget leadership.

Purpose-driven Tooling

Through Mother Blackbird, I help organizations use technology as a business tool — often beginning with a website, then uncovering the operational, customer-experience, and decision-making work beneath it.

What’s my philosophy on product, work, and, well, everything?

Watch this video with the inimitable Dan Hon of Very Little Gravitas for a deep dive. I love his How People Work, Live! video series, and it was an honor to participate.

How can I help you today?

Product leadership for companies ready to build the right things, better

Let’s talk about your product

You may need a fractional product leader if…