Fractional Head of Product
Rebuild Your Product Function for How Teams Actually Ship in 2026.
You've launched. You have real users. But the roadmap is reactive, the team is busy without moving the needle, and the founder is still the bottleneck. I embed as your fractional head of product and rebuild the operating system your team needs for the AI-native era.
When Founders Call Me
Three patterns I see most often.
Shipping but not moving the needle.
The team is busy and features are landing, but core metrics aren't improving. You need someone to diagnose why and redirect the roadmap toward what actually matters.
Roadmap driven by whoever yelled loudest.
Sales wants one thing, engineering another, and the founder is the tiebreaker on everything. Founder-led product works for a while. When it stops working, you need a seasoned leader to take the wheel.
Raising and need a crisp product story.
Fundraising is product storytelling under pressure. You need a roadmap that holds up, a metrics story investors will buy, and a vision that survives the first hard question.
Is This For You?
Yes if: You're a B2B or B2B2C SaaS company with paying customers, late seed to Series. The founder or CTO is acting as the de facto PM and it's not working. You have one or two mid-level PMs with no strategic layer above them. You want someone who can talk to your engineers as a peer.
Probably not if: You're pre-launch and still defining the problem. You want a consultant who'll just execute what you've already decided. You need someone in-person daily. You're shopping for the cheapest possible product resource.
Early-stage founders know the problem space better than anyone, and that's how it should be. I work best with teams that have real users, real data, and real product debt.
What Modern Product Leadership Actually Looks Like
The shape of product work has changed. Engineers ship faster with AI tools. Discovery cycles are shorter. The bottleneck isn't execution anymore. It's deciding what's worth executing.
Most fractional product leaders are still operating on a 2022 playbook: roadmap docs, sprint ceremonies, quarterly planning, all manual, all in the PM's head. That model doesn't scale into a team where every IC is using AI-native tooling.
When I embed, part of the work is rebuilding the PM operating system itself. AI-native workflows for discovery and prioritization. Decision logs and assumption registers your team actually maintains. Skills and cadences that turn AI from a productivity novelty into product infrastructure. The operating model your team should be running in 2026 and beyond.
This isn't a separate engagement. It's the work.
How We Work Together
Four ways in, sequenced from a single decision to embedded leadership.
Tactical
Advisory Session
Senior product and technical judgment on one specific decision. No retainer, no long ramp. Send your situation in writing, we work it live for 90 minutes, and you get a written follow-up with my recommendation and one async follow-up question within 7 days.
The 4-pack is the same structure batched for continuity, built for founders working through a sequence of decisions: a launch, a hiring push, a product strategy reset.
Diagnostic
Product Decision Audit
A retroactive review of how your team is making product decisions. I look at your current roadmap, recent decisions, and decision-making cadence. You walk away with a written diagnosis covering decision quality, gaps, risks, and a 30/60/90 plan for what to fix.
Built for CPOs and founder-PMs who suspect the issue isn't what they're building, but how they're deciding what to build.
Time-scoped
Fundraise Prep Sprint
For founders raising their next round who need a crisp product narrative, a defensible roadmap, and a metrics story that holds up to investor scrutiny. Clear beginning, clear end, clear deliverables.
You get an investor-ready product vision and roadmap narrative, core product metrics defined and tracked, roadmap tightening aligned to the fundraise thesis, and pitch prep on the product section. Bi-weekly working sessions throughout.
Ongoing
Fractional Head of Product
Embedded senior product leadership for a fraction of the cost of a full-time CPO. Roadmap ownership, engineering collaboration, customer discovery, stakeholder alignment, GTM support, OKR/KPI definition.
I also rebuild the PM operating system itself. AI-native workflows, decision and assumption logs, the right tooling, and the cadences that turn AI from a productivity novelty into product infrastructure. Most fractional leaders skip this work. It's the part of the engagement that keeps paying off after I leave.
Track Record
I'm not a consultant who left product five years ago and lives off war stories. I'm building two AI products right now while bringing 23 years of shipping experience to your team.
Consistently retained $2.5M ARR at Skykit by delivering on customer needs.
Product-led initiatives in a competitive enterprise SaaS market with consistent year over year growth.
IC PM to Director, leading cross-functional teams shipping software and hardware at enterprise scale.
JavaScript frameworks, API design, cloud infrastructure, AI/LLM platforms.
Currently building Quin and Versie. Strategies I bring to your team are ones I'm testing on my own products right now.
Pattern recognition you can't fake.
How We Get Started
Ready to Fix the Product Function?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll talk through your current product challenges and whether working together makes sense.
Building with AI tools and need a technical pass?
If you're a non-technical founder who shipped an MVP with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bolt, or Lovable, or an investor evaluating an AI-built product, I run scoped reviews and diligence engagements through my Build Partner work.