Fractional Product Management for Startups
Gain confidence in your product.
Does Every Startup Need a Product Manager?
Not necessarily. In fact, I would question the decision of any startup that hires a full-time, dedicated Product Manager among its first few hires. It's crucial for the Founder to remain close to the customer for as long as possible.
Do any of these statements resonate with your startup?
- Over 5 engineering days most months are retrospectively seen as non-impactful.
- We're highly uncertain about which features truly provide value to our customers and need assistance in validating these.
- We find it challenging to develop a product strategy that instills confidence, which we can then convey to investors.
If so, my external perspective and hands-on assistance for a few months could save significantly more than the initial investment in terms of immediate development costs, not to mention the exponential increase in value and funds raised through an inspiring strategy.
Product Packages for Startups
€ 950pm + VAT: Fractional Product Management
Billed monthly, with the flexibility to pause anytime.
Ideal for early-stage startups seeking to accelerate their learning, refine their product strategy, and enhance execution to minimize development costs and validate their market fit.
Weekly Commitment:
Core Hands-On Work:
Three hours per week fully dedicated to your team, with additional hours as needed on other days to meet our objectives.
- Facilitate key product workshops and retrospectives each month.
- Oversee your product validation plan, aiming to halt unviable ideas early.
- Review customer research and roadmap hands-on.
- Coaching: Provide coaching to essential team members (1 to 2) on effective and rapid product development techniques, transforming their approach from project implementation to solving customer problems.
Achievable Outcomes:
- Focus on what matters: Eliminating non-critical work and aligning your roadmap with customer needs can save upwards of 25% in development costs.
- Deepen customer understanding: Adopt best practices for discovery from the outset, tailored to your specific requirements, with hands-on discovery work. I'll provide candid feedback on assumptions I find questionable.
- Enhanced skills: Significantly improve your team's proficiency in efficient and effective product development.
€ 2150pm + VAT: Fractional Product Leadership
Billed monthly, with the option to pause anytime.
Designed for startups on the verge of priced funding rounds. Perfect for refining your product vision, strategy, pricing, and execution to reduce development costs, accelerate development, and maximize fundraising.
Weekly Commitment:
Core Hands-On Work:
One core day per week fully dedicated to your team, with additional hours on other days as needed to achieve our goals.
- Conduct key product workshops and retrospectives weekly.
- Analyze key customer interviews and synthesize findings.
- Review roadmap & feature specifications for coherence and impact.
- Collaborate on setting product strategy, defining goals, and ensuring their realization.
- Coaching: Mentor all necessary team members in rapid and effective product development methodologies, transforming their approach from mere project execution to genuine problem solving for customers.
Boost the Business: Advise as a product strategist to develop a tested product strategy that enhances fundraising potential.
Achievable Outcomes:
- Build the right product: By eliminating less impactful work and aligning the roadmap with your strategic goals, save more than 25% in development costs, increase delivery speed, and provide founders with peace of mind that their vision is being realized as efficiently as possible.
- Understand your customers: Implement top-tier discovery processes from the start, custom-fit to your needs, with active discovery efforts. Expect honest feedback on assumptions that may be off mark.
- Inspire and drive: Collaboratively develop a compelling product vision and strategy to motivate your team and attract investors.
- Set the right price: Establish a pricing sensitivity and testing plan to ensure your pricing is backed by solid evidence, crucial for select startups.
- Skills: Elevate your team's overall capabilities in efficient and impactful product work.
€ 399 + VAT: Product Strategy & Roadmap Workshop
A focused, one-day workshop aimed at crafting a testable strategy and roadmap.
For crucial junctures in your product's journey, this workshop provides the clarity needed for precise implementation.
Find out how we can customize a session to chart your path to success.
- Before the workshop: Engage in thorough discussions with you and your team to understand your current product roadmap, identify areas of concern, and review your customer research to prepare a focused agenda.
- During the workshop: I lead a tailored onsite workshop to tackle your unique challenges. We'll partake in dynamic sessions aimed at forming strategies, optionally hosted at Dogpatch Labs in Dublin if convenient.
- After the workshop: You'll leave with a clear roadmap and a solid plan for testing, ready to be implemented with full confidence in the direction of your product.