Three Ways I Step In
Engage one role, combine two, or bring me in across all three. Every engagement starts with the same question: what’s actually broken, and what will it take to fix it?
Fractional Chief Product Officer (CPO)
The Chief Product Officer owns product vision, strategy, and execution — what you build, why you build it, and how you know it worked. They lead product organization, drive customer discovery, and hold the line on product-market fit.
When You Need One:
Your product team has capacity but no strategic direction
You’re pivoting and need to find out fast whether the new direct is real
Your roadmap is set by whoever escalates hardest
Hiring more PMs has not fixed it — the practice itself is missing
You’re scaling from one product to a portfolio
Your product leader left and the search will take months
What I Do in the role:
Product Vision & Strategy
Customer Discovery and Validation
Roadmap definition & Prioritization
Product Team Leadership, hiring, and mentoring
Stakeholder and board communication
Execution and Delivery oversight
Go-to-Market planning
Fractional Chief Quality Officer (CQO)
What a CQO Does: The Chief Quality Officer ensures product ship with confidence. They architect quality strategies, build QA organizations, embed accessibility and compliance, and drive a culture where quality belongs to everyone in the organization.
When You Need One:
Quality problems are threatening a launch date you’ve already committed to
You’re scaling and defects are scaling faster
An enterprise or public-sector customers requires accessibility compliance and you have no answer
Nobody actually owns quality — testing happens when someone remembers
Your QA team is reactive and permanently behind
Production incidents are damaging your brand and your renewals
What I Do In the Role:
Quality Strategy and Operating Framework
QA Organization Design and Team Building
Test Automation and Infrastructure
Accessibility and Compliance (WCAG 2.x, VPAT readiness)
AI-assisted Quality Workflows
Risk Management and Incident Response
Product and Launch Rescue
Fractional Chief Delivery Officer
The Chief Delivery Officer makes sure the team can actually execute. They build delivery infrastructure, design workflows, establish operating cadence, and scale capacity — turning unpredictable execution into repeatable results.
When You Need One:
Your team is growing and your delivery is slowing
You have no delivery infrastructure — no Jira, no workflows, no standards
Projects consistently miss dates and nobody can say why until it’s too late
You need to scale the team, onshore or offshore
Every team works differently
You can’t get visibility into what’s actually in flight
What I Do In The Role:
Tech Operations and Delivery Infrastructure
SDLC and Workflow Design
DevOps & CI/CD practice
Delivery Operations, Governance, and Reporting
Team Scaling and Resource Management
Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication Systems
As an Atlassian Certified Professional in Jira Administration for Cloud (ACP-120), I don’t just recommend the operating model — I build it. Jira workflows, Confluence documentation, service management, and reporting that makes progress visible to everyone who needs to see it.
The Full C-Suite Engagement
Complete Executive Leadership Across Product, Quality, and Delivery
Some companies have a leadership vacuum across the whole execution stack. Hiring three separate fractional executives means three onboarding cycles, three sets of assumptions, and three views of your company that never quite reconcile. One leader with deep experience in all three disciplines works from a single view of your business.
What’s included:
Product: vision, strategy, and execution
Quality: QA practice, accessibility, and risk management
Delivery: operations, infrastructure, and team scaling
Best Fit:
Companies scaling rapidly through Series B and beyond
PE-backed portfolio companies under a mandate to professionalize operations
Post-pivot companies rebuilding foundations
Companies preparing for enterprise sales, security review, or compliance requirements
Organizations covering multiple executive departures at once
Engagement Shape:
30 hours per week, strategic and hands-on, across all three functions. The impact of three C-level executives at a fraction of the combined cost.
How Fractional Leadership Works
Step 1 — Discovery & Alignment
Step 2 — Engagement Design
Step 3 — Onboarding & Kickoff
Step 4 — Ongoing Leadership
I embed with your team, meet stakeholders, assess current state, and start moving on the highest-leverage problem in week one. No six-month ramp.
A regular cadence of strategy sessions, team leadership, executive reporting, and hands-on execution. Scope adjust as the company changes.
A written plan: which role or roles you need, hours per week, named deliverables, and 90-day priorities. You see the whole shape before you commit to any of it.
An initial conversation to understand what’s breaking, what you’ve already tried, and what stage you’re at. We align on scope, time commitment, and how we’ll both know it working.
How to Engage:
Retained Leadership — ongoing executive capacity
Ongoing. 10 to 20 hours per week of continuous leadership, 13-week minimum. The most common engagement.
Advisory. Eight to twelve hours per month of strategic guidance, without day-to-day ownership.
Fixed-scope engagements — a defined outcome at a defined price
Quality Engineering Assessment. A structured read of your quality practice, risks, and gaps, ending in a prioritized remediation plan.
Accessibility & Compliance Audit. WCAG conformance review and VPAT readiness for teams facing an enterprise or public-sector requirement.
Product Discovery Sprint. Validation of a new direction or a stalled one, ending in a team decision you can defend.
Delivery Infrastructure Build. Workflow, tooling, and operating cadence stood up for a team that’s outgrown improvisation.
Atlassian Implementation. Jira, JSM, Confluence, Loom, Rovo architected for how your teams actually work — built by an Atlassian Certified Professional (ACP-120).
Fixed-scope work often becomes the first chapter of something longer. It doesn’t have to.
Ready to Add Executive Leadership to your team
Every startup is different. Whether you need help with product strategy, quality rescue, tech operations, or fractional leadership — we’ll work with you and your team to create a engagement that fits your stage, budget, and goals.
Free 30-Minute Executive Consultation
We’ll discuss:
Your current challenges and goals
Which Fractional role(s) make sense for your stage
Engagement model and time commitment
Custom proposal with scope and pricing
No Pressure.
No Obligation.
Just honest advice from someone who’s been there.