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Fractional Leadership & Consulting

Fractional Leadership & Consulting

Do you need experienced leadership beyond what your current team can take on?

You may be filling a leadership gap, navigating unfamiliar territory, or moving a critical initiative forward. When your team needs additional capacity or expertise, I step in with executive judgment and hands-on leadership to help make decisions, align people, and move the work forward.

I bring nearly 20 years of product strategy and company-building experience, including as a 5x Head of Product and 2x CPO. You gain a partner who can connect business priorities, customer needs, and technical realities, then translate that direction into focused execution.

Discuss Your Challenge

When I can help

You’re preparing for a pivotal moment.

A launch, fundraising milestone, or go-to-market initiative needs experienced leadership and clear ownership.

You’re entering a new market or rethinking an offering.

You need to assess customer demand, commercial opportunity, and technical feasibility before committing resources.

You’re shaping the next chapter of your business.

You want to explore opportunities beyond the current roadmap and turn the strongest possibilities into a practical plan.

Your teams are shipping, but progress isn’t following.

You need stronger customer insight, clearer outcomes, and a product operating approach that gives teams direction and autonomy.

You’re building or expanding your team.

You need help defining roles, evaluating candidates, and establishing effective ways of working.

Your leaders need to make consequential choices together.

You want an experienced facilitator to surface assumptions, work through tradeoffs, and establish shared priorities.

How we can work together

Fractional Leadership

Bring me into a defined product or technology leadership role on a part-time basis. I work within your team, with agreed responsibilities and accountability, to guide strategy, lead key initiatives, and strengthen your organization’s ability to execute.

Focused Consulting

Work with me toward a defined strategic outcome, such as evaluating a market opportunity, reinventing an offering, assessing where AI could create value, or developing a product strategy and roadmap. We agree on the scope, deliverables, and timeline around the challenge you need to address.

Strategy Workshops

Give your leadership team dedicated space to work through important decisions. I design and facilitate working sessions that help you examine customer evidence, resolve competing priorities, and align around near-term action and longer-term direction.

Ready to give your next priority the leadership it needs?

Let’s discuss what you’re working toward and what’s stretching your team. We’ll explore where I could step in and help turn your priorities into progress.

Discuss Your Challenge

Scope, involvement, and investment are tailored to your goals, the complexity of the work, and the responsibilities you need me to take on.

Fractional Leadership in Practice

Head of Technology, Fractional

@ Bold Reuse

Circularity, Reusables-as-a-Service

Rebuilt core platform and refocused strategy to scale reuse operations across high-impact venues for a seed-stage ClimateTech Startup eliminating single-use plastic and compostable waste at commercial scale.
  • Rebuilt the end-to-end technology and logistics platform powering $2M+ in reuse operations, enabling efficient cup and container reuse at major sports stadiums, Fortune 500 campuses, schools, and community events.
  • Sourced, hired, and led a cross-functional team across engineering, design, and product management to take the platform from concept to launch—delivering critical operational capabilities and data infrastructure under tight startup timelines.
  • Guided executive team through a strategic OKR refresh to align leadership around focused, scalable goals tied to operational fundamentals and growth.

Chief Product Officer, Fractional

@ Atrium Energy

Decarbonization of Built Environment

Turned early customer insights into product traction and investor-ready positioning for a SaaS platform tackling decarbonization for mid-market hotels
  • Positioned platform for investment: Refined company narrative to clearly articulate Atrium’s value as a multi-faceted platform, supporting investor conversations and pitch development.
  • Took emerging product to market: Shaped product vision and Horizon 2 strategy. Secured beta customer and grew new offering to four-figure MRR, validating demand and creating a clear path to scale.
  • Led early fundraising support: Participated in investor pitches and guided story development to align product, impact, and market opportunity.

Head of Digital Products, Fractional --> Full Time

@ World View

SpaceTech, Remote Sensing

Shaped product vision and go-to-market for emerging SaaS offerings at a Series C SpaceTech company using earth observation data to address climate and energy challenges
  • Uncovered and validated new market opportunities: Led strategic evaluation of high-impact use cases, including methane detection, disaster response, and sustainable agriculture—aligning platform capabilities to urgent environmental and utility-sector needs.
  • Drove emerging product strategy from 0→early adoption: Directed customer discovery with 40+ prospects, secured verbal commitment from 2 high-intent early adopters to pilot new offerings in energy and agriculture sectors.
  • Amplified strategic story for growth and investment: Owned digital product strategy in investor pitches, contributing to successful Series D fundraising, and built global partnerships and grant collaborations to support long-term innovation.

Testimonials

"Renee helped us launch our e-commerce business from scratch. She helped us scope down to an MVP and strategically add functionality over time. She advised on hiring and even helped us screen candidates. She helped us more intelligently spend our dev dollars."

-Jon M.

“Renee helped us orient around mission-driven goals. I’ll never forget her ‘can do’ attitude and creative solutions for boosting scrum team morale and accomplishments.”

-Eric W.

"Renee helped me with a structured process to think through requirements and success metrics for my first Head of Product hire. Then she crafted a job description that not only provided a compelling start to my recruiting process, but that simultaneously gave me a crash course in product."

-Nisha D.