Product audit
We review backlog, roadmap, current delivery flow, customer signals, team structure, and business goals.
Primary service
Fractional product leadership for teams between chaos and a full-time hire.
Herzen Co. takes ownership of roadmap discipline, sprint cadence, stakeholder alignment, delivery risk, and product metrics so founders can stop chasing every update.
What is included
Roadmap ownership
We turn competing requests into a living roadmap with clear priorities, tradeoffs, acceptance criteria, and milestones.
Sprint rituals
Planning, standups, reviews, and retros become useful operating moments instead of calendar clutter.
Risk tracking
Dependencies, blockers, decisions, and escalation paths are visible before they become expensive surprises.
Stakeholder alignment
Leadership, engineering, design, and vendors get one product thread tying decisions back to outcomes.
Metrics dashboard
We define practical measures for delivery, conversion, engagement, revenue, or operational impact.
What is fractional product leadership?
Fractional product leadership gives a team experienced product ownership on an embedded, part-time basis. It closes the gap between occasional advice and a full-time executive hire by staying accountable for priorities, decisions, and delivery.
More embedded than a consultant
A consultant may recommend a direction. A fractional product leader works inside the operating rhythm, helps make the tradeoffs, and follows decisions through delivery.
Faster than a full-time search
Teams can add senior ownership now while preserving the option to hire permanently when the role, timing, and budget are clear.
Best when ownership is the constraint
The model works when engineering capacity exists but roadmap clarity, stakeholder alignment, customer evidence, or delivery accountability is missing.
The first 90 days
Product leadership should produce clarity quickly and compounding operating improvements over time.
Stabilize the system
Audit the product, prioritize the backlog, create a near-term roadmap, and establish the team cadence.
Ship with intent
Improve sprint predictability, align major stakeholders, and deliver the first meaningful milestone.
Build the next horizon
Document product strategy, refine metrics, and set the next two to three quarters of product direction.
Best fit
This is strongest for seed to growth-stage teams, founder-led products, companies between product hires, and teams that have engineers moving faster than decisions.
$2,000/month
Senior product leadership for your team, structured month to month.
- Roadmap and backlog management
- Delivery rituals and async support
- Monthly outcome review
- No long-term contract required
Need more?
Custom Project Management Solutions for heavier lifts.
If product leadership turns into a larger launch, operational overhaul, or cross-team delivery push, Herzen Co. can scope a custom project management engagement around the exact work your team needs.