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Engagement: Milestone-based fractional Product Manager.

Own product strategy, discovery, prioritisation, roadmap direction, and decision quality for founder-led digital products.

• Typical contribution: Lead discovery and strategy sprints, define opportunity framing, shape MVP/SUP scope, align stakeholders, translate customer and market evidence into roadmap choices, write PRDs or decision briefs, and help founders decide what not to build.
• Qualification and experience: 5+ years in product management, ideally with B2B SaaS, marketplaces, platforms, fintech, healthtech, AI-enabled products, or early-stage startup environments; strong evidence of shipping products from ambiguity to measurable outcomes.
• Expected strengths: Customer discovery, product strategy, roadmap judgement, product analytics, prioritisation frameworks, stakeholder management, PRDs, backlog clarity, experimentation, and crisp written communication.
• Portfolio evidence: Anonymised product strategy examples, discovery artefacts, roadmap excerpts, PRDs, KPI snapshots, shipped product links, investor/founder-facing decision memos, or case studies showing how you reduced product uncertainty.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional Product Owner.

Translate validated product direction into delivery-ready backlog structure, acceptance criteria, sprint priorities, and release clarity.

• Typical contribution: Convert product direction into user stories, acceptance criteria, release slices, backlog priorities, QA-ready requirements, edge-case notes, sprint scope, delivery trade-offs, and clear communication between product, design, engineering, and stakeholders.
• Qualification and experience: 4+ years as a Product Owner, Delivery Product Manager, Business Analyst, Scrum-aligned product practitioner, or agile delivery partner in software teams; experience working closely with engineers and QA is essential.
• Expected strengths: Backlog refinement, Jira/Linear, story slicing, acceptance criteria, release planning, agile delivery, cross-functional clarification, dependency management, QA collaboration, and delivery discipline under changing startup priorities.
• Portfolio evidence: Backlog samples, user stories, acceptance criteria, release notes, sprint planning artefacts, workflow diagrams, delivery case studies, or examples of improving engineering clarity and reducing rework.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional UX Researcher.

Plan and run practical research that helps founders understand users, problems, behaviours, risks, and product opportunities.

• Typical contribution: Design lean research plans, run interviews, surveys, usability tests or concept tests, synthesise findings, identify behavioural patterns, map customer segments, clarify unmet needs, and translate research into product recommendations founders can act on.
• Qualification and experience: 4+ years in UX research, product research, customer discovery, service research, market/user insight, or mixed-method research for digital products; startup, SaaS, marketplace, or regulated-sector experience is valuable.
• Expected strengths: Interview design, moderated/unmoderated usability testing, synthesis, affinity mapping, insight prioritisation, research ops, customer segmentation, evidence mapping, survey design, and clear research storytelling.
• Portfolio evidence: Research plans, interview guides, synthesis boards, usability reports, insight decks, anonymised clips/notes, decision memos, or case studies showing how research changed product direction.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional Product Designer.

Design useful, accessible, implementation-ready product experiences from early concepts to polished interface systems.

• Typical contribution: Create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, responsive screens, interaction states, design-system components, accessibility checks, and developer-ready handoff for web, mobile, SaaS, marketplace, and workflow products.
• Qualification and experience: 5+ years designing digital products with strong UI/UX execution and shipped-product judgement; experience with startups, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, dashboards, workflow tools, mobile apps, or AI-enabled products is preferred.
• Expected strengths: Figma, product thinking, information architecture, wireframing, interaction design, visual systems, accessibility, responsive design, prototyping, developer handoff, and PM/engineering collaboration.
• Portfolio evidence: Portfolio case studies, Figma/prototype links, design systems, before/after UX improvements, shipped screens, usability-informed redesigns, or developer handoff examples.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional Software Engineer.

Build reliable product features, APIs, integrations, and platform foundations that support validated product direction.

• Typical contribution: Implement product features, frontend flows, backend services, APIs, integrations, data models, tests, technical fixes, and release-ready code while collaborating with product, design, QA, and DevOps around pragmatic startup delivery.
• Qualification and experience: 5+ years building production software; strong TypeScript, React, Node.js, API, database, and Git experience preferred; React Native, cloud, AI integration, SaaS, marketplace, or workflow-platform experience is a strong advantage.
• Expected strengths: TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST/GraphQL APIs, database modelling, testing, code review, security basics, performance awareness, maintainable architecture, debugging, and product-minded engineering judgement.
• Portfolio evidence: GitHub or code samples, shipped products, API examples, architecture notes, technical case studies, test coverage examples, integration work, or evidence of reliable production delivery.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional QA Tester.

Improve release confidence by testing critical user journeys, edge cases, integrations, acceptance criteria, and regression risks.

• Typical contribution: Create test plans, validate acceptance criteria, run exploratory and regression tests, document defects clearly, verify fixes, test integrations and uploads/forms, support release readiness, and help teams prevent avoidable product-quality issues.
• Qualification and experience: 3+ years in QA, software testing, test analysis, release-quality work, or QA automation for web, mobile, SaaS, marketplace, or platform products; API and cross-browser/device testing experience is preferred.
• Expected strengths: Functional testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, bug reporting, test cases, API testing, mobile/web testing, QA documentation, automation awareness, accessibility checks, and release-readiness thinking.
• Portfolio evidence: Sample test plans, bug reports, regression suites, QA dashboards, automation examples, release checklists, testing case studies, or examples of improving product quality before launch.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional DevOps Expert.

Strengthen deployment reliability, cloud operations, observability, environment control, and production readiness for startup products.

• Typical contribution: Set up CI/CD, cloud environments, infrastructure automation, secrets handling, monitoring, logging, backups, release controls, incident-readiness practices, and cost-aware operational foundations for lean product teams.
• Qualification and experience: 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles supporting production systems; experience with startup platforms, SaaS, regulated environments, or high-availability systems is valuable.
• Expected strengths: AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Linux, monitoring, logging, alerting, secrets management, backup strategy, security basics, incident response, and release reliability.
• Portfolio evidence: Infrastructure diagrams, pipeline examples, observability dashboards, IaC samples, runbooks, incident processes, deployment notes, cloud cost improvements, or platform reliability case studies.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional Data Analyst.

Turn customer, product, market, and operational data into decision-ready insight for founders and product teams.

• Typical contribution: Define metrics, clean and analyse datasets, build dashboards, interpret funnels and cohorts, support experiments, investigate adoption/retention signals, and translate incomplete data into careful product and business recommendations.
• Qualification and experience: 4+ years in product analytics, business analytics, BI, growth analytics, decision-support analysis, or startup analytics; strong SQL and dashboarding experience required; product analytics tooling is preferred.
• Expected strengths: SQL, spreadsheets, Tableau/Looker/Power BI, GA4, Amplitude/Mixpanel, funnel/cohort analysis, metric design, data storytelling, experimentation, segmentation, and careful interpretation of noisy or incomplete data.
• Portfolio evidence: Dashboards, metric frameworks, SQL samples, analysis memos, funnel/cohort work, experiment readouts, data storytelling examples, or anonymised analytics case studies.

Engagement: Milestone-based fractional Digital Marketer.

Support product-led growth, positioning, demand generation, content distribution, and measurable startup learning loops.

• Typical contribution: Shape positioning, plan campaigns, optimise landing pages, improve SEO/content distribution, analyse acquisition signals, support lifecycle/email campaigns, run lean growth experiments, and connect market learning back to product decisions.
• Qualification and experience: 4+ years in digital marketing, growth, product marketing, lifecycle marketing, SEO, paid/organic acquisition, or startup GTM execution; B2B SaaS, platform, AI, fintech, healthtech, or founder-led startup experience is preferred.
• Expected strengths: SEO, content strategy, landing-page optimisation, analytics, paid/organic channels, email/lifecycle, conversion thinking, campaign operations, product-led growth, experiment discipline, and concise reporting.
• Portfolio evidence: Campaign results, content examples, SEO improvements, landing-page tests, analytics snapshots, growth experiment readouts, email/lifecycle examples, or GTM case studies.