Seed Stage
Fractional Head of Product
at Seed
You've raised your first proper round and the pressure is on. You need to build the product, hire the team and start showing traction at the same time. Fractional leadership pays for itself here: you get experienced people guiding the zero-to-one build without the overhead of a full C-suite.
Typical challenges at Seed
- •First engineering hires need direction but there's no product or delivery leader
- •Runway is finite and every wrong product bet costs months
- •Founder is context-switching between fundraising, hiring, and product decisions
- •No processes yet, so everything is ad hoc and held together by Slack messages
What we bring as Head of Product
We take ownership of your product direction. That means defining what to build and why, aligning engineering and commercial priorities, and creating the roadmap discipline that turns founder intuition into repeatable product decisions. We run discovery, set priorities, and make sure each sprint goes on work that matters.
A clear product strategy your team can work from, roadmaps tied to revenue, and a way of prioritising that holds up in practice. Your team knows why it is building what it builds.
What Seed companies need
At seed, the job is to build the right thing quickly and lay foundations that will carry you through the next round. You need someone who can set product direction, put lightweight delivery practices in place and help you hire well, without the extra work of managing a full-time executive.