Senior product leadership, exactly when you need it — without the full-time hire.
I help teams building AI-native and data-driven products make the decisions that matter: what to build, what to say no to, and how to ship it with discipline. Fifteen-plus years leading product across AI, fintech, and regulated data platforms.
Director-level product leadership · AI & data platforms · Fintech & regulated industries · Founder, Resōno
Who I work with
Three situations where I'm most useful
"We need AI in the product — but we're not sure what that actually means."
You're under board or market pressure to have an AI story. I help you find the use cases worth building, the ones to skip, and the simplest architecture that delivers real value — before you spend a year and a fortune finding out the hard way.
"We're growing faster than our product function."
The roadmap lives in five heads, priorities shift weekly, and engineering is busy but nothing important ships. I install the operating rhythm — strategy, prioritization, delivery cadence — that turns effort into outcomes.
"We can't justify a full-time product executive yet."
You need Director/VP-level product judgment on a startup budget. Fractional gets you the experience without the $250k+ hire — with a structure designed to build your team's capability, not create dependency on mine.
Ways to work together
Three engagement models, one operating principle
Every engagement is scoped to outcomes, priced as a flat monthly or fixed fee — no hourly meter — and built to make me unnecessary over time.
Advisory
~1 day / week equivalent
Ongoing senior counsel for a founder or product lead who needs a thinking partner with pattern recognition.
- Weekly working session + async access
- Roadmap & prioritization reviews
- AI investment & build-vs-buy guidance
- Board & stakeholder narrative prep
From $6,000/mo
3-month minimum
Fractional Product Lead
2–3 days / week
I join your leadership team and run product: strategy, roadmap, delivery, and the team itself.
- Own product strategy & roadmap
- Lead prioritization & delivery cadence
- Coach PMs & level-up the product org
- Drive AI/data product decisions end-to-end
- Hire-and-hand-off plan from day one
From $10,000/mo
3–6 month engagements
Sprint
Fixed scope · 2–6 weeks
A defined deliverable with a defined price. The right wedge when you have one decision that has to be made well.
- AI product opportunity assessment
- Product org & process audit
- 0→1 product spec & roadmap
- Due-diligence-grade product review
From $8,500
fixed fee, scoped up front
I work with at most two clients at a time. Pricing reflects senior operator experience, not agency overhead — you get me, not a team of juniors billed under my name.
The process
What working together looks like
Intro call — 25 min
You talk, I listen. We dig into what prompted this and what success looks like in 90 days. No pitch; if I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you and point you somewhere better.
Scoped proposal — within a week
A short written proposal: the outcomes we're targeting, the engagement model, cadence, and a flat number. No surprises, no hourly billing.
Kickoff — week one
Deep-dive onboarding: your product, data, customers, and team. By end of week one you have my honest read and a prioritized plan of attack.
Operate & hand off
Weekly cadence, monthly outcome reviews against what we scoped, and a deliberate hand-off plan — my job is to build your capability, then get out of the way.
Results
The kind of outcomes to expect
A selection of initiatives I've led — the throughline is disciplined product judgment, whatever the technology.
Fintech · Series B
A payments platform stalled trying to ship its first ML risk model.
Reframed the roadmap around one high-value use case, aligned data science and engineering on a single spec, and set the delivery cadence.
→ Model live in 11 weeks, 23% drop in manual reviews
AI SaaS · Seed
A founding team had five half-built AI features and no clear wedge.
Ran a two-week opportunity assessment, killed three features, and rebuilt the roadmap around the one with real willingness to pay.
→ Cut build scope 40%, closed 2 design-partner deals
Data platform · Growth
A regulated-data company kept missing ship dates as it scaled past 30 engineers.
Installed prioritization and delivery rituals, coached three PMs, and built a hire-and-hand-off plan for a permanent product lead.
→ On-time delivery from 40% to 85% in two quarters
About
Hi, I'm Kate
I've spent 15+ years building and leading product across AI, fintech, and data-driven platforms — most recently as a Director of Product Management, and as founder of Resōno, an impact-intelligence platform where I practice daily what I advise: rigorous methodology, defensible data, and AI applied only where it earns its keep.
My bias is toward discipline over hype. The most valuable thing a senior product leader does is decide what not to build — and make the case clearly enough that everyone stops arguing about it.
Product is a people business. Technology is the tool; your team is the engine. Every engagement I take is designed to leave your people stronger than I found them.
Start with 25 minutes.
Tell me what's on your desk. If I can help, you'll have a scoped proposal within a week. If I can't, you'll leave with a straight answer and a pointer to someone who can.