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FRACTIONAL CPO

Embedded leadership for 3-18 months. For Founders and Investors who need product leadership without a full-time CPO hire too early.

More code won’t fix a
product problem!

You can build anything. But do you struggle with focus, priorities and product direction? When everything depends on you, and you’ve got the nagging feeling that building faster is not the same as building better? A Fractional CPO gives your company the product leadership, structure, and focus it needs, without the pressure of having to hire another full-time employee too soon.

This is what you get

  • 2-3 days/week, embedded in your company
  • 3-9 months average (flexible extension)
  • For Founders without a CPO, or interim between CPOs; levelling-up pre-series A/B
  • Developing, finetuning, and delivering your Product Strategy, Roadmaps, Team setup, and Product-related Processes
  • With Gregor & relevant Crëw members as necessitated

AI can accelerate execution. It does not replace human product leadership, decision quality or strategic focus.

FAQ

What is a Fractional CPO?

A Fractional CPO is an experienced Chief Product Officer who works part-time inside your company and takes on real responsibility for product leadership – product strategy, roadmap, prioritisation and building the product team. At Product Rocker, that means two to three days per week, so you get senior product leadership without the months of recruiting and the cost of a full-time executive.

A Fractional CPO makes sense when nobody owns the product full-time, when the gap between two CPOs puts the roadmap on hold, or when a company prepares for a Series A or B round and needs product structures that investors can trust. A clear sign is a team that ships features steadily but can no longer explain why these features and not others.

A full-time CPO is the right choice once product leadership is a permanent full-time job and the company can offer the role a long-term perspective. Until then, a Fractional CPO closes the gap faster and at lower risk, and the engagement often clarifies what the permanent role actually needs to look like before you hire for it.

A Fractional CPO engagement with Product Rocker lasts between 3 and 18 months, most often 3 to 9 months. The goal is a product organisation that runs without us – with a clear strategy, a working roadmap process and a team that makes product decisions on its own.

A Fractional CPO engagement with Product Rocker starts at €12,000 per month for one to two days per week; the final fee depends on scope, duration and whether part of it is paid in equity. We publish our prices because we don’t like guessing games either – and because it saves both sides a call that would lead nowhere.

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