Technical Product Owner

Product leadership that speaks both business and code.

01 The Problem

Your product backlog is a graveyard of good intentions. Engineers are building features nobody asked for. Stakeholders are requesting things that don’t make technical sense. And the person writing the tickets has never opened a terminal.

Traditional product owners speak business. Engineers speak code. Someone needs to speak both — and make sure what gets built is what actually matters.

You won’t fix this with a product strategy workshop or an outside consultant who drops in for a week and hands you a roadmap. Product ownership is a daily practice — it requires being close enough to hear the hallway conversations, catch the scope creep in real time, and push back before the sprint is lost.

02 How I Work

I’m an independent contractor. No agency, no juniors, no handoffs. When you work with me, you get me.

  • Quarterly retainer — a fixed block of hours, paid upfront. Use them or lose them, but that’s the cap and the commitment.
  • Limited slots — I take on a small number of clients at a time. This isn’t a scaling business. It’s a craft.
  • Embedded in your team — standups, sprint planning, retros, stakeholder discussions
  • Remote and async by default — I believe in teams trusted to create value from anywhere
  • No lock-in — you can stop anytime, and everything I build stays yours

03 What You Get

  • Product strategy — translate business goals into a roadmap engineers can execute
  • Backlog management — prioritize ruthlessly, write clear stories, keep scope honest
  • Technical tradeoff analysis — evaluate build vs. buy, scope cuts, and architecture decisions with real understanding

04 Why Me

I’ve spent my career moving between engineering and product. I’ve been the AI-native software engineer frustrated by unclear requirements, and the product owner frustrated by missed deadlines. I know what breaks down in the middle and how to fix it.

05 Pricing

Quarterly retainer, paid upfront, fixed block of hours.

You’re not buying hours. You’re buying integration. Someone embedded in your team who understands the users, the backlog, the technical constraints, and the business goals — not someone who writes a roadmap and walks away.

The best product advice doesn’t come from a strategy offsite. It comes from being embedded — hearing the standup where scope creeps, catching the ticket that contradicts the strategy, and being there when the tradeoff conversation actually happens. One-off consulting has a whiff of “if we only had that framework, then…” Real product clarity comes from deeper shared experience over time.

06 Fit Check

This is for you if:

  • You need a product owner who can talk to your engineers
  • You’re tired of tickets that say “make it better” or “fix the UX”
  • You want someone who can context-switch between a user interview and a PR review

This is not for you if:

  • You need a full-time product manager
  • You want someone focused purely on market research and strategy decks