Strategy · Product · Design

We help you find fit and grow toward your exit

Fractional product and design leadership for early- and growth-stage teams: product discovery, execution, and mentorship in one long-running context.

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We’re Bay Area product and design veterans: research, first-ship delivery, and hands-on leadership with a through-line from definition to fit—and a track record across exits, acquisitions, and hard innovation bets.

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What kind of work we take on

  • Founder in small office or garage-scale studio; laptop, sharpie, and customer printouts. Early-stage, energetic, a bit raw.

    For entrepreneurs starting up

    • Research to support product definition
    • Driving product to customer fit
    Let’s talk

  • Mid-size team around a long table: roadmap on screen, one wall chart, visible growth. Feels like “we shipped v1, now the hard part.”

    For scaling teams

    Your first product found fit! Most companies never see the second, the 10×. We help with the knowledge, mentorship, and experience to navigate the next step.

    Let’s talk

  • Skunkworks or glass conference room inside a big campus; mix of lanyards and a rebel initiative vibe. Suggests internal startup without cliché “corporate” stock look.

    For innovation teams in a big company

    You don’t need the overhead of a full-time product lead, design lead, and evangelist. The core product team can’t always give consistent support to innovation “side quests”—we embed where that gap shows up.

    Let’s talk

A track record of design and product helping drive exits

Representative outcomes across venture-backed and strategic contexts.

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  • DemandTec sold to IBM
  • Ithority sold to Opus360
  • CastIron sold to IBM
  • M-Factor acquired by Signal Demand
  • Vontu acquired by Symantec
  • Skype (internal innovation at Microsoft) Widespread adoption of ECS (experimentation and configuration, comparable to a launch‑darkly‑style service years earlier) across the org
  • MarkMonitor Thomson Reuters

Product management of first-to-ship products

From definition through the first shippable slice—on the calendar, not the slide.

  • Cropped product UI (generic): admin console, feature flags, or release toggles—enough to feel “internal platform” without real IP. Slight blur for confidentiality.

    Experimentation Configuration Service (ECS)

    Led from product definition through first-stage roadmaps; shipped on time as an internal platform at scale.

  • App window or desktop capture showing testing/funnel or macOS app chrome—suggests shipping velocity, not a marketing hero.

    Sauce for Mac

    Led the engineering team to first ship in four months at Sauce Labs during a high-pressure go-to-market window.

Unusual, difficult roadmaps: complex, first-of-a-kind work

We’ve had the privilege of exploring first-of-a-kind product and system design that many PMs and designers never touch in a career.

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  • Demand-based pricing engines
  • Configuration of complex engineered structures
  • Visual programming and data mapping for non-engineers
  • ML-based detection of counterfeit and deceptive goods on the internet (brand protection / anti-counterfeiting)
  • Reliability of real-time, simultaneous teaching tools in large lecture halls
  • VR-based navigation and control

Management of pivots: understanding misses, then using a deep read of customers to find a new fit.

How we work

An engineering-biased approach, live systems, and teams that can sustain results.

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An engineering-biased approach to design. Build early, learn fast.

When it comes to interactive systems, nothing beats building live code. We design within the sprint cycle, not off to the side. When we iterate, it’s on live things where we don’t just user-test—we can track adoption and engagement, so data helps settle design questions. As LLM-assisted implementation matures, we expect this to become the standard, not the exception.

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Design depth with a bias to building

We work in HTML, React, SVG, and canvas (and the usual design stack). Polished, animated statics work for mostly static or lightly dynamic flows; they tend to break down for data-driven systems (e.g. network relationship visualizations) and for less deterministic systems (e.g. chatbots) where response and cadence matter as much as layout. Those benefit from live prototypes. We go where the problem demands.

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Sustaining, high-performance, bottom-line-focused teams

At BenchSci, Jeremy built the Product Discovery / User Research function from scratch: operating model, hiring, coaching, automation, budget, and stakeholder management—always tied to how research moved the business, not design for its own sake.

What partners say

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    Jeremy is a master at UX design, but is also a great product manager and has the ability to figure out the work that can make the most impact. He came into Sauce when we needed immediate improvements to our funnel and he was key in helping us succeed.

    Beginning with understanding how our customers interact with our product, through mockups, markup, and more—he delivered everything he promised, on time, and at high quality. I would recommend him to anyone interested in improving their product’s UX and customer experience, and would certainly work with him again.

    Sauce Labs (leadership)

    Funnel, UX, and go-to-market support

  • Second headshot, same system as the first, or a simple illustrated “Giff C.” monogram in a square until a photo is approved. Keeps the two blocks visually even.

    Jeremy was one of my two co-founders at Ithority, a startup we bootstrapped and sold, and we never could have done it without him. His product insights were essential, and he built the front end of the web application. His work ethic and moral fiber are as good as it gets.

    You will find Jeremy deeply insightful on business; as a designer he is brilliant with gnarly, complex data problems. Many designers can do pretty; few take such a deep interest in why someone would use a product and how they get the most from it. He carves into problems with rigor and intensity—and the products he touches are better for it.

    Giff Constable

    Co-founder, Ithority; sold to Opus360

Companies & programs (selection)

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  • DemandTec
  • Ithority
  • CastIron
  • M-Factor
  • Vontu
  • Skype / Microsoft
  • MarkMonitor
  • Sauce Labs
  • BenchSci

Get in touch

[email protected]

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