Hire product managers and product owners
Product managers and product owners for software products: discovery, roadmaps, an ordered backlog and the measures that show whether a release worked, for start-ups and product companies, full time or a few days a week.
What our product managers and product owners do
Product discovery
Customer interviews, usability tests on prototypes and analysis of support tickets, turned into a short list of problems worth solving with the evidence behind each one.
Outcome-based roadmaps
Roadmaps arranged as now, next and later, tied to goals your leadership has agreed, and changed when the evidence changes rather than defended.
Backlog ownership
An ordered backlog with the reason for each item’s position written down, and the next sprint’s stories ready before planning starts.
Metrics and experiments
Activation, retention and conversion defined with the engineers, measured with event analytics that respect consent under GDPR, and read after each release to decide what comes next.
Launches
Release notes, in-app announcements and briefings for sales and support, so a feature reaches the customers who asked for it.
Trade-offs in the open
Sales requests, technical debt and new features weighed against the same goals, with each decision and its reasons recorded where everyone can find them.
Hire product managers and product owners
Full time in your team
Product managers and product owners who work your hours in your tools and meetings and report to your lead, with the Ukrainian contract, payroll and leave on our side.
Part time or fractional
Product managers and product owners for a set number of days a week, when the work is real but not yet a full-time role.
For a project or a launch
Product managers and product owners for a defined stretch of work, from the first week to the handover, with the end date agreed up front.
The dedicated team page explains how specialists join your team, and the outsourcing page covers project delivery, take-overs and how we charge.
Who our product managers and product owners work with
Founders and leadership
Strategy, goals and budget
Engineers and technical leads
Feasibility, estimates and technical debt
UI and UX designers
Research, flows and prototypes
Sales, marketing and support
Customer requests and launches
Product manager or product owner
A product owner is accountable in Scrum for ordering the backlog and maximising the value of what the team delivers each sprint. A product manager owns the wider question of what the product should become, from discovery to pricing to launch. In a small company one person usually does both; in a larger one a product manager sets the direction and product owners carry it into each team.
Our product managers decide with evidence your team can check: interview notes, usage data and the result of each release against the measure it was meant to move. The product strategy remains yours.
Other roles we staff
Project managers
Project management for software delivery: IT project and delivery managers who own plans, scope, risks, budgets and weekly reporting, full time in your team, part time or for a single project.
Business analysts
Business analysis for software projects: discovery, requirements, user stories, BPMN process maps and acceptance criteria, from business analysts full time in your team, part time or for a project.
Scrum masters
Scrum masters and agile coaching for software teams: Scrum and Kanban, flow metrics, impediments removed and retrospectives that change something, full time in your team, part time or for a set period.
Technical writers
Technical writing services: API documentation from OpenAPI, developer guides, help centres, runbooks and release notes written as docs as code, by technical writers in your team or for a project.
Technical support
Technical support services for software products: first and second line support engineers in your help desk, under your brand and in your customers' hours, full time, part time or for a launch.
IT recruitment
IT recruitment services for companies building their own teams: role briefs, sourcing, screening and technical interviews by working engineers, from IT recruiters in your team or for a hiring push.
Customer success
Customer success management for SaaS and subscription products: customer success managers for onboarding, adoption, health scores, QBRs and renewals, full time in your team, part time or for a launch.
Questions about hiring product managers and product owners
Can a product manager work with us part time?
Yes. A fractional product manager two or three days a week suits an early product, or a company whose founder has been doing the job alongside everything else. The hours can grow into a full-time role under the same agreement.
Can a product manager help before there is a product?
Yes: interviews with the customers you are aiming at, a prototype tested with them, and a first release scoped to the smallest version that answers the riskiest question.
Do your product managers work with our engineers or yours?
Either. A product manager can lead a product built by your own team, by our engineers or by a mix, with the same backlog and the same discovery process for everyone.
How quickly can product managers and product owners start?
When the right product manager is available, the start is gated only by your interview and the NDA and IP assignment. Otherwise we run a search, which typically produces candidate profiles within two to three weeks, and nobody starts until you have said yes.
How do we hire product managers and product owners through BigTree108?
Tell us the work, the seniority and the hours you need. We propose one or two people with their profiles, you interview them the way you would interview your own hire, and you sign one agreement with BIG TREE 108 LLC and receive one invoice a month.
Who owns the work they produce?
You do. Every specialist has a signed contract with BigTree108 that assigns all work product to the company, and our agreement with you assigns it onward. Code, designs and documents are delivered into your own repositories and tools, not kept where only we can change them.
Need someone to own the product?
Tell us the product, its stage and who makes the product decisions today. You get an answer within one business day: candidate profiles or a plan for the first month.