Platform acquisitions and high-growth portfolio companies need a product leadership layer built simultaneously. A single search at a time doesn't work at that pace. We plan and execute coordinated multi-role buildouts aligned to your value creation plan.
A coordinated search programme designed around your 100-day plan — not a series of disconnected mandates.
Product leadership architecture built before search begins — so every hire is planned to work alongside the others.
One point of accountability across the entire buildout.
Most firms run product leadership buildouts as sequential individual searches. We run them as a coordinated programme. The difference shows in the cohesion of the team you end up with.
Before any search begins, we map the full product leadership structure the business needs. What roles are required? In what sequence should they be hired? Where are the interdependencies — roles that need to be planned together to work together? Architecture first. Search second.
Every role in the buildout is defined against the value creation plan. A CPO, Head of Product, VP Product, or Principal Product Manager brief is written differently depending on the thesis and stage of ownership. Every mandate reflects the investment thesis specifically.
We design a sequenced programme — which roles run simultaneously, which wait for an earlier placement to land, and how timelines are managed across the full buildout. This prevents the chaos of multiple simultaneous searches running independently.
Every candidate across the buildout is assessed using the same product-specific framework for VC and PE, calibrated for the business and stage of ownership. This produces consistent quality across the team — not a team shaped by whoever happened to be available.
As the buildout progresses, we factor in team dynamics. A leadership team isn't a collection of outstanding individuals. It's a group that needs to operate together. We assess for complementarity as well as individual capability.
We stay engaged through the onboarding period across every placed executive. Where roles interact, we help manage the transition so the team is functional from day one — not still finding its feet three months in.
If you're facing a platform acquisition, a significant post-deal restructure, or a high-growth buildout — let's design the programme before search begins.