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When to hire a Fractional Head of Design

  • Your product has momentum, but the experience lacks clarity or cohesion
  • You need to translate company strategy into a stronger product vision
  • Design decisions depend too heavily on the founders
  • Your designers need direction, feedback, or stronger leadership
  • Product, engineering, and design are struggling to work as one team
  • You are preparing to hire or grow a design organization
  • Your brand and product experience no longer reflect the company you are becoming
  • You need executive-level design leadership, but not yet as a full-time role

How I support your company

Clarify the product vision

I help the team connect customer needs, company strategy, and product decisions into a direction people can understand and act on.

Raise the quality bar

Through critique, principles, and close collaboration with the team, I help make quality more intentional and consistent—not dependent on last-minute founder feedback.

Develop the people already there

I coach designers and emerging leaders so the organization becomes more capable, confident, and independent over time.

Build the operating system for design

We establish the roles, rituals, decision-making practices, and cross-functional relationships that allow strong design work to happen repeatedly.

Prepare for the next stage

Whether the company needs its first designer, a larger team, or a permanent design executive, I help define what should come next and build the foundation for a successful transition.

Engagement structure

A typical engagement combines:

  • A focused assessment of the product, team, and design practice
  • A shared set of priorities and outcomes
  • Ongoing partnership with founders and company leadership
  • Regular direction, critique, and coaching for the design team
  • Hands-on involvement in the company’s most important initiatives
  • A transition plan for the company’s longer-term design leadership

The exact scope, time commitment, and duration will be defined together.