Fractional Chief Product Officer
A fractional CPO is a senior product leader who joins your leadership team part time, holds the strategy and roadmap decisions, and coaches the product managers you already have. It is the answer when the founder is still the de facto head of product and a full-time hire is premature. Measured on activation, retention and ARR.
This engagement fits a funded B2B SaaS company between $2M and $15M ARR where the founder is still the de facto head of product. If three of the four lines below describe your quarter, the fit is strong. Series A and B teams are the core case, and this is why they choose fractional.
Stage
Series A or B, raised in the last 18 months, and the board is asking about product velocity.
Revenue
$2M to $15M ARR, with one or two product managers and no product executive above them.
Symptom
You ship every sprint and ARR does not move. The roadmap is a list of customer requests, and every decision routes through you.
Decision
You are weighing a full-time CPO at $260,000 to $400,000 in base and cash, plus equity, and you are not certain the role is defined yet.
Not for you if you are pre product-market fit, you need a full-time hire in the building five days a week, you want someone to run delivery tickets rather than own product strategy, or your team makes decisions at a pace that needs someone there daily.
The figure below comes from a fractional engagement where I held the product seat part time and was measured on retention, not deliverables. No projections.
$30M ARR Martech SaaS, a fractional engagement. Strategy-aligned work rose from 35% to 90% and R&D waste fell 30%. The mechanism is the point: when one person owns what does not get built, the share of work that touches ARR goes up.
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Sivan Kadosh · Fractional CPO. 18+ years leading product, in CPO and CEO roles, across B2B SaaS, TravelTech, real-estate tech and fintech. You work with me, not a bench.
See all case studies →A fractional CPO is a senior product executive who leads your product function for a set number of scheduled hours each week, instead of as a full-time hire. For a Series A or B SaaS company that means roadmap ownership, PM coaching and board-level product judgment, without waiting for a permanent CPO hire that takes up to eight months to land (Sifted). Unlike a consultant who advises from outside, a fractional CPO takes ownership of the outcome.
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| Fractional CPO | Full-time CPO | |
|---|---|---|
| Time in your business | About six hours a week, scheduled, plus async between sessions | Five days a week |
| Typical cost | One published monthly price, 25 hours, on the pricing page | $260K to $400K in base and cash, plus equity |
| Time to start | 2 to 3 weeks | Up to eight months to hire |
| Commitment | 3 month minimum, then monthly | Permanent hire, with severance exposure |
| Best for | Series A and B teams that need product leadership now | A scaled product organization ready for a permanent executive |
A fractional CPO is not a consultant who hands you a strategy deck and leaves. I work inside the team, push toward your goals, and treat your ARR as if the company were mine. The fractional part is about time, not commitment.
If the need is a defined gap rather than an ongoing seat, read fractional CPO compared with interim CPO, or go straight to interim CPO services.
One senior product executive inside your leadership team for about six hours a week, accountable for a named set of outcomes rather than a document.
Six hours is not much, so it is scheduled rather than floating:
I hold the pen on roadmap prioritization and on what enters the quarter. You hold a veto, always. A veto used once a quarter is healthy. A veto used weekly means one of us is wrong about something basic, and we have that conversation in month one rather than month three.
Adjacent engagements: product management consulting, product strategy consulting and SaaS consulting services.
The price is published on the pricing page: one plan, 25 hours a month, three-month minimum, then monthly. What the hours contain and how the number compares with the market is there too.
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Thirty minutes on your product bottleneck. You leave knowing the one move that pays back fastest, whether or not we work together.
02
A one-page engagement note: outcomes, hours, price, first review date. Signed in a day, not a procurement cycle.
03
Backlog read, customer calls and metrics pulled by week two. Roadmap rebuilt around outcomes by week four, following the 30-60-90 plan.
Typical movement after two to three quarters. Your result depends on your starting point, team maturity and scope.
Sivan is an excellent product manager, product leader and team member. He cares passionately about delighting customers... I would recommend him 10/10 to any company - you will be lucky to have him.
As part of his role as VP Product, he identified creative ideas, developed sharp strategies and built the road map while focusing on customer experience and business needs.
Nothing was added without a clear scope of development... and a clear way to measure the success or failure of this feature.
Leading by example, empowering, mentoring, and growing his product teams, he created great product culture and set us Product Managers up for success.
If you are a B2B SaaS founder between $2M and $15M ARR and the product function needs an owner, bring the decision you are stuck on.
18+ years leading product, in CPO and CEO roles, across B2B SaaS, TravelTech, real-estate tech and fintech. Two of my recent clients hired me in this exact seat. At TouchStay, a TravelTech SaaS, I held the fractional CPO seat from 2024 to May 2026: trial-to-paid went from 35% to 49%, and mobile trial-to-paid from 8% to 30%. At Metapraxis, a financial analytics SaaS, I held it from October 2022 to July 2023: planning and spec cycle time fell 60%, and the CTO's review is below.
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