Product Management as a Service
Matchpoint delivers world class product management on a part time, subscription basis. Work with us month to month for as many weekly hours as you need, for as long as you need PM support.
Part time product management
You can work with us for as many hours a week as you need, for as long as you need.
Prioritize us for what you need
We'll collaborate to identify your highest priority product needs so that we spend our time together efficiently.
For as long as you need
Book work with us for the number of hours a week you need, for as long as you need. You can stop at any time.
Why it works and who this is for
Why this model worksAs we’ll expound on below, not every product situation requires a full time PM, meaning 40+ hours a week. This can be true for any sized company, from startups to large enterprises. Additionally, not every company can afford to hire a full time, dedicated PM for every product problem they have. An experienced PM can cost between $150-$250k a year in salary alone, before benefits and equity compensation.For data analytics/business intelligence, the model works perfectly. At its best, it is a happy marriage between our product and data services. We can ramp up quickly on the business logic before jumping in and putting our Power BI and SQL skills to use, with the goal of helping you derive business insights about the outcomes that actually matter, through your real world data.
Who this is forStartups: Founders are usually the first to handle the PM job. Often they need help, but don't know they can get it without committing to the level of spend a full time hire costs. This model is a much more accessible way to bring product management into a startup, where we partner with the founders to de-risk the initial idea and find product market fit, and then eventually help them transition to their first full time PM hire (a process that we can also help with).Larger enterprises: This model can work in several situations. For those companies who are in the midst of the digital transition, usually older enterprises who don’t have experience managing a modern product org, bringing on an experienced PM in an advisory capacity as a mentor/coach can be a high leverage way to level up. Everyone in the newly established org can benefit from improving their product thinking, while one on one time with the new PMs can quickly help them improve their operational performance. We can also jump in in an IC capacity, leading a product team or acting as a head of product for a period of time.
Services: how we do Product Management
We believe that, when done well, product management is essential in building the right products for customers and users. Working together, we'll level up and transform your product organization.
Product Strategy
Defining business & product outcomes, decision making frameworks, and plans to achieve your goals
User Research
Mitigating product development risk through User Centered Design: interviews and prototype tests that ask the right questions and measure for the right outcomes, ensuring we arrive at the right insights - and build the right features.
Delivery
The best plan in the world is worth little if you don't execute it. We'll ensure that we actually ship software, quickly, iteratively, and prioritized to solve the highest value problems first.
Team Building
Our core belief at Matchpoint is that the best products are created by healthy, high functioning teams, whose members feel psychological safety to do their best work. We'll help you build them, and the culture that lets them thrive.
Coaching
In addition to operating as an IC product manager for your company, we also offer advisory/coaching services for your existing PM's and stakeholders
Data & Business Analytics
Product development is a science. We'll help you make you better, data-driven decisions.
Who We've Helped
Let's Talk
We're ready to help improve your product development. Send us a note and we'll get back to you within a business day.
Matchpoint Advisory: Product Management as a Service
Who We Are
Matchpoint Advisory is lead by that guy you see on the left, Ron Golan. I'm a seasoned product manager who started Matchpoint as a way to leverage my experience in order to help organizations bring the right products to market. My expertise is in building software businesses, products, and high functioning teams, and I can help your organization do the same. I have half a decade of experience specifically in product management consulting, which has focused on leading organizations and product teams in developing their strategy, and executing on it. Having spent over four years at Pivotal Labs, I also have extensive experience helping teams adopt modern product development practices, and teaching/coaching individual PM's. I've worked on Observability software, productivity applications for the US Air Force and the state of Massachusetts, have built a portfolio community for creatives in the video game industry, and many other products in between.
My Resume:2022-2023 Product at Chronosphere, the leading observability platform for cloud native applications2018-2022 Product at Pivotal Labs, where I helped build applications for clients including CVS, Liberty Mutual, the US Air Force, and Boston Scientific, amongst others2014-2018 Founder/CEO at Cartrdge, which was a portfolio network and community for creatives in the video game industry2013-14 Business Development at Sketchfab