Fractional Chief Product Officer (CPO)

Drive Product Strategy, Product-Led Growth (PLG), and Product Operations to Scale Series A Startups

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Achieve Scalable Results with CPO Services for Series A Startups

Build and Optimize Your Series A Product Strategy and Roadmap

Understand your audience. Validate ideas. Define a powerful vision. Fine tune and prioritize your roadmap. Communicate clearly with cross-functional teams. Establish a mission-driven organization.

Drive Product Management Excellence for Scalable Series A Growth

Define business model and product functionality. Prototype and validate features. Fine-tune customer experience. Create a comprehensive Go-to-Market strategy. Manage diverse stakeholders. Build and launch your product.

Achieve Product-Market Fit with Product-Led Growth (PLG)

Create your product-market fit roadmap. Define metrics/KPIs and experiments across your AARRR funnel. Implement data-driven growth strategies. Set up customer-oriented product operations. Build a product-led organization.

Streamline Product Operations to Support Growth

Establish Agile product dev processes. Hire and lead multidisciplinary teams. Facilitate accountability, communication and collaboration. Keep people engaged, motivated, and productive. Scale the product organization.

How Startups Achieved Growth with our CPO Services

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Givsum

  • Type: B2B SaaS 路 Scope: PLG (Product-Led Growth), Product Operations
  • Work: Defined product-market-fit strategy, streamlined activation, improved customer support effectiveness
  • Outcome: Record months with 80K MAU and $2M annual GMV. Raised $1M seed

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Chapa

  • Type: B2B SaaS 路 Scope: Product Strategy, PLG (Product-Led Growth)
  • Work: Focused on market traction, improved acquisition and activation for the newly launched product
  • Outcome: 50x revenue growth in 6 months crossing $100K MRR

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Jumba

  • Type: B2B SaaS 路 Scope: Product Strategy, PLG (Product-Led Growth), Product Operations
  • Work: Defined KPIs and growth experiments, improved customer experience, increased retention and revenue
  • Outcome: $700K in monthly GMV with 70% increase in profit margins. Raised $4.5M

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Relay on Demand

  • Type: B2B/P2P SaaS 路 Scope: Product Strategy, PLG (Product-Led Growth)
  • Work: Focused on customer journey, identified data patterns, improved acquisition, reduced churn
  • Outcome: 3x revenue growth in one year. Raised $500K crowdfunding

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Christos Kritikos, Fractional CPO and Series A Startup Expert
Meet your Fractional CPO and Series A Startup Expert

About Christos

3x Founder 路 10x Product Leader 路 40+ Startup Projects

I have more than two decades in entrepreneurship and have served as a fractional leader for more than a dozen companies, formulating and executing product and growth strategies while streamlining product operations and leading multidisciplinary implementation teams. I know firsthand how challenging it can be to remain relevant in the fast-moving tech world while joggling the conflicting priorities and ever-changing needs of a startup.

Whether you are building an innovative product or scaling your product organization, you will find hands-on leadership and support in my expertise and desire to help!

I look forward to working with you!

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Use Case: Product Leadership for HealthTech Startup

Product Strategy, Product Growth and Product Operations

Cognome is a HealthTech startup that was spun off from a large hospital organization. They have a suite of products including a platform for AI-powered medical research, a dashboard for AI explainability and governance and AI Models (both medical and operational) for healthcare organizations.

The Challenge

The products were developed and used internally by the parent company. As a result, Cognome's product organization lacked the market-first approach that underlines successful commercialization. The challenge was to adjust the product portfolio and modus-operandi of the organization, while supporting the existing user base in a specialized and complex space.

My Approach

I went top-down on the product, starting with Strategy and Roadmap in order to drive meaningful market-focused changes. The goal was to make the portfolio better suited for a wider audience.

I followed a bottom-up approach for the product operations, streamlining Agile processes in the trenches, and iteratively building on top. The goal was to create an efficient product organization that could absorb/deliver requirements at high velocity, and scale with the product.

The result was a series of successful product launches that streamlined access to health data, supporting operations, decision-making, and research for healthcare professionals.

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What Entrepreneurs Say About Our Services


Princess Adeyinka Tekenah testimonial
“It was such a pleasure having Christos as my EIR at the WE4A Programme powered by Seedstars for Safeem. He helped me in particular reframe the outlook of my startup. To add, he is very knowledgeable about his role in guidance of major metrics required to support entrepreneurial strides.”
Princess Adeyinka Tekenah, Founder/CEO, Happy Coffee (Nigeria)
Samer Bawab testimonial
“Christos was able to add tremendous value to our efforts in trying to grow our edtech startup as we focused on mobile learning for learners around the world. Christos brought his expertise and skills to help us manage internal projects more effectively and streamlined our sales process by identifying gaps where we could improve.”
Samer Bawab, Cofounder, eFlow (UAE)
Alex Tanti testimonial
“My few weeks with Christos were highly educational, opening my eyes to what a real product development process looks like, saving us a ton of time and cash. His approach to his work is like a proud craftsman, really taking the time to understand the issues and objectives, and putting his whole heart and soul into helping us deliver true value to our clients. Forever grateful!”
Alex Tanti, Cofounder/CEO, Racecheck (UK)
Inonge Imasiku testimonial
“Christos and I worked together during my mentorship program with Seedstars. He played a vital role in our business growth, coached us on product development and sales, and helped us to create robust operational processes. He has good analytical skills and was very instrumental in helping our business thrive. I highly recommend his expertise.”
Inonge Imasiku, Founder/CEO, Mangwee Payment Systems (Zambia)

Our Fractional CPO Process for Scalable Series A Startup Growth

  • Step 1: Warm up with a short-term pilot assignment
  • Step 2: Confirm shared vision, chemistry, and team fit
  • Step 3: Align on longer-term objectives, deliverables, and timeline
  • Step 4: Get results with Christos' deep expertise!

Fractional CPO Services: Pricing for Series A Startups

Ongoing Fractional CPO engagements are billed at a pre-negotiated monthly rate, helping you plan expenses and enjoy significant savings off the cost of a full-time Chief Product Officer!

On the other hand, if you want only occasional guidance related to product strategy, PLG and product operations for your Series A startup, please look into our individual startup consultations.

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Why Startups Choose Fractional CPO Services for Scalable Growth

A Fractional CPO is Focused on Results

Create strategic roadmap / Prioritize tasks / Launch product / Drive growth and scale / Increase revenue / Improve effiency

Fractional CPOs are Product Team Leaders

Lead teams to success / Guide implementation / Assess and implement initiatives / Coach team members and help them grow

A Fractional CPO Ensures Customer Satisfaction

Do customer research / Set up feedback loops / Create engagement strategies / Support customers / Reduce churn / Ensure customer success

Hiring a Fractional CPO Pays Off Quickly

Avoid the cost of hiring a full-time employee / Get results faster / Decide exactly what type of help you want / Avoid hidden costs

Fractional CPO Services: Frequently Asked Questions

What is a fractional CPO?

A fractional Chief Product Officer (CPO) is a part-time product executive who drives product strategy and execution, working closely with the CEO, high-level management, and the development teams. The fractional engagement means that they are not a full-time employee within your company but have a more mission-driven consulting role. They bring in critical expertise and have many successful product launches behind them, making their part-time role produce full-time results.


When should I consider hiring a fractional CPO?

You should consider hiring a fractional CPO if:


What are the most important things to look for when I'm looking to hire a fractional executive?

The main things to consider when hiring a fractional executive are experience, expertise, availability, and price.


What are the responsibilities of a fractional CPO?

The main responsibilities of a fractional CPO revolve around product strategy and roadmap, product development/management, and product implementation (does it meet the needs of customers). Mainly, they are brought on to accelerate product launch and help achieve product-market fit.


Why not just hire a full-time Chief Product Officer?

The costs of finding, interviewing, onboarding, and orienting a full-time CPO can be substantial. In addition, it may not work out due to misalignment of vision, work practices, or culture. Then you're back to square one, with no Chief Product Officer and even less money to onboard a qualified expert.


What are the benefits of hiring a fractional CPO?

A fractional CPO brings immense expertise, product knowledge, and a fresh perspective to a company. Here are some additional benefits:


What are the downsides of using a fractional CPO?


How long before I see the results when hiring a fractional CPO?

Fractional CPOs are high-performance individuals who are focused on delivering results quickly and efficiently. It's likely that they are formulating a plan during your initial conversation and already have some checkpoints and suggestions in mind. You may expect to see increased team performance within the first month of hiring a CPO. Depending on where you are at the moment, and where they get to jump in, you may increase your speed to market 2-3x with their help.


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