Harris Brown

Fractional Product Leader

Ex-Airbnb fractional product leader, supporting founders & early-stage teams

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Trusted by some incredible partners

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MY BACKGROUND

Hi there, I'm Harris

I'm a product leader, coach, and company builder with over 15 years of experience at early and growth-stage technology companies.

For the past 4 years, I've been partnering with founders and early-stage teams as a fractional product leader. What this typically looks like is me playing the role of head of product, product lead, strategic advisor, and/or coach.

My career spans early and growth-stage product building. Prior to my fractional work, I spent over 5 years building products and leading cross-functional teams at Airbnb. Before that, I was an early team member of several startups, where I also led non-product functions, like growth, partnership, and business operations.

Over the years, I've learned that my sweet spot is working with teams in the earlier stages of product and company building. Shipping that initial MVP, iterating to get to PMF, standing up a new product organization, leading a new strategic initiative from 0 to 1. These are all zones that I love to play in and find myself delivering outsized impact for my partners.

So what makes me different? Put simply, I'm a barrel. I've found that partners are wowed by my agency, sense of ownership and ultimately how much I give a damn. I can't wait to see how we might be able to partner together to co-create something special.

Offerings

Ways to partner

Designed to support early-stage teams across various stages of growth

Advisory

Your strategic product advisor

  • Strategic advisory & guidance
  • Monthly check-ins
  • Ad-hoc meetings and requests
  • Slack, email and text support

Fractional

Your interim product leader

  • Fully integrated member of your team
  • Strategic and execution support
  • Interim head of product
  • Product lead for strategic initiative
  • MVP or POC development

Coaching

Your product leadership coach

  • 1:1 coaching sessions
  • Leadership development
  • Junior team member skill development
  • Product team coaching
Testimonials

What partners say

Kind words from trusted partners

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Dante DiCicco

CEO, Zitti (acquired)

"Harris is a best-in-class product leader and product manager. His wide-ranging skill set includes building consumer-facing and B2B products, as well as driving process and collaboration across team functions. He is a very good manager and great with people."

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Adam Ahmad

CEO, kea.ai

"Harris is an absolute machine. We brought him on as a Fractional Product Lead for our company, kea and he helped us during a major pivot for the company to not only help us understand what the customer really wanted, but also laid down the groundwork and roadmap for the team to get really dialed in on the focus going forward. What I most admire about him is that he's not afraid to get into the weeds including chatting with customers and in fact welcomed it constantly to understand and help articulate with other team members what we ought to focus on rather than trying to work on so many things at once. Even though he was fractional, it felt like he was part of the team every step of the way. Whether you're at the earliest stage still trying to achieve product market fit or going through a pivot, I highly recommend bringing on Harris to help out with the product you're building."

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Praveen Shanbag

CEO, Namecoach

"We were lucky to bring Harris on as a fractional product leader, mainly to stand up a new product department for the first time. Until then, engineering essentially owned product, and it was leading to problems. Harris was able to help align the team around new product initiatives and practices that got a useful product function going at the company. He was also able to teach an internal rising star how to take over when he wrapped up as our interim product leader. He was instrumental in helping start a new chapter for the company!"

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John Merrells

CPTO, kea.ai

"Harris is an exceptionally good product manager: thoughtful, thorough, and very calm."

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Todd Elkins

CEO, FieldNav (acquired)

"We brought Harris onboard to lead product development of our MVP, where he was responsible for discovery & validation, creating specifications for new features, and partnering with engineering to deliver these features to customers. I was impressed with his ability to distill insights from customer conversations, his ability to effectively engage with customer stakeholders, and how he cultivated a productive relationship with engineering. Due to his efforts, we were able to significantly increase engagement and expand our user base within our primary customer."

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Reach out directly at harris@harrisbrown.xyz if you have any questions