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Hire Product Managers.

Operators who’ve shipped to real customers, at real scale.

Senior product managers embedded in your team through staff augmentation. The hardest role to outsource, and the one most agencies do worst. Our PMs come from operator backgrounds: a Series A founder, a former Stripe lead, a YC alum who shipped something with real revenue.

What they do

They run discovery, write the press release, set the metrics, and stay long enough to know whether they were right.

They run discovery, write the press release, set the metrics, and stay long enough to know whether they were right. They don’t do Gantt charts. They do scope conversations.

How they work

What they bring to the table.

Discovery interviewsPress-release-first specsEval-driven roadmapsPricing experimentsCustomer panel designQuant + qual researchLinear / Jira / NotionA/B + holdout testing

Sample profiles

Real engineers. Anonymised.

Profiles below are from current network members, anonymised to protect their next move.

Maria S.

Senior Product Manager · 9 yrs

"Owned activation metrics through a 4x ARR scale-up."

DiscoveryLinearLooker

Mexico City · UTC−6

Felipe N.

Staff Product Manager · 12 yrs

"Restated a SaaS pricing model, added $4.2M ARR in 9 months."

Pricing exp.ModeHex

Buenos Aires · UTC−3

Lena K.

Group Product Manager (former) · 14 yrs

"15 years in B2B SaaS. Ran a 40-person PM org. Hands-on again."

StrategyOrg designEval design

Lisbon · UTC+0

Why hire through Lateral

Three reasons engineering leaders choose us.

  • 01Top 1%, vetted by engineers, not recruiters. Every Product candidate is reviewed by a senior in the same discipline. No keyword matching, no leetcode.
  • 02Matched in 7 days, in your time zone. We don't place engineers more than ~4 hours off your business day.
  • 03Transparent pricing. 60/25/15: most of what you pay reaches the engineer. See the breakdown.

FAQ

Honest answers, common questions.

Do they actually write the spec or just facilitate?
They write. If they can’t draft the PRD, the eval set, and the rollout plan, they don’t make the cut.
Can they own a launch with our exec team?
Yes. Most have launched to C-suite stakeholders at much larger companies than ours.
How do you screen for "operator"?
A real product debrief with two of our principals. They have to walk through a launch, the metrics, what they got wrong, what they’d do again.

Hire Product talent.

Tell us the role. Shortlist by next week.

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