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Supercharge Your Product Growth

Hire a Fractional Product Leader to Accelerate Your Success

Are you struggling to hit product and revenue targets?

Whether you're fine-tuning an existing product or launching something new, gain access to over 20 years of proven product expertise—without the overhead of a full-time hire.

Unlock Profitable Growth

Existing Product

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Your product deserves more.

Boost performance, scale intelligently, innovate and hit profitability faster with hands-on, expert guidance.

Services:

  • Product Strategy & Transformation

  • Pricing & Profitability

  • Product Discovery & Design

  • Product Growth


Perfect For: Product teams and companies ready to amplify results and maximise market impact.

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Turn Ideas into Winning Products

New Product

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Have a game-changing idea but unsure how to execute?

Transform your vision into a successful product designed for adoption and rapid growth.

Services:

  • Validation as a Service: Test and refine your idea based on real data.

  • Discovery & Design as a Service: Build a product that meets real customer needs from day one.

  • Growth-Driven Product Strategy: Create a product designed to grow itself.

Perfect For: Founders and innovators ready to bring their ideas to life and grow fast.

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Here’s How I Can Help You Win

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Product Strategy & Transformation

Find Product-Market Fit, align your teams, and unlock the growth and revenue your product deserves.

  • Clarify your Product Vision & Strategy

  • Market Context, Competitor & Customer Analysis

  • Product Culture & Team Coaching

  • Optimise your Pricing & Monetisation for growth

  • Product Roadmaps with Strategic Impact

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Product Design & Discovery

Are you solving the problems with the biggest impact?  Zero in on the highest impact Jobs and create continuous discovery habits.

  • Increase your Product Growth, acquisition & retention

  • Uncover real customer needs

  • Implement continuous discovery habits 

  • Design a customer journey for growth

  • Create a culture of experimentation and rapid learning

  • Set the right growth metrics from day one

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Product Delivery

Get the best from an empowered product team with consistent prioritisation practices that create value and viability..

  • Outcome based roadmaps 

  • Implementing OKRs and regular check ins

  • Prioritising for Value and Viability

  • Themes, Epics and User Story design that support your goals

  • Agile practices that work for your team

  • Focus on outcomes that drive success

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Why Work With Me?

I’m Irene Liakos, a seasoned Fractional Product Leader with two decades of experience driving profitable product growth for companies from startups to global brands. I help you:

  • Pinpoint your product’s strategic edge

  • Turn a manual onboarding process into a scalable SaaS solution

  • Get your Pricing Strategy right for growth and profitability

  • Create customers who bring more customers

  • Achieve sustainable growth and profitability

  • Improve your team’s effectiveness to hit new levels of performance

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I have worked with these companies

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What You Get From Working With Us

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    Clarity

    A clear vision and strategy that positions your product for success.

  • Icon depicting two user profiles connected by gears and arrows, representing a process or workflow.

    Alignment

    Teams laser-focused on the same goals, accelerating time to market.

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    Impact

    Deliver results fast, driving growth, engagement, and profitability.

What Others Have Said…

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    "Highly recommend Irene to other product organisations."


    Irene completed 3 remote sessions of product training for the team at Class Ltd covering a huge amount of content in an engaging and interactive way, drawing on her own extensive experience and other case studies to bring the learning to life. We really valued what was delivered and highly recommend to other organisations looking to build capability on good product management.

    Amy Johnson
    Former Head of Product, Class Super

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    “Her work is incredibly impactful.”


    Irene is an outstanding leader, educator and product professional.

    Her work with our team has been incredibly impactful in a very short amount of time, and has brought clarity to product strategy and delivery.

    I highly recommend Irene.

    Craig Boshier
    Former COO, Airmap

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    "Quickly Understand Issues. Provide Quality Advice"


    Meeting Irene was certainly delightful. Not only was she able to quickly understand the landscape of my issues, she expertly gave quality tips/advice to help me navigate the world of product. I highly recommend Irene!

    Adannia Eze
    Hilti North America

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    “Irene had a wealth of information to present, however her great strength was communication.”


    Irene had a wealth of information to present, however her great strength was communication. Irene was able to engage with a very large group of inductees in a personable way, while still engaging the whole group. I learned so much, I couldn’t recommend her more!

    Elric Marshall
    Westpac

  • "Instrumental in delivering Transformation"

    Irene played a major role in the transformation of Telstra.com. She was instrumental in delivering fundamental changes to the site and was always positive, innovative and collaborative in her approach - highly regarded by the team.

    Omar Khalifa
    Former Director, Telstra

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    "Recommendations backed with in-depth research and thought"

    Irene is incapable of performing any task in a less than disciplined and thorough manner. All recommendations she brings to the table are backed with in-depth research and thought. She is adept at managing priorities and has never failed to meet a deadline. Irene is a joy to work with as she approaches all tasks with enthusiasm and is a highly co-operative team member.

    Mei Sien Loke
    Former General Counsel, Melbourne IT

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    "She has the ability to command a room and get buy-in on ideas"

    I was impressed by Irene’s ability to deal with clients, effortlessly. She has the ability to command a room and get buy-in on ideas. These skills often take years to develop among consulting professionals, but they seemed to come perfectly naturally to her. She is also one of the hardest workers I have ever work with and would be honoured to work with her again.

    DeVilliers Malan,
    Senior Product Manager, Cover Genius

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    "Highly engaging and insightful in navigating and overcoming problems"

    Irene is very knowledgeable and always willing to share her deep expertise in Product Management linked to her experience in Telecommunications as well as Financial Services. She is highly engaging and insightful in navigating and overcoming common problems that product managers face in implementing product change including engagement with key stakeholders. I look forward for the next opportunity to collaborate with her and always enjoy her enthusiasm and passion in delivering great outcomes for customers.

    Trevor Lee

    Service Owner, Group Product Chapter Capability and Rhythm, Westpac

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    "Irene takes her job very seriously and goes above and beyond"


    She takes her job very seriously and goes above and beyond, like when she spent hours patiently listening to me on the state of the company, providing a sounding board to help us clarify our thinking on the next steps.

    She is also very flexible with timezones, which played a central role for us since we had to connect 3 continents with over 16h of gaps.

    I highly recommend her

    Francesco Guglielmino

    CEO, Cuebiq

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    "Practical Advice with Rich Industry Experience"

    Irene's thoughts and ideas have created a richer understanding of product management for me. Specifically, she has impacted the way I think about product management in small companies compared to large companies.

    I felt empowered to make important career decisions with confidence. Her practical advice comes with rich industry experience. In every meeting with Irene I came with big questions and always left with concrete solutions and plans.

    For anyone that is stuck and is seeking clarity and confidence, I highly recommend speaking to Irene.

    Amaar Iftikhar

    Product Manager, Optus

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    "Irene is an outstanding mentor and guide in the field of Product Management"

    Irene Liakos is an outstanding mentor and guide in the field of Product Management. I had the privilege of being mentored by her, and the experience is truly invaluable to my professional growth.

    If you get the chance to have Irene as your mentor or coach take it. She knows her stuff, is super motivating, and will definitely give your career a boost.

    Samriddhi (Sam) Shrivastava
    Product Manager - Wilson AI

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    "What doesn't she know?!"

    What an amazing course! I'd love to take more courses with Irene. What doesn't she know?!

    She presented complex concepts in a clear and understandable manner, with the latest trends and developments in the field of product management, as well as a solid set of models and history of what has come before and how we got here. For example, I didn't know that product management actually came out of marketing!

    Katherine (Kat) Widomski Mohn

    XDI

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