Fractional Head of Product · AI Product Strategy Consultant

Ray Sharma

Build better products faster…

$200m+

business impact

40% YOY

growth supported

15+ awards

across fintech, AI, enterprise

24+ years

product leadership

What I do

I help teams move faster without building the wrong thing

Bringing strategic clarity, AI-accelerated workflows, and production-aware product thinking to founders, CTOs, and leadership teams operating in a vibe and spec coding world

  • Shape the product brief before the AI starts coding
    Defining intent, context, constraints, and acceptance logic so vibe and spec coding sessions produce aligned outputs, not expensive rework
  • Bring context-driven structure to AI-accelerated delivery
    Using Context Mesh principles, governed Work Products, and prompt architecture to keep discovery, design, and engineering working from the same source of truth
  • Replace static handoffs with living, production-aware artifacts
    Designed and validated directly in VS Code so engineering inherits buildable outputs, not Figma approximations
  • Set up and run the right discovery-to-deployment operating model
    Sprint structure, Jira workflow, AI toolchain integration, and governance that fits how modern teams actually ship
  • Identify where AI creates genuine product leverage
    Not AI for its own sake, but targeted opportunity assessment that turns AI capability into revenue, retention, or delivery speed
  • Provide senior product leadership fractionally
    Strategy, roadmap, OKRs, stakeholder alignment, and delivery oversight at 2–4 days/week without the full-time cos

How I help

Fluent in modern AI-accelerated delivery: vibe coding exploration, spec coding workflows, context mesh design, prompt architecture, and production-validated prototyping in VS Code.

Fractional Head of Product

Ongoing leadership for teams needing senior product direction without a full‑time hire.

  • Roadmap ownership
  • Prioritization & alignment
  • Discovery & delivery rhythm

Product Strategy Sprint (4w)

Clarify direction, focus, and measurable outcomes.

  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Opportunity mapping
  • Roadmap + OKRs

AI Product Opportunity Sprint

Identify where AI creates real value in product and workflow.

  • Use‑case prioritization
  • Prototype concepts
  • Guardrail considerations

Product Operating Model Audit

Diagnose delivery friction and produce a 90‑day action plan.

  • Team interviews
  • Process review
  • Tooling assessment

Recent work

Intelligenic

Head of Product

Leading product strategy for an AI‑powered product development system unifying discovery, design, and code through Context Mesh, Work Products, and specification‑driven development.

Altos Labs

Product Design Consultant

Led product design for a cloud‑based bioinformatics platform, improving workflows and reducing AWS cost through infrastructure‑aware design.

Toptal

Design Director &
Enterprise Consultancy Lead

Helped drive growth in a $200M+ business, launching new consulting offers and verticals.

My full-stack career

1996

Front End Developer

1999

UI, UX, IA Design

2014

Founder & Director

2018

Design Director

2025

Head of Product

A bit about me

I'm still a builder at heart — hands-on with VS Code, prompt systems, context schemas, and AI-native delivery workflows. That technical depth is what separates strategic advice from advice that actually ships.

Having kids — and the many experiences of raising them — taught me how much people everywhere value connection and clarity. That perspective shapes how I work with founders: helping them move faster, reduce friction, and build with purpose.

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