Product Coaching — Empowering Your PMs
Hands-on mentoring tailored to each PM, grounded in real context and aimed at lasting growth.
Who This Is For?
- Engineering-forward companies where PMs are new and need to ramp up rapidly.
- Teams where engineers act as de-facto PMs and need solid foundations.
- Managers of PMs seeking structured coaching & mentoring.
- PMs from non-Silicon-Valley backgrounds wanting to sharpen their skills.
Common Pitfalls We Help You Avoid
- Feature-led roadmaps that ignore real user problems.
- Roadmaps treated like Gantt charts, enforcing timelines over strategy.
- Backlog thrash from shifting stakeholder priorities.
- Decision paralysis or gut-only calls—waiting for perfect data.
- Defining success post-launch instead of with clear upfront metrics.
- Engineering sprints without customer context, causing rework.
How We Work (Tailored to Each PM)
Kick-Off & Baseline
Questionnaire + artifact review to map strengths, gaps, and “big questions.”Personal Growth Plan
Explicit skill targets and real-world practice areas.Weekly Coaching Clinics (60 min)
Live problem-solving on active tickets, specs, and stakeholder dynamics.Toolkits & Templates
Lightweight worksheets for discovery, roadmap hygiene, and experiment design..Shadow & Feedback
Optional attendance at stand-ups, demos, or user calls with private debriefs.Monthly Alignment Pack
Concise doc of key decisions, open questions, and next month's focus.Big Questions Workshop (90 min)
Huddle on a thorny topic, ending with a one-pager of insights and next steps.Confidentiality & IP
Coaching is people-first, aimed at improvement—not a performance gotcha.
- NDA from Day 1 - artifacts in an MFA-protected drive for coaches only.
- Trust Walls - 1:1 shares stay private; managers see only big-picture themes.
Engagement Snapshot
- Duration 6-month engagement (26 weeks)
- Cadence Weekly 1:1, Monthly 90 min workshop, Async Slack feedback
- Hours Up to Y coach hours pooled across the engagement
- Deliverables Live product, infra‑as‑code, docs, runbooks; ongoing ops or hand‑off pack
Why We're Effective
Steve & Clark bring deep engineering roots—built CV platforms, factory automation, SaaS marketplaces, robotics simulation, and digital twins.
- We translate product theory into pragmatic moves that engineers respect.
- We coach in the background so your PMs stay empowered as product owners.
Pricing
Typically we operate a flat monthly squad rate—no hourly surprises, but we can adjust for special projects/requests.
