I'm Gary, founder of Cloudio Consulting
A senior product professional with 12+ years in product management and 15 years across enterprise infrastructure, cloud and digital products, delivering apps and platform services across enterprise, start-up and scale-up environments, combining strong product ownership and stakeholder management with deep technical fluency to operate at the intersection of product strategy, technology delivery and commercial outcomes. Read my full story
From product strategy and growth engineering to AI-powered product leadership, I provide fractional expertise that fits your timeline, your team, and your ambitions. Get in touch
Fractional, contract and permanent engagements available. Recruiters and hiring managers welcome to reach out and start a conversation.
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Interim, Fractional and Permanent roles available
From product owner to fractional Head of Product, experienced product leadership at every level, available from a single day a week to full-time interim cover.
Relaunch offer: 10% off every role. Applies to day rates, hourly rates and retainers for engagements agreed in October or November 2026. Mention it when you get in touch.
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Senior Product Manager
Experienced delivery for product teams
★ Most popular with clientsA Senior Product Manager owns a product area end-to-end, leading discovery, defining requirements, and shipping outcomes with engineering and design teams.
Ways to engage
Ideal for
- Teams needing an experienced PM to own a product area.
- Growth products requiring focused discovery and delivery.
- Organisations covering parental leave or gaps.
- Squads scaling up delivery capacity.
What's typically included
- End-to-end product ownership and roadmap definition.
- Discovery, user research, and outcome-led prioritisation.
- PRDs, business cases, and backlog management.
- Stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, and commercial.
- Hands-on delivery partnership with engineering teams.
Typical engagement types
All rates are indicative and flexible depending on the engagement, and final pricing is always negotiable, agreed based on scope, commitment and the way we work together. All rates are exclusive of VAT. Reasonable project expenses such as travel are charged separately at cost. Get in touch to discuss.
Six ways I can help
Most engagements start with discovery. From there, the work usually falls into one of these.
Principles that guide my engagements
My approach is built on collaboration, pragmatism, and a relentless focus on outcomes that matter.
Collaborative Partnership
I work alongside your teams, not in isolation. Knowledge transfer and capability building are woven into every engagement.
Pragmatic Approach
I focus on what works for your context. No rigid frameworks or one-size-fits-all solutions, just practical guidance that delivers results.
Measurable Outcomes
Every engagement is tied to clear, measurable objectives. I track progress and adapt my approach based on real data.
Delivery Focus
Strategy without execution is just theory. I roll up my sleeves and help you ship, not just plan.
Stakeholder Alignment
Strong stakeholder management is at the centre of every engagement. I bring executive sponsors, engineering leaders and cross-functional teams onto the same page early, managing competing priorities, governance and communication so decisions stick and delivery keeps moving.
Commercial Awareness
I keep one eye on the commercial impact of every decision, from tooling spend to supplier contracts. Good product and platform work should pay for itself, and I make sure it does.
Do any of these sound familiar?
Most product and technology leaders face a handful of recurring problems. I've helped organisations work through all of them.
"We're building features but not seeing growth"
The team ships regularly but revenue and retention are flat. The roadmap feels busy but not strategic.
"We need to launch in a new market but don't know where to start"
The product exists but there's no structured plan for positioning, pricing, or how to reach the right customers.
"Everyone talks about AI but we don't know where it adds real value"
Pilots are scattered and unfocused. There's no clear view of which use cases are worth investing in or how to govern them.
"Our AI infrastructure costs are running ahead of the value"
GPU, licensing and platform costs are climbing, and nobody has checked which parts of the stack you actually need to pay for.
"We need to launch value-added services and grow ARPU"
The core business is commoditising and there's no clear roadmap for the services that will lift margins.
"Every engagement we sell is scoped from scratch"
The same kinds of work keep coming in, but each one is priced and planned as if it were new, and margins suffer for it.
"Our processes are manual and nobody owns fixing them"
Orders, provisioning and returns rely on people re-keying data between systems. It works, just about, and it costs more every year.
"We know we're overspending but can't see where"
Suppliers, hardware and licences have piled up over years. Everyone believes the business is lean, and nobody has had time to check.
"Engineering and the business are constantly misaligned"
Sprints get derailed by late requirements or shifting priorities, and nobody is sure what the real status is.
"Our systems don't talk to each other"
Point-to-point integrations and brittle data flows are slowing delivery and creating technical debt across the stack.
Thoughts on product leadership
Practical insights and perspectives from my experience building great products.
Not sure where to start?
Begin with a discovery conversation
A focused, no-obligation call to understand your situation and figure out whether product, cloud, platform or AI work is the right next move, before you commit to anything.
Most start with a free scoping call. If a structured assessment makes sense, that is a fixed-price piece of work you keep either way.