I'm Gary, founder of Cloudio Consulting
A senior product professional with 12+ years delivering apps and platform services, as well as complex cloud, infrastructure and digital products 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
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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.
Three 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 — 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.
Comprehensive product expertise
From strategy to execution, I provide end-to-end support to help your product organisation thrive.
Product Management Services
Specialist Services
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.
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"
Your team ships regularly but retention is flat and acquisition isn't improving. The roadmap feels busy but not strategic.
"We're acquiring users but not retaining them"
Traffic is rising but churn eats the gains. There's no systematic engine to activate, retain, and expand customers.
"Engineering and the business are constantly misaligned"
Sprints get derailed by late requirements or shifting priorities. There's friction between delivery teams and leadership.
"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, channels, 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 features never make it past proof of concept"
Data science and product teams work in silos. Models show promise in notebooks but struggle to reach production.
"Our AI workloads are hard to deploy and scale reliably"
Model deployment is slow and fragile, and there's no shared platform to turn experiments into dependable products.
"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.
"Our programmes run late and no one knows the real status"
Milestones slip, reporting is inconsistent, and stakeholders lose confidence in whether delivery will land on time.
"We need to launch value-added services and grow ARPU"
The core connectivity business is commoditising and there's no clear roadmap for the services that will lift margins.
"We're scaling fast but our platform can't keep up"
Technical debt, unreliable infrastructure, and slow deployments are limiting what the product team can deliver.
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.