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Simon 

Freedman

Senior Product Leader

Vessel Product Consulting

Product leader with 20 years of experience across B2B and B2C, from scaling established SaaS platforms to untangling product organisations in growth. Known for cutting through ambiguity, identifying the riskiest assumption in a strategy before committing engineering time to it, and building the operating rhythm that lets a team ship decisions instead of debating them. Have grown product teams to doubling in size, taken product strategy to board level and won approval, and rebuilt broken domains from the ground up. Particularly interested in mentoring PMs navigating ambiguity, whether that's a first 0-to-1 problem, a first people-management role or moving from executing someone else's roadmap to setting the strategy yourself.
Enterprise
Scale-up
Start-up
Mid
Senior
B2B
B2C
AI / ML
EdTech
FinTech
Saas
Career progression
Finding my first job in product management
Help finding a new job
Leadership skills
New product development
Personal development
Product discovery
Product innovation
Product skills development
Product vision
Roadmapping and prioritisation
Stakeholder management
Strategic thinking
Team management
  • AI in Product: leveraging AI for the most effective, responsible Product Management efficiencies and optimisations
  • Prioritisation frameworks: deciding what to work on and why, with a repeatable method
  • Operating rhythm & ceremony design: right-sizing process to a company’s actual stage
  • Riskiest-assumption thinking: testing what could kill an idea before you build it
  • Opportunity mapping: identifying the right problem before picking a solution
  • 0-to-1 product & function building: standing up product from zero, both process and output
  • New product development: shipping new products and features, including AI-driven ones
  • Team scaling & hiring: growing a product team and running the recruitment process
  • Board-level strategy & buy-in: getting strategy approved and budget protected
  • First-time people management: the shift from IC to managing PMs
  • Mind the Product
  • Lenny’s Newsletter
  • SVPG
  • Richard Rumelt: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
  • Eric Ries: The Lean Startup
  • Matt LeMay: Impact-First Product Teams
  • Teresa Torres: Continuous Discovery Habits
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