Hania B. Demai product lead & technologist

Contracting

Senior product leadership, embedded in your organisation for the length of the brief.

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I’ve been contracting since 2022, mostly with large organisations across financial services and pharma. The work is strategic product management: AI and API products, transformation programmes, and everything that goes with shipping, especially in a regulated industry. I also work with startups and scaleups on early-stage product strategy and establishing product-market fit.

I work on the basis that needs may evolve as the work progresses. Most of what I take on involves some combination of ambiguity, competing priorities, and functions that need to align before anything moves. I’m comfortable in that environment, and I’m used to adapting the scope of my work as the engagement develops.

What an engagement looks like

  1. discovery call
    It starts with a discovery call to understand what you need and whether it’s a good fit.
  2. first weeks
    I get up to speed: product, team, stakeholders, constraints. I come with a view quickly.
  3. deliverables
    Depend on the brief: strategy and roadmap, AI feasibility, operating model, transformation plan, etc.
  4. embedded
    I work embedded with your team. I’m in standups, in Slack, reviewing work as it happens.
  5. when i leave
    The team has the artefacts, the processes, and the confidence to carry on without me.

Where I’m most useful

The same capabilities as the homepage, in the context of a contract:
Product strategy

The commercial opportunities, the roadmap, and a business case that can get buy-in and achieve business goals.

Stakeholder management

Presenting to decision-makers, holding my own in the questions that follow, and keeping functions aligned while delivery runs.

New products, zero to one

From opportunity through to live product: the commercial case, the team, the build, and the decisions about what to leave out.

AI and digital products

From proof of concept to production: early feasibility, the right MVP, testing, rollout, and success measured against the business goal.

Transformation and change

Planning and running change alongside the people it affects, so that people work differently afterwards.

Product leadership and ways of working

Empowered cross-functional teams, fewer handoffs, and an organisation that stays stronger after I leave.

Book a discovery call to talk through what you need. Or find me on LinkedIn.

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