Product Leadership When You Need It
I work as a fractional product leader to get your product, team, and company to the next milestone
Product Leadership When You Need It
I work as a fractional product leader to get your product, team, and company to the next milestone
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My Work
Led an ambitious solar finance and engineering platform team at Borrego Energy

Interim Head of Product for solar moonshot Reflect Orbital

Created the first version of clean tech financing platform for Perl Street

Launched my own micro-lending MVP via crypto in Uganda by partnering with Celo

Founded a clean tech training event, the Heat Pump Summit, and made it profitable in the first year

Designed first products for startups spanning open source e-mobility, k-12 learning, and more
What I Offer
Product Roadmapping
Let's get into the who, what, where, when, and why. I'll push on your assumptions, and go find the information needed for informed choices here to back up your decisions to the team and to the board.
Product & User Research
I've gone as deep in research as living in a family's house in a rural South African village for user research. I have the experience for any stage of product and user research.
Demand Testing
This ain't the standard user research. It's a particular MVP test to see if anyone buys and might be one of the most effective things a company can do when incubating a new product or service.
Product Strategy
How do you line up against the existing competitors, where do you refine and focus your offering, and what do you use to prove this? 
Team Processes
From a team of 100+ at Adobe to several person startups, I've increased collaboration and coordination through easy exercises in role mapping that create better processes and importantly the buy in for them.
Product Design
Building on eight years of product design experience, I can deliver a MVP UX myself or be your designer's favorite PM with a PRD that always sets them up for success.
The Full Time vs Fractional Hire Decision
You know the deal, but here’s a few key parts to recap.
Full Time
  • Give up equity
  • Months long recruiting
  • Recruiting fees
  • Payroll item on your balance sheet
  • Marry, vs date - it’s painful and legally perilous to breakup. Good for the long haul, but maybe not for every position every time.
Fractional / Interim
  • Retain your equity
  • Hire for specific need now
  • Bring in new perspectives faster
  • Reduce force without perception of a layoff
  • Date, vs marry - we will do great work, but are a stepping stone to the final vision and team
FAQ
How We Work Together?
I join your team as any other team member - in the office in SF or remote, on Slack, whatever it takes to get to know the team and form a foundation for productive relationships.
What Do You Charge?
Typically I work on a project basis with three to six month durations at one third to full time on the team. Engagements are simple - paid monthly at the start of the month, with a one month cancellation notice. The rate is a little bit higher than the monthly for a full time product leader, as this reflects no equity comp and benefit to your balance sheet liabilities of a variable resource.
Do You Bring A Team?
There are a few developers I work with on an as needed basis as well as a branding firm BrandMates. These resources' availability is not guaranteed.

Brent Davidson

Product design, strategy
Fractional product leadership for your growing company
I've helped founders raise their next round via UX prototypes and a well structured pitch deck, as well as launched products at scale at Adobe. I enjoy creating new products, pursuing new business opportunities, and improving how teams ship great work.

I'm a designer who's created a business - the Heat Pump Summit.
I've helped founders raise their next round via UX prototypes and a well structured pitch deck, as well as launched products at scale at Adobe. I enjoy creating new products, pursuing new business opportunities, and improving how teams ship great work.

I'm a designer who's created a business - the Heat Pump Summit.
WORK
Led an ambitious solar finance and engineering platform team at Borrego Energy
Led design for crypto stablecoin FEI and parent DAO Tribe.xyz
Redesigned Adobe Express web editor to compete directly with Canva
Launched microlending via crypto in Uganda by partnering with Celo
Acted as interim Head of Commercial for solar moonshot Reflect Orbital
Designed first products for startups spanning renewable energy finance, k-12 learning, e-mobility and more