Fractional Product Marketing

Senior product marketing strategy, without the full-time hire.

25+ years inside product marketing, lifecycle strategy, and go-to-market — B2B and consumer.

Full access spanning the entire spectrum of marketing, promotion, and advertising expertise. ROI-focused, always. Backed by thought leadership from a marketer who’s seen every stage of the game.

Fast-paced — zero to sixty, no warm-up lap. And run on full strength. No decaf here.

Better growth starts with a better read.

01

Who this is for

Series A to C.

SaaS. AI. HealthTech. B2B. MarTech. Product-led growth.

Teams past the pitch deck, before the playbook.

Series A–CSaaSAIHealthTechB2BMarTechPLG
02

The framework

Four moves, in order.

Step 1
READ
Customer observations

Watch what people actually do, not what they say they'll do.

Step 2
REFINE
Experience improvements

Fix the friction once it's found.

Step 3
SIGNAL
Market trends & insights

Read what the market is telling you before it's obvious.

Step 4
SCALE
Growth frameworks & execution

Turn what works into something repeatable.

03

Proof

This is what a better read looks like in practice.

Park 'N Fly

National digital commerce platform. Customers coming in, but not staying engaged.

Segmented users by behavior and tenure. Built targeted cross-sell offers around what each segment actually needed. Used staged messaging with urgency and value framing.

$300K+ monthly recurring revenue
Retention +23%
Conversion +19%
WNET New York Public Media

High-profile fundraising events at iconic venues, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, ticketed programming featuring Broadway shows and Andrea Bocelli.

Led the cross-functional work across Product, Marketing, Content, Analytics, and Operations to bring each event together.

$1.5M+ annual revenue from event fundraising
ABM Industries

Enterprise CRM and platform adoption stalled across a complex org. Product, Technology, Analytics, Sales, and Marketing all working from different pictures of the customer.

Designed enterprise customer journeys and automation strategy. Built the segmentation and reporting frameworks that gave every team the same picture.

Engagement +35%
Acquisition cost −22%
$5M+ pipeline influenced
04

How we can work together

Pick where you are, not where you wish you were.

A la carte
Focused engagements

Audits, sprints, single-problem work. A journey audit, an adoption sprint, a specific leak that needs fixing. In and out.

Scope this →
Ongoing
Fractional partnership

Embedded, week over week. Reading what the product and the market are telling you, and turning adoption into recurring revenue, systematically.

Talk about fit →
Included

Every engagement comes with a private client dashboard. Goals, metrics, and next steps, always current.

Sample preview
Read Refine Signal Scale
Fixing the drop-off in onboarding step three, before we touch pricing.
Rewrite activation email sequence
Activation rate42% → 58%
05

About

It started in 2000, at MediaVest Worldwide, later known as Spark Foundry, on the media planning side of a business I didn't yet understand. I learned it the slow way, by watching, by asking why a campaign worked when the numbers said it shouldn't. That question never really left me. Over the next 25 plus years it carried me through product marketing, lifecycle strategy, and go-to-market, through B2B and consumer, subscription and enterprise, media and brand, until I'd sat inside nearly every kind of company there is.

What I learned along the way is that every engagement has to start the same place: listening. Not to what people say they'll do, but to what they actually do. The pivots that matter, the refinements that stick, the growth that compounds, none of it comes from a deck. It comes from paying attention. Somewhere in there I went back for an Executive MBA at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business, not to replace what I'd learned in the field, but to give it a framework sturdy enough to keep scaling.

Ruby, founder of The Read Collective Previous roles
ABM Industries

ABM serves 19 vertical markets across five industry groups. Business & Industry spans healthcare systems, sports and entertainment venues, and commercial real estate. Manufacturing & Distribution covers semiconductor and life sciences facilities. Education runs from K–12 schools through higher ed. Aviation moves through airports and airlines. Technical Solutions is built around data centers and power generation.

WNET New York Public Media (PBS)

Work supported the full station group under the WNET umbrella.

  • WNET-13
  • WLIW-21
  • NJTV
  • CREATE
Park 'N Fly

A national off-airport parking provider, running 13 facilities across 12 major U.S. markets, backed by an affiliate network reaching 60-plus airports nationwide.

Condé Nast

Work focused on circulation and consumer marketing across the portfolio.

  • Bon Appétit
  • Condé Nast Traveler
  • Glamour
  • GQ
  • The New Yorker
  • Vanity Fair
  • Wired
Wenner Media

Work focused on new business circulation and consumer marketing practices across the titles.

  • Rolling Stone
  • Us Weekly
  • Men's Journal
Time Out New York

Work centered on renewals, billing, and gifts within circulation and consumer marketing.

  • Time Out New York
  • Time Out New York Kids
  • Time Out Chicago
MediaVest Worldwide (later Spark Foundry)

Work involved media planning and competitive analysis. Accounts sat under Diageo, the client at the time.

  • Burger King
  • Pillsbury
06

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