Tadhg O'Leary Consulting

I provide fractional product leadership and strategy consulting for B2B startups. I help teams shape product strategy, make sharper decisions about what to build, and create products their customers love.

I've worked with clients across a broad range of industries, company sizes, and stages of growth, from early-stage startups to 400+ person scale-ups.

Selected clients:
	- Noloco
	- Jisr HR
	- Aerocloud
	- Roamr
	- CalQRisk
	- Booka
	- Tone AI
	- Inclusio

For more on my work, visit: tadhgoleary.com

Fractional Product Leader

Lattice

Zero to One Senior PM where I worked on Lattice HRIS.

Senior Product Manager

Workday

I worked on the Workday Help product as a zero to one project. Workday Help provides HR knowledge and case management solutions that help employees find the information they need faster.

I was responsible for defining and executing on the roadmap for the case management product area. Our focus was on enabling HR professionals to be as productive as possible while providing the best possible experience to their employees.

Product Manager

I spent my first 2 years with Workday as a product manager on the Recruiting product team. 

My primary focus was on building new products and features focused on recruiter productivity. I was the lead PM on the new job requisition workspace feature which remains the most frequently used feature in the Recruiting product suite.

Senior Associate Product Manager

One Rocket

One Rocket was an employee onboarding SaaS startup which I founded in January 2015. With One Rocket, we participated in the Y Combinator fellowship program.

We worked with customers in both the US and Europe to help streamline their employee onboarding processes. The One Rocket product allowed new employees to access documents, learning content and more from one simple interface.

Co-Founder & CEO

By day: Helping B2B startups build products that win → tadhgoleary.com

Also by day: Writing about product & AI → productandprompts.com

Tadhg O'Leary

As an outcome-driven Product Manager, I am passionate about delivering innovative solutions and creating exceptional value for over 4,000 global customers. Here's how I make it happen:

- Customer Research: Conduct comprehensive qualitative and quantitative research to uncover high-impact opportunities and inform our strategic product roadmap.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working as part of an Agile team, including development, QA, documentation, UX, and customer support, to deliver impactful outcomes.
- Outcome Metrics: Champion the use of behavioural product metrics to evaluate feature impact and guide future product decisions.
- Stakeholder Communication: Maintain regular communication with stakeholders—customers, executives, and field readiness teams—to provide updates on product performance and gather critical feedback.

In my role, I focus on aligning our products with customer needs, driving innovation, and achieving measurable results. By leveraging my expertise in product management, I strive to elevate both our product offerings and the customer experience.

- Product Launch Coaching: Successfully coached an organization through the launch of a leading new HR case management product. This included training in essential product practices such as - OKRs, user story mapping, BDD, outcome-based roadmaps, Design Thinking, and Lean UX for Outcome Driven Development.
- Mentorship and Development: Guided and mentored Product Managers in creating product vision, roadmapping, backlog management, user story mapping, Scrum team collaboration, and prioritization.
- Value Delivery Improvement: Coached a team to reduce value delivery time for customers from 1 year to 11 weeks by forming a fully cross-functional team and integrating UX design into the process. - Mentored Product Owners and UX Designers across multiple organizations.
- Product Ownership: Served as the Product Owner for my coaching team in developing the Team Agility Assessment, a team health check tool. This involved conducting interviews, employing design thinking, rapid prototyping, and launching to 235 teams within the organization.
- Design Sprints Leadership: Led multiple Design Sprints to enable rapid prototyping of ideas and experimentation.
- Facilitation and Training: Facilitated large-scale leadership events and training sessions.
OKR Coaching: Provided OKR coaching to enable effective goal setting and alignment across teams.

Agile Coach

- Product Vision Workshops: Designed and led full-day Product Vision workshops based on Roman Pichler’s Product Vision Board format, helping Product Owners and teams formulate a clear vision for their product areas.
- Design Sprints Facilitation: Facilitated Design Sprints using the 5-day Google Ventures process, enabling cross-functional teams to rapidly ideate and validate new product feature concepts.
- Communities of Practice: Facilitated and assisted with Communities of Practice on Kanban, BDD, and other Agile topics, promoting continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the Workday Dublin community.
- Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) Adoption: Guided teams in adopting BDD, resulting in a 22% reduction in defects.
- Release Planning and User Story Mapping: Coached teams in effective Release Planning techniques, including facilitating User Story Mapping workshops to plan iterative and incremental releases.

Scrum Master

Product Elevation

* Founder & leader of the Product Elevation Conference - www.productelevation.org
* 300+ person global conference for Product Managers, with a mission to elevate professional Product Management
* Undertaking market research, pricing strategy, programme design and conference launch

Product Management Conference Leader

Leading & organising monthly meetups with the best Irish and international Product speakers

Product Management Community Leader

Symantec

As a servant leader working across development and UX teams, my responsibilities included:

- Scrum Master and Kanban Coach: Trained and coached Scrum and Kanban teams, including onboarding new teams and Product Owners, to enhance agile practices and team efficiency.
- Lean Practices: Introduced Lean tools such as Toyota Kata and A3 Thinking to Kanban teams, significantly reducing lead times from an average of 17 days to 3 days.
- Agile Community of Practice: Established and facilitated an Agile Community of Practice to scale knowledge and best practices across our growing organization.
- Mentorship and Agile Program Development: Mentored Scrum Masters in eBusiness and other groups, and co-created Symantec’s Agile Mentoring Program with an Agile Coach. This 14-week Agile Coaching course was designed to develop Scrum Masters into apprentice Agile Coaches.

* Overseeing the creative, branding, tone and optimisation of all Norton consumer web properties in EMEA, a business worth $420 million per year
* Leading a team of 5 designers & 2 copywriters across EMEA & APJ
* Delivered a shopping cart redesign which added $12 million/year in incremental bookings to the global business Performed regular usability testing with customers Optimisation of EMEA & APJ Norton.com eStores, using A/B Testing. One re-design initiative added $2 million/year to our UK bookings
* Analysing reports in Adobe Target and Omniture to inform on improvements to user experience

UX Design Manager

As a multi-disciplined designer / front-end developer in EMEA, my main responsibilities included:

* Supervising & mentoring 2 other designers
* Design lead for Symantec's Digital River hosted online stores in EMEA. This included a major re-branding project for the Norton consumer stores for Eastern Europe, which succeeded in doubling bookings in the region.
* Front-end development of all EMEA online stores through becoming a jQuery ninja.

Sr UX Designer & UI Developer

Acid Web Solutions

* Web Development of a Content Management System enabling companies to build & maintain their own websites Performing marketing & sales of our products
* Built a portfolio of delighted SME customers
* Optimised our website conversions by 43% in 1 year using Google Analytics

Co-Founder & Web Developer

As a passionate and results-driven Product Manager, I am dedicated to transforming customer challenges into innovative solutions. With a keen focus on understanding the most complex problems, I thrive in collaborative, high-performing teams that deliver exceptional value through strategic product management.

I am proud to be a gold medal winner of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Product Management from Technological University Dublin (TUD), which has provided me with a strong foundation in product strategy and execution.

In addition to my role in product management, I lead Product Elevation, an independent community and conference for Product Managers. Our mission is to elevate the professional practice of product management by fostering a space for knowledge sharing and professional growth.

I am also the author of "The Third Stream," a book focused on outcome-driven product creation. You can learn more about it at http://www.thethirdstreambook.com

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