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Dominik Mayer

Freelance Contract Product Manager

VietnamToptal Member Since November 11, 2018

Dominik believes that a strong passion for life comes with seeking out challenges, knowledge, and new experiences every day—both personally and professionally—in an effort to develop independence, spur intellectual freedom and embolden creativity. As such, as a product management consultant, he propels businesses to build better, sustainable product lines that benefit their brand and their vision for the future.

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Erin Stewart

Freelance Contract Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since October 23, 2018

Erin has over ten years of experience in product design and agile product management leading a variety of responsive web and native app projects for eCommerce, B2C, and B2B organizations. She works with organizations ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies to create inspired and innovative products. She also enjoys helping build out new agile product teams and is well versed in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.

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David Strober

Freelance Contract Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since October 19, 2018

David is a product manager with over 15 years of experience developing cutting-edge digital products and transforming businesses. He works hands-on with the team to create a product from initial concept to final release. He enjoys working with great teams and never shies away from a challenge.

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Sean Everett

Freelance Contract Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since November 6, 2018

With clients including Walmart, AT&T, ESPN, Goldman Sachs, Verizon, Cisco, Discovery, RadioShack, National City, HPE, Fujitsu, and many others, Sean has nearly 20 years of experience working with startups to F1000 companies on products that include AR, AI, video, blockchain, social, gamification, messaging, and eCommerce for consumers, enterprises, and industrials. He also has an MBA from Chicago Booth and a BS in math and actuarial science.

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Darragh Keogh

Freelance Contract Product Manager

United KingdomToptal Member Since October 19, 2018

Darragh is an experienced product owner having managed multi-million-pound digital products for world leading brands across financial services and telecoms. Darragh is a specialist in mobile app product management and well positioned to advise on agile delivery methodologies.

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Andreas Kraft

Freelance Contract Product Manager

SwedenToptal Member Since October 9, 2018

For more than 20 years, Andreas has been working as a product manager successfully launching digital products in several industries. He is experienced in telecom industries, automotive, healthcare, IOT to name a few. Having worked in and for startups, fortune 500, agencies and universities, Andreas is well versed in managing product development from first ideas to finished product with highly effective and influential hands-on leadership style.

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Chris Nicol

Freelance Contract Product Manager

SpainToptal Member Since August 24, 2018

Chris is a product manager with a history of development, UX, and project management. Today, his passion is taking a vision and working with an amazing team to create an experience for users that they love and that makes a difference. Chris' favorite quote: "Help your team (and company) ship the right product to your users" - Josh E

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Alexandru Ursa

Freelance Contract Product Manager

RomaniaToptal Member Since October 11, 2018

Since 2012, Alex's worked in product development/management, eCommerce, and in the management of remote teams/stakeholders. He's fostered the builds of multiple B2C and B2B products that generate more than $200 million in annual revenue. He is passionate about his work and is always looking for new challenges—finding innovative ways to do things better. He is a certified Scrum product owner and also a certified Google Analytics professional.

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Luciano Castro

Freelance Contract Product Manager

ItalyToptal Member Since October 5, 2018

Luciano is a business-driven manager with over 15 years of experience as a CTO and CEO in multinational companies and startups. He has a strong technical background in IT and excellent management skills and is in love with Agile and Lean methodologies. Luciano's worked on more than 2,000 projects with both small and big teams (+400) and always remotely. He also possesses multiple certifications in PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITSQB, ITIL, and Microsoft.

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Jeremy Liles

Freelance Contract Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since March 2, 2019

Jeremy has spent 20 years building solutions to complex problems in finance, law, education, and other industries. He is proficient in the full product development lifecycle; he believes every stage begins with an empathetic understanding of the context and complex ecosystems in which companies, products, and users live. He's an experienced leader who is also hands-on (e.g., coding, creating marketing assets) and a licensed attorney (NY).

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Michael Poythress

Freelance Contract Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since February 13, 2019

Michael excels at engineering technology, interacting with colleagues, and at developing processes to solve everyday problems for people and organizations—both large and small. As a proficient Agile product manager and design leader, he has been planning and delivering web and mobile projects for business and end consumers for the past 18 years. He also has extensive experience in strategic architecture and end-to-end solution creation.

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Getting set up with Toptal and finding a new team member was so easy, I don't know why anyone wouldn't give it a try. Best of all, we no longer have to worry about finding great people to help with our projects!

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Harbor System Integrators, Inc

One of our most time consuming problems is finding qualified staff. We need to find the correct platform to advertise on, create a proper ad, filter through tons of applications, interview and test the applicants' capabilities, and finally take a risk by hiring. This was the old way of doing things. The new way: describe the job position to our Toptal account manager, interview a few qualified applicants, and hire with a risk-free trial -- much faster, a lot easier, and with incredible results.

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EvoBits Information Technology SRL

Always incredibly responsive, prompt, and flexible, Anna has done an outstanding job -- her work is exactly what we needed. Toptal has been a great experience for us due to the ease of getting a project going with quality talent at a cost that fits our budget. The automated online system for managing everything during onboarding was also impressive.

Cody Wilke, Product Manager

Crucial Life Sciences Data Solutions

What attracted us to Toptal was that Toptal is sourcing its talent from a global pool. The selection process is very stringent. They’re sourcing the talent not only based on capabilities -- sourcing the best 3% -- but also based on cultural fit, which is really important to us. We had an amazing experience working with Toptal. Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing us very high-quality resources, on very short notice.

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CSR Limited

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Cleveland Cavaliers

Toptal has helped my business tremendously by finding, vetting, and recruiting the talent I need, at the right time. I’d definitely recommend it to others.

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Tuatara Corp

Toptal has been extremely helpful to us in finding top remote talent. The ratio from interview to hire with Toptal candidates is the highest I've ever experienced in my professional career.

Philipp Berner, Co-founder and CTO

KeepSafe

I can't say enough about how happy and confident I am in working with Enrique. He brings an enthusiasm to his profession that is very refreshing, constantly surprising us with his depth of knowledge and his capability to not only complete the task, but to surpass our expectations. He presents us with solutions that we would not have thought about ourselves, and sees the problem better than we can explain it.

Chad Berryman, Senior Technical Lead

Zoomedia

We had a wonderful experience with our Toptal consultant. He was very reliable and punctual, delivering excellent work on a budget—we will certainly be using him again!

Barbara Karpf, President

DecoratorsBest

How to Hire Contract Product Managers through Toptal

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A Toptal director of product management will work you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right contract product manager for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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The Right Fit, Guaranteed

Work with your new contract product manager for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

FAQs

  • How are Toptal contract product managers different?

    At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our contract product managers to ensure we only match you with talent of the highest caliber. Of the more than 100,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut. You'll work with product management experts (never generalized recruiters or HR reps) to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics. The end result: expert vetted talent from our network, custom matched to fit your business needs. Start now.

  • Can I hire contract product managers in less than 48 hours through Toptal?

    Depending on availability and how fast you can progress, you could start working with a contract product manager within 48 hours of signing up. Start now.

  • What is the no-risk trial period for Toptal contract product managers?

    We make sure that each engagement between you and your contract product manager begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you're completely satisfied with the results, we'll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you'd like. If you're not completely satisfied, you won't be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial. Start now.

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    Trusted Experts Only

    All of our talent are seasoned experts who ramp up quickly, readily contribute as core team members, and work with you to minimize onboarding time.

  • The Right Fit

    The Right Fit

    We have a knack for matching you with the right fit. Start working with your new hire on a no-risk trial period, paying only if satisfied.

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    Scale as Needed

    Hire in under 2 weeks and scale your team up or down as needed, no strings attached.

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    Seamless Hiring

    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDA’s. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.

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    Flexible Engagements

    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

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    Focus on your project and enjoy support from your dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.

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