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Greg Prickril

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
Germany
Toptal Member Since November 16, 2018

Greg is a seasoned product strategy consultant and trainer with nearly 20 years of experience shipping digital enterprise products at IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. He is also a global expert on delivering complex products and solutions at an enterprise scale.

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Prashant Saxena

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
Canada
Toptal Member Since March 28, 2023

Prashant is a product manager with 7+ years of experience. He has worked with companies such as Cisco, Thomson Reuters, Marsh, IHS Markit, and Nagarro. Specializing in managing the development of SaaS and B2C web applications, Prashant delivers results with deep expertise in Agile product management, UI/UX, SQL, Google Analytics, Jira, and Excel. His industry experience is backed by scrum product owner certifications, an MBA from Notre Dame, and a bachelor's degree in computer science.

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Roland Burke

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
United States
Toptal Member Since October 26, 2020

Roland has delivered and managed software products for more than a decade, including four years at JPMorgan Chase. With his background in computer science and full-stack development, he has led projects that helped businesses increase revenue and streamline processes. Roland achieves the strategic goals and objectives of companies through teamwork, collaboration, and servant leadership.

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Andreas Bartels

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since March 8, 2022

Andreas is an accomplished product leader with 20+ years of experience delivering high-profile products, services, and business transformation. He's an expert in startup, scale-up, and established business environments, developing products and product strategies from concept to launch employing Agile methodologies. Andreas is a proven people leader with strong stakeholder management skills, from cross-functional teams to external investors, agencies, or suppliers.

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Amleto Montinari

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
Spain
Toptal Member Since July 9, 2020

Amleto is a seasoned product and strategy manager with extensive experience in B2B software, payments, and consulting. He developed a deep understanding of client and user needs during his tenure as a senior associate at Allyiz, Toptal, PayPal, and JP Morgan, as well as through his startup and role at Worldsensing. Amleto successfully launched numerous projects that generated multimillion-dollar revenues and cost savings, while his award-winning software has garnered international recognition.

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Drew Bartlett

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
United States
Toptal Member Since July 7, 2020

Drew is a seasoned digital product management and software development leader with over 20 years of experience. Known as an expert agent of change, Drew has a history of accomplishment delivering high impact, transformational and disruptive product, platform, and service offerings to market. Drew is an expert throughout the product development lifecycle from market analysis, strategy, and ideation through execution, operationalization, launch, iteration, and end of life. Drew delivers results.

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Drew Schwartz

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
United States
Toptal Member Since May 26, 2019

Drew has expertise in developing new product strategies, launching and scaling new products, and leading product management teams of all sizes. Most recently, he was the director of digital at Elevance Health, overseeing the strategy and management of employer and broker digital products. Previously, he was the co-founder and CPO of Harness Wealth, launching its primary go-to-market product. Before this, Drew held VP product roles at Hometeam (Care Guardian), ShopKeep, Ladders, and Gust.

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Dominik Mayer

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
Vietnam
Toptal Member Since December 24, 2018

Dominik believes that a strong passion for life comes with seeking out challenges, knowledge, and new experiences every day—both personally and professionally—to develop independence, spur intellectual freedom, and embolden creativity. 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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Kevin Mansfield

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
New Zealand
Toptal Member Since December 10, 2019

Kevin has 15+ years of expertise in product design, management, leadership, and strategy, delivering results in eCommerce, B2C, and B2B sectors. He has worked with Fortune 500s and startups, driving growth through customer-focused solutions. His experience includes mobile app development, analytics platforms, CRMs, ERPs, and more. Skilled in Agile frameworks, Kevin builds high-performing, outcome-driven teams to create impactful, technology-powered products.

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George Wu

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
Japan
Toptal Member Since December 2, 2019

Three words describe George; innovation, curiosity, and empathy. George has designed and delivered products that have been showcased for the President of the USA. He has worked in industries such as fintech, proptech, SaaS, consumer electronics, and aerospace, to name a few. He utilizes creativity to drive innovation for winning products from concept to launch.

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Mikhail Asavkin

Freelance Product Consultant
Verified Expert in Product Management
Australia
Toptal Member Since July 14, 2021

Mikhail has 10+ years of experience specializing in B2B2C marketplaces, AI, eCommerce, and real estate. While his primary focus is multiplying company profits via product management, he likes to help with engineering leadership, growth hacking, hiring, and company culture. Mikhail's greatest achievements include founding five companies (two of which were acquired), leading products in multinational companies with 5,000+ engineers, and bringing many startups to profitability and greater success.

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How to Hire Product Consultants Through Toptal

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A Toptal client advisor will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Within days, we’ll introduce you to the right product consultant for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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Work with your new product consultant for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they’re the right fit before starting the engagement.

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Our name “Toptal” comes from Top Talent—meaning we constantly strive to find and work with the best from around the world. Our rigorous screening process identifies experts in their domains who have passion and drive.

Of the thousands of applications Toptal sees each month, typically fewer than 3% are accepted.

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Capabilities of Product Consultants

Market-ready solutions result from aligning user needs with business objectives. Product consultants use discovery, stakeholder alignment, and roadmap prioritization to identify gaps, create feedback loops, and address user pain points with effective solutions from ideation to launch and beyond.

Client Elicitation

Clear product direction begins by asking the right questions. Through structured discovery sessions and guided conversations, product consultants turn discussions into actionable requirements. This process helps organizations assess alignment early and reduces the risk of acting on incorrect assumptions.

Product Demonstrations

Seeing a product in action helps stakeholders evaluate functionality, usability, and real-world value. Through proof-of-concept demonstrations built around high-impact use cases and workflows, product consultants make it easier to assess how a solution supports actual business needs.

Tailored Solutions

Long-term product success relies on how well a solution fits an organization’s workflows, goals, and operating model. Product consultants align configuration decisions with delivery metrics and engagement criteria to help teams adapt products to business needs, while ensuring usability and scalability.

Sales Alignment

Product consultants use their knowledge of product capabilities and development to refine proposals and ensure a smooth transition from sales to onboarding. Sales and customer success teams receive direct support on client calls, allowing objections to be addressed with product expertise.

Implementation Planning

Clear project plans translate product strategy into actionable, tactical steps. By defining timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and performance metrics, Toptal product consultants create implementation plans that support smooth execution and successful product adoption.

Technical Expertise

Deep technical knowledge enables effective responses to complex questions about functionality, architecture, specifications, and limitations. At Toptal, our product consultants bridge technical and business perspectives to ensure decisions reflect real use cases and support long-term strategic goals.

Operational Readiness

Effective adoption depends on teams knowing how to use a solution in real situations. Through workflow-based training and practical workshops, product consultants equip teams with the skills and confidence needed to operate solutions successfully.

Product Iteration

Customer feedback is used to validate a product’s core strengths and uncover functional gaps. By translating user insights into clear feature requirements, our product consultants help teams design enhancements grounded in real customer needs.

Concept Proofing

Testing ideas early helps teams understand whether a feature is worth building. Through realistic use cases and proof-of-concept solutions, product consultants enable organizations to assess value and feasibility before investing in full development.

Value Amplification

Analyzing business workflows against existing features helps uncover underused capabilities and new applications of solutions. By partnering with account managers, product consultants surface untapped use cases for active solutions, creating opportunities to improve outcomes and drive stronger returns on investment.

FAQs

  • Typically, you can hire product consultants with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or full end-to-end project delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.

    Once you select your product consultant, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.

  • To hire the right product consultant, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect product consultants for your project.

  • At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our product consultants to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.

    In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.

    When you hire product consultants with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched product consultants ready to help you achieve your goals.

  • You can hire product consultants on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the project end-to-end based on your specific requirements as part of our Consulting and Services offerings. Whether you hire a product consultant for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our product consultants can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.

  • We make sure that each engagement between you and your product consultant 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 product consultant who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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    Our talent network is composed of thoroughly vetted professionals who ramp up quickly, function as essential team members, and deliver results.

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    Our experienced talent matchers specialize in identifying talent that fits your needs. They work to understand your exact requirements and hand-select the best professionals for your project.

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    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDAs, streamlining the hiring process so you can focus on innovation, not overhead.

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    No-risk Trial Period

    We want to be sure your engagement is a total success, so we offer a no-risk trial period. Work with your new hire for up to two weeks and pay only if you’re satisfied.

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    We help you scale your team up or down as needed, with quick and efficient hiring in under 48 hours.

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    Our flexible engagement models allow you to choose the engagement type that suits your needs and adjust it anytime: hourly, part time, or full time.

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