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Toptal is a marketplace for experienced Product Consultants. Top companies and startups hire freelance Product Consultants from Toptal for app development, web development, and other software development projects to achieve their business needs.

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Clients rate Toptal product consultants 4.9 / 5 on average based on 268 reviews.

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Katie Mills

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC-08:00
United States
Toptal Member Since March 8, 2021

Katie has over ten years of experience leading product management, consumer insight, and user experience efforts for large Fortune 500 companies and small consumer tech startups. She has successfully taken products from concept through launch and drove ongoing product innovation and improvements. Katie has a successful track record of building new teams and competencies, most recently for consumer SaaS startups.

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Matti Kakkori

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC-08:00
United States
Toptal Member Since August 12, 2019

Matti is a product management leader with 15+ years in both large organizations and startups. He has managed technology PM teams, re-structured $5+ billion product portfolios, and built and brought to the market several 0-1 products. He has established data and development processes and built and managed teams in product, engineering, design, and data. Matti has worked on products—consumer HW devices, smartphone SW platforms, physical goods and eCommerce, applied AI/ML, SaaS platforms, and GIS.

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Louis Levine

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC-07:00
United States
Toptal Member Since November 23, 2022

Louis is a product leader who's excited to solve problems and deliver exceptional outcomes. He's honed his craft as a head of product for an acquired healthtech startup, product lead for a global benefits consultancy, and strategy manager for a Fortune 20 company. Louis is passionate about helping people navigate complex systems at their most difficult times. Through user research, strategy development, and product leadership, he's ready to supercharge any product team.

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David Bialer

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since February 23, 2022

David has over 35 years in the tech industry, launching innovative, complex products across multiple markets. He's led teams that have delivered consumer marketplaces, SaaS platforms, developer tools, device software, and human psychometrics. David is the calm in the storm, inspiring teams to give their best. He ruthlessly prioritizes and believes in transparency. David excels at bringing ideas from conception to launch and everything in between, including market validation and prototyping.

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Onkar Singh Lohtham

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+00:00
United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since August 12, 2021

Onkar has 15+ years of leadership and hands-on experience in global and startup product management. He specializes in building and launching web-based and mobile B2B and B2C products, which he has done in publishing, eCommerce, a hedge fund, agriculture, media, market research, and fashion domains in the US, UK, EU, and SEA. Onkar excels at synthesizing core business problems into actionable points by leveraging his technical and design background, business acumen, and consulting skills.

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Scott Lee

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+01:00
Italy
Toptal Member Since February 11, 2022

Scott has eight years of experience as a product manager, consultant, and entrepreneur working with worldwide markets on behalf of large groups such as LVMH, Kering, and Richemont, as well as pre-seed to scale-up startups like Blablacar, Cheerz, and Snips (bought by Sonos). He has an interest in transversal and multidisciplinary projects. Scott is happy to jump into a pitch deck design and strategy debate with a founder to integrate and set up an analytics environment for future endeavors.

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Ahmad Alkhawaja

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since July 8, 2022

Ahmad is experienced in developing and managing products from concept to launch, with a proven track record in identifying market opportunities, defining product requirements, and driving product development. He is also skilled in go-to-market planning and execution. He analyzes and solves problems by thinking strategically and executing tactically. Ahmad is a leader who is adept at liaising between technical and non-tech savvy people to communicate project requirements and updates.

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Malavika Lakireddy

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+05:00
India
Toptal Member Since March 19, 2019

Malavika has 12+ years of experience in product management and engineering roles in MarTech, eCommerce, marketplaces, FinTech, and analytics products. With proven cross-functional leadership in taking products from concept to market covering aspects of monetization, product design, customer development, and go-to-market with globally distributed teams, she's an analytical hands-on PM with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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Duong Nguyen

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+07:00
Vietnam
Toptal Member Since October 28, 2022

Duong is a Vietnam-based product manager with solid experience managing various consumer-facing products and mobile applications. She has substantial expertise in product management, user experience design, and product analytics. Duong doesn't mind getting her hands dirty to discover user pain points and build the best product to solve them. She loves ideas, but she loves execution even more.

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Shu Hiong Tan

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+08:00
Malaysia
Toptal Member Since February 9, 2022

Hiong is an innovation coach with 15+ years of experience helping governments, startups, and corporates identify opportunities, create solutions, prototype, and test them working on hands-on product development right through to more strategic initiatives around innovation culture and setting up entities for success. His strengths lie in design thinking, design sprints, and lean startup methodologies to get a deep understanding of users and validate concepts before investing too much into them.

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Mikhail Asavkin

Freelance Product Consultant
UTC+10:00
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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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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FAQs

  • How quickly can you hire with Toptal?

    Typically, you can hire a product consultant with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or Managed 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 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 entire project from end-to-end with our Managed Delivery offering. Whether you hire an expert 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 expert who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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