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Calvin Hung

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC-08:00
United States
Toptal Member Since August 24, 2021

Calvin is a skilled product leader with 12+ years of product management and venture-building expertise. He's recognized for building, launching, and growing consumer products, delivering exceptional cross-channel experiences to create verticals and business opportunities in retail, financial services, and healthcare. He's a trusted partner for executive teams, driving the strategic vision and day-to-day execution to foster product innovation, accelerate growth, and build product capabilities.

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Greg Cohen

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC-08:00
United States
Toptal Member Since May 3, 2021

With over 25 years of product management and product leadership experience, Greg has led, managed, and coached teams in creating successful services and products. He is happiest working with stakeholders, customers, and the product team to release impactful products on tight deadlines. As an early adopter of Agile and Lean methods, Greg always works to advance his team's customer understanding and process while delivering against the roadmap and business outcomes.

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Nishant Saxena

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since June 1, 2022

Nishant is a seasoned product leader with over 15 years of experience in all aspects of the product space, from manager to CPO. He has successfully generated over $2 billion in revenue across 50+ digital and physical products by setting visions, crafting strategies, and spearheading teams to deliver innovative solutions that drive business results. Nishant is willing to embrace new challenges and help other businesses evolve and succeed.

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Rochelle Ramirez

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since July 12, 2021

Rochelle is an energetic product leader with 15+ years of experience impacting users and stakeholders through strategic product thinking, execution, and leadership. She focuses on strategy development which balances user-centricity and profitability. She is an expert in managing all business and consumer product lifecycle stages—from concept to end of life—for both mature and new products and for startups to large enterprises.

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Andreas Bartels

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+00:00
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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Mohamad Chehab

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+01:00
Germany
Toptal Member Since October 11, 2022

Mo is a product leader with experience across various industries and businesses, from early-stage startups to enterprise-level companies. He specializes in product strategy, business transformation, and execution. Mo is an expert at maximizing impact and ensuring that a strategy is well-executed across the organization.

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Esmar Mesic

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since December 13, 2018

As a digital product leader with 15 years of experience, Esmar has built and scaled products for Fortune 500 companies and successful startups from Europe, with a focus on experimentation and a hands-on leadership style. He has the ability to make an impact by consistently delivering results that drive growth, increase revenue, and improve customer satisfaction. With his industry-agnostic approach and minimalist philosophy, Esmar can take your digital products to the next level.

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Akshat Agrawal

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since July 8, 2022

Akshat is a product manager with nine years of experience and an expert at scaling products and product teams to maturity. He has worked with some of the top names in the tech industry and built products used by millions of users. Akshat's experience with Agile helped him build, run, and profitably sell an edtech company and taught him the importance of budgeting, validating a hypothesis with data, building an MVP, testing the product-market fit early, and iterating accordingly.

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Fu Fei

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+08:00
Singapore
Toptal Member Since April 6, 2021

Fu Fei loves tinkering with new products and feels lucky to work full-time as a product manager. He tweets and blogs about his lessons as a product manager for early-stage startups and offers frameworks to demystify early-stage product development. In his professional career, Fu Fei has worked on products spanning a range of industries (logistics, nonprofit, and data analytics). Fu Fei joined Toptal to find freelance work that makes an impact.

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Amit Vyas

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+08:00
Singapore
Toptal Member Since October 26, 2021

Amit is a seasoned professional with extensive experience across corporate banking, fintech, payments and liquidity management, sales, digital capabilities, product management, and technology development. He has defined and executed a strategy for expansion, regional and global product management, and managed large-scale transformational programs. Amit has a strong background in using SaaS, Agile methodologies, financial products, and facilitating effective engagements with fintech sector.

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Justin McMurray

Freelance Product Leader
Verified Expert in Product Management
UTC+10:00
Australia
Toptal Member Since April 9, 2021

Justin is an experienced entrepreneur and product leader who has worked around the world in a variety of startups, companies, and innovative product studios. He brings extensive expertise in early-stage venture creation, design, prototyping, and product management. Justin is an outstanding leader well versed in bringing teams together, running agile and lean practices, and dealing with complexity and uncertainty.

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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right product leader for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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Work with your new product leader for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

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FAQs

  • How quickly can you hire with Toptal?

    Typically, you can hire product leaders 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 leader, 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 leader, 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 leaders for your project.

  • At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our product leaders 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 leaders with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched product leaders ready to help you achieve your goals.

  • You can hire product leaders 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 leaders can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.

  • We make sure that each engagement between you and your product leader 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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    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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    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

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