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Chris Nicol

Freelance Product Owner

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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Luciano Castro

Freelance Product Owner

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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Justin Nassiri

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since April 7, 2019

For over the past decade, Justin has been a serial entrepreneur. As a solo founder, he has raised $3 million+ in venture capital, including an investment from Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt. His software products have been used by over 35+ Fortune 500 companies, including Disney, P&G, Microsoft, Budweiser, and more. Justin holds an MBA from Stanford, has worked as a McKinsey & Co. consultant, and is a US Navy certified nuclear engineer.

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Prem Sundaram

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since March 21, 2019

For over 15 years, Prem's been successfully developing and launching software and product innovations as an international technology consultant and product manager. He advises companies of all stages in diverse industries including software, banking, internet-of-things, mobile, and cloud—in both the US and Europe. Prem has a bachelor of science degree in physics and materials science from Cambridge University and an MBA from UCLA,

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Basil Hashem

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since February 13, 2019

Basil is a products executive with 20+ years of experience in enterprise, consumer, and developer solutions in corporate and startup settings. His particular expertise is centered on general strategy, market analysis, technology selection, and architecture. Basil joined Toptal to share his in-depth and varied experience and expertise on a range of projects.

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Jeremy Liles

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since March 2, 2019

Jeremy has spent 20 years building solutions to complex problems in finance, law, education, and other industries. Jeremy 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. Jeremy is an experienced leader who is also hands-on (e.g., coding, creating marketing assets) and a licensed attorney (NY).

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David Britton

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since February 19, 2019

Dave takes a customer & hypothesis-driven approach in defining, validating, and scaling compelling products. He's led mobile/web products in fintech, SaaS, eCommerce, adtech, and marketplaces. Skilled in strategy (differentiation, growth, monetization), planning (road maps, GTM, MVP design), and execution (backlog, user stories, pilot management, A/B tests), he's equally comfortable leading teams, talking to users, and analyzing behavioral data.

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Brad Moss

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since February 12, 2019

Brad has successfully architected, sold, implemented, and managed complex projects and products during his tenure. His experience has allowed him to work in and with multiple countries around the globe. With experience in online commerce, online marketplaces, and education, he has built and successfully managed teams large and small, on and offshore. He is a thinker and a doer and understands how to manage difficult projects.

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Steve Pomroy

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since January 16, 2019

With more than 22 years of experience as an IT entrepreneur, Steve has the depth of product management experience to deliver innovative solutions for pressing customer problems. He co-founded four technology companies, two of which he played a key role in growing and guiding through to acquisition: Plato Consulting (sold to KPMG in 2013) and Camouflage Software, Inc. (sold to Imperva in 2016).

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Connie Kwan

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since January 16, 2019

Connie has 16 years of product management experience spanning two-sided marketplaces, enterprise software, consumer apps, health tech, energy, and semiconductor. She was the CPO at Khosla-funded health company Carrot and the head of product for Atlassian Marketplace. She has also shipped at Microsoft, SunPower, Cypress, ImpactIQ, and Sourcemap.com. Connie is a storyteller who can help you craft your vision and help your team deliver on it.

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Hanzel Corella

Freelance Product Owner

United StatesToptal Member Since September 19, 2019

For over ten years, Hanzel has been launching new products to market for both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He’s worked in retail, energy, healthcare, online payments, ride-sharing, IoT (internet of things), and solar power industries. As a product consultant, corporate innovation manager, and director of a creative agency, Hanzel is well versed in brand, UX/UI, web and mobile development, and digital marketing.

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Toptal helped us achieve our goals by really understanding what we were looking for. They worked with us very closely to figure out what the right talent looked like -- from a technical, cultural perspective -- and helped us get the onboarding done quickly so the talent could be effective as soon as possible.

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The best talent is at Toptal for sure. It's way better and faster than any other means of getting top talent.

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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!

Mike Branch , President & CTO

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.

Catalin S. Balaci, Owner

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.

Elmar Platzer, Digital Transformation Leader, CSR Australia

CSR Limited

With the pressure on and millions watching the Cleveland Cavaliers during the NBA Playoffs, Toptal delivered the talent and expertise needed to launch a brand new fan engagement platform.

Conor Kenney, Director of Professional Services

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.

Xavier Xicay, CEO & Creative Director

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 Product Owners through Toptal

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Talk to One of Our Industry Experts

A Toptal director of product management will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Work With Hand-Selected Talent

Within days, we'll introduce you to the right product owner for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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The Right Fit, Guaranteed

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

FAQs

  • How are Toptal product owners different?

    At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our product owners 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 product owners in less than 48 hours through Toptal?

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

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

    We make sure that each engagement between you and your product owner 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.

  • What type of talent do you have?

    Our platform hosts a very diverse group of skill sets, experiences, and backgrounds. Our freelancers range from software engineers, user experience designers, project management experts, and product managers to finance experts who have worked at leading companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many more. Our experienced product owners are strategists with multiple years of experience in agile product development and scrum teams, and they have great communication skills. They have worked in a myriad of agile projects, such as developing product vision and product strategy, product discovery, product backlog, prioritizing new features, and other projects.

  • What other services does Toptal provide?

    Besides our talent matching services, we also assemble cross-functional teams of finance experts, senior project managers, web developers, app developers, user interface designers and other technical skills.

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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

    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.

  • Scale as Needed

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

  • 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.

  • Flexible Engagements

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

  • Expert Talent Matching

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

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