Embed
Put product leadership inside the team.
Without hiring blind.
Ratio Africa embeds experienced product managers into companies that need clearer priorities, stronger execution, and better product decisions before they are ready to hire a full product team.
Engagement types
01
Fractional CPO
Senior product direction for founders and leadership teams.
02
Embedded Senior PM
Product execution for teams shipping complex work.
03
Embedded PM
Roadmap delivery and day-to-day product management support.
04
Product Team Support
Coaching, rituals, and decision support for existing product teams.
Engagement models
The right product capacity for the stage you are in.
Direction, execution, or both.
Some companies need senior product judgment. Some need delivery muscle. Some need temporary support while they prepare to hire permanently.
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Fractional CPO
For founders and leadership teams that need product direction, prioritisation, product operating rhythm, and decision support.
02
Embedded Senior Product Manager
For growing teams that need a senior PM to lead discovery, shape roadmap decisions, align stakeholders, and drive delivery across design and engineering.
03
Embedded Product Manager
For teams that need day-to-day roadmap delivery, requirements clarity, sprint support, customer feedback synthesis, and product operations.
04
Product Team Support
For companies that already have product managers but need coaching, templates, rituals, and sharper product decision-making across the team.
When it fits
Use Embed when work is moving, but not moving well enough.
More capacity without a rushed hire.
Embed is for companies with real product work to ship, but not enough product leadership, ownership, or execution rhythm inside the team.
- The founder is still acting as the product lead
- Engineering is building, but priorities keep changing
- Customer feedback exists, but no one is turning it into product decisions
- The roadmap is active, but ownership is unclear
- Hiring a full-time senior product leader is too early or too expensive
- A product team needs temporary senior support
How it works
Start with the problem. Then define the seat.
No generic placement.
The discovery call decides whether the company needs product leadership, execution support, team coaching, or no embedded support at all.
01
Diagnose the gap
Clarify what is slowing product work down and what kind of product capacity is missing.
02
Define the role
Agree whether the right fit is fractional product leadership, senior PM support, embedded PM execution, or team enablement.
03
Set the operating rhythm
Define meetings, decision points, deliverables, stakeholders, and reporting.
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Embed and review
Work inside the team, review progress regularly, and adjust scope based on what the business needs.
Need product capacity inside the team?
Start with a discovery call.
Ratio Africa will help clarify whether Embed, Transform, Build, training, or no engagement is the right next step.
Book a discovery call