Tadhg O'Leary Consulting

I provide fractional product leadership and strategy consulting for B2B startups. I help teams shape product strategy, make sharper decisions about what to build, and create products their customers love.

I've worked with clients across a broad range of industries, company sizes, and stages of growth, from early-stage startups to 400+ person scale-ups.

Selected clients:
	- Noloco
	- Jisr HR
	- Aerocloud
	- Roamr
	- CalQRisk
	- Booka
	- Tone AI
	- Inclusio

For more on my work, visit: tadhgoleary.com

Fractional Product Leader

Lattice

Zero to One Senior PM where I worked on Lattice HRIS.

Senior Product Manager

Workday

I worked on the Workday Help product as a zero to one project. Workday Help provides HR knowledge and case management solutions that help employees find the information they need faster.

I was responsible for defining and executing on the roadmap for the case management product area. Our focus was on enabling HR professionals to be as productive as possible while providing the best possible experience to their employees.

Product Manager

I spent my first 2 years with Workday as a product manager on the Recruiting product team. 

My primary focus was on building new products and features focused on recruiter productivity. I was the lead PM on the new job requisition workspace feature which remains the most frequently used feature in the Recruiting product suite.

Senior Associate Product Manager

One Rocket

One Rocket was an employee onboarding SaaS startup which I founded in January 2015. With One Rocket, we participated in the Y Combinator fellowship program.

We worked with customers in both the US and Europe to help streamline their employee onboarding processes. The One Rocket product allowed new employees to access documents, learning content and more from one simple interface.

Co-Founder & CEO

By day: Helping B2B startups build products that win → tadhgoleary.com

Also by day: Writing about product & AI → productandprompts.com

Tadhg O'Leary

WP Engine

The 6th-largest public website platform used by the largest ten million websites, as the leading managed WordPress platform and WordPress developer tools company, serving billions of requests per day for 170,000 customers.  Our 1200 employees are devoted to world-class customer service (NPS 74) and the most sophisticated infrastructure for scalable, secure, performant WordPress-powered websites.

Founder, Chief Innovation Officer

Capital Factory

Capital Factory is a seed-stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies. Startup companies apply to participate in our 10 week summer program intended to get a startup pointed in the right direction with a clear path to profitability and growth.

Mentor

Capital Thought

Managing incubated companies and works for hire.

Balancing big ideas with changing the pellets in the urinals.  Nimitz-class cat herding.

Partner

Smart Bear Inc

Developer, salesman, manager, advertiser, visionary, evangelist, and chief executive changer of the toilet paper.

Smart Bear makes Code Collaborator (http://codecollab.com) -- the only professional-grade peer code review tool on the market and winner of the Jolt Award.  I also wrote the only book on lightweight peer code review technique (http://codereviewbook.com).

Customers include: Adobe, AOL, Autodesk, Cisco, Cognos, EA Sports, Intuit, Ixia, Pfizer, RIM (Blackberry), Northrup Grumman, Seagate, Siemens, SONIC, and Qualcomm.

Smart Bear was acquired by AutomatedQA in December of 2007; the parent company was later renamed to Smart Bear.

Founder, CEO

Geist Manufacturing

After ITWatchdogs (below) was sold to Geist, I stayed on as a part-part-time project consultant for the product line I helped create.

Project Consultant

ITWatchDogs

Designed and developed firmware for ARM7 devices for multiple product lines.  Grew to 3-man team.

ITWatchdogs was sold to Geist Manufacturing in July 2005 but still operates under its own name.

Devices measure server room environments (temp, humidity, air flow, light, sound, power, water, door position) with both internal and external sensors, showing current and historical data through HTTP, SNMP and alarming through SMTP and SNMP.

http://itwatchdogs.com

Co-Founder, CTO

DataCert

Lead 2-man team to implement a web-based reporting system for DataCert's AIMS software in record time.  Managed remote development.

http://datacert.com

Consultant

Sheer Genius Software

Grew consulting shop to six employees with seven-figure contracts with public companies.  Lead team to design and implement tools now installed on tens of thousands of desktops.  Managed remote development.

CTO, co-founder

GlobeSet

Refactored development techniques for the eWallet division

Photodex

Ported 750,000 lines of Windows GUI code to Macintosh, Linux, *BSD, and Solaris by creating a Windows API emulation layer so future changes to the Windows base were reflected automatically in the other versions.  Implemented several new features in the core product line.  Optimized graphics routines in C and x86 assembly.

http://photodex.com

Developer

Built four technology startups, both bootstrapped and funded, both alone and with co-founders, all to more than $1M in annual revenue, sold two, currently at the fourth, http://WPEngine.com, with 200,000 customers and 1200 global employees.

Since 2009 I've also been an angel investor and was a founding member of Capital Factory, an Austin incubator and co-working space. 

I've been writing since 2007 about early-stage startups, blogging at https://blog.asmartbear.com and articles at https://longform.asmartbear.com.

Jason Cohen

The intersection of:

1. Your obsession
2. An ICP that actually exists
3. Markets with budget allocated
4. A product that’s at least interesting and decent

Maybe that’s already a strategy, early on.

Most folks don’t have even that. No wonder they fail.

Exploiting opportunities can 10x-1000x your time/money.

Solving problems at best takes you from -1 to 0.

Still need to solve 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 problems, especially when they’re stopping you from the first.

But stay focussed.

I’m constantly arguing for what appears to be 80/20 marketing over coding.

Not because that’s the right ratio, but because people naturally do 5/95, so I need to be 80/20 just to nudge people back to 50/50. 😄

Make a product that people still buy for in a recession.

Downgrades are OK, but not cancels.

Because this means you’re solving a 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 problem, sufficiently.

And you’ll survive anything.

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