Hire the Top 3% of Freelance Product Managers

Toptal is a marketplace for top freelance product managers. Top companies and start-ups hire freelance product management experts from Toptal for their mission-critical projects.

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Clients Rate Toptal Freelance Product Managers4.2 / 5.0on average across 111 reviews as of Jun 10, 2023

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Michael Cvetkovic

Freelance Product Manager

PortugalToptal Member Since December 18, 2018

For the past five years, Michael has worked as a product manager for startups and a large German online comparison portal. He is experienced in user experience design, user interface design, API-integration, product management, and data analysis. Michael's biggest achievements were building products that enabled a multi-million startup exit and the launch of a highly successful German travel agent.

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Greg Prickril

Freelance Product Manager

GermanyToptal Member Since November 16, 2018

Greg is a seasoned product strategy consultant and trainer with nearly 20 years of experience shipping digital enterprise products at IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. He is also a global expert on delivering complex products and solutions at an enterprise scale.

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Jeremy Glassenberg

Freelance Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since February 4, 2019

Jeremy has over 12 years of experience in product management at successful startups such as Box and Tradeshift. He managed numerous product initiatives for companies that crossed $1 billion valuations, both full-time and as a consultant. He built and grew product and platform organizations while training colleagues to become PMs. Jeremy is also a lead instructor at Product School and author of their updated curriculum.

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Laurie Harvey

Freelance Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since October 26, 2018

Laurie is a skilled manager who drives unprecedented results. Starting from the ground up, she's a strong leader and leverages her ability to inspire results, focusing on prioritizing high-impact efforts. She has led both marketing and product management during her extensive career. Laurie has delivered B2B and B2C offerings for startups and enterprises, exceeding customer expectations, solving their most pressing challenges, and fulfilling new market opportunities.

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Stefan Behrendt

Freelance Product Manager

GermanyToptal Member Since May 17, 2019

Stefan is a product manager and strategist with more than 20 years of experience and a background in electrical engineering and business. He’s occupied management roles in product development, corporate strategy, operations, and consultation for Fortune 500s and startups alike. Stefan has successfully worked in various industries such as telecoms, enterprise software, energy, banking, industrial products, travel, and media/advertising.

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Vincent Lam

Freelance Product Manager

CanadaToptal Member Since October 22, 2018

Vincent is a CTO/product leader with an MBA and 20 years of experience delivering world-class software. He specializes in product development with SMB and enterprises and has previously led large-scale projects at Google, Dassault Systems, Nortel, and Elastic Path. He is an entrepreneur who's built award-winning SaaS companies to bring the best of field service management, AR/VR, and GIS technologies into conventional industries such as engineering, environmental and natural resources.

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Jeff Stanier

Freelance Product Manager

CanadaToptal Member Since December 10, 2019

Jeff has over 25 years of enterprise software experience, including application development, project management, and product management. Jeff has a deep background in managing desktop, on-premise, AI/ML, and SaaS products through every aspect of the product life cycle. Jeff has extensive experience in shaping products for the public sector, financial services, health, and education clients from around the globe.

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Alberto M. Chierici

Freelance Product Manager

United Arab EmiratesToptal Member Since December 3, 2019

Alberto is an experienced data scientist, product manager, entrepreneur, and actuary by training. Over the past decade, he's successfully bootstrapped machine learning projects in Fortune 500 insurance companies and founded and helped form five startups. His strengths are in management, strategy, product and customer validation, data products, machine learning, the design of experiments, data visualization, and communication.

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Hiren Umradia

Freelance Product Manager

United KingdomToptal Member Since November 20, 2019

Hiren is a customer-centric product manager with a track record of innovating for both early-stage startup environments and large multinationals. He blends his computer science, human-centered design, and analytical skills to ensure teams are focused on the right goals and delivering value. Hiren achieves company strategic objectives through teamwork, collaboration, and servant leadership.

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Hanzel Corella

Freelance Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since November 11, 2019

For over ten years, Hanzel has been launching new products for both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He’s worked in eCommerce, energy, consumer foods, healthcare, fintech, ride-sharing, IoT (internet of things), and solar power industries. As a product consultant, digital marketer, and director of a creative agency, Hanzel is well versed in digital marketing, UX design, and web and mobile development. Hanzel will help you acquire new customers while improving your marketing funnel strategy.

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Krishna Venkatraman

Freelance Product Manager

United StatesToptal Member Since December 20, 2019

For the past 18 years, Krishna has been successfully launching software products in various industries as a product manager. e has experience in applied machine learning, business intelligence, SaaS, mobile apps, IoT, CRM, and ITSM markets, to name a few. Having worked in both startups and Fortune 500 companies, Krishna is well-versed in end-to-end product lifecycle management with a highly effective and influential leadership style.

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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.

Jay Tring, Technical Team Lead, CSR Connect, Australia

CSR Limited

I couldn’t have been more pleased with Toptal. They are professional, quick, well priced, and fun. I will be using them again for my next project, and the next, and the next, and the next ...

Mac Smith, President

New Texas Investments

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

Rajesh Nagarajan, Co-Founder & CTO

maxmantra

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 Freelance Product Managers through Toptal

1

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.
2

Work With Hand-Selected Talent

Within days, we'll introduce you to the right freelance product manager for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
3

The Right Fit, Guaranteed

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

FAQs

  • How are Toptal freelance product managers different?

    At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our freelance product managers to ensure we only match you with talent of the highest caliber. Of the more than 200,000 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.

  • Can I hire freelance product managers in less than 48 hours through Toptal?

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

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

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

Tap Into World-Class Talent

  • 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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