You focus on building your company. We bring the product clarity and pace you've been missing.
Services
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Set direction that survives contact with reality. We cut through backlog noise, align stakeholders around the outcomes that actually matter, and build roadmaps with enough conviction to make real commitments — and enough flexibility to adapt when customers tell you something different.
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Close the gap between what you plan and what ships. We improve how your team executes — from sprint cadences and cross-functional coordination to release practices and the say/do ratio that tells you whether your product function is actually healthy.
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Grow your team without losing what makes it great. Keep the heart of your culture while moving fast. We make sure that our practices connect with your values — because culture is the way your team does the big and the little things.
About
Whether you're a founder doing product or have a team, the moment you need to transcend is when it feels hard.
Stage Two Partners is built for exactly that moment — whether you're a seed-stage founder who's still the de facto head of product, or a Series A CEO who isn't seeing the results you desire. We step in as your embedded product leader: running the function, developing your team, and shipping product while you build toward what comes next.
We are practice builders with extensive experience in startups who succeed (PagerDuty, Forge, Venn by Two Sigma, Sydecar), renewing global-scale products and teams (Apple, KidZania), and more.
Work
Fractional product leader for Venn, Two Sigma's portfolio analytics platform. Brought PM structure, roadmap discipline, and delivery predictability to a complex financial product inside one of the world's leading quantitative firms. Venn was acquired by Insight Partners in 2026.
Joined Forge at their Series A as their first VP of Product. Built the PM practice from scratch — hired and mentored 7 PMs, scaled a manual trading marketplace into a comprehensive private securities platform. Forge went public and was later acquired by Charles Schwab.
Embedded as sole PM across Apple's Real Estate & Development and EHS divisions during a period of unprecedented global expansion. Launched 6 bespoke apps used by Apple employees worldwide to achieve corporate goals of consistency, efficiency, and care.
Additional client detail available upon request.
Whether you're a seed-stage founder who needs someone to hold the product function while you sprint toward your A, or a Series A CEO whose team can't fully execute without you — reach out. First conversation is always free.
aaron@stagetwopartners.io