About Stef

A product leader with a founder's bias for action.

I've spent 15+ years at the intersection of HR, technology and product — inside scale-ups, startups and my own HRTech company.

Stefanie Stanislawski, fractional product leader for HRTech startups
Product · Strategy · Ops
The useful bit

I know the difference between a product problem and an organisation problem.

Sometimes the roadmap is the problem. Sometimes it is the decision-making around it. Sometimes the product team is shipping, but nobody agrees what “good” looks like.

My role is to make those things explicit — then help the team move.

I've worked across Personio, Factorial and Leapsome, founded Predictive People, and now work with founders who need senior product leadership without adding another permanent executive too early.

Where I add the most value

When the founder is still the product person.

01You're growing and product decisions are becoming a bottleneck.
02You need a roadmap the whole company can actually believe in.
03Your PM/Design/Engineering setup needs clearer operating rhythm.
04You need someone senior enough to challenge the plan — and hands-on enough to change it.
Ready when you are

Let's look at the problem before we talk about the solution.

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