You're the one
holding it all together.
The margins of your day aren't meant for your area of genius.
- Hand offs that nearly slip.
- Misalignments between engineering and product.
- Wasted engineering effort because of unclear priorities.
- Decisions that land on your desk because no one else will make them.
Your team is capable, they are proving it daily - and yet shipping still feels hard. Something is missing, it is felt but difficult to name and you are filling gaps in order to quell that feeling.
You've become the connective tissue by day while doing what you are meant to be doing by moonlight.
The problem isn't talent. It's coordination.
Cross-functional work is the most difficult. Engineering, product, design, data, each team knows their craft. But the space between them? That's where things fall apart.
- Misaligned priorities.
- Assumptions that never get surfaced.
- Level of effort not worth the return.
- Handoffs that require a translator.
Most orgs don't have someone who owns these spaces. So the technical leader becomes it by default. You're not failing at your job, you're working three of them. And it's not sustainable.
I come in as your Initiative Partner.
The connective tissue for your most important launches. Bringing you spaciousness, ease, and efficiency. I work across engineering, product, design, and data; surfacing what's not being said, filling the gaps no one owns, and ensuring the thing actually ships.
Most importantly, I help lay a foundation through example for a different way of working across teams. Nothing is being thrown over the wall. Instead, initiatives are understood and worked within so that each team has a clear picture of priorities and how their work contributes to one another.
Not by managing your team. Not by taking over. But by seeing the whole board, asking the questions that prevent launch-day disasters, and helping the humans involved trust each other enough to move as one body.
Your team is already doing great work. I help make that work flow better, particularly in the areas where coordination and communication tend to break down during the actual implementation.
How I Serve You And Your Team
Onramp — Coming Close (1-2 weeks, embedded)
I meet with the leaders of an initiative; we get clear on the vision and purpose. From there I meet with the team leads turning the vision into product along with the individual contributors. This is a period for getting a clear picture of the landscape, team dynamics, roles, and cross-org relationships. Here is where we surface the real blockers—the ones that are felt yet not voiced.
Active Partnership - Spacious Containment (retainer, ongoing)
As the project moves, I stay close while not getting in the way, your teams know how to build. I'm available for those key cross disciplinary meetings or when things feel stagnant, stalled or tight.
- Coordinating with eng
- Checking in with product
- Syncing with design
- Ensuring data is looped in so that nothing falls through the cracks
I'm filling gaps when something falls between disciplines. Smoothing handoffs when teams are talking past each other. Available when things get stuck, before they become crises.
Launch Readiness (embedded)
Before you ship, I'm back in the room. Are metrics in place? Rollback plan solid? Alerting set up? Does the prioritization actually make sense? We make sure it's ready, not just "done".
This isn't theory. It's tested and lived.
I've led cross-org replatforming efforts that drove a 15% increase in paying customers. Worked across product, data and multiple eng teams in order to harden critical authentication flows protecting millions of users. Shipped a COVID response in 2 days that scaled to millions of online events.
I've been the technical co-founder, the team lead, the senior engineer, the advisor stepping in to fill the gap. Startups to scale-ups, I know what it takes to ship when the stakes are real.
Time and time again, I found myself in the role of being the connective tissue, excelling at it and finding deep joy and meaning doing it.
If this sounds like where you are, I'd love to have a conversation.
No pitch, no pressure. Just a chance to hear what you're navigating and to see if I can serve you and your team to alleviate the very real pain of disjointedness.
Prefer email? contact@builtinspace.xyz