Stoneboy
Website:
stoneboy.co
Job details:
We’re seeking an exceptionally experienced Product & Technology Advisor / Startup Mentor with 25+ years of hands-on experience to partner with our founders and leadership team on a paid hourly consulting basis.
We are not looking for a traditional Product Manager.
This is a highly senior advisory engagement.
We are looking for someone who has actually built, launched and scaled technology products and can bring decades of real-world experience to help us make better strategic decisions.
The ideal person has been through the journey of:
Idea → 0→1 → Product Launch → Customer Adoption → Enterprise Readiness → Scale
What We Need Help WithProduct & Strategy- Defining product strategy and guiding 0→1 development
- Achieving and deepening product-market fit
- Building and prioritizing the product roadmap
- Driving customer adoption and meeting enterprise requirements
- Identifying blind spots and challenging key assumptions
- Anticipating product and business challenges before they become expensive
- Advise on making decisions on what to build, what to delay, and what not to build
Scaling & Startup Mentorship- Mentoring founders and leadership on how to scale from early product-market fit to significant growth
- Establishing processes and operating rhythms that support growth without slowing the company down
- Advising on technical and product debt management during rapid growth
- Advising on build vs. buy vs. partner decisions at scale
- Supporting the shift from startup mode to more mature operating rhythms
- Identifying and resolving scaling bottlenecks in product, engineering, and operations
- Helping with fundraising narrative, metrics storytelling, and due diligence readiness
- Guiding the creation of strong product and engineering metrics / OKRs
- Anticipating common scaling failure modes and helping the company avoid them
- Preparing the company for the next stage of growth (Series A/B and beyond)
- Acting as a trusted sparring partner on difficult strategic and organizational decisions
Security, Compliance & Enterprise Readiness- Creating a realistic compliance roadmap
- Reviewing architecture for security gaps
- SOC 2 (Type I & Type II), SOC 1, ISO 27001, and other relevant certifications
- Building and maturing the security program and documentation
- Risk assessments, vendor risk management, and incident response
- Public Security / Trust Center
- Enterprise security questionnaires and due diligence processes
- Penetration testing strategy and vulnerability management
- SSO, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), SAML, and SCIM
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and role-based access control (RBAC)
- Privacy and data protection (GDPR, CCPA, Data Processing Agreements)
- Working with external compliance vendors, auditors, and pen testers
- Preparing the company for enterprise security reviews and audits
Construction Technology (highly desirable)- IFC / OpenBIM
- COBie
- ISO 19650
- Construction information management
- BIM/data interoperability
- Enterprise construction workflows
- Common Data Environment (CDE) strategy
VC & Investor Experience (highly desirable)- Experience with VCs, fundraising, boards, or technology/product due diligence
- Advising on fundraising strategy and investor storytelling
- Helping prepare product, technology, and scalability narratives for investors
- Preparing the company for technology and product due diligence
- Guiding founders on key metrics and how to present them
- Preparing for board meetings and investor updates
- Helping founders handle investor questions related to product, architecture, and growth
- Acting as a strategic sounding board during fundraising
- Advising on investor expectations, product metrics, scalability, and fundraising preparation
- Advising on how to position the company for the next funding round or growth stage
Our Technology StackAWS, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Cognito, S3, CloudFront, AWS Amplify, and other modern cloud/SaaS technologies.
You don’t need to be hands-on, but you should be comfortable discussing modern SaaS/cloud architecture and technology strategy.
Ideal CandidateWe are looking for someone with:
- 25+ years of real product and technology experience
- Multiple technology products personally built, launched, and scaled
- Strong 0→1 experience and proven ability to take products to market
- Experience scaling products, engineering teams, and organizations
- Startup and SaaS background (preferably B2B/enterprise)
- Hands-on experience with enterprise readiness, security, and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
- Experience advising or working closely with founders and senior leadership
- VC / investor experience (fundraising, due diligence, board interactions) strongly preferred
- Ability to act as a trusted sparring partner — challenging assumptions and helping make hard decisions
- Strong strategic thinking, pattern recognition, and communication skills
- Comfortable discussing modern cloud/SaaS architecture and technology strategy
Most importantly: show us what you have actually built and launched.
Mandatory Application QuestionsPlease answer all of these:
- How many technology products have you personally built and launched?
- List 3–5 significant products you launched and describe your role in each.
- How many products have you taken from 0→1?
- Describe one product/company you successfully scaled.
- Give an example of a major challenge you predicted before it became a serious problem.
- What is your experience mentoring founders/CEOs?
- What is your experience working with VCs/investors and fundraising?
- What is your SOC 1/SOC 2 and compliance experience?
- What is your experience with SSO, Entra ID and SAML?
- What is your experience with construction technology, BIM, CDE, IFC, COBie or ISO 19650?
- What is your hourly consulting rate?
- How many hours per week are you available?
EngagementType: Paid hourly consulting/advisory
Location: Remote
Seniority: Expert / Executive
Initial engagement: Hourly advisory sessions
Potential: Long-term strategic advisory relationship
We’re looking for someone who can confidently say:
“I’ve built this before. I know what can go wrong, what you should prioritize, and what you need to prepare for next.”
If that describes your experience, we’d like to hear from you.
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