Product Leader · AI Builder · Startup Operator
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I’m Rory Partalis, a fractional product leader in San Francisco. I help teams integrate AI, grow ad revenue, and meet privacy requirements, and I build the prototypes myself. Before this I led product at Amazon, Pandora, Shazam, and TuneIn, and inside early-stage startups.
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Advisory
A senior sounding board
Weekly calls and access for leaders who want an outside perspective on critical decisions. Strategy, AI, monetization, or privacy. You bring the challenge.
4–8 hours/month
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Strategy and hands-on execution
Deep engagement with your team to define the roadmap, integrate AI into the product, or build the prototype that proves the idea. I work alongside your team in the day-to-day work.
15–25 hours/month
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Embedded leadership
I join your team as a fractional Senior Director or VP of Product. Full ownership of the roadmap, the team, and the stakeholders, plus hands-on building when it is needed, without a full-time commitment.
30–40 hours/month
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Two decades of building what matters.
I have spent 20 years shipping products that drive revenue, inside early-stage startups, through acquisitions, and at Amazon. I’ve led monetization, ad product, and privacy strategy across audio, video, e-commerce, and mobile.
These days much of my work is AI integration, and I still build. With today’s AI tools I ship working prototypes myself in weeks, so every strategy recommendation comes with a working demo.
Now I bring that experience directly to teams that need senior product leadership but aren’t ready for a full-time VP hire. Whether you need a strategic advisor, a hands-on consultant, or an embedded fractional PM, I meet you where you are.
Based in San Francisco. When I’m not working with clients, I’m surfing Ocean Beach, gardening in the Outer Sunset, or building things with my daughter.
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Advisory
4–8 hours/month
Consulting
15–25 hours/month
Fractional PM
30–40 hours/month
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