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Strategic consulting and coaching for organizations navigating the critical transitions of product leadership. From mastering discovery practices to building team capabilities to hiring and integrating your first product leader, I guide you through the decisions that determine whether product organizations scale successfully or stall.

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The Field Guide for Product Leaders in the Startup Trenches

Built From the Experiences Product Leaders Were Too NDA'd to Share, Until Now.

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Average CPO tenure
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Leaders interviewed for this book

The Product Leader's Start-Up Handbook was built on a simple premise: the challenges that senior product leaders face when joining startups and scale-ups are not random, they are deeply patterned, remarkably consistent, and sometimes preventable.

NDAs. Non-disparagement agreements. Reputational risk. The quiet shame of walking away from a role that was supposed to be your big break.

These are the forces that have kept this conversation underground, until now. Through in-depth interviews with more than twenty VPs, Directors, and Heads of Product, this book surfaces the patterns that define what is, for many product leaders, an all-out battleground.

By Rosemary King
The Product Leader's
Start-Up Handbook
Drawing on interviews with 20+ senior product leaders to expose the patterns that make startups a battleground — and give you the tools to succeed in them.
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What emerged was clear: the dysfunction that derails senior product hires has little to do with individual competence, and everything to do with the structural friction between founder-led organizations and the discipline of product management.

Grounded in real experience and rigorous research, The Product Leader's Start-Up Handbook gives product leaders the tools they need to evaluate opportunities before they say yes, navigate dysfunction once they're in, and set themselves up to actually succeed.

The conversation is long overdue. Subscribe on the Product Leader’s Start-up Handbook Substack above.

We were trying to create a new Product department from the ground up in a busy (and consequential) election year and Rosemary was able to give us the grounding and foundational knowledge we needed to be successful, while allowing it to fit into the ever-changing landscape that is political technology.

- Daniel Souweine, Founder, Get Thru

Consulting Services

Rosemary embeds with your team to identify what's actually slowing you down — then builds the practices, processes, and capabilities to fix it. Expect honest feedback, practical frameworks, and a relentless focus on delivering real value to your customers.

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Product Leadership Hiring & Integration

Product Discovery and Strategy Consulting

Rosemary King is the founding Principle of King Digital, Inc.  She brings proven expertise in driving revenue growth, building data infrastructure, and scaling operations from leading high-growth technology companies. Rosemary helps founders build product organizations capable of shipping AI-powered features at scale, from implementing rigorous discovery frameworks to coaching technical teams to hiring senior product leadership. She delivers measurable results through data-driven decision-making and operational systems built for hypergrowth.

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Train your team to think, not just follow

Rosemary built Mind the Product's training business, delivering curriculum to thousands of PMs at companies like the New York Times, Netflix, and American Express. She's also developed programs for General Assembly and startup incubators. Her approach is hands-on and tactical — pushing students to apply concepts to their own projects, backed by real examples from 14 years of building products across industries.

Training Outcomes:

Plan and execute cross-functional, agile product delivery

Use data to create baseline understanding of what’s happening now, and build high quality hypothesis to test

Facilitate alignment across your organization by visualizing product journey, impact and dependencies

Lead by example, showcasing critical thinking, communication, alignment and feedback skills that will help your org grow and scale

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Testimonials

  • I had the pleasure of being introduced to Rosemary in 2021 whilst on a business accelerator. Prior to building my business, I had no previous product experience and needed support understanding and implementing the founding principles of building a product. Rosemary provided me with an excellent foundation for setting goals, testing hypotheses with users and ultimately, trying to build a product that people want to use. I would highly recommend Rosemary’s coaching practice for any new entrepreneur building their first product.

    Charlotte Horler, Founder of Nula

  • I had the pleasure to work and partner with Rosemary during one of the most relevant and impactful launches Spotify had in recent years, launching Audiobooks in the US market. During this initiative, she was responsible for defining the core user experience vision, for both iOS and Android, pitching it to the most senior leads at the company and ensuring the work got done across more than ten different teams and partners. Her attention to detail and requirements for high quality solutions not only enabled the successful launch, reaching millions of users on day one, it also set the baseline for market expansion and future innovation.

    Hugo Galvao, Principle Product Manager, Spotify

  • Rosemary is one of those rare people, not only a product practitioner at the top of her game, but able to advocate, teach and throughly rationalise every part of the challenging role that is VP of product. Roadmaps, features all the day to day stuff anyone can do, it's the strategy, advocacy and engagement that separates a good PM from a great PM. Rosemary has those in spades. I wholeheartedly recommend her.

    Joe Leech, Product leader + Coach