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Transform your business with strategic design leadership from GIVE™ experienced CPOs & CXOs. Offering fractional CPO services to bring your design initiatives closer to the engineering team, enabling you to grow your business smarter.

Jiri Mcc

Partner 

CPO & CXO

Offer

Fractional 

Operating

Y00 – Y26

Hi, my name is Jiri Mocicka, I’m a well-rounded Czech/British Product Design Director  based in  Prague/ Stockholm/ Tokyo/ Singapore/ Sydney , and London.

Amongst many others, I had the privilege of designing products and services for brands such as Sony, Samsung, Nokia, Sky, Jio, Goldman Sachs, Pearson, Unilever, NatWest, OCBC, LBG, and BNY.

Before founding GIVE™ and 9V™, I devoted my time to a passion for Design at Scale™ that profoundly impacts product design delivery through individual contribution and advanced automation.

What Is “Fractionla CPO as a Service”?

CPO (Chief Product Officer) as a Service — also known as a fractional CPO, virtual CPO, or outsourced CPO — is a flexible engagement model where an experienced technology executive joins your team on a part-time basis. Instead of hiring a full-time Chief Product Officer, you get strategic design leadership scaled to your current needs and budget.

A fractional CPO handles the same responsibilities as an in-house CTO: defining product strategy, making information architecture decisions, building and mentoring design teams, managing vendors, and ensuring your investments in design align with business goals and budget allocations to deliver expected ROIs. The difference is that you only pay for the hours you need, from 20 to 100 per month, for early-stage startups to enterprise transformations.

Non-Technical Founder / CEO

Owns vision, revenue, and investor confidence—needs a trusted design partner.

Goals: turn product design strategy into a credible roadmap, reduce vendor risk, and ship on schedule.

Engagement: free intro + discovery, then a roadmap with budget and milestones. We govern delivery, select vendors/stack or help you to hire and train your design team, including board-ready reporting. 

Best fits: Startup (early MVP) or Growth (CR1.0-2.0 scaling).

Technical Founder / Acting CTO

Hands-on builder juggling product, people, and platforms in a fast-evolving environment. 

Goals: accelerate architecture decisions, stabilise delivery, and unblock hiring/mentorship.

Engagement: We establish a design foundation that defines architectural guardrails for design and provides flexibility for your CI/CD and DevOps maturity. Run design reviews and steer the founding designers towards operational excellence that drives the KPI’s. Co-own hiring, training and levelling up the team to your operational standards. Achieving fewer handoffs, transparent velocity, defined ownership, broadcasting design decisions that make smarter and faster business decisions.

Best fit: Accelerated Velocity 

Head of Product / COO

Stretching capacity and seeking expansion of the team with a focus on budget, roadmap, and outcomes.

Goals: roadmap-to-engineering alignment, reliable estimates, and measurable value. 

Engagement: we run quarterly planning and capacity modelling, define DoR and DoD for design and related disciplines, QA and release cadence, and track OKRs/DORA/product metrics. 
Result: weekly micro-releases, clearer trade-offs, and impact mapping for the team and the business.

Best fit: Controlled Growth.

SA / IT Director

Modernisation/modularisation of product design delivery to reflect the company's stack growth.

Goals: target architecture, compliant operations, and DevOps, FinOps and DesignOps—orchestration.

Engagement: Audit, targets, reference architectures, cloud migration plans, IAM/security baselines. Cost optimisation and impact matrix on engineering and deployability. We start read-only, move to writes after approval, and log all actions.

Best fit: Enterprise.

Which Engagement Model Fits Your Stage?

Choosing the right technology leadership model depends on your stage, budget, and goals. Here's how strategic Fractional CPO/CXO leadership, a Full-Time CPO hire, and a dedicated Agency team compare.

Criteria

Design at Scale™

Patented Design Method combining Canvas, Framewrok and the Mthods to empower members of your team to scale your organisation through design. 

The Process

Explore how our structured Fractional CPO/CXO process delivers lasting design impact—from strategy to execution—tailored to your business maturity, current challenges and aspired growth goals.

Intro Meeting (Free)

Free introductory meeting to get to know your business, tech landscape, and current addressable challenges alongside your growth ambitions. It's your opportunity to explore fit, value, and expectations—with zero commitment.

Mobilise

In discovery sessions, we analyse your current design & tech stack, organisational structure, and strategic goals. This helps us shape a precise cross-functional company engagement tailored to your needs.

Operate

Together, we define a transparent engagement framework that covers roles, communication flow, timelines, and deliverables. Transparency and structure at this stage set the tone for a productive, smooth partnership—with the ultimate focus on delivery cycles. 

Accelerate

Ongoing CPO involvement—we launch ceremonies that provide hands-on leadership in design strategy, architecture, team growth, and vendor alignment. You get a trusted advisor constantly driving design integration and operational excellence, and business value.

Package

20+

Hours

Starter

For early-stage startups and MVP builders who need light but strategic tech leadership. Includes weekly strategic calls, tech stack guidance, and flexible advisory support.

Founder / CEO (Non-Technical).

Package

— You're launching an MVP and need part-time design leadership.
— You want senior guidance without the cost of a full-time CPO.
— You benefit from weekly check-ins and targeted technical advice.
— You need a flexible, on-demand CPO for evolving needs.
— You need help choosing the right stack and avoiding early design debt.

Package

60+

Hours

Growth

For funded startups and scaleups needing deeper engagement. Includes team leadership, architecture oversight, sprint planning, + DesignOps collaborations. 

Technical Founder / Acting CTO / COO

Package

— You're scaling your dev team and product roadmap simultaneously
— You need consistent strategic and technical oversight.
— You want help defining and managing a modern architecture
— You need support for hiring or mentoring developers
— You want support selecting tools, vendors, or cloud infra.

Package

80+

Hours

Scale

Best for enterprise teams or tech transformations needing deep integration. The CTO becomes embedded, contributing at leadership, delivery, and governance levels. 

CIO / IT Director.

Small.

— You need an executive-level CTO embedded into your leadership team.
— You expect participation in strategic board-level decisions.
— You're building or refactoring complex systems at scale.
— You run multiple dev teams and need central leadership.
— You require help with budgeting, tech audits, and compliance governance.

Deliverables

Strategic design leadership across all dimensions of your business—from planning and architecture to team development and vendor management.

Strategic Planning

Our Fractional CPO/CXO includes a comprehensive strategic evaluation matrix for small, medium, and large organisations that aligns with your business objectives. Based on our findings, we’ll co-develop a business strategy with clear KPIs that address current infrastructure and the “transformation” of creating an actionable plan that drives innovation and delivers a competitive advantage.

Mobilise

We provide the foundational aspects of a product architecture framework at scale. Secure, efficient, transparent and inherently connected to your business, allowing you to make unilateral decisions not only faster but smarter. The CPO ensures your systems are built with best practices and modern technologies, but predominantly operate at their effective capacity by agentic design operators. 

Operate

Fractional CPOs include leadership and mentoring services for business and technology teams. With over 1k integrations, I learned that “show me, do not tell me” is the fastest way to make the team ready and drive them to operational excellence. 7 out of 10 high-performing organisational studies suggest that removing waste is the most effective way to scale your impact in your organisation.

Accelerate

Whether we reshape your existing design team or build a new one, my most profound experience has been that it will not happen without a tight partnership with the CTO. This includes vendor selection, technology decisions, definition of the right partners and technologies for your business needs.

Advantages

Fractional CPO/CXO

Delivers seasoned design leadership tailored for startups, scaleups, and enterprises—providing strategic guidance without the overhead of a full-time staff. According to Gartner, 67% of digital initiatives stall due to the lack of transparency in design leadership. We ensure your innovation succeeds.

Advantages

Strategic Planning

If you are an SME building SaaS products, your primary objectives are likely cost and efficiency; where, in fact, is the transparency and minimisation of handovers? McKinsey reports suggest that tech-aligned companies operate 30% faster than their competitors. 

Design and Development Roadmap

Product Roadmap, GTM Roadmap, Partnership Roadmap. Our greatest impact was to create tailored, fully visible, and interactive organisational roadmaps that allow C-Suit to prioritise, upscale, downscale, and align with product objectives that drive sustainable growth. In an age of context, the content is the key.

Architecture Design

We don’t design just products; we design operating systems—native, scalable architectures built with tokenised libraries that reflect your current build. No longer, representation of PNG in Jira ticket — fully integrated React code reference of every component in your proposition.

Innovation Leadership

Weekly, we run a 1/2-hour session integrating emerging design technologies like AI/ML/Claude/Cursor, etc., and their impact on the business. 

Team Leadership

The business is the family. It is not only about high-performing teams—it is about building the antifragile unit that can govern itself and know what to do when the leadership is away without any disruption to ongoing development. If we manage to build this team together, there will be no quarter between you and your competitors — you ultimately win. 

Vendor & Partnership Selection

Assist you in choosing the right agency, technology partner, or vendor to minimise long-term design & tech debt and ensure cost-effective integration for your organisation. 

Continuous Design & Technology Optimisation

The ambition here is to create a self-serving machine: a business that continuously audits and optimises itself to remain efficient, secure, and aligned with business evolution

Design Governance and IP

The most important part of our work is to translate your “design artefacts” into intellectual property. A memorable, distinguishable, and unique signature that all your users appreciate and associate with. We “transform” internal governance frameworks for compliance, maturity, and risk management into a tailored industry signature proposition that shapes the sector you operate in. 

Ready to Transform Your Design Leadership

Discovery Call

Let’s discuss how our Fractional CPO/CXO can drive your business strategy, accelerate innovation, and scale your organisation through design. 

Schedule a free consultation to explore the possibilities.

Prior to our call, it would be great if we shift the mindset — this is not a standard "sales pitch", we'd aim for a high-level strategic alignment. As your future CPO, I need to deeply understand product-market fit, user retention, engineering constraints, the product roadmap, team size, and the velocity at which you deliver designs today. If you do not have any of the items mentioned above, let’s first figure out what you need together.

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