When you need to set product direction, /product-leader builds vision, strategy, and roadmap, so you can align the org. — Claude Skill
A Claude Skill for Claude Code by Nick Jensen — run /product-leader in Claude·Updated
Shape product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and growth plans from context.
- Drafts product vision statements with 3-year narrative arcs
- Builds strategy docs with positioning, competitive moats, and bet sizing
- Creates prioritized roadmaps with RICE scoring and dependency mapping
- Generates growth model frameworks with acquisition, activation, and retention levers
- Produces platform strategy briefs with API-first extensibility plans
Who this is for
What it does
Give /product-leader your market context and company mission to get a product vision doc with a 3-year narrative, north-star metric, and 5 strategic pillars.
Run /product-leader with competitive landscape data to produce a strategy brief covering where to play, how to win, and which bets to make with RICE-scored priorities.
Feed /product-leader your OKRs and discovery backlog to get a quarterly roadmap with themes, initiatives scored by reach and effort, and a dependency graph.
Describe your funnel to /product-leader and receive a growth model with 12 levers across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization, each with experiment ideas.
Run /product-leader on your product area to get a metrics taxonomy: north-star, L1 health metrics, L2 diagnostic metrics, and counter-metrics to watch.
How it works
Share your product context: market, mission, competitive landscape, current metrics, or strategic question.
The skill identifies which leadership artifact fits — vision doc, strategy brief, roadmap, growth model, or analytics framework.
It generates the artifact with internal consistency: vision flows into strategy, strategy into roadmap priorities, priorities into metrics.
Review with your leadership team, add constraints or pivots, and iterate until the direction is locked.
Example
B2B SaaS, project management for agencies. 2,400 paying teams. Growth stalled at 8% MoM. Competitors adding AI features. Board wants a plan for the next 4 quarters.
Double down on creative agencies (40% of current base, highest NPS). Deprioritize generic project management — cannot win against horizontal incumbents at scale.
1. Client-facing deliverable tracking (no competitor does this well for agencies). 2. AI-assisted project scoping from past project data — turns historical timesheets into future estimates. 3. Native invoicing tied to project milestones — eliminates the agency billing gap.
Q1: Client portal MVP (RICE: 840) + scoping AI prototype Q2: Scoping AI GA (RICE: 720) + milestone-based invoicing Q3: Invoicing GA + resource forecasting Q4: Platform APIs for agency tool integrations + partner program
Metrics this improves
Works with
Product Leader
Strategic product expertise for building and scaling world-class product organizations — from vision and strategy to discovery, execution, and growth.
Philosophy
Product management is not about shipping features. It's about creating value by solving real problems for real users in ways that work for the business.
The best product organizations:
- Start with outcomes — Ship outcomes, not output
- Obsess over users — Data informs, users decide
- Prioritize ruthlessly — Saying no is the job
- Iterate continuously — Learn fast, fail cheap
Product Disciplines Covered
This skill provides strategic guidance across:
| Discipline | Focus Areas |
|---|---|
| Product Strategy | Vision, positioning, competitive strategy |
| Roadmap Planning | Prioritization frameworks, resource allocation |
| Product Discovery | User research, problem validation, opportunity assessment |
| Growth Product | Activation, retention, monetization, experimentation |
| Platform Product | APIs, developer experience, ecosystem strategy |
| Product Analytics | Metrics design, instrumentation, analysis |
| Product Operations | Process design, tooling, cross-functional alignment |
| Product Launch | Launch planning, GTM coordination, success metrics |
Core Frameworks
Prioritization Matrix
| Impact | Effort Low | Effort High |
|---|---|---|
| High | Do First | Plan Carefully |
| Low | Quick Wins | Don't Do |
Product Metrics Hierarchy
North Star Metric
├── Acquisition metrics
├── Activation metrics
├── Retention metrics
├── Revenue metrics
└── Referral metrics
Related Skills
For specialized guidance, see:
product-strategist— Product vision and strategyproduct-manager— Day-to-day PM executiongrowth-product-manager— Growth and experimentationplatform-product-manager— Platform and API productsproduct-discovery— User research and discoveryproduct-analyst— Product analytics and metricsproduct-launch-manager— Product launchesproduct-specs-writer— PRDs and specifications