CPO search firm in Mumbai.
Retained Chief Product Officer search in Mumbai and across Mumbai · Pune · Western India. Product leadership is one of the hardest roles to evaluate from a CV. We rely on craft references, portfolio reviews and structured product-judgement interviews rather than role-title pattern matching.
How we read a CPO.
Every CPO candidate we shortlist for a Mumbai mandate is evaluated against five lenses, refined over two decades of CPO placements across India and the GCC:
- 01Product judgement — strategic and tactical
- 02Discovery and research practice maturity
- 03Cross-functional partnership with design and engineering
- 04Pricing, packaging and monetisation instincts
- 05Org design for product at scale
₹2.5–7 Cr fixed + variable + significant ESOP
Typical CPO band for Mumbai-based mandates, fixed plus variable plus long-term equity / ESOP. Adjust upward for listed-company and PE-backed roles.
10–14 weeks
Kick-off to signed offer. Add 4–6 weeks for confidential CXO replacements and cross-border briefs.
Retained
Single-firm retainer, milestone-billed at 25–33% of target compensation. 12-month replacement guarantee.
From the ground.
Our product-leadership practice has placed Heads of Product, CPOs and first-product hires across India's most-watched SaaS and consumer-tech businesses.
Mumbai is the financial capital, and it is the centre of our BFSI, asset-management and capital-markets practice. It is also where most of our consumer-brand and pharma leadership mandates are run from.
- CPO mandates in Banking & Financial Services
- CPO mandates in Asset & Wealth Management
- CPO mandates in Insurance
- CPO mandates in Consumer Goods & D2C
- CPO mandates in Pharma & Life Sciences
- CPO mandates in Media & Entertainment
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