Fractional Automation Lead

Overview

What we deliver

We provide a senior automation leader part time to own strategy, delivery, and vendor management until your internal team is ready to take over.

We embed a senior automation leader into your business on a part time basis to run the function while you scale or hire. Our fractional lead owns the automation roadmap, manages delivery partners, runs governance, and reports into your executive team. They work with operations, IT, finance, and security to keep projects moving and align spending with outcomes. Each week includes hands-on planning, vendor reviews, stakeholder updates, and coaching for any internal staff already in place. We treat the role like a permanent hire would, with clear objectives, decision rights, and reporting cadences. As your in-house team grows, we plan a structured handover so the work continues without disruption. The result is senior automation leadership without the cost or time of a full executive search, and steady progress on the initiatives that matter.

Fit Check

Built for teams like yours

Who it's for

Mid-market firms scaling automation
PE-backed portfolio companies
Founders without an automation lead
COOs covering vacant roles
Heads of transformation needing senior support

Pain points we solve

No senior owner for automation
Stalled programs between executives
Vendor relationships without accountability
Slow hiring for niche leadership roles
Inconsistent governance across initiatives

What's included

Capabilities

Everything we cover in this engagement.

Automation roadmap ownership
Delivery partner management
Governance and reporting cadence
Vendor selection and contract review
Stakeholder communication
Team coaching and mentoring
Budget and ROI tracking
Hiring support for permanent successor

How we work

Our process

A clear, predictable path from kickoff to outcomes.

01

Define

Agree scope, objectives, and decision rights.

02

Embed

Meet stakeholders, partners, and current backlog.

03

Run

Lead roadmap, delivery, and governance weekly.

04

Coach

Mentor internal staff and document standards.

05

Hand over

Transition role to permanent hire or team lead.

What you get

Deliverables & outcomes

What you get

Weekly leadership presence
Updated automation roadmap
Vendor and partner scorecards
Governance and reporting pack
Coaching plan for internal staff
Handover documentation

Outcomes you can expect

Senior leadership without a full-time hire
Faster decisions on automation work
Tighter vendor and partner accountability
Stronger internal capability over time
Clean handover to a permanent leader

Timeline

3 to 12 months

Engagement

Monthly retainer, Project, Sprint

Tools we use

Notion, Jira, Miro, Slack, Excel

KPIs we track

Roadmap progress, delivery velocity, vendor performance, internal capability score, return on automation spend

Client stories

What clients say

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We had 14 cornerstone pages stuck on page two for 18 months. Their SEO crew rewrote the internal linking, cleaned up our schema, and shipped 22 supporting briefs over a quarter. Eight of those pages broke top three by month five. Organic pipeline went from a trickle to our second-largest source. Felt like watching interest compound.

James T.

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Our old site was a Frankenstein of three previous agencies. We gave them a hard launch date tied to a trade show and they actually hit it. 47 templates, full product catalog migration, no broken redirects on go-live day. Our previous vendor missed the same deadline twice. This time my phone stayed quiet on launch morning.

Marcus L.

Proof