# Jon Clay

I connect product strategy, commercial judgement and accountable delivery across data, AI and enterprise software.

## Target leadership roles

CPO, VP Product and Product Director. Available for advisory, interim or permanent product leadership services.

## Capabilities

- **Portfolio strategy:** Choose where to invest, evolve and retire.
- **Product commerciality:** Align proposition, pricing, go-to-market and value.
- **Data, AI and software products:** Build from customer needs and robust data foundations.
- **Accountable operating models:** Organise global teams to decide and deliver.

## Product leadership services

- **Advisory:** Focused support on portfolio strategy, product commerciality, data and AI opportunities, operating models and critical investment decisions.
- **Interim:** Experienced leadership during transition or transformation—resetting priorities, strengthening accountability and turning strategy into execution.
- **Permanent:** Sustained CPO, VP Product or Product Director leadership with ownership of strategy, commercial outcomes, organisational capability and delivery.

## Primary research

[How to maximise data product lifetime value](https://jonclay.co.uk/insights/maximising-data-product-lifetime-value) draws on interviews with twenty senior data product leaders and analyses 426 evidence points into 33 concepts, 11 themes and two connected dimensions.

## Case studies

- [Creating clarity across a complex product portfolio](https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/leading-an-enterprise-product-portfolio): How product strategy, commercial accountability and an international operating model were connected across a 9-figure portfolio.
- [Turning a fragmented initiative into an international product](https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/building-an-agentic-business-intelligence-product): How an agentic business-intelligence product was recovered, commercialised and launched across eight markets within 12 months.
- [Moving AI from individual tools to shared product practice](https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/scaling-ai-enabled-product-practice): How a small product-team pilot became a broader enterprise approach to AI-enabled discovery, decisions and delivery.
- [Connecting data product quality with commercial execution](https://jonclay.co.uk/case-studies/commercialising-data-products): How shared product strategy and operating models supported 9-figure automotive data businesses and repeated annual price growth.

## Contact

Use https://jonclay.co.uk/contact to discuss a product or portfolio challenge, product leadership services, an industry conversation or advisory needs.

Last reviewed: 2026-11-01.