Delivery
awaiting the work
I build products
Build your career like your best product.
Cream turns your real work into evidence: a true record of what you can do, backed by the people who saw you do it.
It is yours, built once and enriched for years. It gives you the clarity to grow your career as deliberately as you build products.
Your passportAn example, invented names
Every stamp signed by someone who watched you do the work.
Strategy
Dele Okafor
Discovery
Marta Villar
Leadership
Tom Becker
AI Maturity
Dele Okafor
Growth
awaiting the work
Your six pillarsAn example
What you say of yourself, and what the evidence shows. Both rows are yours.
Strategy
Confirmed
Discovery
Confirmed
Delivery
Shown
Leadership
Shown
AI Maturity
Your word
Growth
Your word
Builder FluencyAn example
How far you can take an idea on your own, from the problem you chose to what happened after it shipped.
Your North StarAn example
The one page you write yourself, about where all of it is heading.
Yours to write
In five years I want to lead product somewhere the product is the reason customers stay, with a team I hired and grew.
- The role
- Head of Product
- The kind of company
- Growing, product led, still small enough to know everyone
- Known for
- Teams that ship what customers actually need
In your own words, changed whenever the answer changes. Never scored.
An example record. The people and their names are invented; the way it reads is real.
Develop, together
Meet the people who have already been there.
As the network grows, Cream will introduce you to members who have already been through what you are facing now. A short conversation, advice that fits, and you avoid their mistakes on the way to going further.
And when you are the one who has solved it, you give the same back to somebody a step behind.
What you are facing
Taking a product built for small teams to its first enterprise customers.
Director of Product, logistics software
Took a self serve product to its first enterprise contracts.
open to comparing notesHead of Product, financial technology
Rebuilt pricing for larger buyers without losing the small ones.
open to comparing notesPrincipal Product Manager, health technology
Led a first enterprise pilot from security review to renewal.
open to comparing notes
An example. Every member stays anonymous until you both say yes.
Introductions open as the network grows. See the roadmap
Where you are heading
Your career has a roadmap too. Make it one you chose.
Pick the one strength you most want to grow next. Cream sets out where it stands, the evidence behind it, and what would move it, read against the direction you wrote for yourself.
A plan your manager can open is being built now, one piece at a time. And because your record is true, any opportunity that reaches you will fit both the work you have shown and the room where you do your best work.
Your next stepAn example
Leadership and influence
The strength you are growing this year
- Where it standsShown: the work is on file, and checked on a call.
- What would move itA reference from someone who watched you lead the platform move.
- Someone aheadA member further along in leadership, open to comparing notes.
- Why it matters to youYour North Star: lead product, with a team you hired and grew.
Shown on your recordIn your own wordsStill to come
The plan changes as you do.
Being built now, one piece at a time. See the roadmap
Membership
Your record is waiting to be written.
Cream is in beta with a founding cohort of senior product leaders. A member can put you forward, or you can simply ask, and a person reads every request. Members never pay, at any stage.