Commercial partnerships and platform integration
Designed the partnership sprint framework a major media company's teams used with broadcasters, streaming services and technology partners.
Interim Product LeaderRose Tighe
Partnerships, integration and business model change.
I lead Product through partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions and changes of business model, where the commercial deal, the technology and the customer experience all have to land together.
Most leaders own one of those three. I keep all three moving at once, because each limits what the others can do, and I bring the people behind them into one plan, from the delivery team to the board.
Ex-AmazonSkyTrustpilotBT
Where I'm brought in
Complex situations, several parties
Joint ventures and market entry
Led discovery for a joint venture between a UK media company and an African TV company, adapting the proposition for new markets.
Post-acquisition integration and re-platforming
Bringing two platforms and two teams together without disrupting the customers who depend on them.
Start-up investment and integration
Ran partnership sprints with start-ups in a global media group's corporate accelerator, testing what each could add to the core business.
Business model change
Led the tiger team that validated new B2B data-licensing opportunities for a consumer review platform.
- Media and entertainment
- Telecoms and broadband
- Consumer subscription
- Marketplaces and platforms
How I work
Most of the work is alignment
The work sits in the gaps between functions and between companies, where incentives differ and one team often knows about a risk the others don't.
- A plan can be on time and still deliver the wrong thing.
- The people closest to the customer usually know why it won't work.
- One missionTeams from different functions, and often different companies, agree the shared outcomes and each party's incentives.
- Find what will trip it upI surface the risks people know about but haven't raised, including earlier attempts and the reasons people resist.
- Test before committingThe assumptions behind the plan are checked against real customer evidence before the money is locked in.
- Stay open on the solutionWe explore the options before converging, rather than fixing on the first answer.
Experience
Previously on…
Twenty years of complex commercial and technical work. Episode 3.0 is named for AI, the third big technology wave I've worked through.
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Episode 3.0 Ltd
2023 to now- Trustpilot, Interim VP of Consumer Product (2024 to 2025). Also product-managed its first conversational AI proof of concept, with Sierra AI.
- Stick+Twist and Mastered (2025 to 2026). Led their senior teams through my framework so they found where AI adds commercial value.
- BBC Studios, Innovation Consultant (2024). International commercialisation of BBC Bitesize.
- FreQNC, AI oversight start-up (2026). Product discovery.
- Mitify+, AI disinformation detection (2023 to 2024). Fractional CPO; built the MVP.
- WeBuild, Product Innovator in Residence (2025 to now). 75 founders to date.
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Consumer platforms
Sky · Amazon · LOVEFiLM · Monitise- Sky. Co-founded Sky Labs. Product lead for partner integrations on Sky Q. Joint initiative with BT Openreach.
- Amazon. Moved LOVEFiLM, a service with more than 2M members, onto Amazon's platform (2011 to 2013).
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Satellite and telecoms
BT · satellite services, now Arqiva- International satellite routes, telecoms exchange infrastructure, and BT propositions and partnerships.
Community. Co-founder and Chair of Brighton AI (2,400+ members). Former mentor at Comcast LIFT Labs, Block Dojo, PlusX and WeBuild.
Frameworks and programmes
Inside Edge Labs
Inside Edge Labs is the packaged side of Episode 3.0: structured programmes that help established businesses find AI growth opportunities and test them with customers. My writing on innovation lives there too.
Visit Inside Edge Labs
Organisations
Why corporate innovation fails
Good ideas rarely sink a programme. Organisational gravity does, and it is predictable enough to design around.
DecisionsStick, twist or fold
A shared language for decisions lets people stop work without defending a reputation.
StrategyThe second growth curve
Choose what comes next while things are going well, when there is still money and energy to invest.
Contact
Discuss a project
Email me directly, or use the form. A few lines on the situation and the timing is plenty. I reply within two working days.
- Available from December 2026
- Outside IR35, UK-wide, Dublin and hybrid
- Recruiters and search firms welcome
- Emailrose@episode3.co.uk
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/rosetighe