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I help SaaS teams say the right thing to the right market.

I'm Kris Carter — a product marketing operator who's spent the last decade turning complex B2B products into clear market narratives. I've done it inside venture-backed startups, through an IPO, and across three continents. Now I do it fractionally.

Based in Manchester, UK. Working with SaaS teams across the UK, Europe and North America.

Kris Carter — Fractional GTM Strategist, Manchester UK

University of Oxford · 15+ years in product marketing

The short version

I've spent my career inside companies where the product was strong but the market didn't know it yet — or knew it wrong. My job has always been to close that gap: figure out what buyers actually care about, build a narrative around it, and make sure every touchpoint tells the same story.

At Procore, I was the founding product marketer for their UK & Ireland expansion. The US brand meant nothing in the British construction market, so we had to earn trust from zero. I built the local ICPs, rewrote the sales narrative, repositioned the Preconstruction suite, and launched industry research that became a lead gen engine. That region became Procore's fastest-growing international market and I led PMM through their IPO.

Before that, at Featurespace, I positioned their ARIC platform as the first enterprise-grade adaptive fraud detection system — helping shift an entire industry's conversation from static rules to machine learning. At Eastnets, I repositioned their compliance platform for a global audience of banks, PSPs, and regulators, and launched the flagship research that reshaped how they were perceived by analysts.

I studied PPE at the University of Oxford, which taught me how to think about systems, incentives, and trade-offs — skills that turn out to be remarkably useful when you're trying to figure out why a good product isn't landing with buyers.

I now run Segment8, where I'm building software that solves one of product marketing's most persistent operational problems. FractionalGTM.io is the consulting arm — it's how I make the same calibre of thinking available to founder-led teams without the full-time price tag.

Senior GTM work, shipped fast

I offer a small number of fixed-scope GTM sprints designed to solve specific commercial problems — positioning drift, weak sales narratives, unclear ICPs, or launches that feel riskier than they should.

  • Positioning audit (fast track) — forensic clarity in days
  • Deck refresher — narrative rebuilds that close
  • Messaging refresh — value props your whole team can use
  • Launch sprint — positioning, plan, and enablement
  • ICP & persona build — focus who you sell to
  • Competitive teardown — battlecards, not slides
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Fixed scope. Fixed timelines.
Most engagements run 3–14 days.

Where I've done this before

2025 – Present
Founder & CEO
Segment8

Building essential GTM workflow software for product marketing teams. Also operating FractionalGTM.io — fractional go-to-market strategy for founder-led SaaS.

2024 – 2025
Global Product Marketing Lead
Eastnets

Repositioned a 40-year-old compliance platform for the modern financial crime landscape. Launched flagship industry research that reshaped analyst perception and generated pipeline.

2019 – 2024
Founding PMM, UK & Ireland → Product Marketing Lead, Preconstruction
Procore Technologies

Built the UK & Ireland market from zero — local ICPs, sales narratives, competitive positioning, event strategy, and industry research. Grew it into Procore's fastest international region. Led PMM through IPO. Rebranded and repositioned the full Preconstruction suite.

2017 – 2019
Product Marketing Manager
Featurespace

Positioned ARIC as the first enterprise adaptive fraud detection platform. Shifted industry narrative from static rules to machine learning. Created competitive positioning, analyst briefing materials, and sales enablement for enterprise sales cycles.

Education
B.A. (Hons), Philosophy, Politics & Economics
University of Oxford

Systems thinking, structured argumentation, and the economics of decision-making under uncertainty — the foundation for everything that came after.

Principles, not processes

Every engagement is different, but my thinking is anchored by the same set of beliefs about what makes GTM actually work.

Positioning is a decision, not a document

Most positioning work fails because it tries to be all things to all people. I help teams make a clear choice about who they're for and what they're against — and then hold the line.

Speed beats perfection

A good narrative shipped this week is worth more than a perfect one shipped next quarter. I optimise for momentum — get it right enough to test, then refine based on signal.

Buyers don't care about your product

They care about their problem. The best GTM work starts with the buyer's world, not the product's features. If you can articulate their pain better than they can, you've already won.

Alignment beats volume

Saying the same thing clearly across five touchpoints beats saying ten different things across fifty. I work to create a single source of truth your whole team can operate from.

Operators outperform advisors

I don't sit outside the work and hand you a framework. I get into the detail — the competitive analysis, the slide-by-slide rewrites, the messaging hierarchy — because that's where the value is.

Honesty is non-negotiable

If your positioning is sound and you don't need me, I'll tell you. If the problem isn't GTM but product-market fit, I'll tell you that too. My reputation depends on being right, not on being booked.

Interested in working together?

Tell me what you're building and where your GTM feels stuck. I'll give you an honest read.

Get in Touch

Or email kris@segment8.com directly.