Delivery & program leadership · US remote

Faster engineers.
Stalled delivery.

I help engineering leaders turn stretched, stuck teams into ones that ship predictably — so the AI speed-up actually reaches your customers.

Where the speed-up gets losttypical team
  • Writing code faster
  • Reviews & sign-offs queueing
  • Cross-team dependencies blocked
  • Planning & priorities reactive
  • Release to customers unpredictable

Built and ran programs at

  • Ripple
  • Mux
  • Crunchyroll

Sound familiar?

Your team is working harder. The roadmap isn't moving faster.

Faster individuals don't add up to a faster team. The gap lives in planning, coordination, and handoffs — the work nobody owns. That's the work I do.

Services

Start with a diagnosis. Then fix what matters.

Fixed scopes, published starting prices, and something real in your hands every week.

Fractional Program Lead

Monthly

A senior owner for your cross-team program, one or two days a week. Rituals, roadmap, exec updates, and coaching your EMs and PMs.

From $6,000 / month

Jira Launchpad

2–6 weeks

Workflows, boards, dashboards, capacity planning, and automation set up around how your teams actually work. Two weeks of support after launch.

From $4,000

Automation Sprint

3 weeks

Pick two or three manual workflows — status, triage, reporting — and wire AI and automation into the tools you already use. Measured before and after.

From $8,000

How it works

Weekly beats. Real material every week.

  1. 01

    30-minute call

    The shape of the problem, and an honest answer on whether I'm the right fit.

  2. 02

    One-page scope

    What we'll change, by when, for a fixed price. No 40-page SOW.

  3. 03

    Ship weekly

    Decisions, docs, and working changes every week — not status to decode.

  4. 04

    Hand off

    Documented and coached, so your team keeps the pace without me.

Results

What this looks like in practice.

Hi, I'm Eric.

Eric Welch · Founder, Altiplano Labs

Previously Staff TPM at Mux and Ripple

I've been the first TPM in an org more than once — building the function, the rituals, and the tooling from nothing. At Ripple I built program management from scratch. Most recently I was a Staff TPM at Mux, where I also mentored senior TPMs, engineering managers, and PMs.

Altiplano Labs is how I bring that work to teams that need it — without a full-time hire.

Connect on LinkedIn

I also build

  • Capacity for Jira
  • Storywright
  • FretWise
  • Fern Test
Visit the studio

Let's find where your delivery is stalling.

30 minutes, no deck. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so — and point you to who is. Working US business hours from Atlanta and Guatemala City.

Book a 30-min call