About me
A data-driven and human-centric Program and Product Manager with a knack for finding problems through a voice-of-customer first approach, and then solving these problems through the application of strategy and the Program/Product Management framework to develop innovative and sustainable product offerings & program models aligned with organizational goals and community/end-user needs, which in turn drives user, business & donor impact across the program/product lifecycle
Skills
Education
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Nexford University 2023 - 2025
MBA with Specialization in Advanced AI and Automation
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University of Port Harcourt 2014 - 2018
Bachelor of Science, Accounting
Experience
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CLEAR Global (Translators without Borders) 2023 - 2025
Program Tech Product Manager - AI & Internal Platform Solutions
Helping people get vital information, and be heard, irrespective of the language they speak through AI driven solutions and the Translators without Borders talent platform. Collaborated with the Platforms Director and Program Tech Lead to implement innovative product discovery and delivery processes to increase the feature ship rate by 12%. Managed the implementation of 15+ core features on the TWB internal task platform tool starting from eective task management, to in-app communication and much more. Led successful collaboration eorts among use case owners, partners and the Program team towards development of 2 Open-source use cases for leveraging Machine Translation models (Kinyarwanda-English) in the Education and Tourism sector in Rwanda. Led platform UX revamp through in-depth user experience research and documentation before redesigning the platform experience to improve CSAT and CES scores by 10%.
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MBO Partners 2021 - 2022
Associate Product Manager - Contractor Management Platform
The world’s leading HR platform for independent workforce management, serving over 70% of Fortune 500’s and 60,000+ high-end independent contractors. Successfully delivered a structured PI Planning (PI-3) to ensure business & product collaboration, and an agile delivery of the prioritized features & key partnerships to contribute to 50% OKR target of $22,000,000 in EBITDA. Led the first Voice of Customer program with a focus on PwC and other Fortune 500’s clients, to gather, analyze feedback, and translate insights to business initiatives with ROI. Owned platform notifications discovery phase and developed the use cases around client visibility for talent onboarding to cut down time-to-start from months to weeks.
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AfriSplash Remotely 2021 - 2023
Product Lead & Founder - Open Source Talent Marketplace
The gateway to Africa’s remote workforce: Africa’s #1 remote work community and largest open source remote work & HR marketplace. Successfully launched and scaled AfriSplash Remotely’s talent community from 0 to 3,000 members organically, and closed 15+ key talent partnerships with global companies. Planned and delivered Open-Source AfriSplash platform experience with 160+ dedicated contributors through collaborative research, design sprints and product development. Leveraged 3rd party SaaS platforms to deliver contracting, global hiring & payroll as a service.
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Reelin.ai 2021 - 2022
Product Management Lead - AI & GTM
Reelin is an AI-powered fintech solution driving commerce for SMEs in Africa and making social payments easy and smart for mobile money users across the continent – Venmo for Africa. Successfully set up the Product function internally as the consultant PM and worked with the technical team to rebuild core product offerings cut time to market by 50%. Managed investor relations, accelerator targets and product pitches to bring in rst angel checks ranging from $15k – $30k and $330k pre-seed.
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Sirch 2020 - 2021
Contract Product Marketing Manager
Democratic search. No links, just results. Next-gen AI search engine. Setup best practices for Sirch’s Go-to-Market strategy with a focus on driving visibility through SEO, and strengthening market entry position through positioning and brand messaging. Successfully recruited and tested Sirch’s content retrieval experience with partners and community members during its pilot phase. Collaborated with design to develop sales enablement resources for further expansion.
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Shortcastle Technologies 2018 - 2021
Product Manager - Chesslang
Chesslang, leading E-learning platform for Chess academies & Federations, also the world’s first fun-filled Activity Based Curriculum (ABC) for chess. Ideated and worked on major platform/gamification features from start to finish with engineers, designers and product managers to achieve 100% retention with $40,000 MRR. Led Product Discovery, Planning and Delivery for Chesslang’s Activity Based Mobile application (IOS and Android) to drive new federation and academy partnerships. Developed and implemented growth strategy that led to expansion across 4 continents and user base growth to 45,000+ users.