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Senior Product Manager
Product manager for Yahoo Finance’s Android app, having been twice promoted as an APM
Worked strategically to develop and successfully execute my vision and strategy for the Android and iOS apps
Launched one of Finance’s most successful features ever by ideating, designing and launching a brand new symbol discovery experience
Selected to lead a special project which was so successful I presented it to Yahoo’s 10,000 employees. The work saw me lead a team of 45 people where we took a highly innovative product from zero to one
In total led over 70 separate initiatives over two years for 24 engineers
Promoted to become the sole product manager for Yahoo Finance’s Android app, where in 3.5 months I increased its Play Store rating from 3.5 to 4.3 by rigorously focusing on the user, ultimately reaching an all-time high rating of 4.7
Ideated and launched a series of highly successful symbol screen improvements, including a new like bar experience, a financial literacy feature and an entirely redesigned information architecture
Significantly optimised performance and cost-effectiveness
One of six selected to join Yahoo’s prestigious APM program (0.3% acceptance rate), which offers the unique opportunity to drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for high-impact products across the company
Secured >$150k of advertiser spend by leading the effort to launch a new DSP ad format via defining the strategy, pitching to advertisers, guiding internal teams and managing external partner relationships
Led the rollout of an industry-first, patent-pending product, an ad text strength indicator, by determining its direction as well as leading UX, development and research teams. The feature resulted in a 27% CTR lift for advertisers and has been prominently featured by AdAge and MediaPost
Led the effort to launch a brand new ad format by defining the strategy, guiding internal teams, coordinating with fellow internal stakeholders and managing external partner relationships
Product Associate
Product Manager for the B2C website of Revolut, one of the fastest growing fintech companies in the world
Ensured the team consistently achieved its KPIs by balancing its tasks with requests from other teams, whilst also reporting the team’s progress every week to the CEO and CTO
Significantly grew the number of new users through executing on a thorough SEO plan as well as improving conversion across all of the most viewed pages, including a 133% increase of the most visited page through ideating and executing on a series of structural and design improvements
Setup a comprehensive AB testing strategy which did not previously exist, through encouraging a bias towards testing, alongside developing and integrating testing tools to support teams across the company
Scoped out and executed on a major website rebrand by developing a vision for what the website should achieve, supporting the new design in Figma, planning the development work and analysing its success
Co-Founder
Co-founded startup that improved how businesses with a physical space understand & engage customers
Used by over 150 businesses, following pitches I conducted across the UK & at CES 2019
Built JS React Native app before hiring and managing a team to help further develop and market Intro
Secured investment and grant funding valuing the startup at over $500,000 prior to launch
Founder & Product Owner
Developed code and designed UX for the Node.js and AWS-powered political probability service
We’re living in crazy, you might say uncertain, times. It is almost impossible to know what is going to happen next in the world of politics. Will This Happen uses unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms to combine a wide range of factors, like betting odds and people’s online reaction to events, to build a picture of how probability is changing.
Check out Will This Happen here
Founder & Product Owner
Used by over 1500 different students in the first month after launch with an advertising budget of £20
It was built from scratch by myself over just one day
The web app continues to be an invaluable tool for students looking to compare university module results
Check out Gradehack here
President
Lead the society through overseeing the society’s vision, activities and relationships with various stakeholders such as the Guild and sponsors.