Results-driven product leader with a proven track record building high-performing product and engineering teams in fintech and SaaS. Focused on setting vision aligned with org goals, delivering strategy through fostering collaboration, and nurturing top talent. Intuition led, data backed. DoY's Young Entrepreneur Award winner as a founder.
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Experience
Product Director - Codat
November 2021 - Ongoing
Codat helps banks and fintechs build insights and automations with accounting, banking, and commerce data. Leading the service and platform teams, I have:
Defined and delivered product vision + strategy supporting clients for spend analysis and underwriting use-cases (inc. J.P. Morgan and other major banks).
Created best-in-class products including Codat's Link (↑2x conversion, driving data sharing for 100,000 SMBs), developer portal (↑40% MAUs), and award-winning docs (↑30% faster go-lives).
Replatformed Codat, improving efficiency, supporting enterprise-grade client needs, and improving delivery pace (e.g. deploying new webhooks ↑5x faster).
Built cross-functional teams and nurtured high-performing PMs, engineers, designers, and technical writers. Celebrated as Codat's top PM and manager, promoted swiftly several times.
Pioneered product excellence at Codat, including data-driven methods (supported by Amplitude).
Led more experimental initiatives including Codat's nascent AI & LLM work, a growth commercial model, and more.
Product Manager - Swoop
March 2021 - November 2021
Swoop is the virtual CFO helping businesses secure funding and increase efficiency. Built products that solve longstanding SMB challenges:
Rolled out SMB self-served access to underwriting of up to £1m, improving cost to serve and reducing time-to-funds to within 24 hours (↓3 days avg. vs. ~14 days avg. previously) via loan aggregation service.
Built credit scoring and reporting product backed by CRIF, increasing user retention (↑10%), data-sharing (↑15%), and reducing low-quality loan applications.
Wearing a delivery and manager hat, took a team which had never released in a year to shipping several major projects in quick succession.
Product Manager - Codogo
April 2016 - August 2018
Co-founded Codogo, delivering client products through our agency business, whilst developing in-house collaborative document tool Codogo Write. I personally:
Owned project lifecycle from ideation to delivery of complex web and native apps for 30+ clients ranging from the NHS to Arsenal FC.
Pitched, winning awards, clients, and investors, even being flown out to try for Y Combinator with our in-house product.
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, 2:1 - Durham University
2012 - 2016 British Computing Society accredited. Awarded Rising Star of Research. Dissertation: The use of evolutionary AI in the balancing of competitive multiplayer games
BA Product + Interaction Design - Ravensbourne College of Design, Year 1
2011 - 2012
Foundation Diploma in Art + Design - London College of Communication
2010 - 2011
High School - City of London School
2003 - 2010 A levels: Physics, Economics, Music
Awards
UK Technical Communication award, ISTC, 2024
Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award, 2017
Rising Stars of Research Symposium Member, Durham University, 2016
Enterprise Kickstart Winner, Durham University Enterprise Society, 2015
Best Website Award, Meat Management Magazine, 2012
About me
I regularly attend PM conferences & meet-ups (Elevate, Product School). I keep up to speed with PM best-practice through online learning and blogs/newsletters.
I've always got a personal development project on the go; currently, I'm building a fantasy football team-building AI and the tool that made this CV. I regularly attend developer meet-ups (React London, GitHub Universe, Next Conf).
I love board games, quizzes, cryptic crosswords, and cats. I enjoy running and rock climbing. I sing and am a multi-instrumentalist.