Mudiaga Ogboru Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

At Social Reputation, my focus lies in revolutionizing credit assessment through digital footprints, aligning product vision with our mission to extend financial services to underrepresented individuals. This role draws upon my expertise in SaaS development and Product StrategyMy primary focus include articulating product strategies that resonate with market needs and steering cross-functional teams to achieve key milestones. The journey at Social Reputation has been a testament to my ability to innovate and adapt, ensuring that our products not only meet but exceed stakeholder expectations.Key Responsibilities:• Interface effectively with senior stakeholders, providing clear updates on product development, milestones, and key performance indicators.Collaborate with other senior leaders to align overall company goals with product strategies• Articulate a clear product vision that aligns with our mission and market needs.Continuously refine and evolve the product strategy to stay ahead in the dynamic financial services landscape.• Lead user research initiatives to gain deep insights into user behaviors, pain points, and preferences.Implement diverse user testing methodologies to collect actionable insights and utilize data to drive informed product decisions.• Establish and manage a robust cross-functional collaboration framework within and across departments.Initiate effective communication channels, regular feedback loops, and collaborative workshops to ensure alignment among UX, product team, dev squads, and marketing teams.• Oversee the delivery of the product roadmap, ensuring timely and effective execution of strategic initiatives.Collaborate with relevant teams to prioritize features and functionalities based on market needs and business objectives.

Upland Rant & Rave Product Manager. Upland Rant & Rave is a customer engagement software that turns insights into action. We capture, analyze and act on customer’s feedback in real time uncovering clear and valuable insights. Key Responsibilities.• Manage product communication across internal and external stakeholders • Be the go-to person between cross-functional teams and stakeholders, like Engineering team, Cloud team, Architecture team, Design team, Product Marketing team and customer success team. • Define and prioritize product needs and user stories• Use market and customer data to guide product strategy• Own and define product road-map and priority.• Create and manage backlog and mock-ups and prototypes to assist with development.• Handle Day to Day portfolio inquiries management and provide RFP assistance

MyCircle is an organization built on a network community of people influencing the society through innovations and strategic approaches. It is both an online and offline platform for advertising and promoting your favorite brands thereby enhancing job opportunities, MyCircle is a social influencing engine that gives room for loyal customers of a brand to market the product and get rewarded. It creates an easier and efficient way of presenting and marketing brands to the outside world.

Social Lender is a Fintech solution that enables financial institutions extend formal financial service to the under-served demography.As the Product Lead I designed and managed Social Lender her partners business goals.Key Achievement: • I led the product team and other stakeholders to grow the business to $5million valuation from $0 • Product management leading to company selection in Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP) run by the Department of International Trade (DIT)• Introduced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning to train various model that improved productivity and scale.• Led product growth maintaining 15% growth month on month.• Delivered products across multiple channels, these include USSD and SMS channels, Web apps, API marketplace and Chatbot channel• Led a cross-functional team to design, build and launch of Lending web application to serve digital natives who were financially excluded.• Successfully disbursed over $1,000,000 million in transaction value via the Social Lender Product Platform. • Automated key user journeys and internal processes to improve customer experience• Negotiated and Executed 4 Successful B2B Product launch with 4 Major financial institution as partners• Won, the maiden edition of the IE Business School Venture Day Lagos Start-up pitch competition with a cash prize and all-expense paid trip to I.E Business School campus in Spain.• Introduced practices of data collection that is still been used today to identify areas where product improvements needs to be made.Key responsibilities • Worked cross functional team to execute day-to-day operations of Social Lender, defining strategy, best practice, product roadmap and product North Star. • Managing cross functional team including the engineering term, support team and marketing teams to drive successful product release and adoption.• People management, including coaching, mentoring product team to achieve business objectives.

Product Manager.Social Lender is a digital financial service solution that help financial institutions extend formal financial service to the under-served and un-banked leveraging on their Social Reputation.Key ResponsibilityResponsible for managing the brand Social Lender from Both strategic planning and tactical activities • Led product development scrum teams. With direct reports from Tech, design and technical writer team. Approving final decision concerning product and feature development matters• Led product development procedures. With direct reports from Tech, design and technical writer team. Approving final decision concerning product and feature development matters.• Implementing effective internal controls and approvals processes for the various Social Lender location offices.• Developing KPI's relative to industry benchmarks, business metrics and portfolio performance,• Developing and implementing operational policies, standards and practices in line with global best practice.• Managing cross functional team including the engineering term, support team and marketing teams to drive successful product release and adoption.• Managed product feature request , writing the tickets backlogs and tracking the product life-cycle using Trello board

As the business analyst lead my job was to identify sales leads, pitch products and services to new and prospective clients and also maintain a good working relationship with new contacts.Some of my responsibilities includes• Support Product design with data and data informed trends.• Develop comprehensive reports on projects and clients consistently.• Give comprehensive feedback and reports to management• Pitch product and services to new, prospective and existing clients.• Identify sales leads. Follow up leads till they becomes clients.

Lagos, Nigeria

• Liaising with Client to ensure the smooth administration and management of assets under their control• Data Analysis and Developing strategies to improve our relationship with the Oil and Gas companies, Negotiating the Budget and Work Program and Scrutinizing the performance of JV companies• Scheduling and monitoring the various meetings and events occurring, in other to enhance our efficiency and productivity • Assisting the Joint Venture team and manager in the overall management of all planning activities and liaising with all various NAPIMS Department.

Portharcourt, Nigeria

• Transmitter installation and maintenance participation• Monitor of incoming signals and outgoing broadcast• Internet café management • Outside broadcasting support

Strategic Marketing For Competitive Advantage

Activities and Societies: Strategic Marketing For Competitive Advantage – Designing A Marketing Plan

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Physics/Electronics

Activities and Societies: Member: Student Union Judiciary council. Cell Leader: Christian Fellowship International Arrowhead Eden Nigeria.