About me

I'm a Senior Product Manager on a hunt for good freelance work, with a view to settle somewhere permanently when I find the right place. I have 10 years experience in digital, which includes creative direction and project management.

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Senior Product ManagerBoiler Room
Apr 2017London, United KingdomFull Time
Boiler Room is one of the leading underground music publishers worldwide. With an average reach of 10 million users per month, Boiler Room began transitioning towards being a digital product-led company in early 2017. For the majority of this time I have been the sole Product Manager, and have been running a team that has grown from 5 to 14 whilst also coaching other departments to transition towards a product focussed working process. Responsibilities: * Product Owner for multiple digital products: Website, Mobile Apps (iOS & Android) & Apple TV * Defining & maintaining the product roadmap & managing a backlog across 4 work streams: User Experience, Engineering / Architecture, Feature Development, Content Strategy * Agile Coaching & synchronizing workflows across the organisation (Marketing, Commercial, Content, Production, Post Production) to increase efficiency between disparate teams and improve quality of the platform * Managing / consulting on multiple work streams outside of the Product team, including brand partnerships, film releases and commercial campaigns * Communicating regularly with stakeholders to re-assess the org wide vision, priorities and the general transition towards a digital product-led company * Scrum Master for a product team of 14, consisting of multiple designers, developers and content editors * Integrating & synchronizing multiple SaaS management tools in order to maintain a cross-team backlog (Clubhouse, Wrike, Trello, Airtable etc.) * Organising user surveys & collating / categorising user feedback to assist backlog prioritisation * Planning / managing product releases * Assisting on go-to-market strategies
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Product ManagerFresh8 Gaming
Mar 2014 - Mar 2017London, United KingdomFull Time
Fresh8 is an award winning automated, personalised advertising platform built specifically for the sports betting industry. Using machine learning to classify sports content, as well as behavioural data from analytics, the platform determines the best advert to display in milliseconds. Fresh8 serves approximately 150 million adverts a day for several of the biggest global bookmakers, including SkyBet, BetVictor, and Coral. Responsibilities: * Defining and managing the feature roadmap * Benchmarking feature sets against competitors / industry standards * Writing business requirements, user stories & acceptance criteria * Designing wireframes / workflow diagrams * Splitting scopes into staggered releases in order to meet business requirements and allow for incremental feature improvements * Working with a QA engineer to establish test plans * Periodic status updates to stakeholders * Writing release plans alongside the Head of Engineering, Commercial Director and Project Manager * Setting feedback sessions with key clients as part of a release plan * Managing client expectations during the releases process * Maintaining a backlog in JIRA

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Skills

• Product Managment
• Creative Direction
• Project Management
• User Experience
• Scope Definition
• IOS
• Android
• Web
• Influencing Stakeholders
• Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Education

BA Media Arts (First Class Hons)University of Plymouth
Sep 2006 - May 2009Plymouth, United Kingdom