Experience

HelloSelf

• United Kingdom
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Product

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  At HelloSelf we’re building a better way for people to access effective psychological support. Our video therapy platform lets our members connect with the UK’s best Clinical Psychologists at a time and place that suits them. We use technology and AI to go beyond what is possible in the therapy room to help people get better faster and continue to progress even after their therapy sessions are over. Around 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year and 1.8 billion people need help, globally. We all have a Self that is a work in progress, a Self that isn’t perfect and could do with a little help now and again. We’re on a mission to make Every Self Better.



Lantum

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP Product

  • May 2019 - Apr 2021

  Lantum is an end-to-end workforce management platform that makes it easy for healthcare organisations to maintain safe levels of staffing and pay their workers faster than ever before. Role - Report directly to the CEO and represent Engineering, Product and Design at Lantum’s Executive Committee. - Create and drive the Product Vision and Product Strategy - Responsible for maintaining a multi-year Product Roadmap and for ensuring all stakeholders are kept informed of build progress and prioritisation changes. - In charge of building an all-star product team and ensuring hiring efforts are aligned across Engineering, Product and Design. Achievements- Set the product strategy to successfully enter the US healthcare market by securing our first US enterprise contract.o Led a sprint team for 3 months in LA at the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Program, where we first won a pilot contract and then converted it to a full rollout agreement.- Balanced the roadmap to support continued growth in the UK, simultaneously, as evidenced by our recent co-development deal with a large NHS Trust.- Built and developed the Product Management team from 2 to 5 heads.

• Senior Product Manager

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  - Coached 2 Product Managers to each run effective squads that could define and independently ship products that solve user problems.- Helped product teams set hypotheses, test riskiest assumptions and break down complex problems into small steps.- Kept abreast of market trends and opportunities to identify new product developments that could support our business objectives.- Ensured all products remained compliant with industry regulations.

• Product Manager

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2018

  - Delivered new features that allowed Lantum to pivot away from being a primary care marketplace for GP Locums only, to becoming a SAAS workflow tool that supports all staff types and healthcare organisations of all sizes.



Kahoot!

• Norway
• E-Learning Providers
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Nov 2015 - Jul 2017

  Kahoot! is a global game-based learning platform with over 100 million monthly active users in more than 200 countries. Role - Worked with the leadership team to shape product strategy and translate this into tangible objectives for the product teams. - Validated new revenue streams, such as working with partner brands and content owners to leverage Kahoot!’s distribution power to reach the platform’s unique target audience. - Coached teams to follow impact-driven product development and adopt Agile techniques, such as rapid prototyping and Design Sprints. - Designed and ran live A/B tests to help inform decisions Achievements - Launched the Kahoot! iOS App (1.5m MAUs in 3 months and Top 5 in the US-Education category). o Strategically, the new app was used to advance Kahoot!’s relationships with Apple and Disney, the latter going on to invest $15m. - Secured a $250,000 deal with a large entertainment company to promote an international movie launch by creating a new “in-gameplay” native advertising unit. - Evolved the core gameplay experience to achieve team OKRs: o Adding the ‘Podium’ increased referrals on social media to grow MAUs. o Adding ‘Answer Streak Bonus’ increased frequency of use.



Geonomics

• Product Manager

  • Jun 2013 - Nov 2015

  Geonomics was a start-up that offered online, map-based games that mixed gaming and gambling. The games ran in the UK until March 2016 when Geonomics was acquired by ZEAL Network SE.- Led a cross-functional product team using Dual-Track Agile and Continuous Deployment.- Validated our solutions to user problems through user research, usability sessions and live A/B tests.- Managed product performance by analysing data from web-analytics tools.

• Product Development Analyst

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2013



Cisco Hire

• London, United Kingdom

• Assistant Systems Administrator

  • Dec 2011 - Mar 2012