Rhys Black

Director of Operations at Oyster®
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(386) 825-5501
Location
London, UK
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Arabic Elementary proficiency

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Credentials

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner
    Scrum Alliance
    May, 2018
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Human Resources Services
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Director of Operations
      • Mar 2020 - Present

      Joined as employee no. 1 and helped scale the business from an idea to 700 employees and a $1bn+ valuation in 3.5 years. Reported to both the CEO and COO, leading many critical cross-functional programs that underpin how we operate and serve our customers. Key achievements: - Worked with the CEO to successfully raise a $25m series A from Tier 1 Silicon Valley and European VC’s - Built our OKR goal-setting processes and led the Executive Team to align on strategic priorities on… Show more Joined as employee no. 1 and helped scale the business from an idea to 700 employees and a $1bn+ valuation in 3.5 years. Reported to both the CEO and COO, leading many critical cross-functional programs that underpin how we operate and serve our customers. Key achievements: - Worked with the CEO to successfully raise a $25m series A from Tier 1 Silicon Valley and European VC’s - Built our OKR goal-setting processes and led the Executive Team to align on strategic priorities on a quarterly basis - Built company-wide project management processes to achieve quarterly OKR’s - Built and managed the operational and cultural programs to be productive and happy as a fully remote company of 700 people across 70+ countries Show less Joined as employee no. 1 and helped scale the business from an idea to 700 employees and a $1bn+ valuation in 3.5 years. Reported to both the CEO and COO, leading many critical cross-functional programs that underpin how we operate and serve our customers. Key achievements: - Worked with the CEO to successfully raise a $25m series A from Tier 1 Silicon Valley and European VC’s - Built our OKR goal-setting processes and led the Executive Team to align on strategic priorities on… Show more Joined as employee no. 1 and helped scale the business from an idea to 700 employees and a $1bn+ valuation in 3.5 years. Reported to both the CEO and COO, leading many critical cross-functional programs that underpin how we operate and serve our customers. Key achievements: - Worked with the CEO to successfully raise a $25m series A from Tier 1 Silicon Valley and European VC’s - Built our OKR goal-setting processes and led the Executive Team to align on strategic priorities on a quarterly basis - Built company-wide project management processes to achieve quarterly OKR’s - Built and managed the operational and cultural programs to be productive and happy as a fully remote company of 700 people across 70+ countries Show less

    • Information Technology & Services
    • Founder and CEO
      • Jun 2019 - Feb 2021

      Helping startups thrive as remote organisations 👨‍💻🌍 Helping startups thrive as remote organisations 👨‍💻🌍

    • United Kingdom
    • International Trade and Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-founder and CEO
      • Dec 2018 - Mar 2020

      Built a remote-first company with employees across Europe and Latin America that helps governments to increase their country's international exports using technology. Built a remote-first company with employees across Europe and Latin America that helps governments to increase their country's international exports using technology.

  • Yuvoh
    • London
    • Head of Product
      • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

      Yuvoh is a cutting-edge property investment analytics platform that allows property investors to analysed investment opportunities for short-term rental strategies and streamline the buying process. I took this company from being pre-product with a team of 2 to launching the product, generating revenue and building a team of 10 distributed between the UK, Ukraine, Greece and China. Yuvoh is a cutting-edge property investment analytics platform that allows property investors to analysed investment opportunities for short-term rental strategies and streamline the buying process. I took this company from being pre-product with a team of 2 to launching the product, generating revenue and building a team of 10 distributed between the UK, Ukraine, Greece and China.

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Product Manager - Investors
      • Apr 2018 - Aug 2018

      My responsibilities have grown so that I now own all aspects of the investor side of RateSetter's product. I managed a 2 teams, totalling 15 developers between the UK, Portugal and Ukraine.

    • Product Manager - Marketplace
      • Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

      I owned the core systems of RateSetter, such as the financial matching engine and market structures among others. Main areas of focus include: - Fostering a product-driven culture within the organisation - Developing data-driven product strategy - Managing the entire product lifecycle from planning to release. - Leading projects with a global team of software engineers, QA engineers and UX designers - Managing the roadmap of RateSetters markets via Agile frameworks -… Show more I owned the core systems of RateSetter, such as the financial matching engine and market structures among others. Main areas of focus include: - Fostering a product-driven culture within the organisation - Developing data-driven product strategy - Managing the entire product lifecycle from planning to release. - Leading projects with a global team of software engineers, QA engineers and UX designers - Managing the roadmap of RateSetters markets via Agile frameworks - Scrum and Kanban.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Product Consultant
      • Apr 2016 - Aug 2017

      Product Consultant responsible for a suite of advanced catastrophe risk modelling SaaS products used to make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to range of natural, anthropogenic and cyber risks.

    • Product Analyst
      • Sep 2014 - Apr 2016

Education

  • University College London, U. of London
    MSc, Geophysics
  • The University of Glasgow
    BSc (hons), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences

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