Rhys Black
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Arabic Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Credentials
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Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum AllianceMay, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Oyster®
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United States
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Human Resources Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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Director of Operations
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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
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Delocate (acquired by Oyster)
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Information Technology & Services
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Founder and CEO
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Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
Helping startups thrive as remote organisations 👨💻🌍 Helping startups thrive as remote organisations 👨💻🌍
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Trade Nations
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United Kingdom
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International Trade and Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-founder and CEO
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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.
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Yuvoh
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London
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Head of Product
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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.
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RateSetter
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Product Manager - Investors
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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.
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Product Manager - Marketplace
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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.
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Verisk Extreme Event Solutions
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United States
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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Product Consultant
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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.
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Product Analyst
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Sep 2014 - Apr 2016
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Education
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University College London, U. of London
MSc, Geophysics -
The University of Glasgow
BSc (hons), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences