EMEKA UGOCHUKWU

Staff Product Manager • Payment, Marketplace & Supply Chain

Lagos, NG.

About

Highly accomplished Staff Product Manager with extensive experience building payment and supply-chain infrastructure for multi-million dollar hardware ecosystems and millions of POS devices. Proven leader in delivering AI-native products, transforming ambiguous problems into clear direction, and leading cross-functional teams to drive significant revenue growth, operational efficiency, and market expansion. Seeking a senior, staff, or lead product role at a global, remote-first hardware, fintech, or platform company to leverage expertise in product strategy, AI innovation, and market penetration.

Work

Hoo Socials Limited

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Co-Founder & Product Lead, P&L Owner

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Summary

Co-founded and led product strategy and P&L for a three-sided marketplace, driving user growth, event expansion, and significant payouts to creators.

Highlights

Built and scaled a three-sided marketplace to ~6,000 users across ~100 events, facilitating #10M+ paid out to creators.

Managed supply-and-demand matching, access control, vendor onboarding, and monetization strategies for the platform.

Integrated physical infrastructure with branded check-in, cashless payments, and onsite vendor management, utilizing Paystack, Bank68, and Moniepoint POS.

Moniepoint Inc.

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Staff Product Manager, POS & Devices (Supply Chain)

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Summary

Spearheaded the POS inventory and logistics platform for a $248M hardware ecosystem, defining strategy and leading a 32-person cross-functional team to achieve global market expansion.

Highlights

Redesigned the device activation flow, reducing new-business drop-off to ~12% and mitigating ~#125M in daily exposure under a hard regulatory deadline.

Increased usable terminal availability from 73% to 91% within 6 months by redesigning fulfillment to a partner-led (P2P) distribution network.

Salvaged a multi-billion-naira revenue line, growing revenue from #2.5B to #2.9B in 9 months through a rebrand from POS insurance to device maintenance.

Developed internal AI tooling (Claude skills) and led AI experiments across the POS & Devices platform, shipping QuarterlyBFF to accelerate onboarding and execution.

Managed the feedback and support loop for POS and Device stakeholders, integrating CX/CRM to achieve 90% CSAT across regions.

Qore Inc. (Appzone Group)

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Lead Product Manager, Payments & Business Banking

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Summary

Led product strategy for a multi-tenant payments and banking platform, serving financial institutions across Africa and driving significant revenue growth and operational efficiency.

Highlights

Cut transaction failure rates by 60% by designing intelligent multi-acquirer routing across payment rails, improving authorization success and processing cost.

Scaled institutional adoption by 2,500% (4 to 100+ clients) through redesigning onboarding, pricing, and go-to-market strategy.

Delivered the product line's first profitable year by optimizing pricing and introducing new revenue channels.

Grew revenue by 12% MoM and retention by 20%, exceeding the annual revenue target by #1B through launching new payment channels (pay-with-transfer, card-transfer, API).

Generated #63M in Q1 revenue via a configurable product model, enabling rapid client customization without engineering overhead.

ProduqtEdge Venture Studio

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Product Consultant

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Summary

Led product domain standards and operating models across a venture studio's product organization, driving the definition and launch of new SaaS products.

Highlights

Defined and launched a core-banking SaaS product for cooperatives, improving retention and lifting overall customer satisfaction (CSAT) from ~15% to ~60%.

Validated new concepts and markets for investors across BNPL and hospitality through rapid prototyping and user testing.

Seamfix (NIMC)

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Technical Product Manager

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Summary

Managed technical product development for an identity platform, enhancing user reach and system reliability for government initiatives.

Highlights

Delivered an identity platform serving over 2M+ users, significantly reducing system downtime by 20%.

Africa Prudential (Heirs Tech)

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Product Manager

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Summary

Drove product improvements and development velocity for a financial services platform, enhancing merchant engagement and operational efficiency.

Highlights

Improved merchant retention and increased sprint velocity by 40% through strategic product initiatives and process optimization.

Venture Garden Group

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Product Manager / Business Analyst

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Summary

Spearheaded product development and business analysis, achieving rapid promotion and launching a critical payment gateway for financial transactions.

Highlights

Achieved promotion to Product Manager within 12 months, recognizing exceptional performance and strategic contributions.

Launched a robust payment gateway integrating 40+ APIs for authorization and settlement, expanding platform capabilities and transaction volume.

Education

Coursera

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Course RAG Systems

Product School

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Course Product Strategy & Launch

Utiva/Udacity

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Course Product Management & Design

University of Lagos

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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BSc Quantity Surveying

Languages

English

Certificates

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

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Skills

Product & Strategy

Product Vision, Roadmapping, Platform & Marketplace Strategy, Reusable Capabilities & Governance, Monetisation, Go-to-Market (GTM).

Discovery & Delivery

Product Discovery, PRDs, User Stories, Backlog Prioritisation, OKRs, Scrum, A/B Testing, Cohort Analysis, Experimentation.

Technical & AI

AI-assisted Coding, AI-assisted SQL & Data Analysis, Rapid Prototyping, RAG Systems, Event Instrumentation, Logistics & Supply Planning.

Tools

Jira, Confluence, Notion, Figma, Miro, Grafana, Mixpanel, Metabase, Mermaid, GitHub, Netlify, Vercel, Supabase, Claude.