About Gloria Ojukwu

Gloria Ojukwu is an experienced value driven product leader with a proven track record of transforming ideas into successful customer-centric and profitable solutions. With a strong background in Software Development, User experience and practical experience in Organizational Leadership and Community Building. She thrives at the intersection of technology, business, design, and community.

I have experience and proven track record across different sectors including IT, SportsTech, EduTech, E-entertainment, E-commerce, and HealthTech industries, RealTech, Fintech,etc and have managed distributed teams across the globe where I have helped organisations bring their products to live.

I help tech product teams, product managers, products and product owners grow  🚀.

My
Experience


Nov 2019 – Present | 5 yrs 2 months

– Overseeing a budding community of 20k+ black women globally(across 22+ countries) while providing them with tuition-free digital and technical literacy and helping them build sustainable tech careers.

– Helping digital and tech founders solve gender inclusion problems by building the no.1 black women in tech talent pipeline from Africa.

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Jul 2023 – Present | 1 yr 6 months
New York, United States


May 2020 – Present | 4 yrs 8 months
Australia

– Creates technical articles and answers to help members with the knowledge they need. Created 30+ posts(articles and discussions) that have influenced hundreds of people which has made me accumulate up to 22 badges
– Provides numerous answers to members/learners
– Successfully hosted 4 local events and 1 international in the community
– Advocates for developer and agile tools by Atlassian and agile best practices
– Provides technical assistance and coaching to community members(developers, product/project managers, and others)
– Building the developer and agile community to adopt and use Atlassian tools( Bit Bucket, Jira,
Confluence and Trello)

Jan 2022 – Jul 2024 | 2 yrs 7 months
North Las Vegas

– Strategized, managed, and led the

– redesign, development, and go-to-market of the web application for Japanese Learners improving user engagement and experience by up to 50%

– the design and development of the homeschooling Japanese web application for parents and teachers.

– the design, development, and go-to-market of the mobile dictionary application for Japanese Learners,
improving the signup rate for the web application by up to 40%


May 2021 – Apr 2023 | 2 yrs

Prepare and maintain learning materials for product managers on Agile Product Design Thinking
Coach product managers on Agile Product Design Thinking
Carry out practical remote design sprints with product managers
Define KPIs for product managers’ understanding
Trained and mentored more than 300 product managers


Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | 1 yr 1 month

– Define and monitor product KPIs
– Query, organize and monitor data and metrics
– Liaison with the Customer experience and customer support team to understand user problems and translate the problems into actionable tickets
– Test product features for proper quality assurance before pushing to production
– Develop and maintain product documentation
– Integrate tools for better workflows

Full-time | 2 yrs 2 months
United States

Product Managers
May 2019 – Dec 2020 | 1 yr 8 months


– In the product team, I managed 2 global and agile remote Design, QA, and Engineering teams in Nigeria and the United States to successfully and effectively plan, build, and launch new world-class products in the Sports sector and Health Sector.

– I led the Design, Development, and QA sprints that shipped 5 event portals. These portals currently used by top international sports companies have helped in customer retention by 50% between 2019-2020.

– I have controlled and currently control the internal documentation for all Design, Development, and QA processes. These documentations have helped in onboarding new staff members, information and data access, and high-quality Maintainance of the software products.

– I developed effective User Experience Research Plans for users and analyze the data for proper and effective design and engineering decisions.

– I work with the Product Team to develop the Products team’s Go-to-Market strategy that increased the visibility of our products to stakeholders and clients.

– I planned and carried out a user interview for a health product. This plan helped to define and understand the Vision of the product 100%

Frontend Developer
Nov 2018 – Jul 2019 | 9 months

As a Frontend Developer,
– I developed interactive user interfaces from provided mockups. These interfaces met all the design and acceptance criteria and increased the retention of users by 30%.
– Ensured web design is optimized for all screens which enabled all the clients to use differently
preferred screen sizes on our products
– Integrated APIs to projects for better interactivity
– Built reusable code and libraries for future use. These codes have improved the maintenance of the codebase over time.
– Optimized applications for maximum speed and scalability which enabled the clients
had an awesome experience
– Implemented effective SEO mechanics which helped our products more reacble by 40% than it was.

3 yrs 11 months

Product Strategist and Manager
Mar 2017 – Apr 2020 | 3 yr 2 months


As a Product Manager,
– I came up with effective product vision, concept development, and UX research strategies for the https://www.eminentconcepts.com/project_materials/ project.

– I worked with the marketing and leadership team to develop an effective Go-to-Market and pricing strategy for the https://www.eminentconcepts.com/project_materials/ project. This strategy drove the product sales up to a 45% increase in 1 year.

– I Led 2 successful design sprints to develop a new feature for the https://www.eminentconcepts.com/project_materials/

Project Manager
Jun 2016 – Mar 2017 | 10 months


– Translated UIs to code
– Integrated APIs to projects
– Built reusable code and libraries for future use
– Optimized application for maximum speed and scalability
– Collaborated with other team members and stakeholders

As a web developer facilitator and instructor,

– I prepared learning materials and curriculum for the students.
– I thought a class of up to 100 students, of which up to 30% got entry-level positions by the end of the 3rd month.

As a Frontend Developer,
– I translated the Ui to code.
– Ensured web design is optimized for all screens which enabled all the clients to use differently
preferred
screen sizes on our products
– Integrated APIs to projects for better interactivity
– Built reusable code and libraries for future use and better maintenance
– Optimized applications for maximum speed and scalability which enabled the clients
had an awesome experience

As a Project Manager, I was in charge of defining project scopes, budgets and managing cross-functional team memebers to deliever the right products to the clients in time.

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