I lead Product for ShopAR, where we are building the e-commerce foundation for the 3D internet. We provide brands and retailers with 3D 'digital twins' of their products enabling them to automate content creation for e-commerce, marketing and social as well as changing the way consumers shop online via real time 3D and Augmented Reality.
I have picked up new coding skills, spent time learning about AI, energy and fungi. However research is only a part of learning, and I wanted to make sure I continued to be a practitioner. So I created an AI backed product for teachers: Reportify. Standing on the shoulders of some fantastic tech providers, I coded all of Reportify myself. It has already grown beyond my expectations, getting its first paid subscribers only days after launching and it's been growing ever since.
I led a team of 5 PMs through a turbulent period of change including major strategic changes and layoffs. Helping them adjust rapidly and continue to produce impactful work.
I formed and led AR Ecosystem PM for AR Software. This group was responsible for building an engaged community of hundreds of thousands of creators and developers across Meta's AR Glasses and Meta Spark. This included publishing, integrity, safety and policy, security, external websites & docs as well as growth across the platform.
Senior PM developing the overarching strategy for the Cross Meta Customer Support Org (circa 125 engineers + cross functional support). I was the third person to join the team and I led it through its trickiest decisions and spearheaded the creation and implementation the org's strategy.
At the same time, I was also the Manager of two Rotational Product Managers and had day to day responsibility for running Cross Meta Support's Data & Measurement team.
I left the startup world to take on the enormous challenge, alongside a world class team, of making Augmented Reality into technology that was used by people across the world everyday. Our job was to work out if AR could be a part of bringing the world closer together and build communities via Meta's products.
Over 4 years, I worked on almost every part of the AR platform known publicly as Spark. We went from almost nobody using AR, to over a billion people using it and it being a mainstay of Meta's products including, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Ads and AR Glasses.
...After selling my own startup, I wanted to stay in the startup world but doing something slightly different. Founders Factory is an incubator and accelerator and I worked as an in house PM creating new businesses for the incubator and advising the accelerator companies.
During my time there I founded an education business called AirSupply. I built the team (including hiring its CEO), product, and first customers. Secured seed funding and had it spun out of Founders Factory as an independent business.
Flexi was a platform (Web, iOS and Android) enabling anyone to discover fitness classes that suit them and instantly book without a membership. We had over 3,000 classes a week in London when it was acquired in 2107.
This was my first foray into creating my own business. Alongside my co-founder, we built Flexi from scratch, developed product strategy, built the product (I learned how to code), fostered partnerships with fitness providers, ran our marketing campaigns and even secured funding (although we didn't take it in the end).
I learned a huge amount about creating a startup, marketplaces, the challenges of getting new things off the ground and how the world of fitness, and how people approach exercise.
I joined Educate Services as the third employee. At the time the business had a sense of what it was going to provide, and some strong backers, but no proven products. I helped Educate build all of its products from day zero.
I had a few roles doing outbound telesales for Microsoft and working as a recruitment consultant for tech companies. These roles contained some of the most important professional experiences I ever had. It made me much more certain of the things I did not want to do, but also taught be valuable lessons in perseverance. Making 4,000 outbound calls in 6 months was not fun, but it was a truly valuable experience.