
Victor Cheruiyot
Senior Product Manager | Product Discovery, Delivery & Optimisation | Payments, Paytech, Fintech and Adtech
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Paris, France
Mobility: Lyon, Bordeaux, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
I am a product manager with over six years of experience turning ideas into products that people love to use and businesses are proud to launch. I enjoy working at the crossroads of creativity, data and collaboration, helping teams move from discovery to delivery in a way that keeps users at the heart of every decision. Over the years, I have had the chance to work with both ambitious start-ups and established organisations, leading products from initial concept through to launch and beyond. My strengths lie in product discovery, user research, roadmap planning, prioritising backlogs, utilising key metrics to guide product evolution to maximise both business & user value and translating big ideas into clear, actionable plans. I thrive in cross-functional environments, bringing together design, engineering, marketing and stakeholders to keep projects on track and create products that deliver real value. I am particularly passionate about using data and insight to make smarter decisions and to continuously improve product performance. I have a strong interest in paytech, payments and the wider fintech landscape, supported by hands on experience building compliant payment solutions that meet PCI DSS standards and SCA requirements. I understand how regulations such as PSD2 influence secure payment flows, user experience and payment conversion. I also keep close track of developments in digital payments, payment processing, fraud and risk solutions and financial platforms. I am also drawn to the adtech and digital advertising space, including advertising technology platforms, programmatic advertising, audience data, targeting and measurement solutions across both DSPs and SSPs. I enjoy exploring how data and insight guide better product decisions and support stronger commercial outcomes in this sector. At the core, I love building products that solve real problems, improve everyday user experiences and help businesses grow.
Work experience
Product Manager
Upwork
Feb 2019 - Present
7 years 9 months
– Owned the entire product lifecycle from ideation, launch and post-launch, implementing methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and agile practices like daily stand-up meetings and backlog refinement to achieve 15% faster release cycles. – Analysing market trends & user feedback to iterate on product features, optimising UX. – Worked with stakeholders to translate business needs into product specifications and led the prioritisation process to ensure we focused on delivering the most valuable features to users first. – Supported the development of compliant payment solutions, ensuring adherence to local and international regulations such as PCI DSS, SCA in EMV. – Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including sales and marketing, to execute a cohesive go-to-market strategy and product launches with clear messaging, effective training and ongoing post-launch performance tracking of KPIs. – Provide expert guidance on product development, leveraging agile methodologies, product discovery techniques and data-driven decision-making to enhance product performance.
Product Manager
Crowdbotics
Mar 2022 - Aug 2024
2 years 6 months
Berkeley, CA, USA
– Product Roadmap Ownership: Owned the entire product lifecycle from discovery to delivery and ensured alignment with business objectives, enabling the timely delivery of solutions that addressed user and market needs. – Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborated with UI/UX, engineering, and marketing teams to develop and execute a cohesive product strategy, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives. – User Stories & Prioritisation: Worked with stakeholders to break down features into user stories and led the prioritisation process to ensure we focused on delivering the most valuable features to users first. – Payment system: Owned the implementation of regulatory compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, AML, SCA), ensuring secure and compliant payment system integrations that support card payment operations. – Conduct research, set product vision and implement new operational tools and processes (Agile framework: Scrum, Kanban) to accelerate and streamline product delivery and user experience. – KPIs Management: Monitored key product KPIs and user behaviour metrics to uncover insights, prioritise features and implement data-driven improvements that increased customer retention and adoption by 35%. – Cultivated relationships with 30+ internal and external stakeholders, delivering weekly progress reports and proactively resolving issues; improved partner satisfaction scores by 25% and reduced project delays by 40%.
Product Manager
Magnetik
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
2 years 6 months
– Product conceptualisation: Led cross-functional product ideation sessions, resulting in well-defined product roadmaps and user stories. – User-Centric Development: Leveraged customer feedback, market research and A/B tests, driving data-informed decisions to enhance product performance and user satisfaction & retention. – Translated product vision into actionable plans through wireframing and product backlog creation. – Ensured seamless UX design integration by collaborating closely with design and development teams. – Project Management: Leading projects, managing and coordinating different teams (development team, design team etc, etc.), monitoring progress, identifying obstacles and developing contingency plans. – Product testing, troubleshooting and implementing corrective measures before launching the product. – Monitoring the overall performance of the product and managing expected deliverables. – Conduct research, set product vision and implement new operational tools and processes to accelerate and streamline product delivery and user experience. – Manage the stakeholders (Partners): Liaise with the partners assigned to me and the company and provide project updates and any emerging issues.
Internship: Accounting, financial control, treasury
National Irrigation Board
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
3 months
Nairobi, Kenya
– Examination of cashbook and reconciliation of accounts. – Preparation of schedule of office furniture and equipment. – Examination of imprest surrender and imprest request to ensure that they have the required support document before they are posted in the payment voucher book. – Received purchase order book and local purchase books and recorded their receipt numbers against the total amount reflected in the respective receipt. – Examination of cashbook prepared to ensure that all the payment and receipt balances are reflected on the ledger to allow the reconciliation of the cashbook where the records are not reflected. – Examination of vouchers on a daily basis to ensure compliance with the existing financial procedures and coding. – Aided PMO in the structuring and monitoring of ongoing projects aimed at maintaining of irrigation schemes and the introduction of new crop varieties. – Assisted in financial analysis and modelling. – Ensuring payment vouchers are supported by the requisite documents and Ensuring that appropriate certificates have been signed by authorized officers and reporting to the scheme accountant where the problem existed for it to be verified and corrected.
Education
IAE Auvergne School of Management
MSc, International Finance and Economics, Finance
2017 - 2018
1 year 1 month
Alliance Française Nairobi
DELF A2, Français
2017 - 2017
1 month
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor of Commerce (Finance)
2012 - 2016
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Product Discovery Micro-Certification (PDC)TM#
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Programmatic Advertising Foundations
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Design Thinking: Understanding the Process
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Microsoft DevOps Academy
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Learning Airtable
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