Michael Okoro

Product professional with 2+ years of experience leading product discovery, roadmap planning, and MVP delivery across B2B and B2C digital products. Skilled in OKR-driven roadmap execution, RICE/MoSCoW prioritization, and data-driven decision making, including SQL-based analysis and product analytics tools such as Google Analytics. Known for translating user research and competitive insights into high-impact features, using AI-assisted product development to accelerate prototyping and design-to-development hand-offs.

Adept at influencing cross-functional alignment without direct authority, resolving stakeholder conflict, and applying strategic thinking to connect product decisions to measurable business outcomes.

Product Manager at TS Consulting (2026-01 – Present)

A multi-industry tech consulting firm specializing in digital transformation solutions across industries. Leading cross-functional teams of 6–8 across 3 concurrent client engagements.

Owned the end-to-end product lifecycle for CHECK-AM, SAFE SIGNAL, and LEVION, leading product discovery, roadmap management, MVP planning, backlog prioritization, sprint execution, and post-launch optimization aligned to customer needs and OKRs.

• Researched 50+ users through interviews and surveys to understand their needs, mapped their journeys, and built personas, translating findings into 100+ user stories and prototypes that significantly improved product-market fit.
• Built functional prototypes for CHECK-AM, SAFE SIGNAL, and LEVION using AI-assisted coding tools, translating product requirements into interactive, developer-ready references that compressed the design-to-development handoff by 35% and improved sprint kickoff readiness across all 3 products.
• Collaborated with designers in Figma and Miro to optimize developer handoff and UX, increasing team velocity by 22% and improving user adoption readiness.
• Implemented user-centered designs by increasing accessibility to product features, increasing product adoption by 17%
• Directed sprint planning and cross-functional delivery, maintaining 90% sprint consistency and unblocking delivery risks across the full product life-cycle.

Product Manager/Scrum Master (Freelance) at Chingu (2025-01 – 2025-12)

A tech community-based platform, giving relevant work experience for tech-related roles (Product Owners/Managers, Scrum Masters, UI/UX designers & Developers).

• Guided OKR-driven roadmap and MVP scoping for 3 products, collaborating with 7–8 engineers and designers to deliver production-ready builds in 6 weeks, 25% faster than the team baseline.
• Analyzed competitors and target market segments to identify high-impact feature opportunities, validating decisions through NPS and CSAT tracking that reflected a 18% improvement in user satisfaction over 4 sprints.
• Applied RICE scoring for backlog prioritization and Agile execution, achieving 90–95% sprint goal completion and reducing cycle time by 30% through proactive stakeholder alignment.
• Resolved cross-functional blockers and streamlined workflows, reducing rework by 20% through clearly defined acceptance criteria and structured executive communication.
• Coordinated Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives), maintaining 85% team velocity and unblocking delivery risks across full product life-cycles.
• Mediated competing priorities between high-impact stakeholders across engineering and design without direct authority, facilitating structured alignment sessions that resolved friction within 2 sprint cycles, reducing decision delays and maintaining 90–95% sprint goal completion, and ensuring zero compromise on product quality or delivery timelines.

Project Manager/Scrum Master at TESTIFY (2025-01 – 2025-05)

A Software testing agency looking to build an AI-enabled platform where QA testers plan, test, and debug test cases seamlessly.

• Managed a cross-functional team of 6 engineers to deliver an AI-powered QA testing MVP in 12 weeks with 83% milestone adherence, applying MoSCoW prioritization to reduce test planning time by 30%.
• Defined product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for 10+ features; monitored adoption KPIs and conversion rates post-launch, driving a 15% improvement in user activation within 6 weeks.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily-stand-ups, review, retrospectives), and story mapping, achieving a consistent sprint completion rate and improving team velocity by 25%.

Project Manager/Operations Lead at 60Fi.com (2024-06 – 2024-12)

An evolving Fin-tech company looking to scale operations from Nigeria to the UK and other markets, transition from legacy documents and operations to an enterprise environment.

• Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Compliance, Customer Support, and Engineering to gather business requirements, map existing workflows, and identify opportunities for process automation and digital product enhancements.
• Translated business and user requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria, enabling engineering teams to prioritize and deliver high-impact workflow improvements aligned with business objectives.
• Prioritized enhancement initiatives using business impact, user needs, and operational data, contributing to ERP implementation and digital transformation efforts that achieved 98% on-time delivery while reducing operational errors by 40%.
• Collaborated with engineering teams throughout sprint planning, backlog refinement, solution validation, and release activities to ensure product enhancements met user requirements and improved operational efficiency.
• Monitored post-implementation performance using operational KPIs, user feedback, and process audits to identify continuous improvement opportunities, reducing manual processes by 30% and accelerating cross-departmental reporting by 20%.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Accounting – University of Port-Harcourt