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Karen A.

Senior Product Manager | AI, Fintech, SaaS & MVP Delivery

I help founders and teams turn complex ideas, legacy workflows and under-defined requirements into buildable MVPs and scalable products. I’m a senior product manager, product strategist and founder with 10+ years of experience across AI, healthtech, fintech, insurance, SaaS, proptech, marketplaces and public-sector products. My work spans Nigeria, the UK & ROI, Europe, Saudi Arabia, the US and the Philippines. Selected results: • Took an embedded-finance product from 0 to 50,000 borrowers in its first year, supporting a $75m raise while maintaining 97% repayment • Built and led a digital-bank product function that reached 500,000+ users in year one • Built a B2B marketplace that acquired 4,000+ businesses in six months and generated $3m GMV in year one • Improved acquisition by 30% through a global-payroll journey redesign and led the first release of payslip automation • Delivered 16% month-on-month acquisition growth, 20% month-on-month revenue growth and a 30% retention uplift for a predictive-lending product More recently, I have led product definition and delivery for an AI healthtech platform, a UK & ROI estate-agency CRM replacement, a Saudi motor-claims MVP designed around payment within 24 hours of approval, and a US portfolio spanning proptech, customer acquisition, home services and managed support. Clients bring me in when the opportunity is clear but the path to execution is not. I can help with: • Product strategy and discovery • MVP definition, scope and prioritisation • Customer journeys and operational workflows • PRDs, user stories, roadmaps and backlogs • Design and engineering hand-off • Pilot design, launch planning and cross-functional delivery I work hands-on and can engage as a senior product lead or fractional Head of Product. Where the scope requires it, I can also bring in a ready offshore team of product managers, designers and software engineers.

🇳🇬Lagos, Nigeria$40/hr100% JSS5.00 (4)Since Apr 2024

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$3.4k

An estimate from an earlier read

World#10,285 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#82 / 13.8k
Revenue, last 30 days
$5.4k

Last 6 months: $21k

World#4,965 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#31 / 13.8k
Total earnings
$47k

Billed in all: $50k

World#79,425 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#803 / 13.8k
Per project
$5.3k

$5.2k in the last 6 months

World#33,021 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#367 / 13.8k
Projects, last 6 months
4
50% fixed50% hourly
World#51,815 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#3,269 / 13.8k
Projects in all
9

Across 10 contracts

30% fixed70% hourly
World#212,270 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#7,852 / 13.8k

Earnings, last 30 days

$49.9k+$5.2k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$40k$45k$50kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

No data since Nov 5, 2026.

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