Senior Product Manager  ·  London, UK

Building products at the intersection of subscriptions, payments & growth

7+ years shipping high-impact products at The Economist Group, PEI Group, Tymit, Nomo Bank and Moneycorp. Currently building AI agent products for clients. I turn messy problems into clean roadmaps, run experiments that generate real revenue, and build platforms that scale.

Subscription Growth Paywall Strategy Payments & Fintech Experimentation 0-to-1 Launches AI-Enabled Products
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About

I'm a Senior Product Manager with a track record of building and scaling commercially significant products in subscriptions, payments and fintech. I've owned product strategy for millions of global subscribers at The Economist Group, launched a fully digital Islamic bank from zero, and scaled a consumer credit product to 900k active customers.

My approach is data-first but judgment-led. I run disciplined experiments, make decisions quickly when the evidence is clear, and know when to trust intuition when it isn't. I work best in environments where the product has real commercial stakes and where getting it right genuinely matters.

Alongside permanent roles, I build AI agent products for clients - designing agentic workflows using LLMs (GPT-4, Claude), Python and rapid-build platforms, and shipping autonomous tools that replace manual processes. Recent work includes an autonomous deal analysis agent that cut analysis time by 80% for a real estate investment firm.

Currently open to Senior PM, Lead PM and Principal PM roles in London - subscriptions, fintech, growth, or platform.

88k
Subscribers, Podcasts+ year one
+56%
ARPU uplift via dynamic discounting
900k
Customers, Frasers Plus
+26%
Conversion via funnel optimisation

Case Studies

Selected projects representing the breadth and depth of my work.

The Economist Group · 2023-2024
Launching Economist Podcasts+: 0-to-1 Subscription Product
Subscriptions0-to-1MonetisationPricing Strategy
£1m+
Annual revenue, year one
Context

The Economist had 4-5 million monthly unique podcast listeners generating £5m+ in annual ad/sponsor revenue, but no paid audio product. 53% of listeners were non-subscribers - a large, high-intent audience consuming the product daily but paying nothing for it.

Problem

No infrastructure existed for audio-specific entitlements. The existing subscription stack couldn't support tiered audio access. We needed to define the product, pricing, and entitlements model from scratch - building a business case worth £8.2m over 5 years - and ship it without disrupting millions of existing subscribers. 99%+ of listening happened off-platform (Apple Podcasts, Spotify), adding integration complexity.

Approach

Led a 1,498-person audience survey to map willingness-to-pay and listening behaviour. Benchmarked competitor audio subscription models. Defined a tiered paywall strategy: flagship daily podcast free, weekly shows 75% paywalled, seasonal series fully paywalled, plus exclusive subscriber-only bonus content. Calibrated pricing at £4.90/month through pre-launch experiments. Built the access control layer on top of the existing entitlements platform with integrations across Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and private RSS feeds.

My Role

Principal PM with end-to-end ownership - from business case and audience research through engineering delivery, platform integrations, launch (October 2023), and first-year iteration. Worked across product, engineering, editorial, marketing and commercial to align all parties.

Outcomes
  • 88k subscribers acquired in year one
  • £1m+ annual revenue generated in year one
  • Launched without disrupting 2m+ existing subscribers
  • Entitlements architecture reused for Insider video product launch
The Economist Group · 2023-2024
Dynamic Discounting: Turning Churn Risk into Revenue
RetentionExperimentationPersonalisationARPU
+56%
Annualised ARPU uplift
Context

The Economist's cancellation flow offered an identical retention discount to every subscriber - regardless of their lifetime value, tenure, engagement level, or likelihood of churning. This blunt approach was leaving significant revenue on the table: over-discounting low-risk subscribers who would have stayed anyway, and under-investing in retaining high-value ones.

Problem

No personalisation existed in the cancel-save journey. The challenge was threefold: build a reliable churn prediction model on 665k+ subscribers, design a discount framework that wouldn't cannibalise revenue from retained subscribers, and prove the approach with a controlled experiment rigorous enough to convince commercial leadership to adopt it as the new standard.

Approach

Partnered with data science to build a 270-feature predictive churn model. Used propensity scores to segment subscribers by risk level and lifetime value. Designed a tiered discount framework calibrated to each segment - higher offers for high-risk/high-value subscribers, smaller or no discounts for low-risk ones. Ran a rigorous A/B test with a holdout control group receiving the existing flat discount, measuring impact on retention rate, annualised ARPU and six-month incremental revenue.

My Role

Full ownership of the initiative end-to-end: problem framing, data science collaboration on the churn model, experiment design, engineering delivery of the targeting logic, results analysis, and presentation to CPO and commercial leadership with a recommendation to scale across all retention interventions.

Outcomes
  • +56% uplift in annualised ARPU vs. control
  • ~£693k incremental revenue in six months
  • Framework adopted as new standard for all retention interventions
The Economist Group · 2023-2024
AI-Enabled Customer Service Transformation
AI ProductsAutomationSalesforce EinsteinOperational Efficiency
£600k
Annual savings potential
Context

The Economist's customer service operation handled tens of thousands of contacts annually - subscription queries, account management, billing and technical support. Operational costs were rising, average handle time (AHT) was high, and the team was under pressure to improve efficiency without degrading service quality for a premium subscriber base.

Problem

No AI-powered deflection or automation existed in the CS operation. High contact volumes were consuming agent capacity on routine, repeatable queries that could be resolved without human involvement. The challenge was to design and deploy an AI-first contact strategy that reduced volume and AHT while maintaining the quality experience subscribers expected.

Approach

Led the end-to-end AI customer service transformation. Launched a Salesforce Einstein-powered chatbot to deflect common subscriber queries. Developed and owned an agent automation roadmap to reduce AHT through guided workflows and smart case routing. Worked across customer service leadership, engineering and commercial teams to prioritise and sequence the programme. Built the business case projecting £200k-£600k in annual savings through contact deflection and efficiency gains.

My Role

Principal PM with full ownership of the AI CS transformation initiative - from business case development through vendor selection, implementation, launch and ongoing roadmap. Accountable to CS leadership and commercial stakeholders for delivery milestones and savings targets.

Outcomes
  • ~35% contact deflection rate achieved via chatbot
  • £200k-£600k projected annual savings
  • AHT reduction through agent automation workflows
  • Automation roadmap adopted as the CS team's long-term operational model
Tymit · 2021-2022
Frasers Plus: 0-to-1 Credit Card Product at Scale
FintechCredit Products0-to-1Payments
900k
Active customers scaled
Context

Tymit partnered with Frasers Group (Sports Direct, House of Fraser, Flannels) to launch Frasers Plus - a co-branded credit card product. Tymit would power the technology; everything needed to be built from scratch under FCA regulatory requirements.

Problem

Building a regulated consumer credit product with a major retail partner involves an unusually high number of moving parts: credit policy, risk decisioning, affordability, rewards, merchant payment rails, FCA compliance, and customer UX - all needing alignment across two large organisations.

Approach

Led end-to-end product definition and delivery. Embedded Open Banking-powered affordability into credit decisioning. Owned the acquisition funnel, approval optimisation, and merchant payment experience. Ran phased rollout with careful monitoring of credit performance. Iterated post-launch on repayment journeys to improve NPS.

My Role

Senior PM with ownership across all phases. Worked with risk, engineering, design, compliance and the Frasers commercial team. Operated under FCA constraints with direct accountability to Tymit leadership.

Outcomes
  • Scaled to ~900k active customers
  • £129m in annual credit sales
  • NPS improved from 34 to 59 within 12 months
Nomo Bank · 2021
Nomo: Launching the World's First Fully Digital Islamic Bank
Core Banking0-to-1PaymentsRegulatory
9mo
Launch in under 9 months
Context

Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME) wanted to launch a fully digital, Shariah-compliant bank targeting British expats in the Gulf. Nomo would be the first of its kind - a mobile-first digital Islamic bank with real-time payments.

Problem

Launching a regulated bank from zero under tight deadlines. Every feature needed to be built to regulatory specification, tested exhaustively, and launched simultaneously without the incremental iteration most product teams rely on.

Approach

Owned the core banking and payments workstream within the larger launch programme. Worked with McKinsey (programme management) and Mambu (core banking platform) to define, build and test the infrastructure. Led the Apple Pay integration - a technically complex milestone that made Nomo the first bank to offer Apple Pay in the UAE.

My Role

Product Manager with ownership of core banking and payments. Part of a small, high-stakes team working under regulatory deadlines. Directly accountable for delivery milestones on the payments and cards workstream.

Outcomes
  • Launched in under 9 months
  • 4,000+ sign-ups in the first 48 hours
  • First bank to offer Apple Pay in the UAE
  • World's first fully digital Islamic bank

Experience

Jan 2026 - Present
Product Consultant - AI Agent Products
Independent · Designing and shipping AI agent solutions for clients, building agentic workflows with LLMs, Python and rapid-build platforms.
Jul 2025 - Jan 2026
Senior eCommerce Manager (contract)
PEI Group
Oct 2024 - Jun 2025
Product Consultant - AI & Platform Products
Independent
Feb 2023 - Oct 2024
Principal Product Manager, Subscriptions & Platforms
The Economist Group
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Senior Product Manager
Tymit
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
Product Manager, Core Banking & Payments
Nomo Bank
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Product Manager, Payments & FX Platforms
Moneycorp

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Open to Senior PM, Lead PM and Principal PM roles in the UK. Also available for consulting. Feel free to reach out directly.