Sophie Taylor
Senior Product Manager
Profile
Senior Product Manager with 7 years of experience driving product strategy and growth for B2B SaaS platforms. Successfully delivered product features that increased ARR by 40% and improved customer NPS from 32 to 58. Proven track record of scaling products serving 300k+ enterprise customers and generating £8M+ in additional annual revenue through data-driven product decisions.
Experience
Lead product strategy for business payments platform serving 300k+ SME customers across 45 countries, managing £2.1B in annual transaction volume.
- Spearheaded discovery and launch of multi-currency invoicing feature, generating £8M additional ARR within 12 months and increasing customer retention by 23%
- Built and executed product roadmap aligned with company OKRs, delivering 15 major features with 98% on-time delivery rate
- Reduced customer acquisition cost by 31% through implementing automated onboarding flow, decreasing time-to-first-transaction from 4 days to 45 minutes
- Collaborated with engineering teams to improve platform performance by 40%, reducing API response times from 2.1s to 1.2s
- Led cross-functional team of 12 including designers, engineers, and data analysts to deliver quarterly business targets
- Increased monthly active users by 67% through implementing personalised dashboard and smart notifications based on user behaviour analytics
- Conducted 150+ customer interviews and analysed usage data to inform product decisions, resulting in 15% increase in feature adoption rates
Managed accounting software product suite used by 85k+ UK small businesses, focusing on automation and workflow optimisation.
- Shipped automated bank reconciliation feature reducing manual processing time by 70% and improving customer satisfaction scores from 6.2 to 8.4
- Increased product revenue by £4.2M annually through launching premium workflow automation tools with 34% adoption rate
- Led A/B testing programme across 12 product features, achieving average 18% improvement in user engagement metrics
- Managed product backlog of 200+ items using Jira, maintaining 95% sprint completion rate across 8 development teams
- Reduced customer churn by 28% through implementing proactive user guidance and contextual help features
- Collaborated with UX team to redesign core invoice management interface, increasing task completion rate by 45%
- Established data-driven decision making framework using SQL analytics, reducing feature development cycle time by 22%
Supported product development for property search platform serving 50M+ monthly users, focusing on search experience and agent tools.
- Assisted in launching mortgage calculator integration, increasing lead generation by 35% and contributing £1.8M additional revenue
- Conducted user research with 80+ estate agents to inform agent portal redesign, improving workflow efficiency by 42%
- Managed release coordination for mobile app updates, maintaining 4.6-star rating across iOS and Android platforms
- Supported implementation of machine learning property valuation tool, improving accuracy by 15% over previous manual estimates
- Coordinated with marketing team on product feature launches, achieving average 25% increase in feature awareness
- Created detailed user personas and journey maps based on analytics data from 2M+ monthly active users
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Agile/Scrum Methodologies
- User Research & Customer Discovery
- A/B Testing & Experimentation
- SQL & Data Analysis
- Roadmap Planning & Prioritisation
- OKRs & KPI Management
- Jira & Confluence
- Figma & Product Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Market Research & Competitive Analysis
- Product-Led Growth
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Feature Specification Writing
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Revenue Optimisation
- User Experience Design
- Product Analytics (Google Analytics, Mixpanel)
- API Documentation
- Lean Startup Methodology
Education
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ)
- Pragmatic Marketing Certified (PMC)
- Product Management Certificate - General Assembly