Amaka Nwosu

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Chief Product Officer at Beacon Energy · Payments

Beacon Energy
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
9+ years experience
Lagos Business School
English, Yoruba
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Beacon Energy, where I lead payments with a team of 41. Launched the payments product in 14 markets. Before that: Meta and Microsoft.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in payments
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on product strategy
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Crypto token projects
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Skills
two-sided networkscheckoutfraudpricingSQLproduct strategy
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Chief Product Officer in banking, Lagos or hybrid

Target roles
Chief Product Officer
Level
Senior
Industries
E-commerce, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Nigeria
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns payments end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

22 years in payments. Strongest at SQL and two-sided networks. Available immediately.

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Experience

  1. Chief Product Officer
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Beacon Energy · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Launched the payments product in 13 markets.
    • Grew payments revenue from $4 million to $60 million ARR.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
    Meta · 2 yr · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 17 days to 2.
  3. Director of Product
    Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
    Microsoft · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Ran 51 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
    Accenture · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Ran 179 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Took payments activation from 32% to 43% in three quarters.
  5. Senior Product Manager
    Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
    Amazon · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Launched the payments product in 10 markets.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 10 days to 4.

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Education

  1. Lagos Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2005 - 2007
  2. University of Nairobi
    BSc, Business Administration
    1999 - 2003

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