Douglas Franklin

Douglas Franklin

Product Manager in London

About

Hi! 👋 My name is DF and I support the team for OkCollect and OkApp. I am also the Product Co-founder for Groupify.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
London

OkHi is a smart addressing system on a mission to enable the 4 billion people without an address to 'be included'.

Our group is responsible for address creation, verification and the SDKs; investing in features for accurate address creation, faster verification and enhancing the User experience,

We also ship novel creative tools, Infra, Design systems and more.

2021 — 2021
San Francisco

Per Diem makes it easy for local businesses to sell subscriptions online.

I joined Per-Diem as its first Product Manager, and I worked on Per-Diem's flagship product for merchants, we built analytics, order skipping, product pages + logic for locations.

Later on, I worked on redesigning the merchant dashboard.

I also worked on the consumer app, we built features like gifting, a consumer dashboard, and subscriptions.

I started work on the Whitelabel mobile apps before I left.

Projects

2023
OkCollect Quickstart at OkHi

We supported a company-wide redesign of OkCollect to reduce the time to integrate for our clients and also improve conversion between funnels.

Historically, our client-owned UI and our flows on OkCollect were disconnected from each other and had different experiences for users.

This redesign merged these flows and entry points, driving conversion by +XX% (One of the most significant product changes to date).

2022
OkCollect Protected Apps at OkHi

"Protected Apps" helped OkHi to reduce unknowns; significantly driving the retention of OkCollect and Verify.

2021

I led the inception, launch and growth of the World's first address checkout at OkHi. It was a huge success for both the merchant and consumer side increasing checkout rates by double digits.

Side Projects

2022

Groupify empowers content creators to grow, manage, and monetize their audience across multiple platforms.

With Groupify, creators can quickly earn revenue from their micro-content, courses, and subscriptions directly on WhatsApp and Telegram, unlocking massive potential for growth.

Speaking

2023
Lagos

Entrylevel and Douglas Franklin host a live Q&A session to share their best tips for breaking into Product management.

2023
Lagos, Nigeria

This session will explore the motivations and behaviours that enable you to land a product management job —as long as you’re willing to put in the hard work.

2022
Lagos

I shared some lessons and tricks I have learned over my career on how to land your first product management job.

Writing

2023

How much coding, design and data analytics should a PM know?

2021

Behind the scenes with the team at Paystack

2021

In the first wave, start-ups ‘unbundled the bank’. After years of unbundling financial services, banks and early entrants have already begun consolidating.

2021

All companies struggle with one question — how to expand beyond the first product.

Awards

2023

The Global Talent Visa (sometimes called the Tech Nation Visa, Tier 1 Visa or Exceptional Talent Visa) enables the best tech talent from around the world to work in the UK’s digital technology sector, contributing their cutting edge expertise and creative skills.

Education

2015 — 2019
Bachelor of Science at University of Port Harcourt
Port-Harcourt

I majored in Pure and Applied Mathematics.

Contact

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