Oji Udezue
Product Executive,
Oji Udezue is an experienced Product leader of large and innovative software organizations, with stints in marketing, sales, engineering, and design leadership. He has a track record for building customer-centric products and bringing them to market while managing and mentoring high-performance teams.
He is currently finishing his book “Building Rocketship – Product Management for product-led companies” – a practical wisdom-laced tome for PMs/PM leaders building the next generation of successful software companies and collaborators.
He’s been recently working at the forefront of AI software company building, infusing AI into Tyepform.com, and building a new venture under Typeform’s brand – https://formless.ai.
He is known for bringing a product-led growth (PLG) mindset to the companies he joins. He was recently the Chief Product Officer @ Typeform.com, a product that strives to make the web more human. He led the Content, Creation, and Conversation team @ Twitter – leading Tweets, DMs, Spaces, the Creators Initiative, and more. He was also formerly Chief Product Officer at Calendly where he helped 5x the company and turn it into a unicorn. He was also Head of Product for Atlassian’s Communication division where he led product strategy & execution for Atlassian Stride, launching Atlassian’s first product post-IPO. He has held product leadership positions at Spiceworks and at Bridgewater Associates, which he joined after over a decade in Product Management at Microsoft.
In his free time, he mentors startups, focusing on companies with diverse and women founders and B2B SaaS as ProductMind. He’s the Managing Partner of the Kernel Fund which invests in startups in Africa and a member of the Board of Directors at Quitch.
Oji is working on a book about Product Management for PLG companies and also writes a lot about building products and teams on Substack.
