Alexander Smith
London,United Kingdom
Summary
Strategic Product Leader with over 5 years of experience managing the end-to-end lifecycle of analytics and AI-powered products. Expert at bridging the gap between customer, AI engineering, data science, and business strategy to deliver user-focused solutions aligned with corporate outcomes. Proven track record in establishing product visions, roadmaps, and governance frameworks for complex agentic systems and LLM-based applications. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO; 2025). Aspiring Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA; 2026).
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Portfolio Manager
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London, United Kingdom
2025.11 - 2026.02
- Lead - Agentic Cybersecurity Product: Spearheading development of an agentic process designed to ingest real-time cyber signals and autonomously execute remediation fixes; currently tracking towards 40% reduction in Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and significantly decreasing manual intervention requirements.
- Lead - AI & Data Enablement: Orchestrating end-to-end telemetry data transformation and AI reporting pipeline using S3, Databricks, DBT, and ThoughtSpot, ensuring effective business intelligence and machine learning opportunities. Core objective to optimise information & decisioning for strategic execution.
- Governance & AI Risks Chair: Translate high-level business strategy into actionable roadmaps, ensuring AI initiatives deliver value through clear ROI, scalability, and ethical risk management while leading executive prioritisation forums.
Product / Business Analyst (FTC)
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London
2024.12 - 2025.11
- AI Enablement & Retention: Led discovery and delivery for a model context protocol solution to predict attrition risk and recommend executive actions.
- Responsible AI Governance: Launched an LLM-powered UI featuring explainability and policy guardrails to ensure adherence to ethical AI practices.
- Agile Execution: Served as Acting PM/Scrum Master, redesigning Jira workflows to cut cycle time from 35 days to 11 days and lifting throughput 5x.
Product Manager (FTC)
Copiam International Pty Ltd
London
2024.06 - 2024.12
- Product Strategy: Produced the product thesis and PRDs for a multi-jurisdiction tokenized yield and interbank-grade FX platform.
- Governance Frameworks: Instilled governance procedures and mapped regulatory routes to support 0-1 delivery and pilot GTM launches.
Product & Business Analyst
Satago Financial Services
London
2023.06 - 2024.08
- Domain Modernization: Owned the end-to-end discovery and delivery of an in-house loan module, simplifying underwriting and servicing flows.
- Performance Monitoring: Established and tracked KPIs for re-activation journeys, utilizing data-driven insights to achieve a projected £200k/year uplift.
Product Analyst - Credit & Underwriting
Nissan Financial Services
Melbourne
2021.04 - 2023.01
- Process Optimization: Redesigned underwriting and collections flows, cutting decision time by 44% and lifting approvals by 11% through automation.
- Pricing Automation: Reconfigured systems to automate dealer, wholesale, and fleet pricing rules, improving scalability and operational efficiency.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Econometrics
Monash University
Melbourne 2017.02 - 2021.06
Bachelor of Finance - Finance
Monash University
Melbourne 2017.02 - 2021.06
Skills
- Process Optimization
- Governance
- Product Strategy
- User Research
- Agile
- AI
- Python
- SQL
- Scrum Master
- Problem-solving
- Strategic planning
Entrepreneurial & Projects
Founder - Spotlight 2023-Present
Vision & Roadmap: Drove requirements and MVP delivery for a web-based AI-moderated engagement product, leveraging user testing to refine product direction. Currently negotiating sale of business.
Personalised Investment Platform Aug 2025 - Present
AI Innovation: Conceptualised and developed an AI valuation and trading simulator using LangGraph orchestration, unifying discovery, risk, backtesting, simulation and forecasting as signals into a centralised strategic capital allocation & decisioning engine.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance Jan 2026
- Agile Foundations Coaching, Agile Delta Jun 2023
- AI Product Manager, Duke University 2025
Languages
English
Beginner
Python
Beginner
SQL
Beginner
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Portfolio Manager
Compare The Market
2025.11 - 2026.02
Product / Business Analyst (FTC)
Compare The Market
2024.12 - 2025.11
Product Manager (FTC)
Copiam International Pty Ltd
2024.06 - 2024.12
Product & Business Analyst
Satago Financial Services
2023.06 - 2024.08
Product Analyst - Credit & Underwriting
Nissan Financial Services
2021.04 - 2023.01
Bachelor of Commerce - Econometrics
Monash University
2017.02 - 2021.06
Bachelor of Finance - Finance
Monash University
2017.02 - 2021.06