GovTech · Health data
MSDAT 2.0
A national health data platform that lets policymakers read the country as a map before they read it as a table.
Product Leader · Lagos, Nigeria
I build products for the hardest markets to build in.
Product manager and designer with five years shipping digital products across health, education and enterprise — from a national health data platform used by policymakers to an AI career app for African graduates. Lagos and remote.
Open to senior product roles · Lagos & Remote
- 5+
- Years in product
- 4
- Products shipped to live users
- 1
- National health data platform
- 3
- Sectors: health, education, enterprise
The story
From surface finish to shipped software.
I trained as a mechanical and production engineer and wrote my master's thesis on how paint finishes fail — measurable, physical, unforgiving work. That habit never left.
I moved into product the way most good product people do: by being the person who could talk to the engineers, draw the thing, and sit in the room when the stakeholders disagreed.
Five years on, that has meant designing the GIS layer of a national health analytics platform and then managing it through its 2.0 release; leading the product for an AI career app from first interview to live; and building a six-module business suite for Nigerian SMEs who were running their companies on WhatsApp and Excel.
The through-line is constraint. Patchy connectivity. Budgets that do not forgive a rebuild. Users who are making consequential decisions. And a room full of stakeholders who all have to agree before anything ships.
Selected work
Products that shipped.
Four products, two continents of remote teams, and the decisions behind each one.
All work EdTech · AI
Jobvoy.ai
A career co-pilot for African graduates — job discovery, skill mapping and planning in one place.
Enterprise SaaS
CRM128
Six integrated modules replacing the WhatsApp-and-Excel stack most Nigerian SMEs run on.
Media · Publishing platform
Africa Health Report
A 50GB publishing platform migrated, restructured and redesigned without losing the archive.
How I work
Research, design, build, ship.
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Discovery that holds up.
User interviews, competitor teardowns, market sizing. Enough rigour that the roadmap survives contact with the first stakeholder meeting.
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Design I can do myself.
Wireframes to high-fidelity in Figma, component libraries, usability testing. I do not hand a product team a brief and wait.
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Delivery that lands.
Agile sprints, cross-functional coordination across design, engineering and business, release through to launch.
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Systems that stay standing.
Platform migrations, integrations, automation, and the operational plumbing that keeps a product running after launch day.
Experience
Health ministries, startups, small businesses.
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01 Roar Media Ltd. 2025 – present Founder — product studio building RoarDESK, RoarConnect, RentOS and RoarWEALTH
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02 Africa Health Report 2024 – present Digital Product Manager
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03 Pathfinder Consulting (USA, remote) 2023 – 2025 Product Lead — Jobvoy.ai
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04 GEN128 Ltd. 2023 IT Project Manager & Product Designer — CRM128
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05 eHealth4everyone 2021 – 2023 Senior Product Designer → Product Manager — MSDAT
Let's talk
Have a product worth building?
Whether you are hiring for a product role or you have a business that has outgrown its spreadsheets — tell me where things stand and what you need built.
- Email gana.josiah@gmail.com
- Book a call Pick a time
- Phone 2347036039249
- WhatsApp Start a chat
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Location Lagos, Nigeria · working remotely across Africa, Europe and North America