Oji Udezue
- Former Chief Product Officer at Typeform
- Former VP of Product & Design at Calendly (where he helped 5x the company)
- Author "Building Rocketships: Product Management for High-Growth Companies"
Oji Udezue helps transform products into market-defining successes. With board and executive product leadership experience at Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian, Typeform, and Microsoft, Oji brings rare cross-functional expertise spanning design, product, engineering, marketing, and sales enablement—the complete toolkit for building exceptional software companies. His signature achievement? Consistently turning customer-centric vision into exponential growth, most notably helping...
read the restOji Udezue helps transform products into market-defining successes. With board and executive product leadership experience at Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian, Typeform, and Microsoft, Oji brings rare cross-functional expertise spanning design, product, engineering, marketing, and sales enablement—the complete toolkit for building exceptional software companies. His signature achievement? Consistently turning customer-centric vision into exponential growth, most notably helping 5x Calendly into unicorn status.
At the frontier of AI innovation, Oji is pioneering what’s next in software development, having recently launched Typeform’s formless.ai and integrated AI capabilities throughout Typeform’s ecosystem. His product leadership philosophy—captured in his book with Ezinne Udezue – Building Rocketships: Product Management for High Growth Companies —delivers actionable frameworks that transform startups into market-dominating forces through product-led growth.
Oji’s global perspective drives his passion for democratizing tech entrepreneurship across Africa, India, and South America as Managing Partner of Kernel Fund. He identifies and empowers diverse founding teams building transformative B2B solutions, expanding opportunities for elite talent worldwide to create meaningful impact through technology.
Beyond his work building AI ventures at Phalanx Venture Studios, Oji mentors the next generation of product leaders, sharing battle-tested wisdom through ProductMind’s Substack and strategic advisory work. His unique combination of enterprise-scale experience and startup agility makes him the go-to advisor for founders and product teams ready to launch their own rocketships.
With a BSEE, MSEE, and two Masters in Business Administration, Oji was trained at the Federal University of Technology Owerri, University of Southern California, University of California Berkeley, and Columbia University, New York.
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