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30 years of experience launching and scaling businesses, leading product teams and driving growth with startups, enterprise and unicorns with high-performance teams

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Ru McGuinness

About Me

I'm Ru McGuinness—a product leader, entrepreneur and strategist with deep experience in building (zero to launch) and scaling digital products, optimizing user engagement and aligning business goals with execution
 

Over my career steering product teams through growth phases and market shifts, I've observed a critical inflection point in product management….it's not just about data-driven decisions anymore—it's about creating sustainable business value
 

I have built high-growth startups, led large-scale product transformations, and developed strategies to drive measurable business impact. Whether launching new ventures or optimizing existing ones, I bring a hands-on, data-informed approach to product development.

Key Skills

Experience scaling both startups and enterprise platforms
Strong analytical foundation from both product leadership and business ownership
Expertise in lean startup methods, AI MVP validation, and iterative development
Proven success improving user engagement and sales through UX enhancements
Launched and scaled multiple businesses with a record of sustainable revenue growth
Strong commercial acumen in budgeting, forecasting, and process automation

My Approach

Dissecting your business model DNA, evaluating your value creation mechanisms, identifying opportunities for sustainable growth
Leveraging clear strategic frameworks, actionable business metrics with empowered, business-savvy, AI enabled product teams
In today's market, growth without profitability isn't a strategy—it's a countdown to failure. AI and automation are changing how we work, but they're also freeing us to focus on what truly matters: creating sustainable competitive advantages through superior strategy and execution
I partner with: scale-ups needing to transition from growth to profitability, enterprises requiring product organization transformation and product teams looking to balance innovation with business fundamentals
Organizations I work with develop product teams that think like business owners, strategies that deliver sustainable growth and processes that create lasting value

Case Studies

SavageXFenty Case Study

Scaling SavageXFenty’s Global Product Operations

Problem:

SavageXFenty struggled with fragmented processes and suboptimal UX across multiple markets, leading to conversion drop-offs

Solution:

Empower client stakeholders by migrating to a headless CMS with an experiment-driven approach at its core—delivering highly optimized mobile-first UX and streamlined product workflows

Results:

  • Increased team efficiency and design consistency have led to a rise in conversion rates across the board, for example landing pages are demonstrating an improvement of 13.3% in the crucial ‘sessions to leads’ metric
Merryfield Case Study

Driving Growth for Merryfield

Problem:

A B2B2C better-for-you rewards platform needed to scale while improving customer engagement

Solution:

Led the development of a low cost customer acquisition program, building upon solid user-centric approach

Results:

  • 371% growth in weekly active users leading to acquisition by a major industry player
Deliveroo Case Study

Launching Deliveroo’s order management system

Problem:

Deliveroo needed an order management & communications solution for their restaurant partners and produce suppliers

Solution:

Led the B2B2B product initiative from ideation to launch, optimizing workflows for restaurants to easily and collaboratively manage stock

Results:

  • An elegant iOS and Android app and a supplier-side web app solution to sit within the Deliveroo ecosystem, delivering up to 30% cost savings for participating restaurants
Providence Life Case Study

FinTech Product Discovery for Providence Life

Problem:

A Dubai-based financial services company required a strategic product roadmap for their high-value investment platform

Solution:

Conducted a 5 day discovery sprint on site, validating customer needs, defining user flows and identifying regulatory speedbumps

Results:

  • Defined a prioritised roadmap and strategy for a $1.2M product to secure executive buy-in and funding
BNF Healthcare Case Study

Rebuilding BNF/BNFC Healthcare Apps

Problem:

The British National Formulary (BNF) apps were outdated, negatively impacting the user experience for medical professionals

Solution:

Led a full redesign and rebuild of the BNF/BNFC mobile apps providing streamlined access to critical medical information within tight regulatory requirements

Results:

  • A seamless switchover for all clinical users facilitated an increase of weekly active user to over 90,000
Built-Id Case Study

Launching Prop Tech with a Socially Impact

Problem:

Built-ID wanted to facilaite community & local resident interactions with property developers to ease the building approvals process

Solution:

Through energetic discovery sessions, shifted the engagment model and developed a user centric and rewarding web app

Results:

  • Using the hooked model, the web app generated 100,000 user survey engagements within its first nine months

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