Summary
James Docherty is an entrepreneurial Digital Product Manager with two decades of experience building and scaling digital products across startups, government, and commercial organisations. He combines strong professional empathy from roles in sales, marketing and engineering with hands-on full‑stack technical skills (PHP, Python, JS, SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms) to bridge strategy and delivery. James has raised funding for three startups and co-founded Orchard VIE, demonstrating an ability to craft and communicate compelling product visions that attract investment. Equally comfortable running one‑person ventures or steering cross‑functional teams with Agile and Lean practices, he uses data-driven experimentation (A/B and multivariate testing) to reduce ambiguity and sharpen roadmaps. Based in Leeds, he has recent consulting experience while supporting a young family and is now seeking environments that reward challenging the status quo and creating products users love.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ashville College
BA(Hons) Financial Economics, BA(Hons) Financial Economics at Coventry University