Sandra Israel-ovirih is a Senior Product Manager with nine years in tech, who progressed from frontend JavaScript developer to Head of Product building B2B payment platforms for enterprise customers. She led product strategy and a team of five PMs at Kora, shipping foundational offerings like Payouts API and Checkout that achieved product-market fit and expanded payments into multiple African markets. Now based in San Francisco and currently at Lead, she blends hands-on engineering roots with strategic product leadership to deliver reliable, revenue-generating payment solutions. Known for diving into implementation details, she thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and favors measurable outcomes over vanity metrics. Her background in biochemistry hints at methodical problem-solving and an analytical approach to product discovery and experimentation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Biochemistry at Covenant University
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