If I would describe myself without a title, I would say that I am a young African passionate about using technology to solve human centered problems.
With a title, I would say I am a product manager and a lawyer. I build products, I grow them, and I use legal thinking to make sure the people who use them are protected along the way.
Ventures and the AI career tools I am building now, including The Interview Gauntlet and Redirection.
Inclusively Remote, rebuilt around verified roles, inclusive benefits and faster job discovery.
A people-first remote job platform where professionals can search hand-screened roles by function, location and inclusive workplace benefits.
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The Interview Gauntlet, a private browser-based workspace for résumé scoring and interview practice.
A free AI interview coach that scores résumé fit against a role, helps candidates sharpen their positioning and simulates six interview rounds by text, voice or video.
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Redirection, the Road to 1,000 rejections tracker inside Careers with Mary.
A streak-based job search tracker that reframes every rejection as a redirection: log 10 applications a day, fill the wall and get a Rejection Wrapped at year end.
Read case studySelected roles and the outcomes behind them.
Own product development at Lahyer, a modern cloud infrastructure and AI platform where people deploy projects and build with Lahyer Studio, while leading a five-person team.
Visit LahyerOwn the roadmap and end-to-end delivery for a global remote-work platform serving more than 15,000 weekly users and generating more than 3 million monthly visits.
Read the achievementManaged end-to-end product improvements for an EdTech platform serving more than 10,000 learners, reducing repeat complaints by 25 percent.
Read the achievementTwo ventures. Zero paid marketing. Community shaped the product and powered growth.
I grew a remote work platform from zero to more than 70,000 users and a community of more than 100,000 across 140 or more cities, with nothing spent on paid marketing. The community was the growth engine: members answered surveys, shaped the roadmap, referred their friends and became the first paying subscribers.
I built a career education community of more than 18,000 professionals across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, and turned it into a profitable business with no paid distribution. Teaching first was the strategy: people who got results for free became the customers, the case studies and the loudest advocates.
“Mary-Esther is the embodiment of professionalism. Collaborating with her across the globe has impacted our startup with her insights, organizational skills, proactiveness and personality. Her time management is impeccably transparent and I foresee great things from her!”
If you are building an AI product or working in HR technology or education technology and would like to chat, feel free to reach out.