04 / ABOUT

Nigeria → Dublin, Ireland

Systems and sensibility.

I have always been interested in how things are put together: products, organisations, images, arguments and physical objects. My work sits somewhere between systems and sensibility—between making something function and making it worth caring about.

I am Nigerian and based in Dublin. At a Big Four professional services firm, I work as a Product Manager / Product Owner across tax transformation, product strategy, workflow digitisation, automation, data quality, governance, adoption and operating-model design.

Outside that context, I build Avid, paint and share the work through @chiebuniem_, and write from the notes, questions and observations that keep returning to me.

01 / THE PRACTICE

Different materials, related questions.

01

Product work

I work with products and operating systems inside complex organisations: shaping strategy, improving workflows, clarifying governance and creating the conditions for adoption.

02

Avid

I am the founder and independent maker of Avid, an iOS reading companion built around the belief that books should continue working on us after we close them.

03

Art

I paint and share the work through @chiebuniem_, an account named for my Igbo name. Art is not a decorative side practice; it is where composition, material, memory and visual judgement become their own form of inquiry.

04

Reading and writing

I read seriously and write reflections that can begin anywhere: human behaviour, social commentary, books, technology, objects, visual culture or a question I cannot quite put down.

02 / CONCISE OVERVIEW

Career, without the timeline theatre.

Current
Product Owner / Product ManagerBig Four professional services — Tax technology, AI products and compliance automation
Independent
Founder and makerAvid — Reading Companion
Earlier
Product management and tax technology, 2019—2024Commercial products, e-commerce, research and cross-functional delivery across the UK, Nigeria and remote teams
Education
EconomicsM.Sc., University of Ibadan; B.Sc., Anambra State University
03 / CRAFT

Made properly is a point of view.

I am drawn to industrial design, technology, classic and vintage-inspired objects, and products that reveal care in their construction. Not perfection as polish, but coherence: the sense that the maker understood what the thing was for and stayed with the details long enough.

That standard carries across software, organisations, images and writing. Function matters. So does whether the result is worth caring about.