James O.

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Bio

James Okafor is a senior content strategist and marketing communications professional with over seven years of experience building high-impact content programs across fintech, financial services, media, and technology sectors. he has a proven track record of driving customer acquisition, product adoption, brand growth, and thought leadership through strategic content initiatives spanning SEO, editorial operations, customer storytelling, social media, email marketing, and product marketing. At Flutterwave, he leads content

  • Projects completed2
  • Hourly rate
  • 4+ years experience
  • Member since Jun 2026
Industries
FinTech
Expertise
AhrefsWordPressGoogle Analytics 4HubSpotFigmaWebflow
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Projects

Merchant Stories Program

Built an end-to-end customer advocacy and merchant storytelling program including sourcing frameworks, interview methodologies, and multi-format content production across long-form articles, social assets, and sales collateral. The resulting content assets were referenced in enterprise sales opportunities representing more than $2M in payment volume.

Personal Finance Content Franchise

Created and scaled a serialized personal finance content franchise featuring weekly editorial columns, customer stories, and savings challenges. The initiative became the company's primary organic acquisition channel and was attributed to approximately 35% of new account signups.

Experience
  1. Senior Content Strategist

    Flutterwave· FinTechJan 2023Present
    • Lead content strategy for merchant-facing products across blog, email, and developer documentation touchpoints
    • Built the SME success-story program, producing 30+ merchant case studies used by sales and PR
    • Own SEO content roadmap that doubled non-brand organic signups in 12 months
    • Partner with product marketing on launch narratives for new payment products across 5 African markets
    • Mentor 3 junior writers and run the editorial review process
    AhrefsHubSpotWebflowGoogle Analytics 4NotionFigma
  2. Content Lead

    PiggyVestApr 2020Dec 2022
    • Owned all editorial content including the personal finance blog and weekly newsletter reaching over 350K subscribers
    • Created viral social content franchises that grew Twitter following from 400K to 1.1M
    • Developed savings-challenge campaign content driving record deposit volumes
    • Ran content experiments informing in-app messaging and push-notification strategy
    MailchimpBufferWordPressCanvaGoogle Analytics
  3. Staff Writer

    TechCabalJun 2018Mar 2020
    • Reported on African technology startups, venture funding, and ecosystem developments
    • Wrote daily newsletter editions reaching over 100K readers across Africa
    • Covered major industry events and conducted founder and executive interviews
    WordPressSubstackTwitter Analytics
Education
  1. BSc Mass Communication

    University of LagosLagos, Nigeria2013 — 2017