About

Jude Yoogen

Product & Business Strategist

Introduction

Jude Yoogen is a Product and Business Strategist based in Malaysia, working across product, operations, and growth.

His experience spans enterprise platforms, fintech products, and early-stage ventures — from managing procurement operations across 16 legal entities to helping build products from the ground up. Across both enterprise and startup environments, his focus has remained consistent: building systems that scale properly and execution that holds up under pressure.

He works closely between strategy and execution, translating business needs into structured delivery, operational clarity, and measurable outcomes. Rather than sitting in a single function, he operates across the points where product, business, and growth intersect.

What drives him is simple: building things that work. Not ideas that sound impressive in meetings, but systems, products, and processes that create long-term value and continue to perform when tested at scale.

Capabilities

Business Analysis & Requirements

BRDUser StoriesRTMBPMNGap AnalysisProcess MappingStakeholder Mgmt

Data Validation & Integrity

SQLData ValidationReconciliationSource-to-Target MappingRedash

Quality Assurance & Testing

UATRegression TestingTest CasesDefect ManagementTest Planning

Delivery Management

AgileScrumSprint PlanningBacklog MgmtAzure DevOpsJira

Growth & Business Development

Go-To-MarketClient AcquisitionProduct PositioningUser GrowthRetention Strategy

Tools & Platforms

Azure DevOpsJiraConfluenceSQLRedashExcel

Professional Experience

CARSOME

Business Analyst

  • Leading cross-functional analysis to introduce cost recovery into a previously free internal process — balancing monetisation objectives against customer retention risk across CARSOME's multi-market operations.
  • Designed and deployed a data tracking flow that surfaces unmonitored operational gaps in real time, reducing data visibility risk and creating a clear path toward process automation.
  • Contributed to the evaluation and refinement of CARSOME's AI-powered customer engagement layer, improving human handoff logic and increasing lead conversion potential.
  • Architected a testimonial governance module that replaced an ungated, unfiltered submission process with a structured moderation layer — cleaning the data, protecting brand integrity, and improving the quality of public-facing customer content.
March 2026 – Present

PETRONAS Digital Sdn Bhd

Business Analyst & QA Analyst

  • Directed end-to-end requirements engineering for the modernisation of an enterprise procurement platform across multiple legal entities — owning BRD documentation, user story definition, acceptance criteria, and full traceability governance via Azure DevOps.
  • Facilitated 13 executive and cross-functional stakeholder workshops spanning procurement, finance, logistics, and operations, aligning system capability roadmaps with enterprise compliance objectives.
  • Delivered workflow automation that reduced manual processing by 40% across 300+ enterprise users, contributing to RM 1.6M in documented cost efficiencies through structured release planning.
  • Improved system reliability to 99.5% post-launch through rigorous defect analysis and requirements validation frameworks, reducing production defects by 25% and accelerating UAT cycle completion.
Jul 2023 – Mar 2026
After-hours ventures

Aexlora

Head of Growth & Product Quality

  • Leads growth strategy and product quality governance for Aexlora, overseeing the commercial frameworks and delivery standards that underpin its product portfolio.
  • Spearheaded the launch of FinPersona, Aexlora's in-house fintech product — now at 1,000+ active users with over RM 1.7M in receipts processed since launch.
  • Established product quality standards across the full delivery lifecycle, reducing time-to-market and post-release defect rates across the portfolio.
  • Runs growth experimentation across acquisition, activation, and retention funnels, translating data signals into strategic initiatives that compound user growth and long-term product value.
aexlora.com
Feb 2026 – Present

Hirix AI

Business Development & Growth

  • Leads strategic business development for an AI-powered hiring platform, identifying and cultivating high-value partnerships and enterprise accounts.
  • Develops and executes go-to-market strategy in collaboration with product and marketing leadership, positioning Hirix AI's solutions to decision-makers across talent-intensive industries.
  • Drives pipeline growth through consultative engagement with HR leaders, COOs, and executive buyers across SME and enterprise segments.
hirix.ai
Dec 2025 – Present

Education

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

BSc. (Hons) Computer Science, Software Engineering — ongoing

Politeknik Metro Tasek Gelugor

Diploma in Digital Technology — GPA 3.56

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