Kiama Ibe
@kiamaibe
Customer Experience leader driving retention, onboarding, and revenue growth.
What I'm looking for
Customer Experience Leader & User Design Specialist with over 5 years of experience in providing exceptional customer experience while continuously improving customer journey maps for almost 100,000 customers with a team spread across 12+ cities in Africa.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Customer Success Manager
Freedom Funders
Apr 2025 - Present (11 months)
Onboarded and managed 347+ SMB customers through full lifecycle, redesigned community course delivery to increase learner engagement 18% and created self-serve onboarding that accelerated time-to-value.
Customer success & Quality Assurance Lead
Engie Energy Access Hybrid
Improved customer service solutions, including call scripts, customer journeys, and IVR systems based on user research, leading to a 75% increase in the call service rate. Championed the redesign of the customer journey, resulting in a 20% reduction in customer complaints and an improved customer vetting process. Conducted hiring needs to address various language gaps to better support ground-leve
Customer Experience Designer
Errandi
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025 (9 months)
Led end-to-end customer research and usability testing for an MVP, enabling users to complete core tasks 30% faster and built onboarding flows that improved early user retention.
Customer Experience & Quality Lead
Engie Energy Access
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 5 months)
Led a 25+ Customer Success team serving 90,000+ users, improving CSAT by 20% and reducing churn by 20% through lifecycle management, forecasting, and targeted engagement interventions.
Built, nurtured, and led a dynamic, high-performing team of 25 customer support managers. This team served as the first point of contact for an expansive customer base of 90,000 unique customers, providing them with solutions and assistance. Strategically negotiated pricing and fees, which effectively decreased overtime costs by 10%. This was achieved while also ensuring the continuity and constan
Founding Customer Success Manager
Fenix International
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 11 months)
Built Customer Success operations, reduced support tickets 22% via service redesign and self-service, and improved answer rates through workforce planning to support retention and NRR growth.
Efficiently handled complaints, provided appropriate solutions and alternatives within the time limits, and followed up to ensure resolution. Account creation; vetted and created customer accounts by recording customer account information. Drove operational improvements which resulted in customer retention and improved profit margins. Identified control gaps in processes, procedures, and systems t
Managed all changes in over 250 employee records such as changes in employee status as a result of the promotion, changes in job title, staff confirmation, and changes in benefits, etc. Generated bar codes and employment numbers for 250 staff. Single-handedly coordinated and organized staff development sessions (SDS). Published the first edition of Synlab Splash, a monthly in-house magazine.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Renaissance University
Bachelor of Science, Economics
2013 - 2017
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Economics with coursework covering economic theory and quantitative analysis.
Tech stack
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Website
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