I am Jio Miguel Ong, a strategy and product associate and Politics graduate of Queen Mary University of London. I turn research into roadmaps and analysis into measurable outcomes, working across product, strategic communications, policy and open-source investigation.
I work at the meeting point of strategy, product and politics. As a Strategy and Product Management Associate at CIRQL, an early-stage startup, I run competitor and market-positioning research using agentic AI tooling, translate user feedback into clearly defined product roadmaps, and drive growth at the coalface, hosting roughly 35 live-streamed events and contributing to 20 per cent community growth during the platform's early launch. I have also built working fluency in its Flutter, Dart and Firebase architecture, allowing me to contribute to feature scoping and prioritisation.
I pair that with commercial strategy. As a Strategy Associate at Varaha Infra Limited, I interpreted complex coal-pricing, logistics and supply-chain datasets, assessed expansion viability into Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and served as the UK-based liaison for investors and external stakeholders, preparing investor-facing briefings that informed executive decision-making.
That instinct grew out of a political education. I am a Politics graduate of Queen Mary University of London, on track for a First Class degree, and my dissertation examines how disinformation, voter predispositions and contested historical memory interacted to shape the 2022 Philippine presidential election.
Alongside this, I organise in East London with Citizens UK, where I helped lead the Victoria and Albert Museum Living Wage campaign and chaired the Safety panel at the Tower Hamlets Issues Workshop, and I serve as Regional Communications, Media and Public Relations Officer for St John Ambulance, where I have secured published national press coverage. For the better part of a decade I have also worked as a freelance open-source investigator, applying OSINT, source verification and structured reporting for clients across local government and higher education.
I research, build, write, film and organise. I care about products that earn their users, democratic resilience, dignified work, and communications that persuade rather than merely inform.