Abosede Ajayi
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since September 29, 2022
Abosede is a highly qualified product management professional who uses Agile and Scrum systems to manage product development timelines. Her core interests are product strategy and design. She is experienced in driving the creation of innovative products and is effective at making important team decisions focused on moving products through planning, pre-production, and production. Abosede is passionate about combining design and technology to build solutions to complex challenges.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- A/B Testing
- Agile Sprints
- Digital Payments
- Product Owner
- Product Requirements Documentation (PRD)
- Product Strategy
- Technical Product Management
- User Research
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager
Morressier
- Collaborated with stakeholders to build a product roadmap and define the product strategy to drive annual recurring revenue.
- Grew the ARR of research libraries' products by 236% from February 2022 to January 2023.
- Drove the launch of a feature for customers to diversify revenue through a different document processing submission flow.
- Directed a product launch to help societies and publishers manage research on their libraries through IP access.
- Collaborated with the data team to develop data pipelines and create use cases for machine learning initiatives.
- Conducted gap analyses to identify areas where current systems or processes fail to meet business requirements.
Senior Product Owner
Guaranty Trust Holding Company (formerly Guaranty Trust Bank)
- Managed a team of four designers and 12 engineers to develop the Squad payment gateway from ideation to launch.
- Reduced the fraud rate on Habari's eCommerce module by 38% after working on a fraud detection algorithm.
- Led a team of four designers to redesign Habari's mobile application to reduce the drop-off rate to below 10% immediately after signup.
- Collaborated with business stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve processes and workflows.
- Recommended technology solutions that align with the bank's strategic goals, such as new software applications or hardware upgrades.
Product Manager
Guaranty Trust Bank
- Coordinated and managed the building of GTBank's developer portal, allowing approved third-party and fintech companies seamless integration with its APIs.
- Reduced the platform's dropped chats by 40% after overseeing the AI chatbot's development and deployment for a better customer experience on GTBank's social media pages.
- Increased active users on the internet banking application by 20% after being a major UX player in the big data innovation for user personalization.
- Worked closely with business stakeholders to gather and document requirements, analyze business processes, and recommend technology solutions that align with the bank's strategic goals.
IT Business Analyst
Tiqwa
- Managed the product team to deliver a minimum viable product (MVP) API platform for travel data.
- Developed innovative ways to create complementary product lines, like an agent portal for travel agents.
- Synthesized and prioritized customers' needs, balancing them with company strategy and capabilities to define the product roadmap.
Project History
Payment Gateway for Businesses
https://squadco.com/Drove a B2B and B2C merchant payment gateway's design and development for a West African bank with over 20 million customers, making more than one million dollars in revenue within the first six months of launch.
Research Library for Academic Societies and Publishers
https://www.morressier.com/products/research-libraries/Led the development of a research library product, preserving early-stage research for academic societies and publishers worldwide, which became a new revenue source for the company.
API Platform for Financial Data
Coordinated and managed the creation of GTBank's developer portal, enabling approved third-party and fintech companies seamless integration with its APIs.
API Platform for Travel Data
https://tiqwa.com/Led the launch of Tiqwa's MVP for developers to access travel data in Africa and build innovative apps around it.
eCommerce Application
https://mylola.com/Led the launch of two features to drive revenue growth by 15% within six months.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
University of Ibadan - Ibadan, Nigeria
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Figma, Google Analytics, Asana, Confluence
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Usability Testing, Kanban, Agile, Agile Project Management, Scrum, User Testing
Platforms
Contentful, Google Analytics API
Other
Product Strategy, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Agile Sprints, UX Wireframes, Miro, User Flows, Product Research, Go-to-market Strategy, Collaboration, Product Owner, Product Management, Product Roadmaps, B2B Product Management, Backlog Grooming, Backlog Management, Sprint Planning, Digital Payments, Fintech, New Product Development, Product Design, Roadmaps, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Feature Planning, Market Research & Analysis, User Experience (UX), Wireframing, Website Redesign, Project Management, User Stories, Project Planning, Presentations, Web Applications, Stakeholder Management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Product Discovery, Web App Design, User Engagement, Business Requirements, Business Analysis, SaaS, APIs, Mobile App Development, SQL, Product Ownership, Production Management, IT Business Analysis, User Requirements, Functional Requirements, Customer Experience, Software as a Service (SaaS), User Journeys, UX Testing, Technical Business Analysis, User Research, UX Design, A/B Testing, Technical Product Management, Remote User Testing, User Interviews, Analysis, QA Testing, Team Leadership, Chatbots, Chatbot Conversation Design, eCommerce, Quality Assurance (QA), Leadership, Prototyping, User Interface (UI), Product Launch, Trend Analysis, Fraud Prevention, Negotiation, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Responsive Web Apps, API Integration, Digital Product Management, eCommerce UX, Data Analysis, Business Processes, Web & Mobile Applications, Google SEO, Documentation, Feature Prioritization, Web, Open Banking APIs, Order Management
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