Olamide Danso
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since March 21, 2022
Olamide is a product manager on a mission to demystify blockchain technology to ensure that freedom of money and economic acceleration is a reality for all. Most importantly, she enjoys meeting end-users and working with them to innovate solutions—the core ideal behind her work. Olamide loves to create the vision, prioritize competing requirements, build consensus, and provide direction.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Delivery
- Agile Product Management
- Blockchain
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
- Crypto
- Product Strategy
- Roadmaps
- Startups
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager | Bundle Africa Team
Binance
- Pioneered the product management function at Bundle to shape and ship the product and sync the people.
- Nurtured the feedback loop between the team and end-users and set product requirements as a deep understanding outcome of our end users’ needs and competitor analysis, leading to an average CSAT score of 78%.
- Maintained an average weekly transaction volume of over 50% of the pan-African market’s weekly transactions.
- Coordinated and communicated decision-making processes to all stakeholders, including software engineers and product designers, with a clear vision of the short and long-term future of what matters most and what needs to be done.
- Coordinated product and feature releases with the internal marketing team to ensure that new features were communicated appropriately to users.
- Grew the product’s user base to 100,000 users in six months through cross-functional collaboration and continued to grow the business metrics, steadily running regular experiments to understand user behaviors.
Product Manager
An Organization That Exists to Unlock Human Potential at Scale
- Managed two global remote engineering teams to successfully build and launch new product features by providing clear goals and driving the incremental value delivered to our users.
- Nurtured the feedback loop between my product teams and end users and, in turn, set product requirements as an outcome of a deep understanding of our end users’ needs.
- Developed the product strategy, go-to-market plans, positioning, messaging, and all elements related to the business case of each product within my portfolio.
- Continuously challenged the roadmaps of products in my portfolio to ensure that everything planned continued to create value for the business and our end users, based on sound user research.
Product Manager
Serve Consulting
- Led product research and discovery, uncovering user problems through design thinking.
- Defined product visions and roadmaps that opened new revenue streams for Serve Consulting.
- Proactively scoped the technical solutions required to address customer requirements, assessed met and unmet needs, and recommended solutions that optimized the value for both the customer and Serve Consulting.
- Facilitated ongoing prioritization, grooming, and planning of products to ensure that the right things were built at the right time, leading to a 35% increase in revenue.
Customer Success Associate
Nigerian Breweries
- Exceeded team’s annual goal of keeping end-user response rates above agreed SLAs, acting as a point of contact to support users reporting issues, requesting information, access, or other services.
- Automated inventory tracking to ensure inventory accuracy.
- Assisted with the specification, development, research, and evaluation of services standards.
Project History
Bundle: A Social Payments App for Cash and Cryptocurrency
Acted as the brain behind product execution of Bundle and saw the product become one of Africa's largest cryptocurrency platforms.
Bundle’s vision is to become a ‘’super social payment app’’ where traders and crypto communities can interact and access cryptocurrency and fiat payment services. Bundle will integrate products and services that will expand the social payment app from its current market in Africa to emerging markets globally.
Cashlink
Led the development and delivery of Cashlink, an innovative cash-in and cash-out peer-to-peer platform in response to regulatory decisions around cryptocurrency trading.
A user—known as the casher—types in the amount of naira (NGN) they want to deposit and sets their preferred payment method. Cashlink matches the casher with a verified partner who earns a commission for completing the transaction. After the casher sends the partner the correct amount through their preferred payment method and the partner confirms that they have received the payment, Cashlink credits the casher's digital wallet. And when a casher needs to move some naira back into their bank account, they'll tap the withdraw button in their digital wallet to make the transaction happen.
BXD: A Native Token for Bundle
Project managed the listing of BXD on the Binance Smart Chain.
Education
Master's Degree in Innovation and Technology Management
University of Bath - Bath, United Kingdom
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Trello, Google Docs, Balsamiq Mockups, Figma, InVision, Microsoft Project
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Product Management, Design Thinking, B2C, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C)
Platforms
Firebase, Blockchain
Other
Requirements, Stakeholder Management, Commercialization, User Stories, Roadmaps, Product Delivery, Remote Team Leadership, Startups, Project Management, Requirements & Specifications, Product Ownership, Discovery, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Management, Product Vision, Project Timelines, Growth, Product Roadmaps, Agile Product Delivery, Experimental Design, User Research, Community Growth, Product Strategy, Product Management, Solution Design, Customer Success, Customer Service, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Staffing, User Experience (UX), Crypto
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