Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Software
Timeline
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FARUQ  ODEJOBI

FARUQ ODEJOBI

Graphic Designer & Product Manager
Lagos

Summary

Passionate, value-driven product manager with experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch, and manage world-class SaaS innovations. A successful marketing leader with proven accomplishments in driving growth and increasing profits. Articulate and driven leader with high energy and an engaging personality.

Confident, passionate and creative graphic designer with extensive experience working with both print and digital media. Deadline-oriented individual with six years of experience in the graphic design industry working on a variety of projects from social media content to comprehensive rebranding projects.

Overview

5
5

Years post-secondary education

1
1
Language
6
6

Digital skills certification

6
6

YEARS AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER

8
8

Years of professional experience in Microsoft office

Work History

Product Manager

Ventekk Inc
Lagos Island
08.2022 - Current
  • Participated in Product Ideation, identifying and prioritizing User Journey and Customer needs.
  • Identifying and Prioritizing Assumptions, Market Validation and Solution Validation.
  • Conducted Market Research and Risk Importance in collaboration with Engineers and Designers.
  • Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
  • Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements
  • Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.

Senior Graphic Designer

Pharzsco Global Concept
IPAJA, LAGOS
01.2016 - Current
  • Built corporate brands by designing cohesive looks between elements.
  • Designed website layouts, templates and unique branded looks
    Creating Innovative Ideas for graphic design.
  • Branding businesses and designing contents for brand growth
    Created broad range of work using various design techniques
    Developed creative design for print materials, banners and
    signs.
  • Developed display, marketing and packaging materials to
    support product branding strategies.
  • Met with customers to present mockups and collect
    information for adjustments.
  • Created designs and collaborated with technical team to
    complete projects.
  • Designed creative digital displays used in online advertising for local businesses.

Creative Designer

Naturaa
Abeokuta, Ogun
11.2020 - 06.2022
  • Mentored other designers, providing guidance and support to help generate work on time and within project parameters.
  • Transformed ideas into beautiful designs used in identity branding campaigns.
  • Conceptualized and implemented innovative ideas to drive user engagement for clients' websites.
  • Designed over 70 different product stickers, label and product packages for increase in sales.
  • Translated trends into concepts and solutions relevant to brands, product categories and channels.
  • Utilized CorelDraw to design posters, pamphlets and flyers for projects and events for marketing and advertising purposes.
  • Conducted regular research to stay abreast of product trends, implementing concepts to increase competitive advantage of brand and products.

Product Manager

EntryLevel
Sydney
05.2022 - 06.2022
  • Participated in Product Ideation, identifying and prioritizing User assumptions.
  • Conducted user interviews, market fit, problems, and solution validation.
  • Using Feature prioritization frameworks, Product backlog management and Agile Methodologies.
  • Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
  • Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
  • Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering

Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ogun State
01.2022 - Current

Skills

    Management

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Accomplishments

  • Achieved suitable features by introducing PowerPoint, Notion, Excel, and Google Docs for the development and management of finance and payment options with the implementation of discovery, delivery, and market adoption for online retailing of Amazon Cars.
  • Developed a User Stories and MOSCOW framework on features which makes the MVP easier and directly turns to the final features while launching the product.
  • By completing designs for branding Naturaa products and creating stickers for product identification with accuracy and efficiency, it was possible to achieve beautiful and well-printed stickers that generate sales massively.
  • Designing infographics for Shreem App to allow easy-video sharing and investment that results to engagement and income.

Software

Notion

Jira

Coreldraw

MS PowerPoint

Adobe Photoshop

MS Word

MS Excel

Timeline

Product Manager

Ventekk Inc
08.2022 - Current

Product Manager

EntryLevel
05.2022 - 06.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Civil Engineering

Olabisi Onabanjo University
01.2022 - Current

Creative Designer

Naturaa
11.2020 - 06.2022

Senior Graphic Designer

Pharzsco Global Concept
01.2016 - Current
FARUQ ODEJOBIGraphic Designer & Product Manager