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Mustapha Isa Yakubu

Mustapha Isa Yakubu

Summary

Dynamic Customer Success Advocate | Tech Innovator | Strategic Problem Solver

Startup enthusiast and a people person known for enhancing customer experiences by developing strategic relationships, delivering exceptional support, and driving product improvements in line with customer needs. Expertise working in a remote environment across multi-cultural and multi-functional teams

Overview

9
years of professional experience

Work History

Microverse Inc
San Francisco

Senior Career Coach
09.2021 - Current

Job overview

Promoted from career coach to senior carer coach after 5 months due to excellence in leadership and taking ownership of projects

  • Played a key role in defining and executing the implementation of a new career service product called job search 2.0. This led to a significant improvement in the time it took for graduates to secure jobs
  • Led numerous career related workshops for students from over 30 different countries. Consistently averaging a rating of 4.9/5 from participants
  • Own and execute various projects in collaboration with departments such as product, engineering, student success etc
  • Daily live video calls with different coaching clients, solving career related problems
  • Led the development of coaching dashboard; worked with engineering, data and product departments to ideate, build and launch the dashboards. This improved coaching efficiency by over 35%
  • Coaching alums and students; managing over 90 students and alums per quarter

Careerli

Founder/Owner
04.2017 - Current

Job overview

Careerli provides free career resources and paid personalized career services to job seekers. Managed careeli.com; design, content creation, online courses, webinars, sales & marketing.

  • Managed a team of 5 people.
  • Drove growth by effectively analyzing online ads, customer and traffic data and using that data to make product and marketing decisions.
  • Managed ads, lead generation, customer experience and service for clients and enrollees of various online career courses
  • Achieved profitability only 3 Months after launch. Consistent MoM growth.

Africa InfoTech Consulting
Nigeria

Co-Founder (Digital Consultant)
11.2015 - 03.2017

Job overview

AIC Africa Infotech Consulting is a holistic digital and IT consulting company that provides consultations on digital strategy and implementation. Served as a digital consultant and customer success manager

  • Led digital consultations and transformation projects for SMEs.
  • Led the ideation and development of various digital products
  • Monitored customer progress and addressed customer inquiries with timely and accurate updates.
  • Analyzed customer data to identify trends and develop strategies to improve customer success metrics.

Jumia

Regional Sales Manager
04.2015 - 11.2015

Job overview

Jumia is one of the biggest E-commerce companies in Africa. Key tasks; increase sales revenues, increase brand awareness (online & Offline) and drive sales agents recruitment.

  • Surpassed sales quota target by 60%
  • Provided sales trainings to over 1,000 sales agents
  • Analyzed complex daily, weekly & monthly data (sales, products, regions, orders, cancellations, margins, ad ROI etc) to drive decision making in terms of sales, marketing, product placements and partnerships.
  • Collaborated with numerous teams to introduce new products to the Northern region of Nigeria that increased monthly active users and reduced churn by 11%

VentureLab Startup Accelerator, IE Business School
Madrid, Spain

Accelerator Participant (CEO And Co-founder Of Frimb)
06.2014 - 03.2015

Job overview

Frimb is a social platform that allows users to easily discover and share recipes with other foodies worldwide. Served as the main contact for product, sales, marketing and partnerships,

  • Led product manager; UI & UX specification, customer research, product specification, product marketing, product development and launch
  • Grew the social media channels by over 400%
  • Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others in the food and beverage industry across europe

Education

IE Business School
Madrid, Spain

Master from Management (Specialization In Digital Business)
2014

University Overview

  • Top 15% in 'critical management thinking' 'Building An Online Business' 'mobile business & trends' technology management' "Competitive Strategy" "Social Media & Web" courses

Bayero University Kano
Nigeria

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
12.2011

University Overview

Skills

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Product Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Data Analysis
  • Customer Service
  • Project Management
  • Web Development/Data Management/Visualization
  • Customer Relations
  • IT Management/Digital Consulting
  • Business Operations
  • Partnership Developments
  • Account Management

Timeline

Senior Career Coach
Microverse Inc
09.2021 - Current
Founder/Owner
Careerli
04.2017 - Current
Co-Founder (Digital Consultant)
Africa InfoTech Consulting
11.2015 - 03.2017
Regional Sales Manager
Jumia
04.2015 - 11.2015
Accelerator Participant (CEO And Co-founder Of Frimb)
VentureLab Startup Accelerator, IE Business School
06.2014 - 03.2015
IE Business School
Master from Management (Specialization In Digital Business)
Bayero University Kano
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
Mustapha Isa Yakubu