QUADRI AZEEZ BABATUNDE
Lagos,LA
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven product manager with a strong ability to handle multiple projects, both independently and as part of a team.
Expertise in developing market acceptable B2B and B2C products, with a proven track record of successfully accomplishing tasks, delivering products, evaluating operations, analyzing data, and effectively communicating with stakeholders.P
Passionate about setting and achieving goals, gaining valuable experience across industries, and constantly seeking opportunities to implement standards that enhance organizational efficiency and excellence. Thrives on implementing innovative ideas and seeing them come to fruition.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Product Manager
Venture Garden Group
04.2021 - Current
- Guided at least 2 products from initial conception, design, and successful delivery with approximately 85% increase in monthly revenue.
- Developed competitive products like merchant and agency banking applications, Payment gateway and cross border payment solution, e.t.c
- Analyzed product/project progress, prioritized backlogs, and chaired agile ceremonies inclusive of daily stand-up, sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint reviews.
- Synthesizing market needs into product requirements and driving alignment with leadership on prioritization for the product roadmap, strategy, and delivery timeline.
- Lead product teams and ensure products and releases are launched correctly, and on schedule, and deliver the product portfolio's strategy to drive flawless execution of best-in-class solutions to market.
- Identify new revenue opportunities and target markets for the product.
- Championed customer feedback loops to continuously refine products according to evolving customer requirements.
- Managed product lifecycle from concept through launch and iteration.
- Developed product roadmaps aligning with business goals and user feedback.
- Mentored junior product managers on best practices and methodologies.
- Worked closely with developers throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of products.
- Created detailed technical specifications documents outlining the functional requirements of proposed products or features.
- Analyzed user data to uncover insights about how customers interact with products and make decisions about what features should be prioritized.
- Participated in product demos at trade shows or other industry events.
- Managed budgets for product development projects and tracked progress against timelines.
- Ensured compliance with relevant regulations such as GDPR when developing or releasing new products or features.
Product Specialist
Venture Garden Group
07.2019 - 04.2021
- Worked closely with cross-functional teams to manage and communicate product changes and life cycle stages.
- Owning and managing the product backlog including writing stories, mitigating risk, prioritizing effectively, and unblocking the team.
- Prepared evaluations of software or hardware, and recommended/communicated improvements or upgrades.
- Partnered with the product marketing team to develop tools, product sheets, pitch decks, presentations for different product lines.
- Developed training materials and documents for stakeholders for easy onboarding and access to the platform.
- Provided full and functional support to stakeholders that were not familiar with the system, thereby attending to all issues raised and suggested.
- Developed training materials for staff on new product features.
- Performed quality assurance tests on new or updated products before release.
- Utilized CRM systems to track customer interactions and feedback for continuous improvement.
Product Support Officer (Lead)
Venture Garden Group
02.2016 - 07.2019
- Provided technical 1st-level 24 hours support to merchants and banks
- Provided inputs for the preparation of purposeful work plans and maintained an up-to-date inventory of customers' databases
- Provided daily status reports on all clients under my supervision
- Researched and retrieved data from internal and external sources; prepared statistical charts, tables, and reports as required
- Ensured outstanding customer satisfaction by maintaining strong working relationships and scheduled appointments with service professionals
- Organized training of new team members and mentored each to promote productivity, accuracy, and quality service
- Guided and led team members to deliver products/services that meet or exceed customer requirements
- Researched complex problems and resolved issues promptly
- Increased the deployment of terminals by more than 400% across Nigeria with a multiplier effect of over 200% increase in the value of transactions
- Developed products that meet customers' expectations through constant feedback and improving the business to the 3rd best performing PTSP in Nigeria
- Provided remote assistance to customers using screen sharing tools, ensuring efficient issue resolution.
Education
Master of Science - Economics
University of Lagos
LagosBachelor of Science - Economics
Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ago IwoyeSkills
- Complex Problem Solving
- Contract Negotiation
- Product/Project Management
- Market Research Analysis
- Data and competitive analysis
- Product lifecycle management
- Customer relationship management
- Effective communication
Certification
- PSPO, Certification in view
- Product prioritization micro certification (2025)(Product school)
- Learn product management by building a product (Udemy 2025)
- Utiva product school (2022)
- Agile Fundamentals: scrum and kanban (2020)
Accomplishments
- Developed PTAD applications for agency banking solutions, TMS, TCM to monitor real time transactions, customer onboarding and provide data analytics for both internal and external users.
- Drove the transition from a traditional B2B model to B2B2C and B2C, contributing to rapid growth in product offerings and transaction value; positioned the company as the one of the prominent PTSP in Nigeria with 5-15% MoM revenue growth.
- Designed, developed, and launched a fully functional local and international payment gateway with automated onboarding, KYC verification, fraud monitoring, and integrated admin/customer portals.
- Consistently maintained high customer satisfaction ratings.
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
Venture Garden Group
04.2021 - Current
Product Specialist
Venture Garden Group
07.2019 - 04.2021
Product Support Officer (Lead)
Venture Garden Group
02.2016 - 07.2019
Master of Science - Economics
University of Lagos
Bachelor of Science - Economics
Olabisi Onabanjo University