Stephen Bankole
Alagomeji, Yaba,Lagos
Summary
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Co Founder & Chief ProductOfficer
LaunchPad Business
Lagos, LA
01.2022 - Current
- Joined in over 50 recruitment and interviews of key staff.
- Set up product, engineering and Design team.
- Mapped out and created structured template for different technical teams.
- Manage, build and coordinate 5 different product, design and engineering team on different projects.
- Evaluated and created Go to market strategy for each new product to be shipped.
- Lead PM team, supervising PM managers, and mentoring their team.
- Creating vision and strategy for entire PM team.
- Marketing and evangelizing products from concept to launch.
- Evaluate and review research that leads to informed decision-making across all organization.
Co Founder and Chief Product Officer
Rabbit Africa
Lagos, LA
07.2021 - Current
- Set up product, engineering and Design team
- Managed product from Ideation to market Delivery
- Communicated effective product strategy to executives and other stakeholders
- Lead PM organization, supervising PM managers, and mentoring their team
- Creating vision and strategy for entire PM team
- Marketing and evangelizing products from concept to launch
- Research that leads to informed decision-making across the organization
- Define product vision, strategies and Roadmap
- Gathered, managed and prioritized market/ customer requirements
- Worked closely with Engineers, sales, Marketing, Designers and support to ensure business and customer satisfaction goals are met
- Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses.
Assistant Country Manager/, Product Manager
Letschat Instant Messaging App
Lagos, Lagos
03.2020 - 07.2021
- User acquisition and growth optimization.
- General management of daily operation.
- Make crucial decisions on product with product managers.
- Create solid partnerships with local enterprises.
- Drive company vision and ensure team is still aware of it.
- Build realistic and achievable Roadmap for team.
- Create and Iterate product road-map(s) from discovery to launch, driving product direction, defining go-to-market strategy and leading design discussions.
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
Product Manager
Pelfwise
Lagos, LA
03.2020 - 11.2020
- Define product vision, strategy and Roadmap.
- Sync engineers and designers to deliver customer satisfied product.
- Gathered, managed and prioritized market/ customer requirements.
- Aligning stakeholders around vision for product.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
African Market Consultant
ByBit
Remote, Remote
04.2020 - 06.2020
- Interviewed users and evaluated cryptocurrency market in Africa
- Provided support for product team in China on product research and analysis in Africa.
- Created and presented real-time reports on current market conditions to upper management
- Created and managed database of information gathered from research
- Gathered data on competitors to analyze prices, sales and methods of marketing and distribution
Product Management Team Lead
Raw Mobile (Gona)
Lagos, LA
08.2019 - 04.2020
- Understanding and representing Product Needs.
- Established and coordinated product team of 5 members to ship market fit products.
- Manage and use User feedback to build and fix product.
- Conduct Research to improve product features and core end user needs.
African Market Consultant
Bytedance
Remote, Remote
11.2019 - 03.2020
- Conducted User/Market Research for business penetration to Africa.
- Provide support for product team in China on product research and analysis in Africa.
- Performed industry research and gathered primary data which improved product decision making by 60%
Senior Operation Coordinator
Raw Mobile (Gona)
Lagos, LA
11.2018 - 08.2019
- Strategize and Plan weekly operational activities for 20 junior coordinators.
- Assist and design strategy that helped increase by 75% business development team result.
- Ensure key performance indicators (KPIs) are in place and production targets are met.
- Established, coordinated and monitored 5 different projects and teams within 7 months.
- Manage different team leads and help create strategies that improve team performance by 65%.
- Performed statistical analyses to gather data for operational and forecast team needs.
- Reviewed operations reports to understand numbers and trends
- Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow
Education
Bachelor Of Science - Insurance
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
Lagos, LACertificate of Completion Welfare -
University of Lagos
Lagos, LASkills
TECHNICAL SKILLSundefined
Accomplishments
- Ethical Issues: A problem in the Nigerian Insurance Industry, University Of Lagos November- November 2021
- Used Microsoft Excel to model and predict the rate of damage ethical issues of insurance companies has affected the Nigerian Insurance industry as a whole
- Presented data analysis using data visualization, infographics and presentation tools
- Certificate of completion in Social media marketing – E marketing Institute
- Certificate of Intro to Cloud Computing – IBM Development Skill Network
- Certificate of Completion Welfare Officer Student- University of Lagos
- Award as the Unsung Hero amongst departments- University of Lagos
- A.G Leventis
- Scholarship Awards 2017 - 2020.
Affiliations
- Student Investment Society: Member of the Research Team
- Fela Durotoye Leadership Network- Campus Ambassador: Training and Developing Students on how to be a Leader that would make Nigeria a great Nation.
- Welfare Secretary Actuarial Science and Insurance Department (Year 1-4): Providing both Academics and Non- academics welfare to every member of the department.
Timeline
Co Founder & Chief ProductOfficer
LaunchPad Business
01.2022 - Current
Co Founder and Chief Product Officer
Rabbit Africa
07.2021 - Current
African Market Consultant
ByBit
04.2020 - 06.2020
Assistant Country Manager/, Product Manager
Letschat Instant Messaging App
03.2020 - 07.2021
Product Manager
Pelfwise
03.2020 - 11.2020
African Market Consultant
Bytedance
11.2019 - 03.2020
Product Management Team Lead
Raw Mobile (Gona)
08.2019 - 04.2020
Senior Operation Coordinator
Raw Mobile (Gona)
11.2018 - 08.2019
Bachelor Of Science - Insurance
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
Certificate of Completion Welfare -
University of Lagos
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