Lead, Product Team at SohCahToa Holdings (2026-01 – Present)
- Delivered end-to-end product strategy and execution for key fintech solutions, including a digital FX Purchase & Sale Platform, enabling same day settlement for purchase FX at competitive rates.
- Automated the sending of investment certificates and recurring statements for customers of the Finance House subsidiary of the business.
- Currently building a digital loan and Investment application enabling existing and new customers to apply and track their request on the go. The platform would potentially disburse about N20 billion in loans in the first year.
- Established product management standards by developing SOPs, documentation frameworks, and requirement templates that improved team efficiency and delivery consistency, in collaboration with other teams in the business.
- Led product branding and feature definition for new digital finance and FX products, supporting the company's expansion into consumer financial services.
- Designed compliant digital onboarding and KYC workflows, balancing regulatory requirements with an intuitive customer experience.
Product Manager, GoTrip at Sterling Bank Limited (2022-10 – 2025-12)
- Built GoTrip, a travel now, pay later solution, targeted at local and international commuters in Nigeria.
- Conducted market research on merchants (Airlines, Travel agencies and customers) to gather product requirements and ensuring all features are scoped accordingly.
- Developed Gotrip's product requirement documents, defined high level features, and crafted the user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Worked on the product's revenue projections, to ensure product profitability and overall alignment with business goals.
- Collaborated with stakeholder management on product delivery, prioritization, feedback gathering, timeline negotiations, engineering resource management and other things to ensure development runs efficiently.
- Coordinated daily standups, tasks breakdown and reviewing level of work done.
- Partnership building with merchants – Travel software companies, Airlines, road transport companies and Corporates.
- Leadership functions including ensuring that all Gotrip team members are adequately trained for their roles.
- Overseeing integrations into approved merchant's travel booking sites, ensuring that development timelines are upheld, and the solution can be launched as planned.
- Developed go-to-market strategies and monetization strategies for the product, based on target market knowledge, to ensure sustainable growth for the product post launch.
- Instituted processes for prioritizing business needs, to ensure developers are kept on track and can focus on delivering the higher value per time.
- Researched market and product trends, leveraging AI tools to identify opportunities and enhance product management decision-making.
Product Manager, Ecosystem Products at Sterling Bank Limited (2022-10 – 2025-12)
- Co-managed the Tradelink platform, a digital payables solution for Corporates and their suppliers, built in partnership with Afreximbank.
- Ideated and managed the development of Fulcrum – a digital receivables finance platform for Corporates, with a disbursement portfolio of N24 billion.
- Revamped the traditional SCF products of the bank for competitiveness, through research and market analysis – Distributor finance, Receivables finance, and LPO finance.
- Managed the sales flow of the Revstack, Finstack and Wagestack product, a wallet payment, and collections solution for merchants and Fintechs.
- Performed exploratory testing of products to confirm their functionality and that they meet acceptance criteria as spelt out in the Product Requirement documents.
- Documented processes and procedures to ensure smooth flow of work, and transparency in communication, keeping team members accountable.
- Provided leadership for cross-functional teams including developers, QA engineers, designers, and product manager interns.
- Business data analysis using excel and Power tools for insight gathering and decision making.
- Built roadmaps based on product/solution goals and agreed milestones.
- Re-formulation and periodic review of the Supply Chain Finance product program to ensure it is up to date with current realities.
- Apt portfolio monitoring to ensure that approved facilities are utilized according to stated terms and conditions, and that non-Performing facilities are kept within acceptable threshold.
- Prompt resolution of customers' challenges translating to an increase in customer satisfaction.
- Partnership management with contract employer/anchors to onboard distributors and suppliers for payables and receivables financing facilities.
- Internal and external stakeholder management to ensure timelines are followed, versions are shipped as prioritized.
Product Officer, Asset Products at Ecobank Nigeria Limited (2018-09 – 2022-09)
- Developed digital loan products and strategies to drive uptake to meet the bank's financial goals.
- Managed projects across various teams for effective customer targeting.
- Researched and identified enhancements to product functionality and new markets to ensure corporate strategies, business plans, revenue and profit goals are met.
- Weekly and monthly monitoring, analyzing, and reporting of loan portfolio, which have led to an early detection of areas to improve and timely customer targeting.
- Led collaborations and engagements on the full digitalization on Salary backed products, to ensure consistent product update and usage.
- Digitized the salary advance overdraft facility application route, which led to an increase in loan uptake and shorter processing time.
APM, Gender-based Banking Products and Initiative at Ecobank Nigeria Limited (2019-01 – 2022-09)
- Pioneered the Ellevate Women Initiative, created the product paper and structured the Ellevate loan product for women in business.
- Initiated the partnership with Cherie Blair foundation, leading to the sponsorship of over 2,000 female customers to partake in the Road to Growth and Mentoring Women in Business programs.
- Facilitated access to Bank of Industry loans for female business owners, increasing their capital and profitability.
- Program management and facilitating training on Business growth and market opportunities for female small business owners.
- Business growth strategy implementation to improve the uptake of bank's products by female customers and prospects.
- Credit analysis and service offering enhancement for female customers.
- Coordinated capacity building programs for over 10,000 female customers leading to higher turnover in their businesses and average bank balances.
