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— Femi
In sixty seconds
- ₦70B
- monthly volume on the corporate banking platform, from ₦200M at alpha
- 200,000+
- SME and enterprise clients served across Nigeria and the UK
- 5
- product managers hired and grown, APM to Lead
- 29
- Nigerian states visited to research in the field
Summary
Ten years leading product in regulated, operationally messy markets: card issuing, corporate banking, agriculture, and the tools that keep them running. I have built and led PM teams, coaching product managers from associate to lead, and taken products from concept to national scale. My approach is consistent: meet customers where they work, design the experience myself alongside the design team, carry the ledgers, APIs and operational detail underneath it, and ship in small releases. That has taken me from farms in 29 Nigerian states to contact centres supporting global card programmes. I also build working prototypes in Claude Code so I can test product ideas before asking a team to commit to them.
I am now open to founding and senior product roles: Head of Product at an early-stage company, or Principal to Director at a scale-up or a bank, in Vancouver or remote across Canada.
Experience
Lead Product Manager · Marqeta
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026 · Vancouver, BC (Remote)
Owned a four-product portfolio (Resolve, the contact-center support platform; Marqeta Dashboard; Marqeta IVR; and Identity & Access Management) for a global card-issuing platform processing billions in annual payment volume.
- Led Resolve from concept to production in under five months: a purpose-built cardholder support portal designed side by side with the design team, informed by direct observation of agent workflows during Coinbase program support.
- Expanded Resolve after its first release to support debit, credit, and prepaid programs across payments, collections, disputes, fraud management, and account sub-status management.
- Led Resolve's credit expansion across FCRA disputes, collections and delinquency workflows, credit bureau reporting, and TCPA compliance.
- Built the automated testing workflow exclusively using Claude Code and Playwright in Terminal.
- Presented Resolve's product vision and roadmap to cross-functional leadership across Credit, Operations, and Engineering. Created demo content for BPO transition stakeholders.
- Led two cross-functional engineering pods across North America and India; earned an internal impact award within four months of joining.
- Managed the Marqeta Dashboard, the primary program-management tool for 400+ businesses and 17,000+ users, including programs run by Uber, Square, Klarna, and Coinbase. Redesigned it for enterprise program managers and defined KPIs for cardholder lifecycle management and settlement tracking.
- Led the design of a central, immutable audit log for use across the platform, compliant with PCI DSS, GLBA, and SOC 2.
- Owned Identity & Access Management on Auth0: a unified access-management platform with federated identity across Marqeta products, single sign-on, and just-in-time provisioning for program administrators, developers, and support agents. The work included user-access tooling, Self-Service Credential API provisioning, and IVR improvements, including AI agent management.
Product Lead, Corporate Banking Solutions · First City Monument Bank
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · Across three time zones (Canada, UK, Nigeria)
Led digital transformation of corporate banking across Nigeria and the UK: corporate internet banking, admin tools, core banking (Finacle/Fineract), API architecture, payroll, remittances, FX/trade management. Managed five direct reports across multiple product lines.
- Built and led a team of five PMs: hiring APMs and scoping their features to grow them into full PMs, recruiting Senior PMs who advanced to Lead. Two mentees were promoted within three months of the engagement ending: one to Head of Products for the Retail Banking division, the other to Product Lead for Wealth Management.
- Led the design and launch of the CIB platform from scratch, serving 200,000+ SME and enterprise clients across both markets. Streamlined bulk transfers, bill payments, payroll, and FX operations. Monthly transaction volume scaled from ₦200M at alpha to over ₦70B (~$45M USD) within months of launch.
- Launched payroll management, FX & trade management, and Rova Business, a business remittance platform serving SME cross-border payments and the gig economy. Built the volume and unit-economics models that underpinned Rova's business case.
- Redesigned corporate client onboarding based on drop-off analysis and direct feedback from enterprise treasurers, achieving a 40% reduction in time-to-value. Managed KYC/AML integrations and regulatory compliance across both markets.
- Introduced real-time analytics dashboards so corporate treasurers could monitor activity more easily, improving client retention while meeting banking regulations.
Product Specialist (Product Management), Key & Strategic Accounts · Paystack (a Stripe company, YC alum)
Jun 2021 – Jan 2025 · Lagos, Nigeria
Managed core payment methods and strategic merchant solutions for Africa's leading payment gateway.
- Managed the development of specialized solutions for Paystack's largest merchants, driving year-on-year 14% revenue growth and 5% net revenue growth.
- Expanded Paystack into airline ticketing, contributing to a $7M year-over-year revenue uplift. Built product changes for high-volume ticket purchases and managed relationships with airlines and industry partners.
- Collaborated on the launch of Direct Debit for recurring revenue collection, including Central Bank compliance and UX improvements for high-frequency transactions.
- Conceptualized a micro-transactions product and drove it to ₦14B (~$30M USD) in annualized transaction volume within 12 months. Payment-flow conversion +17%.
- Reduced merchant support tickets by 13% through improved product flows, clearer documentation, and long-term collaboration with key merchants' product teams to co-build and co-integrate solutions.
Product Manager · Farmcrowdy (Techstars Toronto alum)
Feb 2019 – Jun 2021 · Lagos, Nigeria
First product hire at the company. Owned the entire product portfolio across mobile (iOS and Android) and web platforms. Field-service software serving distinct personas at once: farmers in the field, the technicians supporting them, and the buyers on the other end.
- Managed three mobile products (Farmers App, Farmcrowdy Foods, Meathub), scaling the Farmers App to 200,000+ users.
- Grew a new agricultural community from 3,200 to 25,000 users in under six months against a 12-month mandate through a series of product and distribution changes.
- Conducted user research across 29 Nigerian states, travelling physically to farms to interview the farmers and field technicians using the product, and fed it directly into roadmap, pricing, and UI design. Built financial models and vendor management workflows.
Education
Nigerian University of Technology and Management
NUTM Scholars Program · Technology, Entrepreneurship and Design · MasterCard Foundation Scholar
2020–2021
University of Lagos
Bachelor of Science, Mass Communication · CGPA 4.22/5 (Top 3% of class)
2019
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) · Scrum Alliance · May 2025 – May 2027
Tools
- Code & AI
- Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub
- Design & Prototyping
- Figma, Miro, working prototypes in Claude Code
- Product & PM
- Jira, Confluence, Linear, Notion
- Data & Analytics
- Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment, Metabase, Tableau, Looker, Snowflake, Redshift, GA4, SQL
- API & Documentation
- Postman, Swagger
- Support & CX
- Intercom, Zendesk, AWS Connect, Twilio, Salesforce, ServiceNow
Open to founding and senior product roles, Head of Product to Director, in Vancouver or remote across Canada.
If you are a founder with a first product still to ship, I design it end to end and build the first version with your engineers. If you run product at a scale-up or a bank, I take the regulated, operationally heavy workflows and make them feel simple.
Twenty minutes on a call is the quickest way to find out whether the fit is real. The calendar link books straight into my week.
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