Ola Yekinni, Mba, Cspo Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, United States

United States

• Lead the development and execution of product strategies aligned with client needs and company objectives.• Manage cross-functional teams including design, engineering, quality assurance, and marketing, fostering collaboration and ensuring timely delivery of quality products and features.• Conduct market research, user interviews, and data analysis to identify market trends, customer pain points, and opportunities for new features and products.• Own the product roadmap by adding… Show more • Lead the development and execution of product strategies aligned with client needs and company objectives.• Manage cross-functional teams including design, engineering, quality assurance, and marketing, fostering collaboration and ensuring timely delivery of quality products and features.• Conduct market research, user interviews, and data analysis to identify market trends, customer pain points, and opportunities for new features and products.• Own the product roadmap by adding new projects, and prioritizing existing projects in priority order, aligning with customer and business needs.• Drive product launches through effective go-to-market strategies, collaborating with sales and marketing teams to achieve a successful product launch and product adoption.• Communicate with internal stakeholders, executives, and external partners to manage expectations, gather feedback, and align product initiatives with company vision.• Share market research and competitive analysis with product management team to align vision and strategy.• Train, mentor, and participate in interviews for product management team, ensuring we have the resources to execute product backlog. Show less

United States

• Driving the strategic discovery, planning, prioritization, design, implementation and launch of world-class products across multiple business streams;• Conceptualizing and enforced world-class product management and development processes and principles;• Directly managing the recruitment and continuous development of cross-functional product managers and designers;Achievements:• Supported the achievement of over $25 million in annualized GMV by leading the ideation, design… Show more • Driving the strategic discovery, planning, prioritization, design, implementation and launch of world-class products across multiple business streams;• Conceptualizing and enforced world-class product management and development processes and principles;• Directly managing the recruitment and continuous development of cross-functional product managers and designers;Achievements:• Supported the achievement of over $25 million in annualized GMV by leading the ideation, design and launch of a B2B e-commerce platform including customer-facing products (Payhelpa mobile App), partner-facing products ( Supply, Logistics, Fulfillment, Agent) and internal-facing tools (Order, Inventory, Finance, Product Information and Content Management Systems).• Improved customer retention rate by 25% by implementing routines for consistent strategic alignment, data-driven discovery and comprehensive gap assessments across the product portfolio.• Achieved 95% increase in resource utilization of 6 product managers and designers by driving the adoption and customization of agile development processes and standards across 4 cross-functional teams. Show less

• Create requirements for each specification.• Balance the needs of customers and business goals within the development process using AGILE / Scrummethodologies.• Communicate requirements to engineering, quality assurance, and design teams, fostering alignment of projectgoals.• Working directly with engineering, design, and quality assurance, we identify and develop the appropriate userstories needed to complete the project while maintaining a healthy user story backlog… Show more • Create requirements for each specification.• Balance the needs of customers and business goals within the development process using AGILE / Scrummethodologies.• Communicate requirements to engineering, quality assurance, and design teams, fostering alignment of projectgoals.• Working directly with engineering, design, and quality assurance, we identify and develop the appropriate userstories needed to complete the project while maintaining a healthy user story backlog for the team to complete.• Using JIRA, prioritize and arrange user story backlog to ensure the highest valued items are completed first.• To the extent possible, mitigate roadblocks impacting successful release of project work.• Provide vision and direction for the development team and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.• Ensure engineering and quality assurance teams meet development and release deadlines.• Research, analyze, and assist with defining the market, users, and roadmap for our product. Show less

Lagos State, Nigeria

Collaborate with business stakeholders to define the product strategy, Manage the requirements gathering and align the product roadmap.Overseeing the development and management of the product's roadmaps based on the adopted strategies and vision.Lead the formation and improvement of the product development and management processDefine measure and track product KPIsOverseeing the day to day product management and product marketing activitiesOverseeing the innovation and… Show more Collaborate with business stakeholders to define the product strategy, Manage the requirements gathering and align the product roadmap.Overseeing the development and management of the product's roadmaps based on the adopted strategies and vision.Lead the formation and improvement of the product development and management processDefine measure and track product KPIsOverseeing the day to day product management and product marketing activitiesOverseeing the innovation and improvement of the product. Show less

- Led product roadmapping and executed technical and business goals for a business solutions platform- Gathered insights from customers, adoption data, and feedback to prioritize product improvements- Planned and executed usability studies and tests to enhance user experienceMarket research and analysisCompetitive researchProduct performance and monitoringOther responsibilities include: Business case developmentProduct and portfolio strategyBusiness and product… Show more - Led product roadmapping and executed technical and business goals for a business solutions platform- Gathered insights from customers, adoption data, and feedback to prioritize product improvements- Planned and executed usability studies and tests to enhance user experienceMarket research and analysisCompetitive researchProduct performance and monitoringOther responsibilities include: Business case developmentProduct and portfolio strategyBusiness and product requirement writingProject and supplier managementProduct launch - Go to marketRoll out and trials Show less

Nigeria

2013, oversee recruitment processes, preside over board meetings, birth and sustain relationships between sponsor companies and the team, head hunt candidates with special skills for projects,represent the team at the country office.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Technical Education

Diploma, Mechanical Engineering