Nigeria

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Group Product Management

Program Management

Project Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor's degree

Joan Ajani

Senior Product Manager

Product strategy

Presentation skills

Leadership

Project management

Product roadmap

Trello

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Jira

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Business intelligence

Chatbot

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Coordinating engineering, project, business development, and other teams to deliver and improve on products.

Responsible for defining operational objectives by studying business functions; information 
gathering; evaluating output requirements.
Project and Portfolio Management for the digital lending Products. 
Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications to picture the proposed solution. 
Determining project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and components.
Forming project team, resource requirements and develop cost estimate models. 
Interpreting, reviewing and interrelating research data to develop integrated business analyses and projections for incorporation into strategic decision-making.

•	Managed the successful execution of a statewide Enterprise level energy tracking System for IPPS and Generating units.
•	Currently managing growth and stability of an enterprise scale Power sector project housing over 5000 Maximum demand customers meters with a continuous performance improvement to an average of 95% data retrieval performance monthly. 
•	Successfully led the design, development and third party integration of a nationwide bill reconciliation and invoicing platform for Enterprise users as well as onboarding of over 10,000 smart meters. 
•	Driving product vision, strategy and leading product development with a cross functional team of software developers and designers.
•	Managing product lifecycle through conceptualization, planning, design, testing, launch and maintenance.
•	Managing product marketing activities such as product roadmaps, requirement gathering, product backlog prioritization, user story funneling, user acceptance testing, release and performance management.
•	Follow through from resale through the SDLC.
•	Solution go-to-market strategy mapping.
•	Relationship management and external stakeholder management.

•	Collate documenting requirements, writing user stories, and creating feature specs.
•	Review changes, issues, problems and process breakdowns, ensuring project lessons learnt are captured and improvements documented for future project implementation

•	Responsible for driving qualitative and quantitative research, product analysis and market insights to inform vision, strategy, and roadmap.
•	Lead team throughout the design, build and launch of relevant products compatible with multiple platforms and operating systems.
•	Own all aspects of the product lifecycle – strategy, requirements definition, design, forecasting, launch plans, testing, bug resolution, and future enhancements.
•	Collate documenting requirements, writing user stories, and creating feature specs.
•	Rally and align designers, tech leads, analysts, data scientists, UX researchers, and stakeholders around agreed plans
•	Work closely with teams within the organization to align project priorities and build product adoption.
•	Support the development of appropriate tracking and reporting to resolve product performance.
•	Capture scope, work breakdown and documentation of new bespoke projects/products.
•	Understand business needs and feedback from users to identify new opportunities.
•	Define product success measures that align with key organizational metrics.
•	Manage implementation and monitoring of all SLA’s between TM30 and Clients, planning regular executive reviews.
•	Review changes, issues, problems and process breakdowns, ensuring project lessons learnt are captured and improvements documented for future project implementation.

•	Identifying and researching growth strategies for the organisation
•	Supporting the design and development of core business products.
•	Carrying out market survey, feasibility studies and market analysis
•	Gathering, documenting, evaluating and analysing information to guide decision making. 
•	Evaluating potential business opportunities that support organisational goals in collaboration with executive management.
•	Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations
•	Develop business plans, business models and strategy wheels..
•	Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
•	Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools..
•	Issue status reports to the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
•	Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and subcontractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
•	Build, develop, and grow business relationships vital to the success of the project.

•	Used initiative to anticipate needs of the CEO and act accordingly to provide efficient and effective support.
•	Prepared memos, letters, presentation material, spread sheets etc as required in a timely manner.
•	Collated information and prepare draft reports.
•	Developed and maintained systems for records and databases as required.
•	Ensure diary management including prioritising and monitoring diary conflicts
•	Assessed needs and proactively prioritise tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
•	Maintained close professional working relationships with internal and external contacts 
•	Exhibit high degree of confidentiality and discretion to be practised at all times.
•	Represented the organisation professionally and courteously at all times.
•	Coordinated meetings, preparation, compilation and distribution of agendas and technical reports.
•	Minute taking at formal and informal meetings

•	Examination planning
•	Member of the disciplinary committee
•	Leading the environmental and beautification team in planning and maintenance of landscape
•	Class Teacher

Joan Ajani🇳🇬