SULAIMON SALAKO

Product Manager | AI/ML Product Development & Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Lagos, NG.

About

Highly accomplished Product Manager with over 3 years of experience specializing in AI-powered product development and cross-functional team leadership within fast-paced, engineering-led environments. Expertly navigates the full product lifecycle, consistently delivering high-impact tools that reduce operational timelines by up to 75% and achieve 99% accuracy. Proven ability to drive user experience improvements, lead diverse teams of engineers and data scientists, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to shape strategic roadmaps.

Work

Babban Gona

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Associate Product Manager

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Led cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered product initiatives from discovery to release, maintaining sprint velocity and accelerating delivery timelines.

Highlights

Directed comprehensive end-to-end user research on an AI-powered chat tool (CustomGPT), surfacing key engagement and friction points that directly shaped the product roadmap and strategic priorities.

Designed and shipped an in-app user feedback feature, including real-time ratings and detailed messages, closing the loop between user sentiment and model quality improvements.

Led development of an AI-powered media content authoring tool, unifying script writing, voiceover, and visual production, reducing content production time by ~75% and improving output quality for 3 cross-functional teams.

Spearheaded development of an automated image and media audit pipeline, compressing a weeks-long audit cycle into a single day with 99% accuracy for tens of thousands of assets, serving product support and agritech teams.

Facilitated org-wide AI training sessions on custom Claude plugins, accelerating AI tool adoption and internal capability-building across the organization.

Hotels.ng

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Backend Engineer Intern

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Built integrations and implemented tests to enhance internal tools and payment processing for an AI-powered call center agent.

Highlights

Developed a Google Cloud BigQuery usage monitoring integration for an internal collaboration tool, enabling real-time cost visibility for engineering teams.

Integrated Stripe as a payment processor into the team's boilerplate project and created API endpoints for an AI-powered call center agent.

Implemented robust unit and integration tests, collaborating with QA to resolve critical bugs and successfully ship a working, bug-free MVP.

Freelance

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UX and Content Specialist

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Summary

Collaborated with product and design teams to optimize user journeys, user flows, and content strategy for enhanced product development.

Highlights

Collaborated with product and design teams on user journeys, user flows, and roadmap planning to proactively address customer support friction and align content strategy with product development.

Provided critical content-focused feedback in design critiques, directly influencing design decisions from a UX and communication perspective.

Developed intuitive UI copy that enhanced product experiences, improved customer interactions, and reduced inbound support enquiries.

Bukable

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Product Content & UX Specialist

Bukable, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Summary

Executed discovery research and content strategy to improve customer support processes and inform product roadmap prioritization.

Highlights

Executed discovery research through surveys and user interviews to gather insights, significantly improving customer support processes and content strategy.

Collaborated with design to develop and refine user stories, user flows, and journey maps, directly improving the product roadmap and ensuring customer needs were prioritized.

Conducted competitive analysis and a UX content audit, identifying market gaps and informing strategic product and content decisions.

Developed a voice and tone style guide through stakeholder and user interviews, ensuring consistent communication across all user touchpoints.

Tribes.AI

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Content & Customer Support Specialist

Tribes.AI, Australia, Australia

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Summary

Optimized user experience and content to increase signup rates, reduce support volume, and drive product adoption.

Highlights

Increased signup completion rate by 40% by redesigning and optimizing the onboarding user experience, directly impacting user acquisition metrics.

Reduced customer support volume by 10% through strategic rewriting of product onboarding copy, improving user self-service capabilities.

Facilitated a $100K+ deals pipeline by authoring a strategic white paper for product launch, demonstrating business acumen and market understanding.

Increased product adoption by creating comprehensive customer support content, including FAQs, help articles, and release notes, significantly reducing friction in the user journey.

Upgrade Technologies

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Business Researcher & Writer

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Researched complex financial and legal topics, translating technical information into engaging, user-friendly content.

Highlights

Researched complex topics in financial and legal services, translating technical information into user-friendly content that drove engagement.

Produced user-centered help content addressing specific customer pain points, significantly improving the overall customer experience.

Education

Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria
Bachelor of Science Economics Grade: 4.4/5.0

Languages

English

Certificates

AI for Product Management

Pendo.io

CS50x Introduction to Computer Science

Harvard Online

CS50 Python

Harvard Online

CS50 SQL

Harvard Online

Artificial Intelligence Micro Certification

Product School

User Research, Data-Driven Design, User Journey Mapping

Interaction Design Foundation

Skills

Product Management

Product Ownership, Roadmap Prioritisation, Discovery & User Research, User Story & Ticket Writing, User Flows, QA & Bug Reporting, Go-to-Market Planning.

AI & Data

AI/ML Product Development, Prompt Engineering, SQL, Python, REST APIs, Data Analysis, Google Analytics.

Agile & Delivery

Scrum, Kanban, Sprint Planning, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management.

Tools

JIRA, Figma, Loom, Postman, CustomGPT, Google BigQuery.

Soft Skills

Strategic Thinking, Written & Verbal Communication, Autonomous Work, User Empathy.