Okoye Chidi Bartholomew

Streamlined the selection, evaluation, and onboarding processes for early-stage EdTech startups, enhancing program efficiency and impact.

Collaborated with the Accelerator team and external stakeholders to design founder-friendly tools, investor decks, and resources, significantly improving startup performance and visibility.

Facilitated Demo Days, partner communications, and investor matchmaking efforts, contributing to startups securing non-dilutive and venture funding.

Provided tailored product insights and strategic advice to founders, leveraging deep EdTech Product Management experience to address critical challenges and accelerate development.

Developed structured processes and tools for gathering regular updates from founders, assessing growth metrics, and delivering relevant strategic advice and resources.

Led a cross-functional engineering team to develop and launch a new Educator Configuration tool, enabling 10,000+ educators to efficiently create exams.

Redesigned the Learners Configurator, providing 300,000+ Nursing & Medical students with an interactive platform for simulating tests and exams, significantly enhancing the overall learning experience.

Orchestrated the decluttering of Bug Backlogs by consistently reviewing, prioritizing, and assigning bugs to engineers for prompt resolution, ensuring a streamlined and efficient bug-fixing process.

Managed and prioritized the product backlog, ensuring alignment of product development with market demands and contributing to broader business growth initiatives.

Analyzed customer needs and defined precise product requirements in close collaboration with key stakeholders, driving user-centric feature development.

Created and established the Product Operations function, optimizing product development workflows and cross-functional collaboration within the company.

Initiated, developed, and successfully launched a Learning Management System (LMS), prioritizing and resolving over 45 new features to enhance student access to learning materials.

Facilitated strategic partnerships with FinTechs (Flutterwave & Paystack), enabling application and tuition payment options for over 30,000+ students.

Processed over $550,000 in transactions since the September 2021 launch, demonstrating significant financial impact and operational efficiency.

Collaborated with developers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to establish the technical vision, analyzing tradeoffs between usability and performance needs for optimal product delivery.

Built and scaled the Product & Engineering team to 7 members within 8 months, significantly enhancing organizational capacity and project execution.

Developed and implemented key automation for hiring processes and reporting, resulting in improved closing deals and an increase in hires by 40%.

Developed and launched the “TalentQL Pro Portal,” an Automated Application Tracking System (ATS) integrated with a technical assessment platform to streamline software engineer hiring.

Managed the full product lifecycle, from gathering business requirements to development, testing, and successful product delivery for multiple features.

Coordinated cross-functional activities and forged new partnerships across the Middle East, East African, and North American markets, expanding market reach and talent acquisition channels.