Tomiwa Ogunmodede — Senior Product Designer Résumé

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Platforms and complex systemsFintech and payments

Senior Product Designer with 10+ years focused on products where mistakes have consequences. At Kolibri, I rebuilt the import journey for teachers working without reliable internet or IT support: 85% better discoverability and 60% fewer failed imports in usability testing. At Lion Hospitality Partners, I lead product and technology across 14 Lagos venues, including a KDS that routes one table's order to different vendor kitchens and returns live item statuses. I still design the screens and ship code, including ApplyOS and Branch.

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Senior Product Designer with 10+ years focused on financial products where people need to know exactly what happens to their money. At Mular, I designed stablecoin-to-Naira transfers, fee visibility and individual/business KYC/AML workflows, including re-verification after failed NIN checks. Mular has processed $2.1M+ across 19K+ transactions. At Farmcrowdy, I rebuilt the mobile sponsorship journey for people investing in farms they might never see, taking conversion from 18% to 60%. I still design the screens and work through the hard transaction states with engineering.

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Experience

Chief Technology Officer — Lion Hospitality Partners

Lead product and technology for a 14-venue group across ordering, payment, kitchen, stock and fulfilment. I remain hands-on in interface design and implementation review. The operating stack handled 31,324 paid orders across 14 venues between April and September 2026.

Apr 2026 — Present

Co-founder / Creative & Product Design Lead — Neustack Studio

Led product, brand, digital and visual design across technology, consumer, public-sector and enterprise clients including Lufthansa, Waitrose and Lagos State Government.

Aug 2011 — Present

Co-founder, Product Design, Growth & Partnerships — Mular

Co-founded and led product design for crypto-to-Naira payments built around legible rates, fees, transaction states and recovery; $2.1M+ processed across 19K+ transactions.

Aug 2024 — Present

Senior Product Designer — Learning Equality

Designed complex offline-first learning and administration workflows for Kolibri across content import, assessment, coaching, accessibility, multilingual/RTL patterns and the shared design system; also led Learning Equality’s public website redesign end to end with the in-house development team.

Designed for every Kolibri surface: browser client, Windows, macOS and Linux desktop apps, and the native Android app.

Extended and maintained the open-source Kolibri Design System (500+ components) through specs, implementation review and design QA; designed a new 100+ component design system for learningequality.org and led the public website redesign with in-house engineering.

Provided design direction and review for six Google Summer of Code projects.

Aug 2022 — May 2026

Senior Product Designer, Contract — AdPipe / SuperGIF

Designed creation, asset-library, brand-control, versioning and review workflows that helped enterprise teams produce and manage multimedia advertising content without losing continuity.

May 2022 — Feb 2023

Product Designer, Contract — RIIID Labs

Designed AI-assisted education products including Jarvis, a teacher dashboard, and Shaipe, an LSAT companion, translating diagnostics into useful teaching and study actions.

2021 — 2022

Co-founder & Product Lead — Earlybean

Led product and growth design for a family-finance platform spanning youth money, parent permissions, school payments and merchant interactions.

Jun 2020 — May 2026

Founding Product Designer, later Head of Marketing & Product Development — Farmcrowdy

Joined as Farmcrowdy’s first design hire; designed sponsorship, payment, farm tracking and harvest reporting for people financing farms they had never seen, worked directly with farmers and retail sponsors, and rebuilt mobile sponsorship from 18% to 60% conversion before moving into product and growth leadership.

UI/UX Designer (first design hire) · Apr 2017 – Jul 2017

Head, Digital Marketing & Design · Jul 2017 – Jan 2020

Head of Products and Program Management · Jan 2020 – Oct 2020

Designed for iOS, Android and web.

Built Farmcrowdy’s first design system, 300+ components in Figma.

Apr 2017 — Oct 2020

Product & Visual Design Consultant — Venture Garden Group

Designed financial and regulatory dashboards, data visualisation and cryptocurrency-monitoring concepts for CBN- and SEC-facing contexts, alongside policy and executive communication materials.

2016 — 2021

Independent and studio build work

Product decisions carried into working software through AI-assisted design and build workflows.

ApplyOS

Multi-user candidate software that turns career evidence, work rights and preferences into market-aware discovery, eligibility-first job judgment and evidence-backed application preparation; calibration on 171 hand-labelled roles improved feed-level precision from 59% to 89%.

Fleetpass

Live vehicle and driver document product where one upload creates or updates a vehicle, surfaces missing or expiring documents, and keeps renewal work visible until completion.

Studio builds — OUI Life, Stratfortis, Kalvia

Brand and product strategy taken into working acquisition systems: manufacturing enquiry journeys, consultation routes, CMS-managed content and production lead capture.

Branch

Independent generative design studio. Validated AI output renders through bounded components, with assumptions visible and automated checks for contrast, touch targets and Arabic RTL. I use it on Lion and Neustack design work.

Figma Bridge

Two-way HTML and Figma workflow: rendered browser content becomes editable design layers; supported PDF text/vectors are reconstructed with raster fallback, and a plugin exports Figma frames to HTML. Used on Lion and Flex Academy.

Skills

ProductProduct strategy and direction · UX research and usability testing · Interaction and interface design · Information architecture and systems modelling · Prototyping and design-engineering handoff

SystemsDesign systems and reusable interaction patterns · Accessibility, internationalisation and Arabic RTL · Offline-first and low-bandwidth UX · Multi-sided permissions and operational workflows · Fintech trust, transaction states and recovery

Delivery & leadershipCross-functional product leadership · Design critiques and capability building · Workshop facilitation and research synthesis · Founder-side product and venture direction · AI-assisted prototyping and workflow design