Who is Quadri Oshibotu?

Quadri has over 8 years of experience as a Product Manager spanning the business-to-consumer and agency space working on products that solve multiple use cases for various industries. 

He is passionate about creating great products that have a positive impact on people's lives and helping people grow through teaching, training, and mentorship.

Along with working as a Senior Product Manager at Alcumus, he built Product Hall to help the next generation of new and aspiring product managers and entrepreneurs with the knowledge, mentorship, and support that they need to build better products and advance their careers.

What is Quadri Oshibotu best known for?

Quadri has had a long career in product with many notable successes. 

At Tiny Hearts (acquired by Shopify) he and his team successfully built and launched highly regarded apps and worked with select companies to build world-class products. Their products were downloaded by millions and notably featured in WIRED, The New York Times, and Apple.

Along with working as a product manager at Gigster, he was also an instrumental member of their Delight Team. In this role he worked with the global team of remote talent and customers to address risky projects to ensure that team members were happy, customers had a positive experience, and that quality products were built. As a member of their product operations team he also played a role in defining some of the processes for the company to follow.

Post his work at Connected, an end-to-end product services firm, he now works at Alcumus where his product eCompliance keeps people safe and helps organizations reduce risks and simplify processes by leveraging technology to manage, report on, and improve their health and safety programs.

More recently Quadri teaches and trains new and aspiring product managers and entrepreneurs at his online product management school Product Hall.

Where can you learn more about Quadri?

Quadri is easily accessible via his Linkedin profile where he shares product management lessons and content. 

In 2020 he published a book to share his learnings with the product community, Product Management - A complete guide on creating products that people love. 

This book details the end-to-end process of product management, answers  key questions related to the role and its responsibilities, features interviews from 6 skilled and diverse product managers on their personal journey and insights for  product success, and more.

You can also check out Product Hall where Quadri hosts resources to support new, existing, and aspiring product managers.

What is Quadri’s advice for product managers?

Quadri has two key pieces of advice for product managers:

Products are built to solve problems that customers face. Spend the right amount of time understanding the problem that you are solving, why, and for who. Once this is clear, defining the solution to build with your team will be easier.

Be intentional about your career. There are many opportunities available for product managers and many problems to solve within various industries. As this role grows in popularity, plan where you want to land in your career and how you want to grow so that you can continue to enjoy this highly demanding role.