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Temitope Benson

Senior Product Manager building operating systems for ambiguous, high-stakes delivery.

Portrait of Temitope Benson

10+ years across HealthTech, Digital Publishing, and AdTech in Canada and West Africa. I step into broken or non-existent delivery environments and create the frameworks, rituals, and roadmaps that ship. Real numbers behind every story.

Reach
120M+

consumers

Users
4M+

platform

Markets
4

CA · NG · GH · CI

Get in touchDownload résumé (PDF)linkedin.com/in/temitope-benson

Organizations & brands I've worked with

Wellness Together Canada
Canadian Women and Sport
Out There Media
SJC Media
Swash Digital
Terragon
UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency
United Nations
Coca-Cola
Budweiser
Maggi
Nescafé
MTN
Sobeys
SickKids

Selected Work

Outcomes,
not tasks.

Four flagship engagements told as problem, action, outcome, and lesson. Numbers are real and verifiable.

  1. 01Wellness Together CanadaPublic Health Platform
    Product Delivery Manager

    Inherited an 18-month backlog. Built the operating system from scratch.

    ProblemA national mental-health platform with 4M+ registered users, an 18-month delivery backlog, and no working product framework. Stakeholders across government, clinical, and engineering teams were misaligned.

    ActionInstalled a full product operating model: discovery rituals, prioritisation framework, delivery cadence, and a single source of truth. Rebuilt trust between clinical, policy, and engineering before rebuilding the roadmap.

    LessonWhen the system is broken, ship the system before you ship the feature. Predictability is itself a deliverable.

    Public HealthPlatformOperating Model

    Outcome

    • 014M+ registered users supported on a stabilised platform
    • 0218-month backlog cleared and re-sequenced against measurable outcomes
    • 03End-to-end delivery framework adopted across squads
  2. 02Canadian Women & SportField of Play LMS
    Product Manager (Lead)

    Full rebuild of a national LMS. 225%+ surge in programme applications, week one.

    ProblemField of Play, the LMS supporting coaches and programme leaders nationwide, was due for a full rebuild. Adoption depended on getting the launch right the first time.

    ActionLed discovery with coaches and administrators, defined the rebuild scope around the smallest set of high-leverage flows, and shipped on a tight delivery cadence with a cross-functional team.

    LessonA ‘rebuild’ is rarely a tech problem. It's a question of which three flows you protect, ruthlessly.

    LMSReplatformRebuild

    Outcome

    • 01225%+ surge in programme applications in the first week post-launch
    • 02Replatformed LMS adopted by national programme leads
    • 03Foundation for further data-informed iteration
  3. 03Out There MediaMobucks · Mobile Advertising
    Delivery Lead, West & Central Africa

    Launched Mobucks across NG, GH, CI. 120M+ consumers, 14% above the benchmark.

    ProblemA mobile-advertising platform needed to launch into West Africa with telco partners — a market where standard ad infrastructure assumptions don't hold and inclusivity is non-negotiable.

    ActionOwned product launch end-to-end across Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire. Designed delivery flows with carrier constraints in mind and instrumented for honest measurement from day one.

    LessonInclusive product is a performance feature. The constraints of the market made the platform measurably better.

    AdTechEmerging MarketsLaunch

    Outcome

    • 01Reach of 120M+ consumers across three markets
    • 0285% delivery rate on campaigns
    • 0314% higher CTR than Facebook and Google benchmarks
  4. 04Sponge LimitedB2B Customer Engagement
    Product Lead — reporting to CEO

    Built a B2B platform from zero. 60–70% of company revenue, team of 7.

    ProblemA growing services business needed a productised platform — not a project — to scale customer engagement and unlock recurring revenue.

    ActionBuilt the B2B Customer Engagement Platform from scratch. Assembled and led a cross-functional team of 7 reporting directly to the CEO. Owned the product, the commercial framing, and the delivery system.

    LessonProductising a services business is a mindset shift before it's an engineering task. Lead the mindset first.

    B2B SaaS0→1Leadership

    Outcome

    • 0160–70% of total company revenue generated by the platform
    • 02Cross-functional team of 7 assembled and led
    • 03New product line de-risked from idea to repeatable revenue

Skills & Competencies

Built for scanning,
not skimming.

The toolbox behind the operating systems. Grouped so you can find what you need fast.

Product Management

  • Product Vision & Roadmap
  • PRD & Technical Specs
  • Backlog Management
  • Agile / Scrum
  • KPI Definition
  • A/B Testing
  • User Research
  • Go-to-Market Planning

Team Leadership

  • Team Building & Hiring
  • Performance Management
  • Cross-Functional Coordination
  • Player-Coach Delivery
  • Multi-team Remote Leadership

AI & Automation

  • LLM API Integration
  • n8n Workflow Automation
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • AI Use Case Discovery
  • AI Feature Pilot Design

Platform & Web

  • Web Portal Delivery
  • WordPress Development
  • eCommerce Platforms
  • CMS Implementation
  • API Integration

Analytics & Tools

  • Mixpanel
  • GA4
  • Figma
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Salesforce CRM

Domains

  • HealthTech
  • Digital Publishing
  • AdTech
  • Non-Profit Digital Transformation
  • B2B SaaS
  • eCommerce

Recommendations

31 endorsements on LinkedIn,
across eight years.

A selection from colleagues, managers, and direct reports. All quotes verbatim from LinkedIn.

View all 31 on LinkedIn
  • “You want Temitope on your product team. He is knowledgeable, strategic, enthusiastic, collaborative and calm under pressure. When presented with a new product request, he is quick to ask the right questions to get clarity on what's required and determine how to drive the most impact.”

    Amy Gibson

    Director of Product (ex-AOL, HuffPost, Yahoo)

    Worked with Temi directly

    Jan 2024

  • “Temitope was a pleasure to work alongside during our time together at SJC. As a digital product pro, he stood out for his total commitment to advocating for the user. His empathy always shone through.”

    Duncan Clark

    Chief Content Officer, Postmedia

    Managed Temi at SJC

    Feb 2024

  • “Every manager needs a Temitope on their team. Beyond delivering excellently on his key JD, he is the one to ask questions and challenge the status quo (in a good way) that helps you as the leader engage critically and strategically before arriving at a decision.”

    Anu Sanya

    Global Enterprise Transformation, AI

    Senior to Temi

    Mar 2023

  • “Temitope is a dedicated fellow with strong sense of ownership on his responsibilities. He's always displayed the drive to challenge the status quo and improve service delivery to clients.”

    Tunde Adeniran

    Product, Meta

    Worked with Temi directly

    Jun 2016

  • “Working with Temitope has been nothing short of extraordinary. His drive gets the team moving and picks everyone up even in uncertain situations. He was very critical towards the launch and success of the products we worked together on.”

    Lanre Gafar Jolaoso

    Senior Product Manager · IoT, Telecoms & Healthcare

    Worked with Temi on the same team

    Jun 2021

  • “Tope empowers his subordinates, giving them the ability to lead while providing sufficient support and guidance where required. Tope's calm and natural smile works magic on his team and gives the feeling of possibilities even in difficult times on projects.”

    Sam Okolie

    Consumer Marketing & Product Innovation

    Worked with Temi on the same team

    Apr 2021

Source: linkedin.com/in/temitope-benson · 31 recommendations from June 2016 to February 2024.

About

A product mind shaped by two continents.

Temitope Benson smiling, wearing white-framed glasses

I was born and raised in Nigeria, where I learned that the most useful product manager in the room is the one who can build clarity out of constraint. I've since shipped product across West Africa and Canada, from advertising platforms reaching tens of millions of consumers, to public-health systems serving millions of registered users.

Today I'm based in Toronto, where I lead delivery on platforms that real people depend on. My work tends to find me at the messy beginning: a stalled programme, an inherited backlog, a team without a system. I bring the operating model. Then we ship.

Faith, family, and community are the quiet structure under all of it, the reason I show up calm in rooms that aren't.

Based in
Toronto, ON
Heritage
Nigerian
Focus
Delivery systems · Platforms
Currently
Principal, Swash Digital

Philosophy

Not a skills list.
A short manifesto.

  1. i.

    Build the system first.

    Features are downstream of an operating model. I start with how decisions get made, how work flows, and how outcomes are measured — then everything else gets faster.

  2. ii.

    Measure what matters.

    If we can't name the metric that moves, we're not ready to ship. I push hard on the smallest set of numbers that tell the truth, and I trust them in public.

  3. iii.

    Ship with discipline.

    Cadence beats heroics. I install rituals, not chaos — clear scope, honest estimates, visible trade-offs. The team protects the line; the line protects the user.

“Take the ambiguous, high-stakes environment. Create order. Create outcomes.”

AI & Tooling

I build with AI.
Not just talk about it.

These tools compress the distance between a hypothesis and a working artefact. From AI-assisted coding and low-code platforms to design systems that scale. I use them to validate fast, with evidence.

AI & Prototyping

  • AI coding partner

    Claude Code

    Multi-file edits, debugging, and architectural decisions with context-aware understanding.

  • Rapid prototyping

    Replit

    Spinning up live, testable artefacts so stakeholders argue with software, not slides.

  • UI scaffolding

    v0 by Vercel

    Translating product strategy into shippable interfaces in hours — including this site.

  • Contextual development

    Kimi Code

    Document-aware coding that understands multi-file relationships and project structure.

Design & AI

  • Design acceleration

    Figma AI

    Turning wireframes into polished mockups, component systems, and interactive prototypes.

  • Design-to-code

    Relume

    Converting design systems into responsive, semantic HTML + Tailwind — design handoff solved.

Low-Code & No-Code Platforms

  • Content & publishing

    WordPress

    Building content-first sites and rapid publishing platforms with ecosystem maturity.

  • Full-stack visual apps

    Bubble

    Database-backed applications without writing backend code — responsive and scalable.

  • eCommerce platform

    Shopify

    Launching storefronts, monetization, and fulfillment without infrastructure overhead.

  • Site building

    Wix

    Quick, styled, template-driven presence for businesses and creators.

  • WordPress eCommerce

    WooCommerce

    Open-source commerce layer for WordPress — customizable and familiar.

Speaking & Community

Showing up,
on and off the clock.

2020 · Lagos

Social Media Week Lagos

Speaker on inclusivity in mobile advertising — translating the realities of West African telco environments into a more honest playbook for global brands and platforms.

Ongoing · Toronto

New Covenant Assembly

Volunteer technical product work supporting the church's digital tools and operations. Quiet, consistent, the kind of building that doesn't make a press release.

Contact

Let's talk about the system
you're trying to build.

I'm selective about the work, but generous with time for thoughtful conversation. If you're a founder, hiring manager, or operator with a delivery problem worth solving, say hello.

Get in touchDownload résumé (PDF)linkedin.com/in/temitope-benson

Email

hello@temitopebenson.com

LinkedIn

/in/temitope-benson

31 recommendations

Location

Toronto, Canada

Open to remote & hybrid roles