Overview
Pair Me stemmed from the need to solve one of the main issues affecting academic performance of students in Nigeria today which is accommodation. Most educational institutions in Nigeria today provide very limited accommodation for their students , and the students are left to ‘find a way’ around that themselves. The hostels provided by these institutions are pricey, already serving as a filter for the students; favouring those who can afford these hostels, and leaving the rest hanging. Pair Me is a website built to solve the problem of inconvenience and stress of finding an ideal roommate, the exorbitant costs of both on campus and off campus hostels, and the lack of available hostel accommodation in various Nigerian institutions.
My Role
At Pair Me, I worked as a product manager intern, and with the product owner led a cross-functional team of designers, and engineers to build the website for Pair me.
In developing this product, I;
- Led the product team and we carried out a market and user research to validate the product idea and market need.
- Facilitated easy onboarding of users by crafting two different sign up flows for two types of users; users who need a roommate, and those in search of an accommodation.
- Retained focus and attention of the team on the user by crafting user personas and user stories based off of user research conducted, and this helped the team remain solely focused on the users, ensuring that we were still aligned with proffering the right solution to the problem, rather than trying to adjust the problem to fit the solution.
- Devised a way to generate revenue for the business by implementing a payment plan that enabled the business get 5% off every successful transaction on the platform.
- Measured product success by defining a compelling North Star Metric alongside a comprehensive set of user-oriented metrics. This underscored my capacity to align cross-functional teams, measure progress, and steer product development in a direction that resonates with user needs and business objectives.
