Segun Adeyemi

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Founder & CEO, Saffron Foods - consumer fintech · growth · lending

Saffron Foods
Lagos, Nigeria · WAT (UTC+1)
10+ years experience
Ashesi University
English, Yoruba
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Saffron Foods, working on consumer finance. Grew the team to 56 people across 2 countries. Before that: Safaricom and Google. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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growthcomplianceconsumer fintechlending
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Saffron Foods is hiring 2 product designers in Lagos

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$157k-$189k
Team
Founding team, 12 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $140k-$283k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Lagos, Nigeria · remote OKgrowthcomplianceconsumer fintech
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Saffron Foods · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Took Saffron Foods from zero to $8 million ARR.
    • Grew the team to 49 people across 3 countries.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
    Safaricom · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Ran 96 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
    Google · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Took lending activation from 24% to 54% in three quarters.
    • Launched the lending product in 13 markets.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
    Interswitch · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Backed 49 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  5. Principal Product Manager
    May 2016 - Sep 2017
    Vodacom · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lagos, Nigeria
    • Sit on 4 boards.

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Education

  1. Ashesi University
    BSc, Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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