Olusesan Peter

Stripe is building financial infrastructure to increase the GDP of the internet.

• Leading efforts to design product experiences and surfaces that calculate, collect, report and file tax on global payments across the Stripe ecosystem.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, engineers and business leads across Stripe to help over 500,000 businesses be and remain tax-compliant.
• Designing self-serve tools for Stripe merchants to monitor tax thresholds and for subscription migrations based on pay-in volumes and transactions.
• Collaborating with growth and adoption tools to build connector tools with 3rd party e-commerce merchants such as Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce.
• Leading the redesign of the tax dashboard by shifting from tax concepts to a location-first model. This approach helps users make decisions faster, encourages more registrations and filings, and improves overall satisfaction.
• Leading designs for a unified enrollment experience for tax filing, integrating multiple partners (TaxJar, Taxually) and streamlining user workflows for tax registration and filing.

Pleo builds spending solutions and smart company cards that empower thousands of businesses across Europe.

• Leading efforts on product-led onboarding, growth, and retention in the Pleo customer lifecycle, from KYC experiences to pricing, adoption and upselling.
• Led design efforts on integrating Pleo with the UK and EU Open Banking payment rails that allow instant transfers for Pleo’s customers across Europe, which has processed over £110,000,000 to date.
• Simplifying Pleo’s wallet experience by leading design efforts on Direct Debit integrations across Europe to increase conversion and create seamless experiences for customers.
• Directing product management efforts in collaboration with engineering managers on the wallet management team.
• Leading design efforts on Pleo’s credit division to reduce occurrences of declined transactions on Pleo cards and to ship Reserve, Pleo’s flagship credit product.
• Contributing to Pleo’s design system by collaborating with DesignOps on component standards, guidelines, documentation and tooling.

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses in Africa and enabling them to get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world.

• Led integration designs for new payment channels such as Apple Pay and PayPal in Africa, which has enabled Paystack to process over £400,000 on behalf of its customers.
• Collaborated with expansion product directors to drive growth for Paystack in its 3 markets of operation by designing new payment gateways and experiences.
• Coordinated design system efforts to align product design and engineering teams, shipping consistent user interfaces for businesses that use Paystack and the customers that pay them, leading to a 20% increase in engineering efficiency.
• Collaborated with product and engineering teams to conduct user research sessions with Paystack’s customers to understand customer behaviours and design seamless experiences.

Okra is a unified banking API that allows consumers to link their bank accounts to any app and provides their real-time financial data to the companies that need it.

• Led product design efforts on Okra’s Link for consumers, resulting in over a 56% increase in bank accounts linked and a faster link connection time.
• Created better API integration experiences for developers through design efforts on the Okra Dashboard and Developer Documentation.
• Set up a design system for Okra’s dashboard and link to ensure product consistency, familiar experiences and faster development time.
• Conducted user research and worked with data analytics tools to get insight into how end-users, companies and developers use Okra’s products.
• Collaborated with product engineers, designers and product managers to fine-tune the user experience for Okra.

Softcom is a technology company solving problems that connect people and businesses with value across payments, learning, identity, and data. Eyowo provides simple, modern and reliable digital banking services to anyone with a phone number.

• Shaped UX research and product design for Koya, a suite of education products used in 5 universities by over 20,000 students and lecturers, increasing student engagement by 12% in the first semester of launch.
• Designed education and payment products for N-Power, the Nigerian government’s social investment program that recruits, trains, assesses and pays over 500,000 Nigerian citizens.
• Revamped the design of a ticket management system for Nigeria’s Abuja Metro Rail, resulting in over a 30% increase within the first month of implementation.
• Teamed up with UX designers and product managers to conduct focus groups and user interviews for over 6 products.
• Spearheaded the tool transition and organised the project and file system for the Softcom design team from Adobe XD and Sketch to Figma.
• Led a design team for Eyowo across Mobile, Web and USSD, serving over 3 million users.
• Facilitated a pattern library across Eyowo’s products that ensured brand consistency and shortened frontend engineering time by 20%.
• Collaborated with product managers, engineers and stakeholders to develop product roadmaps for Eyowo.
• Directed user research and redesign efforts for Eyowo’s consumer and business banks, resulting in a 47% increase in bank account funding.