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Entry-level candidate beginning a career in tech and design

I am starting my professional journey, learning core skills and seeking opportunities to apply them in real projects.

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A collection of learning projects and practice work that show my developing skills and the areas I am focusing on.

  • BeReal Product Management Externship
    BeReal Product Management Externship
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    BeReal. · ✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

    BeReal Product Management Externship

    Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

    DesignUI/UXProduct Management

About me

I am starting my professional journey, learning core skills and seeking opportunities to apply them in real projects.

I'm Olutayo Yusuf. I am at the start of my career, exploring roles and building skills as I prepare to enter the workforce.

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BeReal Product Management Externship

In progress

Education

Ulster University

M.Sc Interantional Business with Analytics · Class of 2026

Skills

Career starterWilling to learnBuilding foundational skills
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✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress

BeReal Product Management Externship

Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

DesignUI/UXProduct Management

Overview

The externship examined product features and growth mechanisms used by short-form social apps, focusing on benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing a growth-oriented feature. Work combined competitive analysis with feature design artifacts and user-experience critique.

BeReal Product Management Externship

What I've accomplished

I mapped a new-user BeReal journey across four stages, documented associated feelings and behaviors, and proposed an opportunity to address feed monotony by adding limited visual variation.

Project breakdown

The module examined BeReal as a new user, mapped four journey stages, documented feelings and behaviors, and reframed feed monotony into a PM problem with evidence and a proposed opportunity to add limited visual variation.

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