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Akeshwar Jha

Director Product @ Paytm | IIM Lucknow | IIT Guwahati

Pune City

9+ years of work experience

Paytm
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

Credit risk & AML
Paytm
Jun 20231 yr 10 mosMar 2025

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Credit risk, AML, Case Management, Fraud-risk
Pine Labs
Jul 20221 yrJun 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led the merchant onboarding platform charter at Pine.
Jio Platforms Limited (JPL)
Apr 20202 yrs 4 mosJul 2022

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Led the products at MyJio Search, Jio UPI, Jio Payments Bank, and JioPay.
Make My Trip
Apr 20192 mosMay 2019

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Product Ideation and Roadmap: ▪ Ideated the feature to connect travellers & locals to achieve 2X increase in customer engagement and social quotient ▪ Researched 70+ travel startups and apps to identify emerging trends, recommended features to higher management ▪ Developed the social engagement model and designed rewards & incentives ecosystem for user-personas ▪ Proposed end-to-end flows, user journey, success metrics, and authored the product requirement document Minimum Viable Product: ▪ Devised the Minimum Viable Product, implemented the proof of concept on carefully targeted 6000+ users ▪ Interacted with 50+ users to assess product-fitment, estimate market size & devise consumer behaviour insights
Zemoso Technologies
Jan 20186 mosJun 2018

Greater Hyderabad Area

- Initiated redesigning application architecture with the potential to cut down maintenance costs by about 40% in the long run. - Created the Auditing and Reporting feature for a drone traffic management application for a fortune 100 company in the US.
Zemoso Technologies
Jul 20161 yr 6 mosDec 2017

Greater Hyderabad Area

- Developed a homework-help app for a US-based multi-billion dollar educational firm, and assisted the firm with generating a new revenue stream. - Created parts of the backend infrastructure (authentication layer, webservices, SSO) for a drone-traffic management application.
Zemoso Technologies
Jun 20151 yr 1 moJun 2016

Greater Hyderabad Area

- Developed an algorithm to automate essay-grading for a top college admission services company in the US. - Leveraged text-analytics and machine learning and achieved 71% accuracy on grading 2000 essays - Developed a proctoring app for a top US-based firm in the Education sector.

Akeshwar’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, General

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

20182 yrs2020
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Biotechnology

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

20114 yrs2015

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Headline

Director Product @ Paytm | IIM Lucknow | IIT Guwahati

About

Building fintech products.

Location

Pune City

AI stack

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Work experience

Director Product at Paytm, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Credit risk & AML

Senior Product Manager at Paytm, Jun 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Credit risk, AML, Case Management, Fraud-risk

Product manager - II at Pine Labs, Jul 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the merchant onboarding platform charter at Pine.

Product Manager at Jio Platforms Limited (JPL), Apr 2020 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Led the products at MyJio Search, Jio UPI, Jio Payments Bank, and JioPay.

Product Management Intern at Make My Trip, Apr 2019 - May 2019 · 2 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Product Ideation and Roadmap: ▪ Ideated the feature to connect travellers & locals to achieve 2X increase in customer engagement and social quotient ▪ Researched 70+ travel startups and apps to identify emerging trends, recommended features to higher management ▪ Developed the social engagement model and designed rewards & incentives ecosystem for user-personas ▪ Proposed end-to-end flows, user journey, success metrics, and authored the product requirement document Minimum Viable Product: ▪ Devised the Minimum Viable Product, implemented the proof of concept on carefully targeted 6000+ users ▪ Interacted with 50+ users to assess product-fitment, estimate market size & devise consumer behaviour insights

Principal Software Engineer at Zemoso Technologies, Jan 2018 - Jun 2018 · 6 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, - Initiated redesigning application architecture with the potential to cut down maintenance costs by about 40% in the long run. - Created the Auditing and Reporting feature for a drone traffic management application for a fortune 100 company in the US.

Senior Software Engineer at Zemoso Technologies, Jul 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, - Developed a homework-help app for a US-based multi-billion dollar educational firm, and assisted the firm with generating a new revenue stream. - Created parts of the backend infrastructure (authentication layer, webservices, SSO) for a drone-traffic management application.

Software Engineer at Zemoso Technologies, Jun 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Hyderabad Area, - Developed an algorithm to automate essay-grading for a top college admission services company in the US. - Leveraged text-analytics and machine learning and achieved 71% accuracy on grading 2000 essays - Developed a proctoring app for a top US-based firm in the Education sector.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, General, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati