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title: "Akeshwar Jha - Director Product in Pune City | Tal"
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# Akeshwar Jha on Tal

## Headline

Director Product @ Paytm \| IIM Lucknow \| IIT Guwahati

## About

Building fintech products\.

## Location

Pune City

## AI stack

cursor

claudecode

## 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

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