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Akhil Pandey

Program Manager @ GoKwik

Bangalore Urban

6+ years of work experience

GoKwik
Nov 20251 yr 1 moPresent

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Leading program for custom, shopify and woocommerce integrations for checkout product at GoKwik. Any brand that goes live - tunnels through my AI automations and funnel. - AI first initiatives - building internal/external AI tools and agents that helps boost the productivity of product, pre-sales and integration teams. - Program managing sales and CSM teams from integration and pipeline building perspective.
Simpl
Apr 20257 mosOct 2025

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Led end-to-end merchant and partner integrations for Simpl (came in for a marathon but RBI had some other plans - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/rbi-cracks-down-on-buy-now-pay-later/articleshow/124202397.cms)
PhonePe
Nov 20231 yr 6 mosApr 2025

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Did PG sales for about 6 months : to learn about market, customer, payments technology and honestly to scratch an itch of sales I had for a long time. (led 25 people team to achieve daily and monthly quota, the speed here is nothing compared in industry, 2 deals per person per day) - Led a team of 20 KAMs and AMs focussing on Total Payment Volume Growth - Managed the onboarding and integration pipeline of high value merchants
LeadSquared
Jan 20221 yr 10 mosOct 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Managed 900+ SMB accounts with a team of 20+ people focussing on NRR growth, upselling and churn reduction
LeadSquared
Jan 20211 yrDec 2021

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Managed 10 Key and 35 SMB accounts, achieving adoption, renewals and revenue goals.
LeadSquared
Jan 20201 yrDec 2020

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Managed a team of 8 SDRs (6 India + 2 APAC)
ClearTax India
Apr 20184 mosJul 2018

Bengaluru Area, India

GST software field sales in Bangalore and Delhi

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology

20154 yrs2019

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Headline

Program Manager @ GoKwik

About

Program Manager and Customer Success Leader with 6+ years in fintech and SAAS. Led integrations at Simpl for enterprises and D2C cutting timelines by 25%. Achieved 120% NRR at LeadSquared; 102% TPV retention at PhonePe.

Location

Bangalore Urban

Work experience

Program Manager - Integrations at GoKwik, Nov 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Leading program for custom, shopify and woocommerce integrations for checkout product at GoKwik. Any brand that goes live - tunnels through my AI automations and funnel. - AI first initiatives - building internal/external AI tools and agents that helps boost the productivity of product, pre-sales and integration teams. - Program managing sales and CSM teams from integration and pipeline building perspective.

Senior Program Manager - Integrations at Simpl, Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Led end-to-end merchant and partner integrations for Simpl (came in for a marathon but RBI had some other plans - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/rbi-cracks-down-on-buy-now-pay-later/articleshow/124202397.cms)

Senior Team Leader - Account Management (Payment Gateway Business) at PhonePe, Nov 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Did PG sales for about 6 months : to learn about market, customer, payments technology and honestly to scratch an itch of sales I had for a long time. (led 25 people team to achieve daily and monthly quota, the speed here is nothing compared in industry, 2 deals per person per day) - Led a team of 20 KAMs and AMs focussing on Total Payment Volume Growth - Managed the onboarding and integration pipeline of high value merchants

Manager - Customer Success at LeadSquared, Jan 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Managed 900+ SMB accounts with a team of 20+ people focussing on NRR growth, upselling and churn reduction

Customer Success Manager IC (Key Accounts) at LeadSquared, Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Managed 10 Key and 35 SMB accounts, achieving adoption, renewals and revenue goals.

Team Lead - Sales Development (ASEAN) at LeadSquared, Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Managed a team of 8 SDRs (6 India + 2 APAC)

Partnerships and Field Sales Intern at ClearTax India, Apr 2018 - Jul 2018 · 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, GST software field sales in Bangalore and Delhi

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

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