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description: "Meet Akhil Pandey, Program Manager @ GoKwik based in Bangalore Urban."
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# Akhil Pandey on Tal

## 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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