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Akhilesh Chobey

Product Manager @ Kotak Neo | FinTech | Trading & Investing | Ex-JM Financial, Barclays, PwC | SPJIMR MBA (Dean’s Merit List)

Mumbai

4+ years of work experience

Kotak Neo
Jul 20251 yr 2 mosPresent

Mumbai

• Leading the core broking division for the Kotak Neo | Scaling trader-centric features across portfolio, order journey, watchlists • Spearheading global investing for Indian retail users • Improved M-o-M activation by 10% through Day 0 order | Leading global stoploss, T+0 settlement development
JM Financial Ltd
May 20241 yr 3 mosJul 2025

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Collaborated with design and development team to conceptualise and develop B2B, B2C fintech products from 0 to 1 • Revamped 35,000 MAU trading app | Analysed user behaviour on MixPanel and facilitated migration of clients • Designed and integrated features across modules – Consolidated Portfolio, Watchlists, Order Panel and MTF • Facilitated API integration and by coordinating with Backoffice teams | Reduced vendor dependency • Delivered 2 features scaling firm's MTF Loan book by 3x | Enhanced risk management productivity by 5x • Simulated customer LTV for different segments and revenue streams | Conceived strategies to enhance ARPU • Developed user flows, collaborated on Figma screens, and drafted backend, API logic for the Technology team
JM Financial Ltd
Sep 20232 mosOct 2023

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Revamped 3 features and user-journey enhancing the user interface (UI) for blinkX Edge app • Ideated IPO advisory feature | Conducted competitive benchmarking & designed 5 wireframes • Spearheaded beta & production release on Playstore | Liased with cross-functional team of 10 • Developed testing framework for design & tech team | Completed end-to-end API testing in < 5 days
ZuPay
May 20228 mosDec 2022

Remote

• Spearheaded the development of a platform for learning finance and money-management; • Educated over 150+ teenagers across 20+ locations in India within 3 months of launching • Led a team of 4 business development interns; conducted 2000+ calls to gain user-insights • Designed and created 4 gamified courses by directing a team of 5; achieved course rating of 4.8/5 • Achieved 50% increase in total monthly class enrollment by implementing on-call registration feature • Increased class attendance by 20% with the execution of call-reminder strategy
Unboxed Mindz
Apr 20211 yr 1 moApr 2022

Thane, Maharashtra, India

• Bootstrapped educational venture; designed 2 comprehensive financial literacy courses for teens • Led a team of 3 interns content creation and social-media marketing; increased reach by 377% • Implemented ed-tech models and customer-acquisition strategies to increase sales by 36% • Educated over 100 students across 10 cities in India and the Middle-East through virtual methods • Taught over 200 students through online and offline channels by partnering with a coaching institute • Received course rating of 4.5/5 by utilizing customer feedback to improve educational content • Video content received over 100,000+ views; increased social media following by 20% M-o-M

Akhilesh’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
codex
codex

Education

SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

PGDM (MBA equivalent), Information Management

SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

20222 yrs2024
KEDGE Business School

Masters in Management - Semester Exchange, Business Administration and Management, General

KEDGE Business School

20242024

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Headline

Product Manager @ Kotak Neo | FinTech | Trading & Investing | Ex-JM Financial, Barclays, PwC | SPJIMR MBA (Dean’s Merit List)

About

Product Manager with experience building digital investing and trading products used by retail investors. At Kotak Neo (Kotak Securities), I lead initiatives across onboarding, order management, investing journeys and trading experiences, partnering with engineering, design, compliance and business teams to deliver customer-centric products. My work spans: • Trading Platforms • Investing Journeys • Customer Growth • Product Strategy • Product Analytics • Experimentation • PRDs • Stakeholder Management I enjoy solving complex customer problems using data, experimentation and simple user experiences. Passionate about building products that create measurable business impact.

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

antigravity

codex

Work experience

Associate Vice President - Product Manager at Kotak Neo, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Mumbai, • Leading the core broking division for the Kotak Neo | Scaling trader-centric features across portfolio, order journey, watchlists • Spearheading global investing for Indian retail users • Improved M-o-M activation by 10% through Day 0 order | Leading global stoploss, T+0 settlement development

Product Manager at JM Financial Ltd, May 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Collaborated with design and development team to conceptualise and develop B2B, B2C fintech products from 0 to 1 • Revamped 35,000 MAU trading app | Analysed user behaviour on MixPanel and facilitated migration of clients • Designed and integrated features across modules – Consolidated Portfolio, Watchlists, Order Panel and MTF • Facilitated API integration and by coordinating with Backoffice teams | Reduced vendor dependency • Delivered 2 features scaling firm's MTF Loan book by 3x | Enhanced risk management productivity by 5x • Simulated customer LTV for different segments and revenue streams | Conceived strategies to enhance ARPU • Developed user flows, collaborated on Figma screens, and drafted backend, API logic for the Technology team

Product Manager @ blinkX at JM Financial Ltd, Sep 2023 - Oct 2023 · 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Revamped 3 features and user-journey enhancing the user interface (UI) for blinkX Edge app • Ideated IPO advisory feature | Conducted competitive benchmarking & designed 5 wireframes • Spearheaded beta & production release on Playstore | Liased with cross-functional team of 10 • Developed testing framework for design & tech team | Completed end-to-end API testing in < 5 days

Product Development at ZuPay, May 2022 - Dec 2022 · 8 mos, Remote, • Spearheaded the development of a platform for learning finance and money-management; • Educated over 150+ teenagers across 20+ locations in India within 3 months of launching • Led a team of 4 business development interns; conducted 2000+ calls to gain user-insights • Designed and created 4 gamified courses by directing a team of 5; achieved course rating of 4.8/5 • Achieved 50% increase in total monthly class enrollment by implementing on-call registration feature • Increased class attendance by 20% with the execution of call-reminder strategy

Founder at Unboxed Mindz, Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Thane, Maharashtra, India, • Bootstrapped educational venture; designed 2 comprehensive financial literacy courses for teens • Led a team of 3 interns content creation and social-media marketing; increased reach by 377% • Implemented ed-tech models and customer-acquisition strategies to increase sales by 36% • Educated over 100 students across 10 cities in India and the Middle-East through virtual methods • Taught over 200 students through online and offline channels by partnering with a coaching institute • Received course rating of 4.5/5 by utilizing customer feedback to improve educational content • Video content received over 100,000+ views; increased social media following by 20% M-o-M

Education

PGDM (MBA equivalent), Information Management, SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research

Masters in Management - Semester Exchange, Business Administration and Management, General, KEDGE Business School