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title: "Akhilesh Chobey - Associate Vice President - Product Manager in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Akhilesh Chobey, Product Manager @ Kotak Neo | FinTech | Trading & Investing | Ex-JM Financial, Barclays, PwC | SPJIMR MBA (Dean’s Merit List) based in Mumbai. AI stack includes antigravity and codex."
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# Akhilesh Chobey on Tal

## 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

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