Headline

Delivering Product Outcome | FinTech - Travel - Payments | Enterprise B2B SaaS | Platform Modernisation | Regulated Environments | Greenfield 0-to-1 Products

About

I work as a Senior Product Manager with end-to-end experience from client solutioning through product ownership, partnering with enterprise clients across the US, UK, Australia, and Germany in FinTech, Payments, and B2B SaaS. Have led multiple 0-to-1 products and platform modernisation initiatives in regulated, compliance-heavy environments, where getting problem definition right before scope is touched is the job. The part of the work I focus on most is whether the right problem is being solved, not just whether the solution gets delivered. A recurring part of my role is deciding what not to build, making deliberate scope exclusions to balance speed, compliance, and long-term platform integrity. Most of my work sits in regulated, workflow-heavy environments where compliance constraints, scope trade-offs, and delivery risk need to be owned as one problem, from first scope decision through delivery to post-launch. I use real-world data, helpdesk signals, and release feedback to validate MVP hypotheses, revisit prioritisation assumptions, and decide when to iterate, scale, or change direction. Have piloted AI-assisted workflows across the product lifecycle, from problem framing through to delivery, measuring impact and defining guardrails before scaling usage across teams. Getting the problem definition right is the most consequential part of any engagement. Regulated, platform-heavy product work across presales and delivery has only made that clearer.

Location

Pune City

AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

kiro

lovable

notebooklm

notion

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Product Consultant at Technogise Private Limited, May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos, Pune, Work as a Product Consultant embedded in client engagements, operating as product owner and delivery lead across regulated, workflow-heavy B2B SaaS platforms in FinTech, Healthcare, and Immigration domains. Own the full product lifecycle from discovery and MVP definition through roadmap sequencing, release planning, product launch, and post-launch iteration. Own product direction from problem definition through go-live, making scope, sequencing, and release decisions where delivery constraints, compliance requirements, and stakeholder alignment are all in play at once. Start every engagement with structured product discovery, validating whether the stated ask reflects the actual business need, and use real-world data from helpdesk, analytics, and user signals to rebuild roadmaps when evidence contradicts inherited assumptions. Piloted AI-assisted workflows across the full product lifecycle, measured impact, and reduced handoff time between discovery and development without increasing defect leakage. Served as escalation owner on scope conflicts, priority disagreements, and release risk, resolving Agile delivery trade-offs at engagement level. Define product strategy and KPIs at the start of each engagement, tracking metrics post-launch to measure release effectiveness and inform iterate, pause, or scale decisions. Led client workshops, solution walkthroughs, and executive reviews, directly contributing to adoption decisions and engagement expansions.

Lead Product Owner at Infostretch, Jan 2011 - May 2020 · 9 yrs 5 mos, Greater Ahmedabad Area, Joined as a Business Analyst and progressed to Lead Product Owner over 9 years across multiple long-running enterprise engagements in EdTech, FinTech, Healthcare, and custom ERP domains. Worked embedded within cross-functional Agile delivery teams before taking on full product ownership including MVP definition, release planning, and go-to-market readiness, while also leading pre-sales for 3+ years. Started in discovery and requirements, conducting stakeholder interviews, translating business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and creating wireframes to validate solutions before development, while also influencing scope and sequencing decisions based on delivery constraints and downstream impact. Progressed to owning product direction across multiple parallel workstreams with cross-functional teams of up to 40 across engineering, UX, QA, and third-party vendors, managing roadmap prioritisation and Scrum delivery across integration-heavy, workflow-driven systems where changes in one area affected multiple teams and downstream dependencies. Owned pre-sales for 3+ years, building proposals, responding to RFPs, creating reusable solutioning assets, and running client demos that directly contributed to new client wins and engagement expansions. Managed multi-stakeholder environments across client, vendor, compliance, and technical teams with conflicting priorities, delivering through to go-live across domains with different regulatory and integration constraints. Delivered against hard external deadlines across multiple engagements, managing scope complexity, risk management, and cross-functional dependencies without slipping timelines. Mentored Product Owners and Business Analysts, strengthening backlog quality, requirements discipline, and delivery maturity within teams.

Education

Master's Degree, Finance, Sardar Patel University

Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Dharmsinh Desai University

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@animesh88