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Product & Business Leader | Fintech (lending, payments, insurance, cards), SaaS, B2C

About

Something that I swear & live by - Leadership is an action, not a position. Product & Business leader with 15 years of experience (12 years in Indian Financial Services + Fintech space in lending - wholesale, education, MSME, merchant cash advance & payments (BNPL, SaaS, Wallet) and 3 years in US Fintech & SaaS landscape). Led roles in Business, Product, PR, Marketing, Growth, Customer Support, User Research, Analytics & Content while building teams from scratch & launched 0-to-1 and 1-to-N product journeys. I like to build things and believe in the power of story-telling and thus have been working at the intersection of product, business and consumer. Passionate about Growth, Partnerships, Distribution, Content, Product and Communication. Equally curious and passionate about accelerating careers, standardizing healthcare, mentoring and life coaching, building teams from scratch, defining work culture, creating inclusive workplaces, spreading awareness on mental health disorders, financial inclusion for the bottom strata globally, empowering women to be financially independent, changing the way people find or choose their life partners, hiking, cycling, sketching, painting, clicking and exploring the world around often in my blue floaters or orange Crocs and staying curious, hungry & foolish all the while! Work Portfolio - https://tinyurl.com/3sx5sc9c Book a 1:1 Call with me on anything spanning my experience (hard and soft skills) and area of interest - https://topmate.io/sangeeta_patel

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

deepmind

hermes agent

midjourney

replit

Work experience

Product & Growth Lead at Siren, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 y 4 mo, Bengaluru, Building smart, simple online safety consumer products, powered by AI and fraud intelligence trust network. Think of an All-in-one protection product from identity theft, scams, and online threats for the whole family.

Tinkering around hard problems (Product, Growth and GTM) at Freelance, Sep 2024 - Apr 2025 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I took a short pause voluntarily to recharge myself and tinkered around on many aspects of life. 1. Super high on hitting lifetime highs on most of the essential body vitals :). 2. Spent a lot of time in family caregiving. 3. Tried my hands on freelancing in Product, Growth and GTM - met many interesting founders, operators, product, marketing, content, designers and youngsters on the way. 4. Started working on some of my passion projects born out of personal pain - on how ambitious, urban Indians find and choose life partners (Ideated and co-created an intentional dating platform, Meant2bae.com) - on how we can build a Google Search for talent - on making personal finance fun, engaging and outcome oriented - on fixing gaps in healthcare processes, mental health management 5. Read few good books, that will stay with me forever (unlike hoomans, :P) 6. Mentored few folks on career trajectories, or in general on navigating Product or Marketing roles. 7. Mentored and worked hands-on with few startups / founders in advisory role. 8. Created a Curious Collective club (in loving memory of late Sushant Singh Rajput) to bring together people who are endlessly curious and want to turn their curiosity into real-world impact. Here's how you can be part of it - https://tally.so/r/w2gBKp 9. And yes, I learnt four wheeler driving in Bangalore and I love driving (feels like a video game here) when everyone complains about it (beginners luck🍀 with me, maybe). Always excited for collaboration or opportunities in any form on solving hard problems for India. Book a 1:1 call on Topmate - https://topmate.io/sangeeta_patel Work Portfolio - https://tinyurl.com/3sx5sc9c

Senior Director, Product (Led Product, Design, Partnerships, Customer Success, PR & Marketing) at Beem, Apr 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Beem is an AI First Fintech Platform that accurately risk ranks over 100M who form the bottom 80% of the US working population, without using FICO. Beem uses this to facilitate payments, distribution of goods and services, at risk adjusted prices and at relevant inflection points in their personal financial journey while continuing to capture more of the $10 trillion in annual spending power they have. Beem App that runs on the platform is available on iOS and Android App Stores. With Beem App, you can get : 💰 Interest-Free Instant Cash 💸 Free Money Transfers 📝 Tax Filing at $9.99 ⚠️ Avoid Fees With AI Product Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkT0g7pzkDY

Head of Product, Dhani One Freedom (Buy Now, Pay Later) & App at Dhani, Sep 2021 - Apr 2022 · 8 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Led the credit products at Dhani. Dhani is amongst the largest Fintech and Healthcare technology business in India offering Buy Now & Pay Later products for consumers along with access to healthcare and medicine delivery across the country. Dhani is a publicly listed company in India. Dhani One Freedom was a subscription based buy now pay later wallet cum credit product, with about 3 million active users from Tier-2,3 cities in India.

Career Coach & Angel Investor - Career Transitions Platform at Board Infinity, Jan 2018 - Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Accelerating careers since 2018. Passionate about helping fresh graduates steer their career in the right direction.

Education

PGP, Finance, General, Marketing, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engg, National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Public links

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@joinsiren