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Ekta Zope

Senior Product Owner | Product Manager | Payments | FinTech | B2B SaaS | Product Strategy | Roadmap | APIs | Agile | Scrum | CSPO

Pune District

6+ years of work experience

Xplor Technologies
Jun 20242 yrs 3 mosPresent

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Own product strategy and backlog for Xplor's B2B payments platform, delivering capabilities that improve payment operations, merchant workflows, and customer experience. Owned backlog of 80+ user stories across payment workflows while balancing customer value, business priorities, and engineering capacity. Convert complex payment workflows into scalable product requirements, enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality releases with minimal clarificat Partner with Engineering, QA, Design, Customer Success, and Business teams to resolve dependencies, prioritize initiatives, and accelerate product delivery. Prioritized quarterly roadmap using customer feedback, analytics, technical dependencies, and business goals. Core domains: Payments · SaaS · B2B · Agile/Scrum
SOULVERSE
Aug 202311 mosJun 2024

Defined product vision, roadmap, and success metrics for a decentralized identity platform, aligning product strategy with customer needs and business objectives. Delivered the MVP three weeks ahead of schedule by prioritizing high-impact features, reducing scope without compromising user value, and driving efficient sprint execution. Authored PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria that enabled engineering teams to build with clarity and reduced requirement ambiguity. Led product discovery through stakeholder interviews, market research, competitive analysis, and opportunity assessment to validate product-market fit.
AyanWorks
Jul 20212 yrsJun 2023

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Partnered with business stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business needs into product requirements, laying the foundation for scalable SaaS solutions. Gathered and prioritized business requirements, created BRDs, FRDs, workflows, and use cases that accelerated product development and reduced implementation ambiguity. Conducted gap analysis, stakeholder interviews, and workflow mapping using Visio and MIRO to align teams on scope before development began. Actively participated in backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives while collaborating with Product Owners and Scrum teams to improve delivery efficiency. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure business goals were reflected in technical solutions - and that trade-offs were visible to decision-makers. Core domains: Requirements Engineering · Agile · Documentation · SaaS
Define labs
Oct 20208 mosMay 2021

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Ziff Davis B2B
Aug 20181 yr 3 mosOct 2019

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Ekta’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
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claude code
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gemini
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grok
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kimi
kimi

Education

Engineer's degree, Information Technology

Kavikulguru institute of technology and science

20134 yrs2017
St. Joseph's convent high School

10th

St. Joseph's convent high School

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Headline

Senior Product Owner | Product Manager | Payments | FinTech | B2B SaaS | Product Strategy | Roadmap | APIs | Agile | Scrum | CSPO

About

I am a Product Owner with 7+ years of experience building B2B and B2C SaaS products across Payments, FinTech, and Web3. I specialize in translating complex business problems into scalable product solutions by combining customer discovery, product strategy, roadmap planning, and Agile delivery. At Xplor Technologies, I own product initiatives for payment platforms, partnering closely with engineering, design, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver features that improve customer experience while balancing technical constraints and business priorities. Previously at Soulverse, I led the end-to-end product development of a decentralized identity platform—from product discovery and roadmap definition to MVP launch—delivering the first release three weeks ahead of schedule through focused prioritization and cross-functional collaboration. My expertise includes: • Product Strategy & Roadmapping • Product Discovery & Customer Research • Backlog Prioritization & Sprint Planning • User Stories, PRDs & Acceptance Criteria • Payment Products & APIs • Agile Scrum • Stakeholder Management • Cross-functional Leadership I'm passionate about building products that solve real customer problems while delivering measurable business outcomes. Tools: JIRA · Azure DevOps · Asana · Figma · Miro · Productboard · Visio · Confluence | Domains: Payments · Fintech · Web3 · SaaS · B2B · B2C

Location

Pune District

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

cursor

gemini

grok

kimi

Work experience

Product Owner at Xplor Technologies, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Own product strategy and backlog for Xplor's B2B payments platform, delivering capabilities that improve payment operations, merchant workflows, and customer experience. Owned backlog of 80+ user stories across payment workflows while balancing customer value, business priorities, and engineering capacity. Convert complex payment workflows into scalable product requirements, enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality releases with minimal clarificat Partner with Engineering, QA, Design, Customer Success, and Business teams to resolve dependencies, prioritize initiatives, and accelerate product delivery. Prioritized quarterly roadmap using customer feedback, analytics, technical dependencies, and business goals. Core domains: Payments · SaaS · B2B · Agile/Scrum

Product Manager at SOULVERSE, Aug 2023 - Jun 2024 · 11 mos, Defined product vision, roadmap, and success metrics for a decentralized identity platform, aligning product strategy with customer needs and business objectives. Delivered the MVP three weeks ahead of schedule by prioritizing high-impact features, reducing scope without compromising user value, and driving efficient sprint execution. Authored PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria that enabled engineering teams to build with clarity and reduced requirement ambiguity. Led product discovery through stakeholder interviews, market research, competitive analysis, and opportunity assessment to validate product-market fit.

Business Analyst at AyanWorks, Jul 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Partnered with business stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business needs into product requirements, laying the foundation for scalable SaaS solutions. Gathered and prioritized business requirements, created BRDs, FRDs, workflows, and use cases that accelerated product development and reduced implementation ambiguity. Conducted gap analysis, stakeholder interviews, and workflow mapping using Visio and MIRO to align teams on scope before development began. Actively participated in backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives while collaborating with Product Owners and Scrum teams to improve delivery efficiency. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure business goals were reflected in technical solutions - and that trade-offs were visible to decision-makers. Core domains: Requirements Engineering · Agile · Documentation · SaaS

Business Analyst at Define labs, Oct 2020 - May 2021 · 8 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Research cum Business Analyst at Ziff Davis B2B, Aug 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Education

Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Kavikulguru institute of technology and science

10th, St. Joseph's convent high School