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title: "Sai Chand Gandivalasa - Senior Product Manager in Hyderabad | Tal"
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# Sai Chand Gandivalasa on Tal

## Headline

Product \| Business \| Growth

## About

As a Founder , I've had the opportunity to build our product from 'ZERO to ONE' \. I am actively taking multiple roles in product management, marketing, technical sales, engineering and business strategy @WitCurve\. My personal and professional experiences have taught me the following : \- It takes tremendous amount of consistent efforts, good idea and a great team to build a product \- Design and development are as essential to build a product as sales & marketing is to grow business \- Relying on gut instinct is good but always seek data for informed decisions \- Speaking both tech and business \- Constant learning and continuous process improvement Apart from building businesses , I love meeting people and hearing new perspectives \. Reach out if you want to talk about emerging tech, new ideas, creating products or anime\. Professional Skills: Product Management \| User experience\(UX\) design \| Product Analytics \| Team Building \| Marketing & Pricing analysis \| Budgeting & Forecasting \| Financial Management \| Financial Markets \| Strategic Planning \| SaaS \| Business Development \| UPI QR \| Payments \| Fintech \| POS \| QR \| Banking \| Merchant Acquiring \| UPI \| BBPS \| AePS \| Merchant Banking \| SME

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

codex

elevenlabs

gemini

## Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Oportun, Feb 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Hybrid

Product Lead \- Digital Payments at AU SMALL FINANCE BANK, Jun 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 9 mos, On\-site, \-Lead the development and implementation of innovative digital payment solutions, specializing in Unified Payments Interface \(UPI\), BBPS, FasTag, Fund Transfer , UPI QR, Point of Sale \(POS\), and Payment Gateway technologies\. Responsible for driving product strategy, requirements gathering, and ensuring timely delivery of cutting\-edge payment products\. \- Successfully launched a merchant app that revolutionized the way businesses engage with banking services \-Played a pivotal role in driving cross\-functional collaboration and achieving on\-time delivery of critical payment products

Product Head \- Merchant Acquiring at AU SMALL FINANCE BANK, Jul 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 1 yr, On\-site, \- Driving digital initiatives/partnerships \(OCEN, payment aggregators, digital lending, govt\. projects, TASC\) for the bank and building merchant solutions through API banking\. \- Leading cross functional teams of engineers, designers, data science, operations, compliance , risk and governance to build scalable merchant platform and technology that fosters merchant needs to drive businesses\.

Product and Communication : Merchant Acquiring at AU SMALL FINANCE BANK, Jul 2021 \- Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, \-Transformed traditional onboarding journeys/processes into E2E paperless digital workflows with API validations ensuring STP & minimal human intervention\. \- Launched QR soundbox, dynamic QR , DLOD/ daily EMI term loan, accounting & other value added solutions catering both banking & business needs under one platform\.

Founder & Product head at WitCurve, Apr 2018 \- May 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, WitCurve is an adaptive school management solution catering services to educational institutions\(K\-12\) in a B2B SaaS model offering data driven insightful analytics\. Product Head \-Defined product positioning, roadmaps & strategy after performing competition analysis and conducting user interviews \-Conceptualized and launched mobile & web applications connecting teachers , parents and administrators \-Prepared product specifications with use cases, user stories and wireframes prioritizing features based on business impact and resource availability \-Managed cross functional teams across Design , Engineering , QA & Business Development \-Analyzed key metrics and trends to access/improve functionality & user engagement Business Growth \- Responsible for product demonstration and negotiation with clients \- Conceptualized and implemented multiple pricing models\. \- Built professional relationships with enterprises and industry experts \- Negotiated and integrated with multiple 3rd party service providers accommodating client requirements \- Responsible for financial planning & stakeholder management \- Implemented WitCurve in pilot production with multiple clients and streamlined staff training exercise

Manager Financial Planning and Analysis at Sitel, Jun 2016 \- Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Mumbai Area, India, \-Prepared functional budgets for three consecutive financial years for designated functions \-Forecasted and tracked end to end expenses to align with the planned budget \-Functionally supported business verticals with flash, early look & other management reporting \-Closely worked with leadership/CXO's with their budgets & spends to achieve company targets

Founder at Reeder\.in, Jul 2015 \- Jun 2016 · 1 yr, IIT Kharagpur, Reeder\.in is the hyper\-local market place for used books in academic Institutions \. Reeder team comprises of voracious readers who empathize with problems faced by modern reader community \. We target a niche market of elite people who fall in love with author while reading and those who can see a next generation film running in their mind while reading a novel\. www\.reeder\.in 1\) Designed and Developed a self\-sustainable business model which rectified traditional Barter system\. 2\) Founded a team of highly motivated individuals and guided them at every step in making our idea into Reality \. 3\) Negotiated with vendors inorder to create constant supply to meet our demand \. 4\) Ideated sales and marketing to publicize reeder\.in among student community of IIT KGP\.

## Education

Integrated Master of Science \(MSc\), Geology/Earth Science, General, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Intern Mediate, Mathematics Physics and Chemistry, narayana junior college

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