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title: "Shaswat Jena - Director of Product Management in Bhubaneswar | Tal"
description: "Meet Shaswat Jena, Director of Product Management @ Appreciate | Fintech & Platform Infra ⚙️ | 0→1 Product Builder 🚀 | B2B/B2C SaaS based in Bhubaneswar. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and notebooklm."
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# Shaswat Jena on Tal

## Headline

Director of Product Management @ Appreciate \| Fintech & Platform Infra ⚙️ \| 0→1 Product Builder 🚀 \| B2B/B2C SaaS

## About

As Director of Platform Product at Appreciate, I work closely with the founding team to build infrastructure that powers B2C and B2B2C fintech experiences for the Indian market\. My focus lies in designing modular, compliant, and scalable systems across onboarding, remittance, investments, and partner integrations\. Previously, I led product at smallcase Gateway, where I built solutions that simplified capital market access for millions of users and fintech partners\. My product journey spans 0→1 development, platform thinking, and cross\-functional leadership — across domains like payments, monetization, analytics, and compliance\. Over the past 9 years, I’ve contributed to: • Scaling a SaaS OTT platform at Muvi, driving upgrades in billing and analytics • Co\-creating Eye\-D, an award\-winning assistive tech startup that empowered 70,000\+ visually impaired users globally I bring a builder’s mindset, deep fintech context, and a love for solving complex problems with elegant, user\-first solutions\. I’m always open to meaningful conversations about product leadership, infrastructure design, and early\-stage growth\.

## Location

Bhubaneswar

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

notebooklm

opencode

ChatGPT

Figma Make

## Work experience

Director of Product Management at Appreciate, May 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 4 mos, At the intersection of fintech infrastructure and scalable product ecosystems, I lead the Platform Product function, building the foundation on which both our B2B and B2C experiences thrive\.

Senior Product Manager at Appreciate, Aug 2023 \- May 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

Product Manager at smallcase, Mar 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Remote, I worked as a PM for smallcase's B2B BU\(smallcase gateway\) where I optimised their login conversions, built & launched 0\-1 module\(Mutual funds holdings import and Analytics\) to import and analyse Mutual Fund investments and built a loan against securities module from scratch\.

Product Manager at Muvi\.com, Sep 2020 \- Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Remote, Primarily managed the following key areas: 1\. Building, managing and upgrading the monetization modules 2\. Building and upgrading the Billing Engine 3\. Building the next\-gen analytics engine for the SAAS business Also collaborated with the cross\-functional team for crafting and delivering custom features for streaming and non\-streaming businesses\.

Founding Member \- Product, Operations & QA Lead at Eye\-D, Aug 2015 \- Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, Worked on product "Eye\-D" build to boost the lives of visually impaired and improve their quality of life with the help of smartphone app and aesthetic hardware\. 1\. Conduct day\-to\-day project coordination, planning, and implementation across the team 2\. Create functional and technical application documents 3\. Cross country project planning and execution \- Drafting project specification, coordinating product development and piloting AI solutions for visually impaired people with Barcelona City Council, Spain \- Identifying and partnering with organizations for scaling the impact in Nepal and Bangladesh \- Identifying and coordinating region\-specific product customization and feature development 4\. Internal business development \- Onboarding users \- Running campaigns for upselling Apps and features 5\. Raising Grants and handling investor interaction \- Assisted in drafting business plans and pitching for grants \- Interacting with investors like Inventus, Kalaari, IAN, etc\. 6\. Quality Assurance \- Testing of Mobile Apps\(Android and iOS\), web portal and hardware products \- Android App was selected for Google Play awards in 2017 7\. Team Management \- Handled a team comprising of developers, marketing/ BD resource and Operations resource

Trainee Test Engineer at Pole To Win International, Apr 2015 \- Jul 2015 · 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, 1\. Perform Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Ad\-Hoc and Regression testing\. 2\. Writing and executing test plans and checklists\. 3\. Reporting and tracking bugs on database\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Electronics And Communication Engineering, Sambalpur University Institute of Information Technology

\+2 Science, Science, Maharishi College of Natural Law, Bhubaneswar

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