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Spandan Sardar

Digital Product Manager – MSME Payments & Collections | 500K+ MSME Accounts, ₹74,000 Cr+ TPV | Merchant Platforms, UPI/QR, Payment Journeys, API Integrations | XLRI

Mumbai

5+ years of work experience

IDFC FIRST Bank
Mar 20266 mosPresent

On-site

IDFC FIRST Bank
Jan 20251 yr 3 mosMar 2026

On-site

IDFC FIRST Bank
Jul 20231 yr 7 mosJan 2025

Mumbai

Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Apr 20223 mosJun 2022

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Reverie Language Technologies
Dec 20211 moDec 2021

Godrej Waterside
Nov 20207 mosMay 2021

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

SystemOnSilicon
Jan 20171 yr 6 mosJun 2018

India

Spandan’s AI Stack

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Education

XLRI Delhi-NCR

MBA (PGDBM), Marketing & Strategy

XLRI Delhi-NCR

20212 yrs2023

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

institute of engineering and management

20164 yrs2020

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Headline

Digital Product Manager – MSME Payments & Collections | 500K+ MSME Accounts, ₹74,000 Cr+ TPV | Merchant Platforms, UPI/QR, Payment Journeys, API Integrations | XLRI

About

I’m a Digital Product Manager in fintech focused on MSME payments, merchant platforms, and credit journeys within digital banking. I currently own product strategy for 2 cross‑functional squads (payments; merchant onboarding & collections) at IDFC FIRST Bank, scaling MSME payment infrastructure to 500K+ business accounts and ₹74,000 Cr+ in monthly TPV. My work sits at the intersection of payments, CASA growth, and float monetization. I build products that deepen primary banking relationships for MSMEs: UPI/QR and merchant collections, bulk payouts, merchant lifecycle platforms, and working‑capital credit journeys. Highlights include launching an industry‑first Bulk Pay on app feature (batch NEFT/RTGS) and designing an automated FD Sweep engine. I’ve also scaled digital collections via MyQR to 2,000+ daily active merchants and led GST/ICEGATE/Income Tax/EPFO integrations, driving a 140% increase in GST payment market share through straight‑through digital journeys. I work end‑to‑end: discovery (merchant interviews, funnel analysis, experiments), strategy and OKRs, roadmap and prioritization, UX and API design, and go‑to‑market with sales and operations. Tools I rely on include CleverTap, Power BI/Tableau, Figma, and Jira, combined with Agile squad leadership and close alignment across business, risk, compliance, and engineering.

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

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Work experience

Digital Product Manager - MSME Payments & MSME Merchants at IDFC FIRST Bank, Mar 2026 - Present · 6 mos, On-site

Digital Product Manager - MSME Core & MSME Payments at IDFC FIRST Bank, Jan 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos, On-site

Digital Product Manager - MSME Core at IDFC FIRST Bank, Jul 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Mumbai

Summer Intern - Product Management at Intellect Design Arena Ltd, Apr 2022 - Jun 2022 · 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Live Project at Reverie Language Technologies, Dec 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 mo

Engineer at Godrej Waterside, Nov 2020 - May 2021 · 7 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Internet of Things Engineer at SystemOnSilicon, Jan 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, India

Education

MBA (PGDBM), Marketing & Strategy, XLRI Delhi-NCR

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, institute of engineering and management

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