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AKASH AGGARWAL

Mumbai

Summary

Product Owner with a strong foundation in building scalable, API-driven platforms and optimizing backend workflows in finance and tech domains. Adept at translating complex user and business needs into technical requirements, collaborating closely with engineering, DevOps, and QA teams to deliver robust, high-quality solutions. Proven ability to drive cross-functional execution, align with agile best practices, and prioritize features that deliver measurable customer value.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Owner

Morningstar
08.2022 - Current
  • Led the development and launch of wealth management tools designed for financial advisors and clients, boosting advisor productivity by 60% & increasing client satisfaction scores by 75% helping advisors serve clients faster & effectively.
  • Owned end-to-end product execution, from ideation to delivery, working closely with engineering, design, and QA teams to ship features on time while maintaining high-quality standards. Took the pension product from 0-1.
  • Drove alignment with NorthStar goals by implementing structured prioritization frameworks, including RACI and MoSCoW, to evaluate business value and delivery effort. This streamlined OKR and HID planning, reduced decision-making friction, and ensured timely delivery of high-impact features.
  • Partnered with leadership to translate user feedback and market trends into a strategic roadmap, and converted it into actionable features, epics, and user stories.
  • Collaborated with leadership and platform architects to translate market insights and advisor feedback into technical product roadmaps, resulting in a 30% increase in advisor firm onboarding and platform adoption over two years.
  • Conducted continuous monitoring of deliverables against OKRs to uncover trends and deviations, providing strategic insights and recommending data-informed solutions to leadership for enhancing product performance and user experience.
  • Led a cross-functional team to integrate 3rd party platform, enabling automated illustration generation and intelligent responses to advisor inquiries.

Product Owner/Business Analyst

Better.com
08.2020 - 05.2022
  • Led end-to-end API integrations with multiple banking systems to enable real-time transaction updates and secure document exchange, streamlining operations and saving over 2 hours per day in manual processing.
  • Redesigned the user onboarding experience, increasing conversion and completion rates by 50% through improved UI/UX flows and streamlined verification steps.
  • Created detailed process blueprints and workflow visualizations using Visio and Lucidchart to support agile delivery, ensuring accurate client requirement mapping and seamless sprint planning across cross-functional teams.
  • Monitored KPIs and user behavior metrics to evaluate product performance and identify revenue opportunities, contributing to over $20M in annual revenue growth through data-driven enhancements and strategic feature rollouts.

Business Analyst

Cholamandalam Investment & Finance
06.2019 - 07.2020
  • Streamlined internal approval process for transactions by standardizing approval forms, decreasing approval time by 2 hours.
  • Conducted end-to-end data mapping between legacy systems and new platforms, ensuring accurate data transformation, seamless migration, and alignment with business rules and regulatory requirements.
  • Owned software development lifecycle and met 75% of deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any development roadblocks.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

UIAMS, Panjab University
05.2019

Bachelor of Commerce - undefined

CCS University
05.2017

Skills

  • Azure

  • Confluence

  • CSPO

  • Figma

  • JIRA

  • Kanban

  • MOSCOW

  • Wireframes

  • SWOT

  • Backlog refinement

  • AB Testing

  • Integration

  • SDLC

  • Agile/Scrum

  • Prototyping

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner(CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
  • Business Analysis for PM- IIBA

Timeline

Product Owner

Morningstar
08.2022 - Current

Product Owner/Business Analyst

Better.com
08.2020 - 05.2022

Business Analyst

Cholamandalam Investment & Finance
06.2019 - 07.2020

Bachelor of Commerce - undefined

CCS University

Master of Business Administration -

UIAMS, Panjab University

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