Nishit Kumar
Summary
Product manager with extensive experience in developing innovative financial products. Expertise in investment accounting, tax utility, due diligence, tax reclaims and remittance. Skilled in prioritizing product roadmaps and managing stakeholder relationships, with a strong focus on cross-functional collaboration and user research. Consistently delivers solutions that improve operational efficiency and drive business growth.
Overview
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Certification
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19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Product Manager
S&P global
11.2024 - Current
- Ideated and Spearheaded end-to-end vision for product strategy roadmap and execution of market-disrupting tax data reclaims platform targeting funds invested in Swiss markets.
- Achieved $1 million in sales within six months of product launch through strategic growth initiatives.
- Upgraded an existing product with key launch of 871(m) regulatory changes bringing in an additional revenue of $1.5 million
- Managed product lifecycle from conception to launch, ensuring strict adherence to timelines.
- Worked with cross-functional teams spread across the globe within and outside the organization to develop and launch innovative financial products.
Product Manager
Clearwater Analytics
05.2021 - 11.2024
- Led product strategy, roadmap planning, execution, market strategy and analytics for enterprise GL products for investment accounting, resulting in improving operational efficiency by almost 90 % & cost savings of upto 1.25 Million USD.
- Developed product vision, planning, design, usability, and GTM strategy.
- Lead research initiatives and work with cross functional teams to gain deep understanding of users and customers, identify new features, improve operational efficiency, user experience and drive growth utilizing JTBD framework.
- Defined product strategy and short- and long-term planning in Agile setup.
- Translate and prioritize Product roadmap into product backlog. Defining epics and user stories aligned with strategic initiatives.
- Created low-fidelity mockups and collaborated with UX team to develop high-fidelity mockups and conduct usability testing.
- Secured product investment by developing compelling use cases.
Product owner
Xebia
12.2018 - 05.2021
- Owned end-to-end requirements and product deliverables for SaaS-based remittance product.
- Managed requirements and deliverables for SaaS enterprise tax utility, achieving efficiency improvements of 35%.
- Facilitated cross-functional stakeholder management to align product vision with business objectives.
- Conducted requirement workshops to uncover business challenges and define clear product expectations.
- Created user journeys and wireframes to improve user experience and guide feature development.
- Collaborated with UX team to develop high-fidelity mockups for product features.
- Negotiated and prioritized features based on stakeholder feedback and project goals.
- Provided demos and training sessions for stakeholders to ensure effective product adoption.
Business analyst
Revenue technology services
12.2013 - 12.2018
- Developed and launched SaaS application for airline and cruise ferry scheduling, generating $600K in first-year revenue.
- Managed product roadmap, prioritized features, and planned releases to align with business objectives.
- Defined scope and developed requirements for new products and upgrades to existing offerings.
- Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders, including sales, marketing, and engineering, to ensure alignment on product vision.
- Delivered product demos to C-level executives, facilitating customer development and feedback integration.
- Implemented Agile Scrum methodology, enhancing product development cycle by 15% and minimizing scope creep.
Senior software engineer
dibon software solutions pvt ltd
04.2010 - 06.2011
Software engineer
accenture
08.2007 - 04.2010
Education
PGP in Financial market -
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Faridabad08-2013
BE - ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION
JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Noida06-2007
Skills
- Product Roadmap and Prioritization
- Backlog Management
- User stories
- Release Management
- Wireframes
- Mockups
- Market research
- User research
- Competitive Analysis
- Customer Development
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Management
- Collaboration
- Cross functional expertise
- JIRA
- RFP
Certification
- PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner)
- PSM (Professional Scrum Master)
- Product Management Certification, https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-ZK4BLLB9/
Domains
- Financial Services - Working with multiple basis ex - STAT, IFRS 9, TAX etc
- Tax Utility- ITR, TAR, ADVANCE TAX, TAX PROVISIONING
- TAX Due diligence
- Tax Reclaims
- Remittance
- FINTECH
- AIRLINE & CRUISE- SCHEDULING, REVENUE MANAGEMENT and PRICING
- SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
- TELECOM
Timeline
Senior Product Manager
S&P global
11.2024 - Current
Product Manager
Clearwater Analytics
05.2021 - 11.2024
Product owner
Xebia
12.2018 - 05.2021
Business analyst
Revenue technology services
12.2013 - 12.2018
Senior software engineer
dibon software solutions pvt ltd
04.2010 - 06.2011
Software engineer
accenture
08.2007 - 04.2010
PGP in Financial market -
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
BE - ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION
JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION