Serve as a Solutions leader for card products to Engineering, Operations, Marketing and Customer Support.
Currently heading the Solutions piece for Credit card products.
Defining and developing product strategy and feature set aligned to the strategic vision of Jupiter Money.
Prioritizing the product backlogs.
Working with the engineering team to make them understand products both functionally and technically.
Preparing and managing the product's business requirement document including the product's PnL.
Managing the smooth flow of product and business requirements with technical teams.
Weekly sync with the stakeholders on the current status of the development and re-prioritizing in case of requirement.
Interacting with VISA and NPCI for product and business/financial requirement discussion.
Partnering and negotiating with product partners like Switch vendors and Card perso vendors for integration and cost.
Analyzed data to identify areas of improvement, implementing changes that resulted in greater operational efficiency.
Credit Card – Senior Product & Portfolio Manager
HDFC Bank Ltd
Chennai
01.2020 - 03.2022
Heading the retail credit card activation portfolio of 40 lakh customers
Working on strategy and initiatives to bring incremental activation and spending growth to the portfolio
Analysis of customer base, developing the strategy and implementing the initiative to bring growth and customer stickiness
Partnering with Alliance, Marketing, analytics, Business intelligence unit and credit policy team to implement the growth strategy including working on campaign cost, pricing, and revenue management
Developing and implementing a customer engagement program by developing an ecosystem for limit management/increase, active, inactive, and dormant account activation, and upgrades
Digital products with initiatives for retail credit cards like card control and offer a push-through digital mode
Reaching out to customers through SMS, email, WhatsApp, and Chatbots for offers and education programs.
VAS product development for portfolio credit cardholders
Working with alliance partners for exclusive offers for HDFC Bank credit card customers
Launching offers to the overall base and selective segmented base like RentPay through Cred, No broker, etc
Handling beyond the top 20 cities of card issuance for Spending & Activation
Enhancing user experience by enabling spending avenues in PoS and Ecom
Data analysis using cubes to create a roadmap for customer spending and activation
Development and Management of Card features.
Head of Product
Payzello, Instafund Internet Private Limited
Bengaluru, Karnataka
04.2019 - 01.2020
Handling card product workflow
Creating a roadmap and end-to-end strategic product mapping for cards
Development and Management of Card features
Handling bank engagement for the issuance of cards
Working on credit and prepaid card product development and enhancement
Partner Management for Card management and issuance
API-based service enablement.
Established clear product vision and strategy, aligning business goals with customer needs.
Product Manager - RuPay Cards
National Payments Corporation of India
Chennai/Mumbai, TamilNadu
05.2017 - 04.2019
Product and Project manager for all RuPay Products (Credit, Debit and Prepaid)
Subject matter expert for Credit, Debit and Prepaid cards.
Launch of new RuPay Co-branding Scheme and handling of Product Design & Functional integration to go live with banks.
CUB is the first RuPay JCB Debit card issuing Bank in India.
Product Feature Designing, P&L and BRD creation for RuPay Forex card by collaborating with CUP Team.
Subject Matter expert for all new and existing implementations of RuPay Cards.
Product Feature Designing and BRD creation for RuPay Corporate Card.
Managing banks for Go live on RuPay product.
Product Manager - Debit Card
Axis Bank Ltd
Mumbai, Maharashtra
09.2016 - 04.2017
Debit Card New Product Initiative, Implementation & Customer Experience
Manage the entire product portfolio of RuPay Debit Card, all Insta debit cards for the bank
US $ 60 Mn Fee income generation and management from all Debit card products
Manage end-to-end fee income process automation and streamlining of systems
Analyzing fee income leakage and closure of leakage
New product development in Debit cards and allied systems.
Established criteria for each milestone within the product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
Zonal Lead
Mphasis Ltd
India
08.2015 - 09.2016
Client Management for ATM Managed services, Bid and RFC process management.
Account Delivery Manager, Management cum
Yalamanchili Software Exports Ltd
India
06.2014 - 07.2015
Handling end to product and project delivery for existing and new clients
Handling a team 10 members for day-to-day development and release activity
Business requirement document discussion for new requirements and sign-off, solution designing, and requirement analysis
Budget preparation and finalizing the costing for all new projects and new RFC
Managing the full project life cycle from requirements gathering to delivery & go live
For existing clients, managing critical production issues and enhancement requests from the client.
Account Manager
Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd
02.2013 - 06.2014
For Government Banking clients in Tamilnadu.
Assistant Manager
ICICI Bank Ltd
Chennai
11.2008 - 02.2013
• Government Banking Clients for Chennai, Vellore, and Kanchipuram region.
• Transaction Banking Operations Head and managing a daily transaction volume of US $ 140 Mn.
• Deputy Branch Manager and managing a team of 4 people.
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