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Subbiaa O

Bengaluru

Summary

Results-driven professional with 15+ years of success driving growth and innovation in fintech and payments. Proven expertise in:

  • Product Management: Led full product lifecycle from conception to launch, with a focus on card products, lending, UPI, and payment solutions.
  • Strategic Client Management & Business Development: Built and deepened key partnerships, securing new business and expanding existing relationships.
  • Project Implementation & Strategic Planning: Spearheaded successful project delivery and execution of strategic initiatives, achieving measurable impact on revenue and customer satisfaction.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Vice President of Products

Ippopay Technologies Private Limited
05.2023 - Current
  • Developed a comprehensive product roadmap, guiding the team toward achieving long-term growth objectives.
  • Heading the development and execution of the card strategy.
  • Strategic Partnering with Visa for co-brand business credit card issuance.
  • Building Strategic partnership with Visa, NPCI and Banks for multiple products like Card issuance, Merchant Acquiring card and offline QR.
  • Built the lending product stack for small ticket business loans for merchant segment.
  • Work closely with the engineering team to develop and implement innovative card products and features.
  • Create and implement marketing strategies that encourage the acquisition and usage of cards.

AVP Product & Solutions - Payments

Jupiter Money - Amica Financial Technologies Pvt Ltd
4 2022 - 04.2023
  • 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
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
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
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
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
08.2015 - 09.2016
  • Client Management for ATM Managed services, Bid and RFC process management.

Account Delivery Manager, Management cum

Yalamanchili Software Exports Ltd
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
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.

Education

MBA - Finance

S.P. Jain School of Global Management
Mumbai And Singapore
02.2017 - 2019.05

Post Graduate Diploma in Banking - Banking

ICICI Manipal Academy, Manipal University
Bengaluru
11.2008 - 20091

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Anna University
Chennai
09.2004 - 2008.05

Skills

  • Product and Business requirement management
  • Digital banking products and services
  • Product Proposal Drafting
  • Product demonstrations
  • New product solution
  • Cross Functional Leadership
  • Product Launches

Timeline

Vice President of Products

Ippopay Technologies Private Limited
05.2023 - Current

Credit Card – Senior Product & Portfolio Manager

HDFC Bank Ltd
01.2020 - 03.2022

Head of Product

Payzello, Instafund Internet Private Limited
04.2019 - 01.2020

Product Manager - RuPay Cards

National Payments Corporation of India
05.2017 - 04.2019

MBA - Finance

S.P. Jain School of Global Management
02.2017 - 2019.05

Product Manager - Debit Card

Axis Bank Ltd
09.2016 - 04.2017

Zonal Lead

Mphasis Ltd
08.2015 - 09.2016

Account Delivery Manager, Management cum

Yalamanchili Software Exports Ltd
06.2014 - 07.2015

Account Manager

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd
02.2013 - 06.2014

Assistant Manager

ICICI Bank Ltd
11.2008 - 02.2013

Post Graduate Diploma in Banking - Banking

ICICI Manipal Academy, Manipal University
11.2008 - 20091

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Anna University
09.2004 - 2008.05

AVP Product & Solutions - Payments

Jupiter Money - Amica Financial Technologies Pvt Ltd
4 2022 - 04.2023
Subbiaa O