Joylita Saldanha

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Selected for Google Personal Democracy Fellowship.
  • Built community platforms for exceptional founders.
  • Led product development for innovative tech solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS product leader with a strong focus on community engagement and user experience.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipUser Experience

Other Skills

AnalyticsAndroidBusiness StrategyCommunity BuildingFundraisingMarketingMobile ApplicationsProduct MarketingSocial MediaiPhone

About

I am a work-in-progress on a mission to identify and unlock the potential in people, products, and processes; taking leaps of faith and courage to develop that potential. I spend my time building products, experiences, and communities of trust. I am passionate about using data, design, and technology to solve gnarly complex problems. When I’m not at the whiteboard drawing mind maps, I am busy exploring how technology can improve our individual quality of life. I was also the only Indian woman among 15 selected from around the world for the 2014 Google Personal Democracy Fellowship for working to keep the Internet open and working on ways the Internet makes democracy stronger. I am a voracious reader, an inquisitive traveler, an edgy foodie, an unrelenting baker, an amateur photographer, an unpublished writer, an out-of-practice pianist, and a lover of languages. I also think of myself as an instigator, alchemist, and leap-of-faith-taker. Some say distracted, I say dilettante. (Adverbs, be damned.)

Experience

Infinyte club

Founder

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Founder @ Infinyte Club | Building the #EverythingEquity platform for India’s next-gen wealth creators
  • Infinyte is the definitive wealth product for India’s curious, savvy, and upwardly mobile investors; those targeting ₹50L–₹5Cr net worth and looking to grow with public + private markets.
  • Track Your Net Worth
  • Stay on top of your financial life, from savings to stocks, mutual funds to private assets, all in one place. Clear visibility = better decisions.
  • Invest in Public Market Strategies
  • Access expert-led, risk-adjusted portfolios designed for alpha across market cycles. From growth to income to liquidity plays, invest with context and conviction.
  • Get Access to Private Markets
  • Invest alongside top VCs and angels in pre-IPO companies, early-stage startups, and curated alternative assets. Discover deal flow that was once out of reach.
  • We’re the Wealth OS for India’s emerging affluent: part money map, part strategy deck, part access club. Because wealth isn’t just about what you own. It’s about who you get to become while building it.
Product ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness Strategy

Surge

Vice President, India and Southeast Asia

Sep 2018 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • The problem I'm solving is: help founders build the best products and a great company that attracts the best talent and customers. I spend my time understanding how the world's top founders build products and companies and then building software, learning products, experiences and communities for exceptional founders in the region.
  • Surge: Sequoia India's rapid scale-up program for early-stage startups in India and SE Asia
  • · NPS > 90+ over the past 4 cohorts of over 69 companies with a 200+ strong founder community
  • · Our Community Product available as a founder-only app is a platform for founders to connect, learn from and share resources with each other
  • Product and UX Operator
  • Work with Surge founders across India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh on Product and UX
  • The Guild: Community of the Top Tech Founders in India and Southeast Asia
  • Internal data product to find the world's most interesting startups
  • Led the internal machine intelligence/signal processing product, integrating hundreds of sources of data and teasing out signals to inform sourcing and tracking of founders and companies
Product ManagementUser ExperienceCommunity Building

Sequoia capital

Vice President, India and Southeast Asia

Jun 2015 – Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

  • The problem I'm solving is: help founders build the best products and a great company that attracts the best talent and customers. I spend my time understanding how the world's top founders build products and companies and then building software, learning products, experiences and communities for exceptional founders in the region.
  • Surge: Sequoia India's rapid scale-up program for early-stage startups in India and SE Asia
  • Founding Member: From launch of the fund to company selection to mentoring companies
  • · NPS > 90+ over the past 4 cohorts of over 69 companies with a 200+ strong founder community
  • · Our Community Product available as a founder-only app is a platform for founders to connect, learn from and share resources with each other
  • Product and UX Operator
  • Work with Surge founders across India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh on Product and UX
  • The Guild: Community of the Top Tech Founders in India and Southeast Asia
  • Internal data product to find the world's most interesting startups
  • Led the internal machine intelligence/signal processing product, integrating hundreds of sources of data and teasing out signals to inform the sourcing and tracking of founders and companies
Product ManagementUser ExperienceCommunity Building

[24]7

Senior Product Manager - Assist Chat, Assist Voice

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Bangalore

  • My mission here was to bring a user-first approach and delight back to Customer Experience - both for Agents at Contact Centers and people like you and me who interact with Contact Centres through the medium of Chat
  • Assist: An Intelligent Live Chat Platform
  • Led Product to build a live chat platform that leverages user profiles, predictive analytics and real-time text mining to deliver personalized and contextual agent-assisted chat services.
  • The product was run-rating at $XXM in ARR and in conjunction with our contact centres added $XXXM in revenue; used by BFSI and eCommerce companies with customers in the US, Australia and NZ
Product ManagementUser ExperienceAnalytics

Janaagraha centre for citizenship and democracy

Head of Product - I Paid a Bribe, I Change My City

Jun 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Setup Product and Technology for Janaagraha’s Online Initiatives
  • Successfully pitched and raised funding (~ $10M) for the Product from HNIs and philanthropic foundations: Omidyar Network, TATA Group, Google.org, Asia Foundation
  • Built and mentored a team of 45 members across Product, Technology – Web and Mobile, Content, Community Outreach and Digital Marketing
  • I Change My City was then adopted by the Government of India as the Swachh Bharat App: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/swachhata-mohua/id1124033628
Product ManagementFundraisingCommunity Building

Various startups

Intersection of Product Management and User Experience Design

Sep 2007 – Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States; Bangalore

  • Zivame.com
  • Led Product and Marketing efforts in the first year of launch across Print, Digital and Social Media that led Zivame to raise funding and gain traction in Tier-2 and Tier-3 Indian cities.
  • Snapdeal.com:
  • Created Snapdeal’s first mobile offering on iOS and Android
  • Shankar Mahadevan Academy:
  • Designed and developed Apps – for iOS and Android - to help students learn classical music
  • Ciborete - The Food Network
  • Conceptualized and defined a product that helps restaurants streamline ordering processes
  • WisdomTap – Twitter Intent Marketing Platform
  • Refactored the product, Re-defined the User Interface, Improved User Experience
  • Casino Mobile Games at Apostek
  • Initiated and led the makeover of a Casino Game (Slot Machine) that placed it as the #1 Paid Casino Game and a Top Ten Free Casino Game in the Android Market, Top Ten Casino Game in iTunes
  • Doubled the user base (New Users, Active Users) of the Game
  • Product Manager - Entertainment Division, CAI Studio
  • Conceptualized and build products to bring gaming and entertainment content online
  • Products I worked on: Interactive products for web and mobile for Disney Entertainment, Xbox LIVE, Windows Live, Blu-ray Disc Association
Product ManagementUser ExperienceMarketing

Education

University of Southern California

Master of Science — Industrial Engineering

Manipal Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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