Sankhadeep Sarkar

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in scaling B2B SaaS platforms from inception to growth.
  • Led multiple successful credit product launches in US and India.
  • Strong background in end-to-end credit lifecycle management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Leader with extensive experience in B2B SaaS and automation solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product LeadershipB2b SaasProduct ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSaasTechnical SolutionsUnified Communication

Other Skills

A/B TestingAdoptionAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsArtifactsBusiness AcumenBusiness AnalysisBusiness ApplicationsBusiness InsightsBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyCC++CommunicationComputer Vision

About

Platform Product Leader with expertise in building and scaling B2B SaaS platforms from 0→1 and 1→10. Experienced in driving the development of high-scale credit issuance platforms, leading multiple credit product launches across the US and India, including the Pixel Credit Card and Friends & Family CUG in the US market. Strong background in the end-to-end credit lifecycle, platform integrations, and cloud communications. Proven track record of delivering robust, scalable platforms that power modern financial products. Product Leader of the Customer Lifecycle SaaS org - involves Product Bundle & AH Schema Management, Addon cards, Card Status restrictions Previously worked on CPaaS SIP Trunking platform, Phone Numbers, Inventory & Dynamic Carrier Management and Intelligent Automation solutions, bringing a unique blend of fintech and enterprise technology experience.

Experience

11 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Zeta

4 roles

Associate Director of Product

Promoted

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Scaling the next phase of Tachyon Credit SaaS & CLM platforms across US and India
  • Leading the Product Org for the Customer Lifecycle Management SaaS comprises of 10+ product modules and a team of 4 Product Managers
  • Overall Platform lead on Tachyon Platform Suite for HDFC’s Pixel credit and credit line on UPI products
Product ManagementCross-team CollaborationSoftware Product ManagementStrategic LeadershipProduct LeadershipB2B SaaS

Lead Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Tachyon SaaS Platform powering Credit Cards, Credit Line on UPI, Demand Deposits, Prepaid and Commercial Cards
  • Leading SaaS product expansion for credit platforms to US banks and FIs, with experience launching HDFC’s first credit card on the Tachyon stack.
  • Managed the end-to-end release of a US bank’s credit platform, scaling after a successful beta.
  • Led workshops and onsite engagements in the US to align on phased launches and product capabilities.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams to ensure timely feature delivery, bug fixes, and roadmap alignment.
  • Heading onboarding modules and a team of talented product managers to drive key platform product delivery.
Data GovernancePeople ManagementCross-platform DevelopmentCustomer SatisfactionStrategic LeadershipProduct Management+1

Senior Product Manager

May 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • HDFC Pixel Credit Card
  • Founding Product team to launch the first set of HDFC Credit Cards on Zeta's Tachyon platform
  • 1. Product lead & managing multiple squads for the Core Credit offering for the Pixel programs, involved feature scoping, alignments with bank on the PRDs, driving e2e feature delivery across:
  • Loans & EMIs - Merchant, User and Smart
  • Credit Account
  • Card Operations
  • Transaction Fraud & Risk Management System & Integrations
  • Data & File Extracts.
  • 2. Feature development & Integrations around Card Lifecycle Management
  • Defining Credit Card Bundle Status across Card, Account and Account Holder
  • Compliance with Credit Card RBI Master Guidelines
  • Building interceptors for Fraud and Risk Management for Credit Card Authorization
  • Back office handling of Card Operations & working with the Ops teams on various SOPs
  • Managing File based offline modes of repayments
  • Defining reconciliation and settlement process
  • Physical Card dispatch & delivery lifecycle management
  • 3. Owned PayZapp KRs around card activation and integrations with Smartbuy for driving greater adoption.
Product ManagementObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Product LeadershipTechnical ExecutionNegotiationB2B SaaS

Product Manager 2

Oct 2021Apr 2022 · 6 mos

  • [Tachyon Savings Platform]
  • Leading platform development of a core banking platform (BaaS) for Savings and Deposits.
  • Includes definition of Day 0 Product Construct Setup, Account Lifecycle Management,
  • Ledgers, Defining the CoA & Accounting,
  • Application of various Fees & Charges, defining policies
  • Issuance of balance and interest Certificates & Statements,
  • Card issuance,
  • Policies on Payment Channels including UPI, IMPS, RTGS and NEFT,
  • Product bundles and Savings Account Product Management.
  • This is in partnership with one of the largest private sector banks in India to launch their digital Neobank offering.
  • Helped define the Product strategy, GTM, User research alongside platform development.
Product ManagementObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Product DesignNegotiationProblem SolvingB2B SaaS

Plivo

2 roles

Product Manager

Dec 2020Sep 2021 · 9 mos

  • Zentrunk and Phone Numbers
  • From Jan 2021: Additional product charter to manage the Phone Number platform alongside the SIP trunking platform that provides DIDs (virtual phone numbers) to enterprises and SMBs for inbound calling across 65+ countries.
  • Inventory Management across various number types - Fixed, Mobile, Tollfree
  • Phone Number Procurement and activation from carriers across the world,
  • Coverage Expansion,
  • Compliance and Regulations,
  • Risk Profiling of end customers
Product ManagementObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Product DesignTechnical ArchitectureStrategic LeadershipB2B SaaS

Product Manager

Sep 2019Sep 2021 · 2 yrs

  • End to end product management of Zentrunk platform, Plivo's SIP trunking platform enables outbound calling towards 190+ countries and inbound calling towards 65+ countries.
  • Ensure high call quality, call routing, regional carrier onboarding towards all major countries.
  • Designed major features around STIR SHAKEN, Caller ID-based routing, Origin based routing, and call rating.
  • Responsible for the growth, usage of the platform. Have grown the platform from scratch.
  • Identify the appropriate target user segment & growth strategy of the platform.
  • Work with Sales on RFPs and Pricing Strategies - competition and value-based. Consistently maintained margins above the intended company goal for Zentrunk
  • Regular engagements with Support to streamline processes, helped create the OKRs for the Carrier Relations and Product Ops team.
  • Engaged with solution architects (Plivo and AWS) on solutioning for specific customer use cases for SIP Trunking.
  • Released pricing across major countries for outbound and inbound calling.
Product ManagementNew Product RolloutObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Constructive FeedbackA/B TestingB2B SaaS

Cgi

Product Manager

May 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Product Manager for CGI Intelligent Automation Platform, a full-suite automation solution that combines robotic process automation.
  • machine learning modules to complement and augment human capabilities across infrastructure, application and business process services.
  • The IP enabled clients to optimize cost, improve operational efficiency, increase productivity and ease as well as launch new digital services faster and with higher quality.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Feature planning and prioritization
  • Defining the scope for various features around service analytical and monitoring
  • Carrying out competitive analysis
  • Looking after various third party tool integrations
  • Formulating Go to Market Strategies and carrying out product demos
  • Part of the innovation council to tap into new ideas across emerging technologies
  • Wireframing
  • Content editor of technical documentations - deployment guides and product feature release notes
  • Regular interactions with clients and internal stakeholders to gauge their interests and the right product fit based on their need for automation and adoption of the product.
Product ManagementPresentationsBusiness ApplicationsWorkload PrioritizationTechnical ArchitectureEnterprise Software

Hackerearth

Product Specialist

Mar 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Worked on SaaS based competitive programming platforms Recruit, hackathon management platform, Sprint and a video interview tool FaceCode built on Django framework and coded in Python.
  • Responsible for monitoring all aspects of a product life cycle, including long and short-term. development.
  • Staying abreast of trends in the marketplace to ensure the product's competitive position.
  • Interfaced with product managers and clients to determine the product's future direction.
  • Helped with new product feature suggestion and prioritization based on customer feedback and competitive analysis
  • Deliver product demos and assist the Sales team with effective solution selling
  • Liaise with the product team to suggest new product features and improving existing features, recommend product enhancements
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to provide product engineering, development, management and sales solutions.
  • Managed the customer success management team for enterprise, strategic and emerging businesses. Achieved near perfect customer retention rates.
Product ManagementBusiness ApplicationsCustomer SatisfactionCommunicationOral CommunicationSaaS

Microsoft

Technical Solutions Engineer

Jul 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Working on Microsoft Unified Communication technologies like Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Lync 2010, Lync 2013 and recently on Skype of Business 2015. Resolving live production environment issues which relate to Lync client and servers.
  • Work with various Premier partners in North America, EMEA & India region
  • Troubleshooting AD preparation and Installation and deployment issues in Lync 2013, Lync 2010, OCS 2007 R2.
  • Troubleshooting issues with federation with partner companies and Public IM providers like Yahoo,
  • AOL and MSN
  • Delivering Triages and write Knowledge Base Articles on niche Lync issues
  • Troubleshooting CMS move and replication issues, HADR, Conguring and troubleshooting Lync online meetings.
  • Testing the beta release of Unied Communication products, Collaborating with SQL, Active Directory, IIS,Exchange server teams for solving complex issues.
  • Logs and packet analysis with the tools like Snooper, Netmon, Wire shark, Notepad++, Fiddler, Key Heath Indicators for call quality, Server health
  • Troubleshooting issues related to UC voice applications, Unied Messaging, demonstrating proof of concept and evaluation, testing/benchmarking the pre-production environment.
  • Simulating production failure and benchmarking the Disaster Recovery scenarios, calculating the
  • approx. business down time for the management.
  • Performing Root Cause analysis for an incident and how to prevent those in future ,educating customers upon adherence to Microsoft supportability matrix.
  • Troubleshooting AV call issues in different scenarios like internal-external users and PSTN calls
  • Troubleshooting and conguring Enterprise voice and RCC related issues, like conguring enterprise
  • voice, connectivity issues with Media Gateway, SIP Trunk and RCC issues
  • Troubleshooting Voice Features issues like Response Group, Call Admission control, Location Service and SBA
  • Mentoring new college hires and help in lab deployments in live scenarios to reproduces issues
Technical SolutionsCommunicationTroubleshootingCustomer SupportKnowledge Base ManagementUnified Communication

Education

Indian School of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Strategy & Information Management

Jan 2017Jan 2018

Ramaiah Institute Of Technology

B.E. — Electronics and Communications

Jan 2009Jan 2013

KLE's Independent PU College

Pre University College (12th) 96.16%

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Jindal Public School

10th — High School

Jan 1999Jan 2007

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