Vaibhav Sambre

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India12 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led product management for major fintech platforms.
Increased payment conversions significantly through strategic initiatives.
Developed innovative solutions for cross-functional team challenges.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Leader with extensive experience in product management and strategic growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadershipProduct StrategyRemittancesProcurement

Other Skills

Consumer ProductsTeam ManagementSoftware Product ManagementDigital StrategyProduct OperationsMonetizationPaymentsUPIFinancial ServicesEarly-Stage StartupsMobile ApplicationsWalletsCross-Cultural Communication SkillsCross-functional Team LeadershipSales Management

About

Over the years, I’ve led high-performing cross-functional teams, defined product vision and strategy, and executed roadmaps that align with business goals. My approach blends analytical rigor with domain insight—whether it’s launching new product flows, optimizing platforms, or navigating complex stakeholder ecosystems. I’m passionate about solving real-world problems through technology, and I thrive at the intersection of innovation, execution, and empathy.

Experience

Battery smart

Vice President of Product Management

Jun 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Head of Department for Product, Design, Marketing, and Training; led a 20+ member org and served as a core member of the company leadership and external spokesperson in industry forums, podcasts, publications and hiring panels.
Institutionalised and championed quarterly product planning using the RICE framework and agile processes, improving prioritisation discipline and delivery predictability across teams.
Owned and shipped major platform and hardware products, including revamped driver onboarding, asset leasing, partner ledger overhaul, and Smart Station (human-less swapping station) built ground-up.
Strengthened company-wide compliance through Oracle NetSuite ERP integration; played a key role in ITGC and regulatory audits, Acting Data Protection & Grievance Officer.
Integrated Martech, HRTech, and L&D platforms (WebEngage, Infeedo, Darwinbox, Disprz) with accountability for adoption, outcomes, and cost.
Championed AI-first product building via no-code solutions including internal appraisal systems, company wiki, internal chatbot, and natural-language SQL querying.
Drove measurable business outcomes across risk, brand, and training - ₹1Cr+ insurance recovery via Monsoon planning, 100k+ LinkedIn follower growth, and 20% training attendance and 30% course completion uplift.

Consumer ProductsLeadershipProduct ManagementTeam ManagementProduct StrategySoftware Product Management+3

Airtel

3 roles

Assistant Vice President - Product

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr

Driving product-led growth in Payments, Financial Services and Data product verticals with 18+ MN MTUs and 120+MN MAUs.
Increased payment conversions by 30% and UPI journey conversions by 20%; doubled BBPS MTUS and quadrupled the UPI and checkout MTUs via
product, growth and engineering improvements.
Rebuilt the checkout SDK and payments platform from the ground up, transitioning from monoliths to microservices. Enabled features like order
management, multi-product checkout and offer engine.
Setting up the new business lines of insurance and secure loans; formulating business, legal, regulatory and go-to-market strategies. Building the
framework of embedded finance for Airtel.
Building scalable analytics and data science platforms by efficient data pipelines and migration to better data lakes, enabling faster and more efficient
reporting, growth marketing and monitoring.
Set up customer experience charters for Speech Analytics and Virtual Assistant, enabling Airtel to digitally handle 40% of service requests.
Managing a team of 6 product managers; influencing 100+ engineers; member of hiring loops and company leadership forums.

PaymentsUPIDigital StrategyProduct StrategyLeadershipFinancial Services

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Jun 2020 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Instarem

3 roles

Product Lead : Consumer Products

Jan 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Headed P2P remittance products, owned customer KYC, onboarding and payments for 52 countries. Grew the remittance volumes from $7MN/month to $ 30MN/month.
Led the re-architecture of the web and app platform to React and Node stack; revamped the UI for web and mobile channels. Laid the foundation for compliance as a service and instant payouts.
Helped increase the company footprint to 250+ remittance corridors. Launched new markets in USA, Europe and the UK; built "InstaSave” - a remittance- enabled mobile wallet for migrant workers in Singapore.
Launched InstaPoints, a loyalty points program for user growth and retention across seven countries.
As the first product team member, set up the product, design and analytics functions. Directly managed a team of 5 product managers; referred 5+ candidates; participated in hiring loops.

RemittancesEarly-Stage StartupsMobile ApplicationsWalletsCross-Cultural Communication SkillsCross-functional Team Leadership+1

Product Manager

Mar 2017 – Dec 2017 · 9 mos

Head of Data Science and Analytics

May 2016 – Mar 2017 · 10 mos

Nazara games

Head of Analytics

Dec 2015 – May 2016 · 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Led analytics for mobile games - revamped the event architecture leading to ~$3000/month savings in storage costs.
Ideated the Nazara Games Development Platform’ an analytics and live operations suite for Indian game developers.

Truce

Head of Procurement

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Leading procurement for Truce - a young agritech startup focussing on B2B delivery of fresh produce.

Housing.com

2 roles

Senior Business Intelligence Expert

Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 · 7 mos

Built algorithms, UI/UX and implemented analytics for the product “Demand Supply Heatmap” - featured in YourStory.
Built products such as "Listing and Developer Happiness Index" which enabled fair distribution of visits and leads.
Analytics partner for Rent, Online buying and Franchisee Businesses -owned capturing and tracking of all metrics and insights.
Mentored a team of 5 analysts; participated in hiring loops.
Software skills
PostgreSQL, Presto, MS Office, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Geckoboard

ProcurementSales Management

Business Intelligence Expert

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr

Olacabs.com

Management Trainee

Jul 2013 – Feb 2014 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Managed operations, service fulfillment, partner revenues and customer experience for the rentals business.
Orchestrated the installation of mobile devices in all rental vehicle across the country - a first in Ola's history.
Partnered with in house teams to build inventory management, analytics dashboards, offers and coupons etc. for rentals business.

Freie universität berlin

Summer Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

Gained a first hand experience of Research in chemistry in foreign lands. worked on a theoretical chemistry research project. Dedicated efforts across 3 months saw the work being published in Journal of Physical Chemistry A, JACS publications