Sydney Monteiro

Product Manager

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India11 yrs 3 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in product management.
  • Led product strategy for a top fantasy sports app.
  • Achieved significant user engagement and retention improvements.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader in the iGaming and Fintech sectors, specializing in user engagement and product innovation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Other Skills

WireframingCross-Platform PromotionUser Engagement & RetentionFeature Development & LaunchFantasy Sports & Real Money GamingTableauReading DataDigital MarketingProduct Road MappingFeature PrioritizationData-driven Decision MakingA/B TestingUser-centered DesignAgile MethodologiesGo-to-Market Strategy

About

A Product Leader with more than a decade of experience delivering impactful digital products (B2B and B2C) in onboarding, payments, compliance, gaming and fantasy sports domain. Currently leading product onboarding and conversion initiatives at Upstox and having lead My11Circle, the focus is on driving user engagement and retention through innovative feature development and seamless user flows. Key contributions include optimizing core funnels, launching new game formats, and creating enhancements to improve key performance metrics like lead to paid (LTP), avg. revenue per user (ARPU), net gaming revenue (NGR) and lifetime value (LTV). Skilled in Product Management, Roadmap Prioritization, GTM Strategy, PRD Creation, Storyboarding, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management, Invoicing, Contract Negotiation, A/B Experimentation, Data Analysis, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Interviews, Presentation & Communication, the role blends data-driven decision-making with a user-first approach to achieve business outcomes. Dedicated to crafting solutions that balance simplicity, user delight, and market competitiveness. Motivated by fast-paced, high-stakes environments where impactful innovation and user obsession are at the forefront of success.

Experience

Upstox

Product Manager

Dec 2025Present · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Games24x7

3 roles

Senior Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Leading cross-functional teams of product managers, UI/UX designers, and data analysts to deliver high-impact features on My11Circle (Fantasy Sports app) with 10 M+ MAUs.
  • Owned end-to-end annual product strategy & roadmap, driving roadmap prioritization and execution across Payments, Innovation, Growth, Risk and Compliance initiatives.
  • Boosted New user registrations by 25% through best in class registration journey, new vendor integrations and trust-enhancing UI elements.
  • Achieved Year on Year LTP improvement of 10% by introducing unique and seamless KYC verification methods.
  • Amplified ARPU by 3.5% by leading trust-building initiatives, introducing user profiles, social features (follower/following) and winners' hub.
  • Drove retention growth by launching innovative cash contest formats, VIP loyalty program, new sports categories, UI/UX revamp, gamified leaderboards, and a proprietary in-house currency.
  • Increased liquidity by 6% by conceptualizing Chopra Challenge, an interactive match-based trivia & prediction game.
  • Owned company-wide payments strategy, to achieve 5% uplift in deposit success rates via journey redesign, UPI plugin, card tokenization, native OTP, and optimized vendor routing.
  • Strengthened deposit recommendation models by introducing vendor demographic data, projecting a 3% gain in new user deposits.
  • Drove 5Cr+ app downloads and achieved 4.3★ app rating by leading the listing of My11Circle’s app on Google Play Store, ensuring compliance with all policies.
  • Planned and influenced a 0 to1 launch of multilingual GenAI chatbot with AWS Claude Haiku, achieving a CSAT uplift of 12%.
  • Inspired my team to Benchmark 15+ chatbot vendors (Gemini, Haptik, Claude etc.) on LLM scalability, latency, and hallucination rates.
  • Conducted 5+ group discussions and 25+ user interviews to uncover user’s pain-points to shape the roadmap.
  • Collaborated with multiple external stakeholders across Payments, KYC Verification, SMS, Emails, Sport Data Feed, BCCI etc.
WireframingCross-Platform PromotionProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Product Manager

Promoted

Apr 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

User Engagement & RetentionFeature Development & LaunchProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Associate Product Manager

Oct 2019Apr 2020 · 6 mos

User Engagement & RetentionFeature Development & LaunchProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Sportz interactive

2 roles

Senior Associate Product - Gaming & Social Innovations

Promoted

Jan 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • UX/UI Designing
  • User Flow
  • Site-mapping
  • Game Flow
  • Prototyping (Extensive use of Axure RP, Invision and MarvelApp)
  • Scenario Testing
  • Creatives
  • Product Management
  • Project Planning (Extensive use of JIRA, Confluence and Trello)
  • Product Owner
  • Cost Estimation
  • Resource Management
  • Product testing
  • PROJECTS WORKED ON:
  • LivePools Real Money Daily Cricket & Football Fantasy
  • Baadshah Gaming (Real Money Gaming)
  • Gaming website
  • Cricket Fantasy
  • Chhota Cricket Fantasy
  • Official Polish Football Association - Team of the Century
  • Official FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019
  • Official Fantasy
  • Draw Predictor
  • Bracket Challenge
  • Votes Up 2019 Election Predictor (Lok Sabha elections)
  • Official SHAREit predictor game
  • VIVO IPL Election Se Selection Contest Activation 2018 on Star India and US Hotstar
  • Official EPCR Champions Fantasy Rugby 2018-19
  • Classic Fantasy
  • Daily Fantasy
  • UX/UI of the Official Vivo Khel Kabaddi Housie activation
  • Official FIFA World Cup Russia 2019
  • FIFA Classic Fantasy
  • FIFA Fan Dream Team
  • Official EPCR Fantasy Rugby 2017-18
  • Champions Cup Classic Fantasy
  • Challenge Cup Classic Fantasy
  • Official UEFA Champions League 2016-17 & 2017-18 Fantasy Football
  • Official World Cup European Qualifier 2016-18 Daily Fantasy
  • Official UEFA Euro 2016 Fantasy Football
  • McDonald's Classic Fantasy '16
  • McDonald's Daily 7s
Feature Development & LaunchProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Associate Product - Gaming & Social Innovations

Dec 2015Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Feature Development & LaunchProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Hurix systems pvt. ltd.

Project Trainee/Executive

Aug 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

  • Managed full Software Development Life Cycle of the assigned project independently. Including driving end to end project and maintaining Project Management process from Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring & Control and Closing. Analyze, design, test, document and maintain Hurix applications. Provide functional and technical advice to customers in technology products/solutions. Provide leadership to team members and guide them. Consistently share information on best practices and technology trends and give recommendation on best practices for business operations. Manage Client Accounts. I had 12 projects under me across platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS and Win 8.1) including Application Development and Maintenance, launch of an eStore (website), with multi-located team size of about 35-40.
  • I have shown capability in delivering Mobile and IT applications for medium and large scale programs involving change management and client communication.
  • Some of the Projects worked with:
  • Pearson (India)
  • Mc-Graw Hill (India)
  • Insight Publications (Australia)
  • Profil - Klett (Croatia)
  • CEP (Trinidad)
  • Cengage Learning (India)
  • Spiral English (Taiwan)
  • Summit K-12 (USA)
  • VMware (USA)
Feature Development & LaunchProduct ManagementProduct Strategy

Enablem pvt. ltd.

Summer Internship

May 2013Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Andheri (West)

  • A survey to assess the potential of Mobile Application as a Teaching Tool

Education

H K Institute of Management Studies and Research

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Systems/Information Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Lord's Universal

BSc — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Bhavans College

HSC — Science

Jan 2006Jan 2007

St. Francis D'Assisi High School

SSC

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