Anant Pal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led fintech product team scaling to $12 million in disbursals.
Built personal loan business from scratch in one year.
Increased customer retention and conversion rates significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce product leader with strong analytical and strategic skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyFintechCustomer ExperienceE-commerceProduct ManagementData Science

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipData StrategiesAgile DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementRisk ReductionA/B TestingProduct DevelopmentCustomer RetentionSEOData AnalysisSearch ManagementBusiness IntelligenceStatistical ModelingMachine LearningMechanical Engineering

About

Product Leader with around 10 years of experience with Fintech and E-commerce experience. Also worked as an analytics consultant across multiple domains like retail, big Pharma etc. Currrently leading the Product team at a $100 MN series B funded fintech lender(Education focused) and am responsible for their core product, cross-sell initiatives and partnerships. I have also set up a new Personal Loan business for my organisation from scratch and scaled it to $12 Million worth of disbursal over the course of a year. Prior to this, Worked in an Ecommerce firm with focus on owning discovery systems (Search, Core Recommendation Systems), retention teams and core platforms - data analytics systems, A-B testing engine.

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Propelld

3 roles

Associate Director Product Development

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 · 11 mos

Head of Product

Promoted

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Leading a team of PMs overseeing fintech and direct NBFC lending models across 500+ partner brands
● Built and scaled the Personal Loan vertical from 0 to 1, contributing 5% to total organizational revenue within the first year of launch
● Scaled the product organization from 2 to 10, defining hiring standards and mentoring a high-performance team to support rapid vertical expansion
● Led the end-to-end product development for "Study Abroad" fintech business, architecting a new tech stack and internal systems (LOS, LMS, CRM) to facilitate international student lending
● Collaborated directly with Founders and C-suite and (Risk, Legal, Business, Collections and Operations) to navigate regulatory landscapes and launch and scale complex fintech products (Domestic Lending) in under 6 months
● Automated credit underwriting processes, reducing case approval turnaround time (TAT) by 50% and lowering fixed operational costs by 2%
● Experimentation & Risk Reduction: Developed a comprehensive A/B testing engine to pilot experiments leveraging ML models for collections, successfully reducing NPA (Non-Performing Assets) by 5%
● Customer Experience Optimization: Led data-driven UI/UX interventions to resolve customer and partner pain points, resulting in a 10% increase in conversion rates and improved disbursal metrics and increased partner wallet share by 5%.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipFinTechCustomer ExperienceData StrategiesProduct StrategyAgile Development+3

Senior Product Manager

May 2022 – Mar 2023 · 10 mos

Snapdeal

4 roles

Product Manager II

Nov 2021 – Apr 2022 · 5 mos

Retention & SEO
Intervening at various customer drop-off points to improve the retention of customers and incentivising desired behavior from the customer - increased LTV by 3%
Took ownership of the company's virtual wallet(Snapcash) and handling WhatsApp as a potential promotional lever to increase acquisition/retention, bringing in 4% of the company’s average daily orders
Collaborated with multiple vendors to establish SEO presence, reduced the cycle time of content publishing by 30%(from 50 days to 30 days)
Increased the SEO discoverability of the company from zero to one and improved orders by 2X over the course of a quarter

Customer RetentionSEOData AnalysisCustomer ExperienceE-commerce

Product Manager

Promoted

May 2021 – Oct 2021 · 5 mos

Search & Experimentation Engine
Owned search recommendation system to optimize for conversion overall conversion lift of 10%
Worked on increasing discovery of private label brands post launch to 25% - making them a significant contributor to search orders
Enabled hyper-personalisation in search - every user searching for the same keyword got delivered different results which were relevant to his preferences
Got multiple features developed in Snapdeal’s AB experimentation engine which enhances the ease of use of the portal and publish the results in a single portal making it a one stop solution for experiment launch, conclusion and roll out - reduced experimentation time by 15% - direct impact on orgwide feature rollouts

Search ManagementA/B TestingData AnalysisProduct ManagementE-commerce

Associate Product Manager

Promoted

Oct 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Search & Experimentation Engine

Business Analyst

Feb 2019 – Oct 2019 · 8 mos

Meesho

Senior Business Analyst

Dec 2018 – Feb 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Worked with Merchandising teams to maximise conversions via managing active catalogues through multiple BI and analytic projects

Mu sigma inc.

Trainee Decision Scientist

Oct 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, India

Worked on Pricing, Demand planning, Assortment planning as well as Creating effective quality control frameworks across multiple Fortune 100 clients
Developed a tool for maximizing store profit across 5000+ stores of a retail organization by optimizing assortment of automated kiosks inside a store
Developed a price sensitive pricing strategy for the entire portfolio of product care plans sold inside stores in select regions to drive sales
Created an exhaustive dashboard depicting the types of delivery defects incurred by third party sellers across time and to understand the underlying reasons behind those delivery defects

Data AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceE-commerce

Mu sigma business solutions pvt. ltd.

Data Scientist

Oct 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Collaborated with senior executives of FT100 firms to solve high impact business problems and lead informed, data driven decision making ● Increased revenue of a big box US retailer by $150K through in-store kiosk assortment optimization ○ Developed a tool to maximize store profits by generating best kiosk combinations for each of the 5500+ retail outlets ○ Led the migration of 10+ backend models from legacy systems to a modern code base system ● Derived cost savings of 900k/year by improving procurement process of packaging components for a global pharmaceutical client ○ Created probabilistic models for risk assessment and acceptance of 1.2k shipments from 3 vendors to 2 internal sites ○ Designed a tool for Statistical Process Control using Control Charts to track defects across 4 Acceptable Limit categories.

Statistical ModelingData AnalysisMachine LearningData Science