Ankit Anand — Product Manager

As a seasoned Product Leader with over 7 years of experience in building impactful products, I specialize in driving growth and user engagement at scale, with deep expertise in both B2C and B2B payments. Currently at Paytm, I lead strategic initiatives across high-volume platforms, directly influencing millions of transactions monthly. My journey combines leadership roles at leading fintech and consulting firms—including Paytm and NPCI—where I've successfully shaped product strategies, launched innovative payment solutions like UPI Autopay, and streamlined user experiences that significantly increased adoption and revenue. At Paytm, my efforts have consistently delivered measurable impact, earning me recognition as a Paytm Rising Star and Rockstar. My strengths lie in transforming complex user problems into intuitive solutions, aligning cross-functional teams toward shared goals, and leveraging data-driven insights to drive decisions. I am passionate about building products that not only solve real user needs but also deliver tangible business outcomes. I'm continually driven by curiosity, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence. Key competencies: • Product Strategy & Roadmap Development • Digital Payments (UPI, Payment Gateways, Recurring Payments) • User Experience (UX) Design & Optimization • Data Analytics & User Research • Agile Product Development I welcome connections and conversations with professionals passionate about fintech, product innovation, and impactful growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Leader with expertise in user engagement and strategic product development.

Location: Delhi, India

Experience: 8 yrs 4 mos

Skills

Product Strategy
User Experience (ux)
Product Management
Data Analysis
Strategic Partnerships
Business Strategy

Career Highlights

Led strategic initiatives impacting millions of transactions monthly.
Achieved 7x growth in UPI Autopay adoption.
Recognized as Paytm Rising Star and Rockstar.

Work Experience

Paytm

Group Product Manager (1 yr 11 mos)

Senior Product Manager (1 yr 10 mos)

National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

Lead - Fintech Solutions (11 mos)

KPMG India

Management Consultant (1 yr 1 mo)

Tata Administrative Services (TAS)

Summer Intern (1 mo)

Bechtel Corporation

Mechanical Engineer (2 yrs 7 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Delhi College of Engineering

at Vivekanand School

at st joseph's academy

Ankit Anand

Product Manager

Delhi, India8 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led strategic initiatives impacting millions of transactions monthly.
Achieved 7x growth in UPI Autopay adoption.
Recognized as Paytm Rising Star and Rockstar.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Leader with expertise in user engagement and strategic product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyUser Experience (ux)Product ManagementData AnalysisStrategic PartnershipsBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

AI agentsAgile DevelopmentAnalytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)B2C e-commerceBill PaymentBusiness AdministrationBusiness AnalyticsBusiness Case DevelopmentBusiness ConsultingBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness RequirementsBusiness-to-Business (B2B)CardsCommunication

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Experience

8 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Paytm

2 roles

Group Product Manager

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · India

Spearheading strategic user engagement product charters, defining vision, roadmap, and A/B testing for Paytm Flights. Focused on improving the booking funnel and revamping the experience with features like AI agents and smart filters.
Launched AI powered smart filter for quick text based flights filtering.
Revamped EMI offers flow to improve promo attach rates and boost flights funnel conversion.
Launched strategic user engagement products like Live Flight status to handhold users through their travel day journey.

Product StrategyUser Experience (UX)Data Analytics

Senior Product Manager

Sep 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · India

Lead for platform products portfolio. Responsible for design and development of platforms powering 120Mn+ monthly transactions in Paytm's Bill Payments category.
▪ Built a ML based personalised category recommender to show most relevant bill payment categories to the users.
▪ Spearheaded development of loan repayment journeys for Paytm's lending products
▪ Boosted UPI Autopay adoption via product interventions achieving 7x growth in monthly mandate creation
▪ Developed monetization platforms (Platform fee, convenience fee) for Bill Payments, directly adding to Paytm's topline

Product ManagementData AnalysisAgile Development

National payments corporation of india (npci)

Lead - Fintech Solutions

Oct 2021 – Sep 2022 · 11 mos

Led a team driving strategic product integrations, innovations, and partnerships with Payment Aggregators and FinTechs.
Collaboratively pioneered new product developments and applications with industry partners.
Orchestrated the external product integration of NPCI's digital payment products, including UPI & Rupay, with leading fintechs
Drove product adoption and successfully executed over 10 strategic initiatives across payment products
Spearheaded the Go-To-Market for NPCI's Tokenization solutions, facilitating the implementation for Rupay Cards.
Directed a team in managing strategic partnerships with key online Payment Aggregators such as Razorpay, Juspay, Billdesk, and CCAvenue

Strategic PartnershipsProduct Adoption

Kpmg india

Management Consultant

Aug 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Spearheaded the digital procurement transformation for a prominent Vietnamese firm by orchestrating an ERP implementation
Prepared Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) for the digitization of farm management systems for a market-leading agricultural player in India
Improved the bottom line of a leading Indian Paints company by implementing strategies that significantly reduced logistics costs
Overhauled the sales and operations planning processes for an agri-sector company with an INR 5000 Cr. turnover.

Business StrategyManagement Consulting

Tata administrative services (tas)

Summer Intern

Apr 2019 – May 2019 · 1 mo · India

Corporate Strategy & Planning:
1) Aided post-merger transformation, deployed robust annual planning processes.
2) Cross-functional stakeholder collaboration to roll out Tata Steel’s best practices and strategy formulation process.
3) Worked with CXOs at Bhushan Steel; designed annual Business Objectives & Strategy (BO&S)
documents for 15+ departments to create an ecosystem for employees’ alignment with the annual business plans
4) Organised 8 workshops for dept. heads to deploy daily management & align ops. with apex BO&S

Bechtel corporation

Mechanical Engineer

Jun 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Key responsibilities included managing project independently, designing equipment parameters, soliciting & evaluating bids, conducting vendor negotiations, collaborating with multiple international teams and placing purchase orders.