Kaustubh Varade

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in regulatory compliance and AI governance.
  • Proven track record in fintech product management.
  • Successfully launched multiple digital payment solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Product Manager with expertise in digital payments and regulatory compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Regulatory ComplianceStakeholder ManagementProduct ExecutionPaymentsProduct DesignBusiness StrategyProduct DiscoveryMobile PaymentsAccount ManagementLoan OriginationJavaOracle FlexcubeSpring Framework

Other Skills

AJAXAPI ManagementAccountingAdvanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)BRDCompetitive AnalysisCore BankingHTMLHibernateIMPSJ2EE Application DevelopmentKey MetricsOperations ManagementOracle DatabasePL/SQL

Experience

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

Publicis sapient

Senior Product Manager

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hybrid

  • AI Risk Management & Governance
  • Currently helping a Bank to implement a governance framework to use AI responsibly.
  • Supporting the day-to-day operations concerning auditing AI solutions built by different teams within the bank.
  • Helping the bank comply with regulatory laws belonging to different jurisdictions worldwide.
  • Guiding the AI development teams to avoid and mitigate risks better.
Stakeholder ManagementRegulatory ComplianceOperations ManagementAdvanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

Zeta india

Product Manager

Sep 2019Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • HDFC Payzapp
  • Discovered challenges faced by existing users of Payzapp. Defined and prioritised the opportunities that newer version of Payzapp should solve for.
  • Undertook the end to end ownership of ‘Wallet to Account’ charter. Using this feature, customers can transfer funds from their wallet to external bank account over IMPS & IFT rails.
  • During limited release phase (1.4 lac target users), achieved 95% authorization rate for an average of 25k transactions every day.
  • Built reconciliation and clearance system to automate back-office operations. The system was initially used for reconciling Wallet to account transactions, but later on, it was also adopted for Wallet to merchant transactions.
  • UPI Issuer Switch: Built the module from scratch to support use cases of a virtual credit card offering for HDFC. This switch enables authorizations in Zeta’s accounting systems over UPI rails.
  • Visa Transaction Simulator: Revamped the simulator, added use cases, and drove the adoption among HDFC bank stakeholders. Simulator allows users to mimic real-world scenarios on Zeta platform.
  • Sodexo
  • Launched employee benefits solution to digitize experiences of Sodexo Philippines and Vietnam. Offered key features such as eVouchers to increase the adoption in the new markets.
  • Since this new market launch, onboarded 500k new employees, 550 corporates and 750 merchants. Due to newly added features, increased vouchers in circulation by 30% thereby increasing the Zeta platform GTV by 5%.
Product executionAPI ManagementIMPSAccountingPrepaid CardsProduct Discovery+9

Novopay

Associate Product Manager

Jun 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Salary Account Solution:
  • Started the program with a vision of financial inclusion of blue collar employees by collaborating with staffing company called Betterplace.
  • Conducted user interviews to understand challenges faced by security guards, delivery guys, housekeeping staff and office assistants. Analysed the user behaviour through existing data collected in Betterplace system.
  • Partnered with Equitas SFB as a bank partner for the program. Used their infrastructure to build BetterMoney android application, back-office tool for onboarding and managing KYC data of blue collar employees and their employers, salary disbursal APIs for corporates.
  • Worked with card processing vendor M2P to design Rupay prepaid card which could be used by blue-collar workers to manage their salaries.
  • As part of pilot launch, onboarded 8k employees under a corporate and recorded salary payouts of 2.5 lacs within 3 months.
WireframingCompetitive AnalysisUse Case DiagramsMobile PaymentsPrepaid CardsProduct Discovery+3

Maveric systems limited

Business Analyst

Jun 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Online Account Opening:
  • Redefined workflows of web based solution for Metro bank of UK. Post launch, customers could open savings accounts and term deposit accounts without visiting branch.
  • Loan Origination System: Analysed the problems reported by ADCB bank about existing workflow in Finnone Neo.
BRDAccount ManagementUse Case DiagramsLoan OriginationUser StoriesProcess Flow Documentation

Oracle financial services software ltd.

Software Engineer

Feb 2012Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Oracle Park, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Oracle Flexcube Direct Banking
  • Designed & developed technical architecture for implementing Internet banking use cases to address specific needs banking clients.
  • Resolved production and uat incidents in record times thereby winning appreciation from clients.
Oracle FlexcubeServletsJavaOracle DatabaseJ2EE Application Development

Uniken inc.

Software Engineer

Sep 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • • Developed product solutions for Remote desktop monitoring. Using this solution, the Tech-Ops team members can take control of the end-users’ computers to fix technical issues.
HTMLjQueryPL/SQLSpring MVCSpring FrameworkAJAX+3

Education

K J Somaiya Institute of Management

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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