Sayantan Acharjee

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 5+ years in B2B SaaS and AI-driven products
  • Expert in turning customer insights into product solutions
  • Proven track record in improving product usability and adoption
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS Product Manager with expertise in payments and user experience.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementPaymentsData AnalyticsE-commerce SolutionsEntrepreneurshipSaas

Other Skills

PresentationsData ClassificationAgile DevelopmentCreative IdeationStrategic ThinkingKey Performance IndicatorsProduct RequirementsUser ResearchUser Acceptance TestingUser Experience (UX)Agile MethodologiesBacklog ManagementPrototypingUser Experience Design (UED)Product Strategy

About

Product Manager with 5+ years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS and AI-driven products that solve real customer problems. I specialize in turning customer insights into impactful product solutions by combining deep user research, data-driven decision making, and close collaboration with engineering, sales, and business teams. My work focuses on building products that improve usability, drive adoption, and align product strategy with business outcomes. I like owning the full stack of PM work: customer discovery, PRDs and API design, launch/enablement, and metrics/experimentation. I’m comfortable translating constraints like compliance and risk into clear product choices. 2024–2025: brief hiatus to build new vertical involving GenAI in business. New found skill in Building Agentic Apps. Focus areas: Agentic apps for hard workflows. Contact me to build something interesting!

Experience

9 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
--
Current Experience

Finacplus

Product Manager

Jul 2023Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

  • Platform Payments & Data analytics
  • Led dual-track discovery/delivery for payments features (PRDs, API specs, sandbox QA → prod, UAT, release/training).
  • Integrated Stripe to launch three flows: borrower repayment links for servicers with loan/period metadata, business payments for property insurance & regulated fees, and milestone-based vendor disbursals with document checks.
  • On-time repayments +~3pp via payment-link reminders (~$270k/month improved). Improved Finance recon time ~167 hrs/month through metadata-driven auto-matching.
  • Delivered improvements in document extraction using LLM, accuracy 30%↑ and time 45 mins↓.
  • Developed a loan origination (LOS) iteratively with customers, onboarding 100+ originators with a 25% increase in customer satisfaction and improved engagement.
  • Designed a loan risk predictor, reducing risky purchase decisions by 20% through predictive analytics.
  • Developed a custom loan reporting tool, reducing dependency on external services, saving $150K annually.
  • Launched loan draw & budget reconciliation improvements used by Treasury/AM, boosting ops efficiency by ~10-30% in disbursement/recon workflows.
PresentationsData ClassificationAgile DevelopmentCreative IdeationStrategic ThinkingKey Performance Indicators+5

Fortigo network logistics pvt. ltd.

Product Manager

Jun 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Platform Payments
  • Integrated BillDesk inside TMS platform to support: client pay-ins with ERP invoice reference mapping, event-driven vendor payouts post-POD, and operational expense from TMS, used by vendors.
  • Enterprise pay-in impact: reduced DSO -~5 days; reduced suspense value -~₹12.5 lakh/month; auto-recon saved ~50 hrs/month for Finance team.
  • Partner payout impact: Delivery → credit latency improved from T+7 to median T+1 via event triggers, batching, and beneficiary verification; “payment-status” tickets -~35%.
  • Shipped ERP payment & invoicing APIs to onboard two large enterprises.
  • Built payments dashboards to monitor & curb mismatches and shorten resolution time.
Agile MethodologiesBacklog ManagementPrototypingUser Experience Design (UED)Data AnalyticsProduct Strategy+16

Lpesos

Growth Product Manager

Dec 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Managed development & marketing for web and mobile e-commerce solutions from concept to roll-out
  • Defined OKR/KPI for product development, marketing and conversion;
  • Analyzed usage metrics to improve onboarding and activation by 40% by improving sad flows and drop-offs
  • Designed and ran A/B experiments with cohort analysis on marketplaces for increasing the conversion rate from 2.5% to 15%
  • Collaborated with stakeholders for pricing, bundling and discounting strategies to increase sales
  • Responsible for onboarding products on multiple e-commerce marketplaces
  • Impacted bottom-line growth by INR 3.5-4.5M in 2021 from combined web, mobile and marketplace sales
Agile MethodologiesBusiness ModelingBacklog ManagementPrototypingTeam LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)+17

Rydeplay

Founder

Jan 2020Oct 2020 · 9 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India

  • Built a Digital OOH programmable platform on public transport to offer QR-based outdoor ads CTA
  • Developed wireframes, validated problems, built MVP based on user/customer interviews and feedback, integrated with 3rd party signage solution using API and onboarded 20+ early customers
  • Awarded 2nd position in the IIT Kanpur Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2020 for presentations, business plans and models, MVP and financial forecasting
  • Wadhwani NEN awarded a score of 4.77 (on a 5-point scale) for "Certified Potential Real Venture", as part of the global jury evaluation conducted by Wadhwani Foundation
  • Incubated at Webel Bhavan through “Ideathon 4.0” competition organized by Webel and BCC&I
Agile MethodologiesBusiness ModelingBacklog ManagementPrototypingTeam LeadershipUser Experience Design (UED)+12

Novus insight

Product Manager

Apr 2019Dec 2019 · 8 mos · East Hartford, Connecticut

  • Managed cross-functional team and stakeholder communication, and oversaw product development from early to implementation
  • Managed development of 2 B2B SaaS products for complex data management and school enrollment management
  • Conducted user interviews and feedback sessions to prioritize critical features to convert trial customers and onboard new customers
  • Performed user needs analysis, developed roadmaps, prioritized feature backlogs and tracked OKR/KPIs
  • Collaborated with UX designers to overhaul visual design for product using perceptible intuitive designs
Agile MethodologiesBusiness ModelingBacklog ManagementPrototypingTeam LeadershipTeam Management+13

Google

MBA Intern (Product Management)

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California

  • Built dashboard & workflow tool for Assistant partner program by integrating Gmail, Drive and internal tracking tools using JTBD
  • Boosted 3x partner engagement by reducing 60% onboarding time using checklist-based data tracking and messaging
  • Streamlined existing process flow to improve internal resource efficiency by 50%
  • Identified Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for partner onboarding and engagement success
  • Generated all product related documentation - business case, requirements, specifications, user and setup manuals
Agile MethodologiesTeam ManagementUser Experience (UX)Product RequirementsProblem Solving

Uconn school of business

MBA Graduate Assistant

Aug 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hartford, Connecticut Area

  • Engaged in a research project under marketing professor to help understand the impact of YouTube channel content on channel subscriber growth based on the type of content posted
  • Prepared data and implemented models to analyze consumers’ behavior and interest for subscribing to different YouTube channels through text mining and predictive models using R/excel/SAS JMP
Team LeadershipTeam ManagementProblem Solving

Mediatek usa inc.

Senior Product Design Engineer

Mar 2014Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Singapore

  • Managed product development under agile methodology for the flagship smartphone and digital TV chipset products
  • Coordinated dependency reduction among cross-functional teams to speed-up design to testing phases
  • Communicated and negotiated with design tool vendors to provide support for escalated tool bugs
  • Created custom scripts to fix laborious design issues which reduced design time by 15-25% and failure rate by 20-35%
  • Forecasted and monitored performance quality checks, which is needed for customer trust and acquisition
  • Consulted project schedule with designers and technical marketing team for on-time product development and launch
  • Completed development and engineering sample launch for MediaTek’s first network switch product for the $1 billion+ valued data center market
  • Monitored and directed functional quality checks to reduce manufacturing rejects by 20%
  • Created, assisted and deployed custom debug and fixing solutions for controlling unforeseeable design risks
Team LeadershipTeam ManagementProblem Solving

Open-silicon

Product Design Engineer

Aug 2012Feb 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed a variety of flagship products for fortune 500 clients ranging from flash memory to cockpit displays.
  • Aggregated, sanitized and maintained custom utility scripts to automate and speed-up various product development phases by 3-6 weeks (12-25% of total weeks/project)
  • Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations by engaging and reciprocating with the clients
  • Created various workaround automation scripts for design issues which couldn’t be solved by legacy design tools
Team ManagementProblem Solving

Synopsys india pvt ltd

Graduate Technical Intern

Sep 2011Jul 2012 · 10 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Understood business requirements for market expansion of design platforms through feature additions
  • Researched platform integration procedures by collaborating with Indian and US R&D divisions
  • Performed and analyzed 250 cumulative evaluation tests to find platform integration failure points for feature compatibility development
  • Reported and documented failed test cases and designed proof solutions with R&D teams as platform integration requirements
  • Presented & delivered research and test findings in integration procedures to business unit
  • Details: Formal equivalence checking of arithmetic data paths synthesized in FPGA DSP and logic blocks. Recommended integration protocol for two design platforms through extensive test analysis for market entry strategy.
  • Work involved developing RTL codes for various arithmetic datapath designs, synthesizing in FPGA DSP and logic blocks and verification by simulation.
  • Formal equivalence checking of synthesized netlist with the RTL should infer functional equivalence. Analysis and debugging for failed or aborted formal verification.
  • Extracting necessary annotations needed by synthesis tool for design optimizations for formal verification to succeed.
  • A parallel formal verification is also done with designs synthesized with DC (design compiler) to compare run-time.
  • Reporting and documentation of failed cases and recommended solutions.
Problem Solving

Education

University of Connecticut School of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Business Statistics

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Vellore Institute of Technology

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) — VLSI Design

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Instrumenation and Control

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Product Management & Payments

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience