Sumedha Acharya

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led Google Pay's growth to over 100M users.
Innovated financial services for consumer lending.
Recipient of Stayzilla Achievement Award for leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS product management expert with strong technical skills.

Contact

sumi.bits.2010@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser ExperienceProgram ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAutoCADBusiness DevelopmentCC++Data StructuresEclipseEmber.jsHTMLJavaJavaScriptLinuxManagementMatlabMicrosoft Excel

About

Love building products and teams!

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

8 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Google

Group Product Manager

Dec 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Lead - Google Pay Consumer Financial Services, H2 2021-Present
Created India focused conaumwe financial services team. Landing some big 0-1 bets in Consumer Lending for GPay India (Personal loans, Credit Reports, Credit cards & some stealth-mode products launching soon)
Product Lead - Consumer app and Growth for India, 2019-2021 H1
Lead for Google Pay India App Growth.
Owned, re-desgined entire app experience starting from onboarding, homepage, pay-flows. Leading to increase in sign-ups, retention and growth. Migrated the app to cross 100M+ users on flutter.
Single PM Owner for Growth India ;Re-invented scratch cards, built & launched games (Tez shots,Diwali & more), many more behaviour science driven growth experiments, created processes for scale and grew IN from 35M to 75M users in 1 year. Mentored & onboarded multiple PMs to scale more initiatives into the team
Product Lead - Merchant App, 2017-2018
Built merchant app for SMBs to onboard, verify and manage merchant experience.
Single PM leading the 0 to 1 app launch, led strategy/execution and launch.
The first ever merchant app which did videoKYC since 2017 and runs on high retention

ManagementTeam LeadershipProject ManagementUser ExperienceC++Java+32

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Senior Product Manager

Mar 2017 – Dec 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product owner : Handling end to end driver app frameworks
Created app experiences for : Driver Communications(audio & text frameworks), Real Time Auth of Drivers using face-auth, Driver Training, App Localization, GoTo(Bookings allotment as per driver locations preferences), Driver Profile & many loyalty features.
Initiated and Led the partner(driver) engagement & retention product vertical at Ola. Created OPL(Ola Premium legaue) for driver retention & growth

ManagementTeam LeadershipProject ManagementUser ExperienceJavaScriptSQL+1

Stayzilla

2 roles

Product Manager

Mar 2016 – Feb 2017 · 11 mos

Responsible for conceptualizing product roadmap, writing feature specs, wire-framing UI design, focusing on detailed data tracking and analysis, defining and evaluating A/B tests, channeling product releases of Stayzilla website & mobile site end to end.
Conceptualized and implemented the entire discovery and booking on Stayzilla website/m-Site
Implemented the Stayzilla website search algorithm and sort order engines
Ideated a new payment flow for Stayzilla, which could support multiple payment gateways, wallets and promotional credits. Improved the payment success to industry best

ManagementProject ManagementUser ExperienceJavaScriptSQLProduct Management

Program Manager

May 2015 – Mar 2016 · 10 mos

Managed a team of 30 engineers, responsible for delivery across 3 parallel product verticals – Mobile App, Website, Host site
Recipient of ‘Stayzilla Achievement Award’ presented to 10 of 500 for displaying leadership skills, customer focus and project-delivery.
Responsible for hiring and setting up a QA team. Part of the hiring team for product, operations, and software engineers from IITs and BITS

ManagementTeam LeadershipProject ManagementProgram Management

Maas360 by fiberlink (accquired by ibm software labs)

Software Engineer

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Gateway Backend Team: Developed Features on the MaaS360 Portal to support a new gateway. Built Web Services and REST API’s for communication between Gateway/devices.
Front End Team: Designed and implemented revamp of branding workflow on portal. Frontend in JavaScript/jQuery and backend in java. Built many features end-to-end, mentored interns and participated in code reviews.
Participated in customer facing calls, assisted engineering/product managers in sprint planning and writing feature requirement docs.

JavaJavaScriptSQLSoftware Development

Maas360 by fiberlink, an ibm company

Software Developer Internship

Jul 2013 – Dec 2013 · 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Implemented Frontend Optimization project using NodeJs,Taglibs,Javascript. We reduced various applications build time by 40% and war sizes by 50% in this project.
Achieved an end to end integration of multiple selection in the portal across various workflows.
Developed the frontend using dataTables,query and backend in java and sql.
Added actions like locate,distribute for a multiple devices which can help admin to perform actions in bulk.

NodeJsJavaSQLSoftware Development

South central railways

Software Developer Internship

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Developed a database driven Application for South Central Railway Hospitals using Oracle. Created a user interface for Labs in the hospitals to avoid manual data entry. Application built using Oracle forms and reports

OracleSoftware Development