Vaibhav Sharma

Product Manager

Thane, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in product management.
Expertise in payment gateway API development.
Strong track record in data analytics and product innovation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech product manager with strong expertise in data analytics and API development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementPayment ProcessingProduct DevelopmentData AnalyticsProject Management

Other Skills

API DevelopmentCard ProcessingReporting APIsAgileBusiness AnalysisFeature DevelopmentComplianceMarket ResearchProduct BacklogSwagger DocumentationUser StoriesFinancial IndustryMobile PaymentsMicrosoft ExcelProject Planning

About

Highly experienced product professional with over decade of experience in the financial and business. Expertise in data analytics, design thinking, entrepreneurship, product development, and artificial intelligence, with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a postgraduate diploma in data science. Strong track record of success in product development, feature development, competition analysis, and payment gateway API development, with SAFe 5.1 certification.

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Worldpay

Senior Product

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · India · Hybrid

Product Portfolio Highlights:
API products for reporting (authorization, settlement, batch retrieval) across multiple payment gateways.
Implementation of scheme mandates and feature enhancements for major networks (Visa, Mastercard, DCI, Diners, JCB, Amex).
Management of forward API, network tokens, security tokens, and architecture modernization initiatives.
API & Product Leadership: Led the design and enhancement of payment, card processing, and reporting APIs, focusing on reliability, scalability, and compliance.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with engineering, compliance, and business teams to gather and translate requirements into functional and technical specifications.
Market & Competition Analysis: Conducted market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities for new features and maintain a competitive edge.
User-Centric Approach: Gathered user requirements, created user stories, and contributed to detailed Swagger documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
Regulatory Knowledge: Maintained up-to-date expertise in payment industry trends, SWIFT, ACH, PCI DSS, and other compliance requirements.
Product Release Management: Supported planning and execution of product releases, managed the product backlog, and drove continuous improvement through data analytics.
Technical Proficiency: Experienced with a variety of payment methods, including debit/credit cards, mobile payments, and electronic bank transfers.
Innovation & Problem Solving: Leveraged design thinking and analytics to drive product innovation and resolve complex challenges.
Key Skills: Product Management, Payment Processing, API Development, Card Processing, Reporting APIs, Agile, Data Analytics, Business Analysis, Feature Development, Compliance, Market Research, Product Backlog, Swagger Documentation, User Stories, Financial Industry, Mobile Payments

Product ManagementPayment ProcessingAPI DevelopmentCard ProcessingReporting APIsAgile+10

Cred

Analytics

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Product development, Feature development, Hygiene Tracking Metrics, A/B Experimentation, Engagement, Growth Hacking, Competition analysis, Dashboard L1/L2 Metrics, Data Pipeline design, App Instrumentation, campaign tracking, Automating Cohort generation process. AUM analysis, Cohort Management, Payment Gateway Integration Analysis, Merchant On-boarding, Performance tracking, Kill-or-Continue analysis, Query optimization. Card Tokenization pipeline Implementation.
Key Achievements
Multiple Improvements in Funnel Flow leading to 23% MoM lift.
7 Experiments with favorable results, Scaled to 100%
2 Product Evaluation for Long term Strategic Inputs.
Query Optimization for overall reduction of 257 mins per run.
Setting up Datamart for Data democratization.

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Zee entertainment enterprises limited

Technical Manager - Analysis

Jul 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai

Budgeting and Expense Planning for Pan India Operations.
Experience Funnel Modelling.
Speaking with customers and crystallization of needs for solution development.
Deployment of Dynamic internal planning app for resource allocation along with recommendation engine.
Process formation for SOP of Data pipelines.
Creating Empirical Process Control Metrics and Evangalising adiption for the same.
Pan India Employee Facility Usage Analytics and control.
Daily expenditure tracking Dashboard along with associated pipelines.

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Jones lang lasalle

Consultant - Projects

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Looking at functional and technical requirements.
Technical Analysis of requirement along with evaluation with best fit
Creating and grooming backlog.
Project Management and Solutioning.
Implementation Standards and procedure As per expectation of client.

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Carlson rezidor hotel group

Assistant Engineering Manager

May 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai

Setting up all Standards Procedures and Processes required by Engineering.

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The indian hotels company limited (ihcl)

Assistant Engineer

Sep 2011 – Apr 2016 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai

Maintenance of HVAC, Boiler, Tele comunication, Electrical, Mechanical.
Setting up all Standards and procedure required for a pre-opening property, Related to Engineering.

Microsoft ExcelProject PlanningProduct Development