United Kingdom

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Growth Product Management

Platform Product Management

Group Product Management

Community Management

Product Marketing

Program Management

Data Analysis

Business Transformation

ICSE

Aradhya Mudgal

Senior Product Manager  - Mastercard Transaction Services

Product analytics

Product strategy

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Marketing strategy

Product roadmap

Python

Qualtrics

SurveyMonkey

Tableau

WordPress

ChatGPT

Facebook Ads

Figma

Google Ads

Jira

Jupyter Notebook

Mixpanel

Monday

Confluence

Google Analytics

PowerBI

Glassdoor

Instagram Ads

Workday

Youtube

Typeform

Mural

Communication

Time management

Team player

Organisation skills

Critical-thinking

Brand positioning

Content research

Campaign execution & analysis

Community management

Content creation

Content strategy

Conversion optimisation

Data visualisation

Influencer marketing

Market research

Social media marketing

Sales plan and process

Relationship management

Referrals

Quantitative research

Monetisation

Partnership

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Working as a senior product manager focused on ideating, assessing & building new payment products (0 to 1) and solutions, especially for regulated markets worldwide.

Our lean and dynamic team is involved in leading product development and management initiatives across cross border payments, commercial payments, card to account solutions, crypto, open banking and settlement products. All with a focus on building and enabling highly regulated money movement products for Mastercard.

MTS is a division of Mastercard focused on  multi rail/multi product expansion into regulated transactions along with facilitation of money transmission activities for Mastercard globally.

• 200K+ followers and 15 Million+ monthly organic reach of my content at the time of updating here.
• Creating content related to employability, upskilling, career and business as an volunteering effort to upskill and empower people

Worked as a management consultant in strategy & tranformation team of Mastercard Data & Services serving clients globally.
- Recognized with the first ever "Volunteer of the Month" for driving expansion of fintech & digital segment practice across career levels for my contributions
- Recognised multiple times for good customer experience, innovation and delivering unexpected value to the clients globally
- Worked on end-to-end GTM strategy for a EU fintech client, focusing on B2B expense handling products for prepaid, debit, and credit cards, especially virtual cards.
- Collaborated as a team of five to advise executive leadership at a global acquirer/bank and deliver partnership strategy with fintechs across EU, LAC, and US regions.
- Conducted market analysis for clients, to identify key players, assess current market status, and strategize product positioning and differentiation in UK, FR, GE, and US markets.
-Developed strategic GTM roadmap and prioritization for client sales mobilization, along with designing partnership and business operating model.
-Enhanced merchant retention and growth for a major global acquirer through effective churn management strategies and an ISV partnership roadmap.
-Conducted market research and presented strategy for financial products/services integration with a leading Russian e-commerce marketplace, covering both B2C and B2B offerings.
-Provided Digital Transformation Strategy to a leading Thai bank, emphasizing on 360-degree synergies and additional revenue stream recommendations.
-Consulted European clients on payments-related insights, leveraging BI tools and internal data for growth, fraud, chargebacks, tokenization, and authentication.
-Served as a Product Manager in the Consulting Innovation team at Mastercard, leading productization efforts for consulting solutions and driving innovation and sales of Payments products across various areas like Acquiring, Acceptance, Crypto, Authorization, Fraud, and ESG.

Supported Product Marketing and Partnerships for Emerging Technology Products across AP region.
During the internship, directly worked with and reported to the India, Country Manager @ JOYY [Nasdaq: YY], the parent Company of apps like Vlight, BIGO, Likee, IMO Messenger, Hago & YY.

•	Planned and finalized the marketing budget of the team for the quarter by analyzing the past and present cash flows, growth and predicting the future cash flows. Planned new abstract campaigns and the incentives given to the retail team for the quarter (Jan 20 – March 20).
•	Designed and managed the inventory management system for the team along with documenting, handling and streamlining the vendor identification, finalization, onboarding and procurement of marketing collaterals. (~20K items)
•	Created and finalized the standard pitch deck of the product for corporate and commercial purposes. Conducted an analysis of the Online Daily Fantasy Gaming Market while forecasting the growth and identifying the target customer base (50.69 crore). 
•	Analyzed the sales, cost incurred in building the retail network and the GMV of the product and the promotional campaigns. Tracked the progress and centrally managed the on-ground team consisting of 4 Regional Business Managers, 28 Territory sales managers, 25 distributors, 28 sales executives and retailers (rapidly growing) across India.

•	Conducted market research and analyzed the market to find optimum pricing for blockchain and six sigma training workshops.
•	Worked with the team to develop a roadmap to penetrate the market and become leaders in blockchain consulting.
•	Worked with the Business Excellence team to reduce the defects in the process for the using the Lean Six Sigma framework.

•	Conducted a basic financial analysis of Bangalore Municipal Corporation and gave data-backed insights to increase its revenue.
•	Conducted secondary market research for an e-commerce client to expand in a new array of environment-friendly products.
•	Completed a project with the Uttarakhand government as a client, to facilitate tourism and boost its contribution in GDP and GSDP.

Basic Entry Level Marketing Project: Prepared a marketing thesis leading to a rise in the number of subscribers by 2X, by the peer-to-peer marketing model post implementation by the team.

Connect with me so that I can understand your needs and best mentor moving forward.

Aradhya Mudgal🇬🇧

About Aradhya Mudgal

Expertise

Sessions with Aradhya Mudgal