United States

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Platform Product Management

Master's Degree

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

H.S.C.

Yash Thakur

Product Lead

Product analytics

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Customer service

Leadership

Negotiation

Product roadmap

Postman

ChatGPT

Jira

Lucidchart

Miro

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Time management

Relationship management

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

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

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Breaking into tech

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Launching new products or features

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

Running effective meetings

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

Presenting your work with impact

Senior Product Manager :

US Credit Card Major | Virtual Payments Gateway
•	Established product management function and scaled it to a team of 4 to deliver against the product vision, prioritized and drove product direction with accelerated Go-To Market timelines to achieve parity with competing providers 
•	Led product management and technology architecture functions simplifying the checkout process by delivering their secure remote commerce (virtual payment terminal) capabilities across more than 200,000 merchants
•	Instituted Agile program management for the DevOps monitoring and reporting in partnership with Application Development and Product Management teams on project progress, issues, risks, and results to client stakeholders and team members

US Investment Banking Major (Wealth Management Division) | International P2P Payments
•	Conducted market research and competitor analysis, including 10+ customer interviews (across Asia, Europe and North America) to identify pain points in use cases, process gaps, compliance risk and regulatory mandates for the existing solution
•	Developed a Global Comparative analysis study for key product features available in APAC and Americas to identify key features/products that can be leverage across the regions
•	Managed multi-team development and led product delivery of the AWS cloud-based cross-border payments solution involving integration patterns, APIs and messaging following an evaluation of transaction volumes, agent bank networks and data security 

US Investment Banking Major (Wealth Management Division) | Money-movement Platform
•	Identified KPI/KRIs, cross product dependencies and service identification for components including Mobile Money transfer, Brokerage Account Opening and Onboarding 
•	Defined next-gen functional, logical and infrastructure capabilities, product roadmap and data strategy for the identified products, services and channels of the payments’ hub

Product Architect:

Asian Multinational Investment bank | Mobile Payments Service
•	Designed AI/ML based platform processing real-time and batch data generating personalized recommendations as part of a digital payments and insights platform for a global retail bank’s first consumer facing cloud platform with 1.5M+ registered users
•	Improved customer engagement and value exchange beyond payments to include recommendations and enable customers to discover, interact, share and create content, building a community of engaged users for a retail bank’s payments platform
•	Formulated product strategy, architected technology infrastructure and governed technical implementation of a P2B digital payments’ platform with analytical, event processing and data science capabilities for a global retail bank

American Insurance Major | Personal Finance Software Acquisition
•	Orchestrated design thinking sessions to discover new opportunities based on acquiring company’s vision and empowered team members to rapidly ideate and prototype ideas for the integrated platform offering
•	Defined functional and non-functional requirements for the integrated platform build and assisted in development of technical architecture and design focusing on microservice architecture 

American Financial Services Major | Enterprise Data Platform
•	Partnered cross-functionally with business, engineering, data science, & legal to drive requirements, ideate solutions, design wireframes, along with planning user adoption and risk mitigation strategies 
•	Designed information architecture detailing services, processes, technology and infrastructure components to aid the recovery and resolution efforts of a global bank and facilitated vendor selection through multifactor assessment of market tools

• Helping over 150 students with their questions and researched additional syllabus topics
• Assisting Professor with grading assignments and exams involving the Database Management concepts involving SQL, proctoring exams and other tasks

•	Architected an application to determine the viability of using distributed and real time databases over regular BAML structured databases for the Fixed Income Credit and Currencies service line
•	Designed a dynamic parser to generate UI tree representation for database query inputs to enhance user experience
•	Led the offshore team of 2 on formulating the business requirements  from a legacy system to the current architecture of the Credit Supervisory Dashboard application

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