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Apurv Pohane

@apurvpohane

AI-first Product Manager building fintech enterprise data and GenAI systems—from evaluation to production—cutting costs through shipping discipline.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build and ship AI-first products in fintech/enterprise contexts—owning outcomes end-to-end from specs to production, using evaluation, tracing, and cost/latency optimisation to drive measurable impact with strong stakeholder alignment.

I’m a Product Manager with 6+ years across fintech payments, enterprise data transformation, and AI systems, where I’ve consistently “owned delivery from spec to production.” I built a live Generative AI evaluation and observability pipeline from scratch—designing the tracing layer, defining LLM eval criteria, and cutting system costs by 85% on a live product.

Earlier, I managed a white-label remittance platform for regulated UK and Singapore banking markets as Associate PM—owning change requests, UAT triage, incident RCA, and production releases. At EY, I delivered programme governance across three concurrent Unilever global transformation workstreams at Fortune 500 scale, using systems thinking and a strong bias toward shipping, with rigorous stakeholder management and programme-level execution.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Consultant

Current

EY (Ernst & Young)

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Ran the PACE enterprise automation programme by assessing Power Automate build-readiness for inbound requests and coordinating concurrent delivery across HUL teams. Consolidated 6+ workstream leads into C-suite steering dashboards for three global transformation programmes and acted as a single point of cross-vendor coordination.

Automation Power Automate Stakeholder Management Vendor coordination Dashboards Agile Delivery

Current

Senior Consultant

Current

Ernst & Young

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 3 months)

Managed programme governance across three concurrent Unilever transformation workstreams, consolidating inputs from 6+ workstream leads into executive steering dashboards used by C-suite sponsors. Coordinated cross-vendor cloud migration dependencies and performed RCA for a stalled ML initiative by tracing model failure to upstream SOP non-compliance.

Programme Governance Stakeholder Management Root Cause Analysis Dashboarding Cloud Migration Power Automate SAP BTP SAP ERP Executive Reporting

Associate Product Manager

Avenues Payments India

Aug 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 4 months)

Owned the change request lifecycle for a white-label remittance platform processing 10K+ transactions/day across UK and Singapore markets, translating client requests into sprint-ready specifications and protecting scope via zero-unscoped-change rules. Managed production releases with rollback discipline, triaged UAT defects, and routed regulatory changes for CHAPS (UK) and MAS (Singapore) without

Product Management Payments Compliance CHAPS Release Management Wireframing Agile Scrum

Inventory & Supply Chain Analyst

Bigbasket.com

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 (6 months)

Reduced inventory write-offs by ~35% by building detection logic for location-level losses and bin-level mismatches identified during warehouse audits. Improved product availability by analyzing fill-rate failures, identifying stockout and allocation causes, and driving corrective actions with warehouse teams.

Supply Chain Optimization Data Analysis Root Cause Analysis Process Improvement Fill Rate Stockout Root Cause Compliance Corrections