Looking for a Senior Product Management Role in Payments, Fintech industry, or else any adjoining industry where I can bring value from my experience.

Shreenivas Joshi
@shreenivasjoshi
Senior product leader with 27+ years building and scaling FinTech platforms across India, Southeast Asia, the US, and EMEA.
What I'm looking for
Senior product leader with 27+ years building and scaling FinTech platforms across India, Southeast Asia, the US, and EMEA. Proven track record of building 0-to-1 category products and scaling them to market leadership - delivering 3× revenue growth, a 10% reduction in credit loss rates, and 40% addressable market expansion. Deep expertise across digital lending, real-time payments (UPI, QRIS, SEPA, ACH), AI/ML-driven underwriting, and embedded finance. Experienced in taking AI from buzzword to production: shipped ML-powered pricing engines, dynamic underwriting scorecards, and fraud detection models that moved business metrics. Built and led product organisations of 30+ across Indonesia, India, Singapore, and the US. Equally trusted by engineering teams, boards, and regulators.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Product Consultant
Independent Product Consulting
Oct 2025 - Present (1 year)
Serving select FinTech clients on credit platform strategy, AI-driven underwriting, and product operating model transformation. Advising early- and growth-stage fintech founders on lending product architecture, credit risk frameworks, and go-to-market strategy across India and Southeast Asia.
Co-Founder
Wave Indonesia
Oct 2025 - Sep 2026 (11 months)
Empowering Indonesians with financial freedom through fintech solutions and improving financial literacy. Advising co-founders on innovative fintech solutions including lending products, credit risk frameworks, and go-to-market strategy across Indonesia.
Senior Product Consultant
Amar Bank
Jul 2025 - Oct 2025 (3 months)
Partnered with C-suite and cross-functional leaders to diagnose growth and retention gaps across the core lending portfolio; produced a prioritised 12-month product roadmap adopted by the CEO. Designed and drove 5+ product initiatives combining AI-driven pricing, underwriting model refinements, and UX flow improvements - collectively reducing credit loss rates by 10% while simultaneously growing r
SVP, Product Management
JULO Financial Technology
May 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 11 months)
Built and led a 30+ member product organisation spanning Product Management, UX Design, and User Research; introduced structured career ladders, OKR frameworks, and PM competency matrices, reducing voluntary attrition by ~30% and improving delivery predictability. Defined product vision and multi-year roadmap across lending, payments, and credit infrastructure; presented strategy and business case
VP, Product Management
OVO / Grab
Mar 2021 - Mar 2023 (2 years)
Managed 15 Product Managers across Payments, Insurance, and Investment verticals - one of the largest PM organisations in Indonesian FinTech. Owned end-to-end product strategy for Insurance and Investments, establishing OVO as a credible financial services platform beyond payments.
Recruited, structured, and led an 8-member product team from scratch during the company's fastest growth phase. Scaled the platform 5× during the pandemic by pivoting product mix to digital-first, remote-friendly insurance categories - achieving this growth without a proportional headcount increase.
Chief Product Officer
Block Shrinkhala Technologies (ZebPay)
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019 (6 months)
Owned Product, Engineering, and UX for ZebPay at peak-market scale; defined product strategy that measurably improved onboarding conversion and user activation. Led end-to-end launch of a new Australian cryptocurrency exchange, managing regulatory compliance, localisation, and technical workstreams simultaneously - delivered in under 6 months.
Head of Products, Enterprise Business
PayU (Prosus Group)
Jun 2017 - Jan 2019 (1 year 7 months)
Led a 12-member product team serving India's largest enterprise merchants across e-commerce, travel, and fintech verticals. Drove 30%+ YoY transaction volume growth through checkout flow optimisation, payment success rate improvements, and dynamic routing enhancements.
Owned APAC bank transfer portfolio across Australia, India, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia - representing ~$1.5B in annual payment volume; delivered multi-million dollar annual cost savings through simplified integrations and settlement optimisation. Launched multi-currency wire withdrawal for large merchants, unlocking cross-border payout at scale; the feature drove an 8% increase in merchant p
Led PayPal's SEPA migration across 20+ EMEA countries - a regulatory-mandated programme affecting 20M+ users and 3B+ in annual payment volume; delivered on time with zero regulatory penalty. Introduced American Express card acceptance in Australia, expanding PayPal's funding instrument coverage; Amex-funded transactions represented 8% of Australian checkout volume within 3 months.
Co-led the Payment Intermediation Programme - a strategic initiative to transition eBay's global payments infrastructure affecting 4M+ sellers and $2B in annual GMV. Designed Virtual Account Matching system, achieving 99.95% reconciliation accuracy - directly reducing payment disputes, chargeback rates, and operational overhead at scale.
Product Development Manager
Bankserv
May 2003 - Dec 2010 (7 years 7 months)
Launched Remote Deposit Capture and Multi-factor Authentication products - capabilities that became industry-standard across US retail banking within 3 years of launch. Managed end-to-end product roadmaps, balancing priorities across multiple US financial institution partners simultaneously.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
1993 - 1997
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, completed in 1997.
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