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Shreenivas Joshi

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Senior product leader with 27+ years building and scaling FinTech platforms across India, Southeast Asia, the US, and EMEA.

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What I'm looking for

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

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

IC
Current

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.

WI

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.

AB

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

JT

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

OG

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.

Qoala logoQO

Head of Products

Nov 2019 - Mar 2021 (1 year 4 months)

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.

BZ

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.

PG

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.

PayPal logoPA

Head, APAC Bank Transfer Products

Apr 2015 - Jun 2017 (2 years 2 months)

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

PayPal logoPA

Senior Product Manager, Global Payments

Aug 2012 - Mar 2015 (2 years 7 months)

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.

eBay Marketplaces logoEM

Senior Product Manager, Payments

Dec 2010 - Aug 2012 (1 year 8 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.

BA

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 logoUM

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

1993 - 1997

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, completed in 1997.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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