Niranjan Pathade, Senior Product Manager

Niranjan Pathade

Senior Product Manager

Leaf Fintech

Location
India
Education
Master's degree, Executive Program in Strategic Digital Marketing
Experience
22 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months

Senior Product Manager at Leaf Fintech
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since June 2020

• Define the Product Strategy & road-map.
• Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities.
• Be the key link between the business and IT technical resources.
• Handling team of 3 persons including developers for IT deliverables like Website, Enterprise system (web and app).
• Working closely with third party vendor for Whatsapp chatbot functionality
• Working closely with UI/UX agency for redesigning enterprise system both web & app
• Continuously looking for scope of improvement in customer acquisition and servicing.
• Document business objectives, functional requirements and data models for system solutions thereby ensuring that business requirements are captured in a comprehensive and quality manner.
• Coordinate requirements walk- through and sign-offs with stakeholders to ensure that documentation accurately portrays business needs.
• Produce the logical systems design (detailing business information flow/process) for business solution agreed.

Business Analyst at Sharekhan BNP Paribas
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2005 to March 2020

Sharekhan Ltd 5 years 4 months
Project : Old mobile App
• Co-ordinate with third party vendor to give understanding about equity, derivative segements to develop
mobile trading app
• Worked with internal IT and vendor to integrate trading system with mobile app by sharing appropriate APIs
to be used in mobile app.
• Create use cases for mobile app and performed UAT testing alongwith IT testing team.
• With help of vendor learned to upload the apks on Google Play store and app store.
• Provide Demos to Branches & Franchisees about mobile app.
• Measure app performance by monitoring google play store data and reviews

Assistant Product Manager at BNP Paribas
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2017 to March 2019

Project: Sharekhan App (Promotion) & Mutual Fund App Development
• Worked closely with marketing & anaytical team to measure the promotion made for Sharekhan app.
• Worked with Ad agency to provide key information about the app to prepare promotional campaigns.
• Worked with Mutual Fund business owner to understand MF requirements.
• Conduct user surveys by means of questionnaires and call users through phone to understand feedbacks
and suggestions about Mutual Funds existing portal.
• To connect user feedbacks and business requirements and prepare business scope document.
• Make low fidelity wireframe of the same and co -ordinate with design team to create visual design
• On approval of visual design from business owners, co-ordinating with IT team for development and sharing
UX knowledge about MF app.
• To build promotional offers for Mobile App to promote app, increase revenue from app.

Business Analyst at BNP Paribas
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2016 to November 2017

1 year 6 months
Project : Sharekhan New App
• To gather data from various channels such as customer feedbacks, surveys, financial forums (internet),
internal business owners about Equity, Derivatives & Currency markets.
• Identify the keys areas of the users by analysing their behavioural pattern while doing research/gap
analysis.
• Prepare user journey document of user experience objectives with the help of key areas thereby ensuring
that business requirements are captured in a comprehensive and quality manner.
• Creating paper prototype of the equity, derivative & currency trading process with respect to mobile usage
and get it approved by senior management to prepare low fidelity wireframe of the application. (in MS Excel
or Axure)
• On approval of wireframe from business owners and top management, coordinate with UI team to prepare
visual prototypes.
• Coordinating with IT Dept/Vendor for sharing knowledge about the process, UI/UX of the application in order
to help them develop the application.

Senior Executive at Sharekhan Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2008 to July 2012

Projects: Desktop application (Research Module), Technical Signalbased product (Vendor Management),
Website (Portfolio)
• Gathering information from various channels such as internal department, websites, customers and doing
research/gap analysis on the information.
• Document business & functional requirements and data points for system solutions thereby ensuring that
business requirements are captured in a comprehensive and quality manner.
• Demonstrate a high level of subject matter expertise in functional area to bridge business requirements and
IT solutions.
• Establish formal and informal methods of interaction with business managers and their staff to gain in-depth
knowledge of the business area and establishes credibility in discussing the processes and plans of that
business.
• Handled technical signal based premium product on web portal. (Vendor Management)
• Be the key link between the business and IT technical resources.
• Ensure all technical documentation and testing scenarios provided by vendors is mapped to and meets
business requirements.
• Conduct training session for end users on virtual platform and after implementation support.
• Calculation of the cost price by FIFO method in portfolio statement on website by taking into consideration
various corporate actions and integrating the same on trading platform.
• Understand various types of transactions such as (corporate action, interdepository transfers etc) and their
impact on portfolio value and successfully implementing it on portfolio statement on organization’s website.

Executive at Sharekhan Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2006 to July 2008

2 years 2 months
• Understanding the trading life cycle and scoping of Back Office Module for Scrip wise, Client Wise & Date
wise transaction report and successfully implementing it in various Branches.
• Test the scenarios of Back office for various scenarios through branch perspectives and report bugs to IT
for rectifications
• Understand the business requirement of various depts.for having a unique platform to share information for
respective dept and development of same on in-house site (intranet).
• Taking the understanding of mutual fund order system and developing a platform to generate order for
same through SMS based application.

Dealer at Excutive
  • November 2005 to May 2006

Sharekhan Ltd. 7 months
• Understand share market basic such as Equity, Derivatives & Mutual Fund and place orders on online
trading platform on behalf of clients.
• Build rapport with clients by giving them trading and investing calls given by our research team and placing
orders on behalf of them.
• Make cold calls to client for giving overview of their portfolio and tell them about research calls given by our
research team.

Faculty Member
  • October 2001 to August 2005

Sancom Computers 3 years 11 months
Trained students on Windows OS & MS office package.
Trained 1st Year Engg. Students on C Programming Logic.

Education

Master's degree, Executive Program in Strategic Digital Marketing
  • at University of Cambridge Judge Business School
  • March 2019
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics
  • at Mumbai University
  • June 2001

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
UI testing
Gap Analysis
Staff Training
Data Research
DERIVATIVES
EQUITIES
MARKETING
RESEARCH
MICROSOFT OFFICE
QUALITY
TRADING SYSTEMS
ADVERTISING
ASSETS RECOVERY
BUSINESS OWNER

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Executive Program in Strategic Digital Marketing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2019