
Ashish Anand
Senior Product Leader | FinTech & Payments
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
FinTech product leader with 10+ years driving payment solutions at Ingenico, PayComplete, and FIS. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, integrating GenAI chatbots, and delivering SaaS platforms that boost conversion rates by 20%+ and NPS by 25%. Specialized in payment terminals, APIs, and go-to-market strategies for scalable financial products.
Work experience
Lead Product and AI Conultant (Freelance)
Inno3
Jan 2025 - Present
1 year 10 months
Paris, France
Deployed AI agent suite, reclaiming 7–15h/week each researcher(~50–60% non-core tasks) • Delivered automations of content workflows cutting 30–50% time on research/reading, & documentation • Built privacy-safe, self-hosted stack with impact monitoring and human-in-loops to ship only agents that measurably reduce time waste and improve model over a period of time • Mentored 7 members on GenAI modules (Context Engineering, RAG, Agents etc.), bridging the skills gap to successfully deliver these high-impact automations.
Product Lead
Ingenico
Jun 2023 - Present
3 years 5 months
Paris et périphérie
• Led three cross-functional product teams focused on Android payment terminals and Linux-based applications. • Enhanced product and marketing strategies to address technical and functional rollout challenges for PaaS solutions. • Managed development of SoftPOS, plug-ins, and APIs, supporting diverse payment methods. • Spearheaded the integration of GenAI chatbots to improve user experience and engagement.
Senior Software Product Manager
PayComplete
May 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 3 months
Paris, France
• Led product teams across legacy SaaS applications, a multi-tenant cloud platform, and an IoT machine platform for self-service financial transactions and broader payment solutions. • Owned product vision, strategy, design, and execution for IoT devices, cloud-native platforms, and applications. • Developed SaaS business models and implemented pricing and go-to-market strategies. • Applied Big Data, IoT, and cloud-native technologies in product development. • Delivered solutions enabling secure, scalable self-service financial transactions and payment processing. • Experienced in requirements gathering, user stories, product roadmapping, product strategy, and B2B relationship management.
Product Marketing Manager and Product Manager
FIME
Dec 2020 - May 2022
1 year 6 months
Paris, France
• Lead a team of Product managers and Product Owners to build a future proof testing platform(PaaS) & SaaS applications. • Enhanced product offerings by integrating productivity apps & designing bundled pricing strategies, driving continuous value delivery & increased revenue for businesses & customers. • Built and executed Business Plan: Strategy, Pricing, GTM Strategy etc. for PaaS and SaaS application • Got it off the shelf – Internally, collaborated with IT to ensure solutions are deployed to internal customers and users; externally, collaborated with an even larger set of business stakeholders to deliver products to the market • Leveraged support – ensured product offerings are supported and enhanced to create a continuous flow of value
Chief Product Officer
NessPayFreelance
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
10 months
Paris Area, France
Nesspay is a fintech company with a mission to improve financial wellness of the employees and to help employees avoid unnecessary debts, then access better finance, then offering fair credit scoring, claim back excessive bank fees etc. - Pitched the product and its unique value propositions to investors and customers. - Performed market research, competitive analysis, and conducted customers' interview - Built the road-map, prioritized the backlog, defined and built MVP.
Product Manager / Software Lead
FIS
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
2 years 2 months
Bengaluru Area, India
FIS is world's number 1 FIN TECH company. (IDC FIN TECH Ranking 2019) - Led the cross-functional teams and to develop the FinTech mobile application from scratch. - Influenced portfolio directors for digital transformation of the legacy credit and payment system, engineered ideas includes design changes, automation, and optimization. - Managed API based SaaS platform, collaborated with B2B customers in order to align on product roadmap and strategy, to monetize the product features and digital offerings.
Senior Business Analyst
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
1 year 7 months
Bengaluru Area, India
- Among first few employees of Lowe's (FORTUNE® 50 company) in India, participated in recruitment activities and setting-up of the new product team, led the team on requirement analysis, gathering, prioritization, testing, and launch. - Designed & ran experimentation for e-commerce platform, implemented solutions has increased the NPS by 25%, and the Conversation Rate of sales funnel by 20%. - Built recommendation engine on omnichannel platform, led to increase in Revenue / Customer by 30%. - Performed UAT and monitored final deliverables.
Software Developer
Fiserv
Oct 2009 - Oct 2014
5 years 1 month
Pune Area, India
FISERV is world's number 3 FIN TECH company. (IDC FIN TECH Ranking 2018) - Re-designed data mapping and loan boarding system, which reduced the system downtime from 8 hours to 1 hour. - Collaborated with more than 60 clients to enhance and transform the Fiserv Loan Servicing software product.
Education
ESCP Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2018 - 2019
2 years
Harvard Business School Online
Other / CORe Credential of Readiness
2018 - 2018
1 year
Siddaganga Institute Of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
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