Ashish Anand

Senior Product Leader | FinTech & Payments

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Languages

EnglishFrenchHindi

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.

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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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