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As a newbie product manager in the fintech industry, I'm thrilled to share my insights on creating roadmaps for a payment gateway app. [1] 🚀 Building a roadmap involves understanding the unique needs of the financial industry, staying up-to-date with market trends, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a seamless user experience. [2] By prioritizing features like secure transactions, robust APIs, and intuitive UI/UX, we can drive innovation and provide value to our users. Have you worked on creating roadmaps for fintech products? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences! #ProductManagement #Fintech #Roadmaps #UserExperience

Great design and research event yesterday by Monzo. Amazing to see the level of investment and impact the UX teams are having there 👏 I took away the three principles shared in the first presentation as golden reminders: 1. Challenge common practice - don't just blindly copy what everyone's doing 2. Bring a beginner mindset - approach something through fresh eyes, with the non expert user, or the new customer in mind 3. Seek diverse perspectives - think different disciplines, thinking, background, needs, etc - all help make for more robust and inclusive design Great stuff!

🚀 Reflecting on my first year at PayPal and introspecting: Building products for internal teams' vs external users which one is better? This was my first experience of building products for external users, and candidly I confess of never caring more about user experiences before. While building products for internal teams is easier and faster coz the PM has direct access to the users and is more aware of the organizations internal pain points and processes, it is definitely more rewarding when you see tons of external users' feedback about how your efforts are impacting their lives every day! If, like me, you find thrill in speed, and sometimes struggle to keep up with the elaborate processes of understanding the diverse range of consumer personas, market trends, UI or regulatory restrictions believe me you are not alone. The journey may be long but the satisfaction of contributing to the broader user community makes every step worthwhile 🚀 🌍 #careerreflections #productmanagement

I realized I wanted to build something the day I took my first #Uber in New York in 2013. I realized that day that Uber doesn't sell transportation... Uber sells us time. Uber is a #unicorn because the number one thing society values in today's world is time... Thats why #infrastructure matters in an #app environment: because it makes the end user experience seamless, and instantaneous. I'm building Plum Labs so anyone can innovate in the markets without spending time thinking about infrastructure or #data. All they need to do is open an App, ask a question of their #portfolio, and Plum Labs will help them find the answer, on demand. #innovation #venturecapital

Exciting news from my #ProductManagement journey! 🚀 As part of the current PM Fellowship cohort at Product Space, I tackled an intriguing assignment recently – a Product Improvement Report for Google Pay (GPay). 🚀 This challenge pushed me to think critically about various aspects of user experience, security, and feature enhancements. 💡 It was an enlightening exercise that truly tested my product analysis and documentation skills. 🎯 🚀 I'll continue to share my progress and insights here. Feel free to share your thoughts, ideas, or feedback - let's learn together! #Learning #ProductManagement #ProductDevelopment #Fintech #GPay #Innovation

Lots of fantastic presentations at #ProductCon London this week, but the speaker that stood out the most was Debbie McMahon, who spoke to some of the more elusive challenges that come with launching new features, including... 🧏♀️ Listening Launching a new feature is exciting. But one thing about excitement is that it tends to drown-out feedback, making it feel less 'deep.' Because of this bias, she finds that she has to listen far more closely to feedback and really sweat the details when it comes to building new features. Fernando Fanton (pictured ✨), CPO at Monzo, also emphasised the importance of sweating the details; he said, at Monzo, features never reach users without first being piloted internally — and if something isn't right, they fix it before shipping. 🖼 Framing It's natural to get excited about a new feature. But oftentimes new features are predicated on assumptions — such as when they originate with a business case rather than user need. In these scenarios, there's a very real risk of said-features flopping. To avoid disappointment—or even worse, grasping at straws—her advice is to frame these initiatives internally as tests rather than building hype around  ✨ [insert feature name] ✨ . Looking forward to leveraging these learnings as I cook up new features at Howbout 👩🍳🍲

Hello community 👋,  I have wrapped my journey at Checkout.com this year and it will be the time for new paths to explore ✨. It has been a challenging but transformational year for me both personally and professionally with all the highs and lows. I am appreciative for all the experiences that brought me where I am today. I have met and worked with some of the kindest and talented people along the way, connected with my strong network of friends and family to rediscover who I am and what I want to do moving forward. Thank you for your care, insights and inspiration for the past year 💙 As the new year progresses, I am truly excited for what is ahead of me while allowing the time and space for learning, creating and reflecting more often. I will be available for opportunities from May onwards after a bit of travel. I will continue to be based in Berlin in the near term and open for both remote with travel routines or Berlin-based hybrid opportunities. I am looking into 2 primary paths for my next role: 🔵 Full-time senior leadership positions in design where I can dive deep into impactful and interesting projects, no matter the organization size but working with kind people who enjoys building great stuff together. I love being close to work. 🔵 Fractional leadership roles at growth-stage companies, where I’d focus on building and growing design functions, developing 0-1 products, and streamlining operations and maturing organizations. Some organizations can really max-out impact by senior leaders in the industry where full time commitment is not necessary at given stage given the market conditions. Happy to chat and find a model working for both sides. As a multidisciplinary design leader with a background in engineering and marketing, I bring over multiple years of experience in building and managing design organizations and 11 years as a hands-on designer, collaborating with startups and large corporations across Europe, the US, and the UK. I have a range of skills from creating 0-1 products, upleveling product experiences and have expertise in forming and advancing large design organizations, managing teams as large as 100+ people. My experience covers a wide range of sectors, including fintech, travel, food delivery, fashion, and marketplace products, where we have successfully launched numerous multi-market, multi-language B2C and B2B products. I'm excited about the unique challenges and opportunities each path offers in these market conditions. In the light of these news, I have nerded out on my leadership portfolio, you can take a look at my past work and learn more about me (Link in the comments) Looking forward to connect if there is a potential opportunity for collaboration!

🚀Learn in Public Challenge by NextLeap: Post 2/5🚀 Product Teardown: Referral Program What better than CRED's Gamifications to be researched and presented here for this topic. The slides are divided among multiple topics starting with an Overview of CRED and its competitors, Followed by User Persona's to understand different aspects, User Journey Maps and understanding the two way referral win win situations for both the referrer and referred, UX snapshots of the exciting and highly though provoked Referral reward system and ending it all with some useful metrics, KPIs and Optimisations. All in to check out your comments, views or a conversation. Want to join the next Cohort? Use my referral code and get Rs. 1000 off https://lnkd.in/gwa9RDsB Arindam Mukherjee Kunal Shah #NextLeapPMFellowship #nextleap #zomato #productmanagement #product

Introducing a new series 'Satirical Screens' where I add somewhat ridiculous (that's debatable) user experiences to already existing digital platforms. 01: As a new feature, Revolut Premium will detect when you are going through a 'Mid-life crisis' and automatically order you a non-complimentary motorcycle. Credit to Soren Iverson for the original series. #uxdesign #uidesign #productdesign #satiricalscreens #productdesigner #uxdesigner #uidesigner #productdesigner

If you know me, you'll know that trust and empathy to users are two pillars I wax lyrical about when building incredibly useful and delightful products. Building a trusting relationship with our users is incredibly powerful, yet cultivating that trust is a significant challenge faced by organisations, and product teams in particular. And as we take our products to people who are less like us, the barriers to trust become higher.     So why am I writing this now? Well, I and a group of folks are speaking on global product growth focusing on "How global products can overcome local user distrust" on the 12th of June at 17:00 London (BST) and I'd love for you to join us. It'll focus on two questions: 1. What can products do to show local users that a product was built with them in mind? 2. What are some of the key things which generate distrust and how can we get better at clamping down on them? I'll be joined by some esteemed peers: Giulia Tarditi, Head of Language Experience at Revolut Omar Sallam, Senior Product Manager at Booking.com Dimos Papadopoulos, Senior Product Manager at ATG Entertainment Also, if this is a topic of interest or close to your heart, I'd love to hear from you. Register here: https://lnkd.in/edx5FX6s Have a beautiful week ahead. #globallocalproducts #productgrowth #trustbuilding #productmanagement