Rohan Basu

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The candidate is a Product Manager with over eight years of experience across consumer fintech, regulated payments, enterprise cloud workflows, and telecom billing systems. They ranked sixteenth with a score of 56/100 due to strong sole ownership (PM-3), having directly owned product roadmaps, success metrics, and APM mentorship for regulated payment flows, alongside self-initiated AI tool exploration (PM-2). Their most critical gap is an absence of hands-on logistics operations experience (PM-1), alongside user discovery limited to digital consumers rather than frontline supply chain operators (PM-4).

Probe in interview

Can you describe a past instance where you had to quickly learn and design software for complex, physical operational workflows outside of purely digital financial flows?
Can you provide a specific example of an automation tool or workflow you built from an observed problem that peers or team members actively adopted for their own work?
Can you walk through a time when you conducted field research directly with frontline operators or support personnel rather than consumer end-users, and explain how their operational constraints changed your roadmap?

PM rubric (applied role)56.0 / 100Review

Criterion	Score	Weight	Points	Evidence	Rationale
PM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience	1/5	30%	6	none	The candidate has experience exclusively in fintech, cloud workflows, and telecom, with no logistics operations exposure.
PM-2 Builds from observed pain; peers adopt it	3/5	20%	12	Independent Product Exploration — AI Job Search Automation	Candidate has a self-started exploration and automation project built for own use, but without evidence of peer adoption.
PM-3 Sole ownership with no layer in between	5/5	20%	20	Owned product roadmap and success metrics for regulated payment journeys; managed and mentored 2 Associate Product Managers, driving delivery outcomes within an Agile product team.	Candidate demonstrates sole ownership of a product area with direct APM management and specifically quantified business outcomes.
PM-4 Discovery directly with operators	3/5	15%	9	Led user research and structured experimentation driving a 109% increase in one-time investments.	Candidate conducted direct user research, but with consumer end-users rather than frontline logistics operators.
PM-5 Candour: kills, post-mortems, owning what went wrong	3/5	15%	9	Improved transaction conversion by 18% by simplifying high-friction compliance steps and error-recovery flows, unlocking approximately $1.6M in incremental monthly transaction value.	The CV highlights problems diagnosed and fixed, but framed within a success narrative without owning personal misses or explicit post-mortems.

SPM rubric (other role)36.0 / 100Below the line

Criterion	Score	Weight	Points	Evidence	Rationale
SPM-1 Hands-on logistics operations experience	1/5	25%	5	none	No logistics operations experience or exposure is present in the CV.
SPM-2 Senior-most owner, no one above them in the function	3/5	25%	15	Owned product roadmap and success metrics for regulated payment journeys; managed and mentored 2 Associate Product Managers, driving delivery outcomes within an Agile product team.	Demonstrates sole ownership of a specific product area and line management of APMs with senior leadership above.
SPM-3 Turns fixes into standing practice	1/5	20%	4	none	No evidence provided of turning fixes into standing practices or named processes.
SPM-4 Judgement under pressure, stated plainly	1/5	15%	3	none	Presents a success-only narrative with no hard calls, failures, or decisions under pressure described.
SPM-5 Grows people who then get promoted	3/5	15%	9	managed and mentored 2 Associate Product Managers, driving delivery outcomes within an Agile product team.	Mentored two Associate Product Managers, but no promotion outcomes or timelines are stated.

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SUMMARY
Product Manager with 8+ years building and scaling high-impact consumer fintech products across payments,
compliance, and automated investment systems. Proven track record driving measurable conversion
improvements, reducing friction in regulated money-movement workflows, and leading 0→1 product launches in
ambiguity-heavy environments. Strong cross-functional leader partnering with Engineering, Risk, and
Operations to deliver scalable, data-driven outcomes. Experience designing and shipping LLM-powered
systems with structured evaluation and reliability frameworks.
CORE SKILLS
● Product: 0→1 Launches • Consumer Growth • Payments & Compliance • Roadmapping •
Experimentation • Metrics & KPIs
● Data: Funnel Optimization • Behavioral Drop-off Analysis • Conversion Improvement • Cost Efficiency
● AI Systems: LLM Product Design • Evaluation Frameworks • Reliability & Confidence Modeling
EXPERIENCE
Product Manager
Western Union – Pune
February 2024 – August 2025
● Owned end-to-end sender and receiver journeys for regulated cross-border payment flows across
multiple LACA markets, balancing compliance, conversion, reliability, and transaction integrity at scale.
● Led redesign of first-time user KYC onboarding in partnership with third-party verification vendors and
compliance teams; introduced clearer status transparency and recovery flows, increasing successful
verifications by 36% while maintaining regulatory adherence.
● Improved transaction conversion by 18% by simplifying high-friction compliance steps and
error-recovery flows, unlocking approximately $1.6M in incremental monthly transaction value.
● Launched multilingual, AI-powered support and intent-resolution flows with human-in-the-loop
safeguards, reducing inbound support tickets by ~80% while preserving accuracy, and customer trust.
● Partnered with regional, engineering, and compliance teams to launch digital payment experiences
across Peru, Panama, and Argentina, driving 24–28% transaction growth across markets.
● Owned product roadmap and success metrics for regulated payment journeys; managed and mentored
2 Associate Product Managers, driving delivery outcomes within an Agile product team.
Product Manager
Jar App – Bengaluru
November 2021 – September 2023
● Founding Product Manager for mandate-based automated investment products enabling daily
auto-debit investments within tightly regulated money-movement workflows.
● Designed and scaled recurring payment systems, driving a 25% increase in recurring automated
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transactions while improving mandate reliability and success rates.
● Owned onboarding and mandate setup journeys, reducing drop-offs in regulated consent and debit
flows through behavioral drop-off analysis and UX iteration.
● Led user research and structured experimentation driving a 109% increase in one-time investments.
● Established core product foundations from zero, defining product vision, roadmap, success metrics,
and backlog prioritization to support rapid scale.
● Instrumented key payment and investment events, reducing development rework by ~20% and
improving cross-team clarity.
Product Owner/Business Analyst
Forsys Inc. – Hyderabad
June 2020 – October 2021
● Owned Salesforce-based enterprise workflows, translating requirements into scalable cloud products.
● Led global stakeholder workshops and delivered Agile user stories with SQL-backed insights.
Software Engineer
Accenture – Pune
October 2014 – November 2017
● Built billing and invoicing systems for global telecom and B2B clients.
● Led automation initiatives reducing invoice disputes by 30%.
AI PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
Pathfinder — LLM-Powered Career Intelligence Platform (0→1)
February 2026 – Present
● Designed a 0→1 LLM-powered career intelligence platform that converts unstructured user inputs
into personalized career recommendations using structured AI reasoning.
● Designed confidence signaling and ambiguity-handling frameworks to improve trust in AI outputs,
while defining evaluation metrics for recommendation quality, clarity, and engagement.
Independent Product Exploration — AI Job Search Automation
September 2025 – January 2026
● Evaluated LLM latency, token cost, and reliability trade-offs in human-in-the-loop automation workflows.
● Identified scalability constraints in UI-dependent automation systems and made principled decisions
against high-maintenance architectures.
EDUCATION
MBA in Marketing — Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai | 2020
Bachelor of Technology — St. Thomas’ College of Engineering & Technology, Kolkata | 2014