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Anurag R.AR

Anurag R.

ex-CEO & CPO | AI Product Expert | 18+ years exp

€750/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Anurag

🚀 Product & Technology Leader | ex-Startup Founder | AI-First Transformation

I help companies turn ideas into scalable, revenue-generating products and optimise existing businesses using AI, automation, and strong product execution.

With 17+ years of experience across product strategy, technology leadership, and digital transformation, I’ve worked with global enterprises and high-growth startups including Wells Fargo, BharatPe, and TIER Mobility. I’ve led products from zero to millions of users, built and scaled cross-functional teams, and delivered measurable business impact across FinTech, Consumer Tech, and Mobility.

What I do best:
  • Product Strategy Consulting: Clear vision, strong roadmaps, and data-driven prioritisation that adds to company growth & bottom-line
  • MVP Builds: Rapid validation, lean execution, and faster time-to-market
  • Team Leadership: Building and mentoring high-performing product & tech teams
  • Digital Transformation: Modernising legacy systems and operating models
  • Business Efficiency with AI & Automation: Reducing costs, improving speed, and unlocking scale
I combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution. Whether you’re launching a new product, scaling an existing one, or using AI to make your business run smarter and faster.

Let’s build products and systems that create real customer value and sustainable growth.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Basic

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Kotak Mahindra Bank:
    Senior Vice President - Digital Products (Retail Bank)
    TECH
    November 2023 - October 2025 (1 year and 11 months)
    4th largest with As a Product Leader at Kotak, I am responsible for building the next generation suite of digital banking products & financial services with immense focus on customer experience, ease of use, quick turnaround time and serviceability. Focused on Data, Engineering & Product Management to implement new-age digital customer journeys & digitally transform business programs across all divisions of the retail bank, spanning across Credit Cards, Loans, Forex, UPI and CBDC.
    • • Lead a team of designers, engineers, product managers, and business leaders to reimagine & recreate a brand new mobile banking experience for the bank customers.
    • • Lead the Forex Card and Remittance digital product for the affluent, HNIs and UHNIs customers.
    • • Worked on the migration & creation of the new age Kotak CBDC product in partnership with the RBI.
    • • Created the first version of Open Banking Platform for Kotak Mahindra Bank to expose our banking APIs to potential partners, fin-tech companies, marketplace apps, etc.
    • • Lead the entire digital onboarding & partner engagement for Credit Cards. Grew online onboarding from 17% to nearly 64% within 6 months.
    • • Increased monthly credit card activations from 73K to over 2.6 lakh cards every month.
    • • Increase top of the funnel for cards product from 1.5 lakh to over 8 lakh each monthly.
    • • Re-imagining the internal workforce management application & to streamline processes for RMs, Sales Agents, KYC Executives, DSA, etc. to reduce customer onboard & servicing turn-around-time by 50%.
    • • Closely worked with Risk teams to create a new Business Risk Engine that reduces bank exposure, increases card approval rates, recommends new & alternate cards & also reduces NPAs for the bank.
    • • Leading the end-to-end journey & experience, including business growth of FOREX cards.
    Digital Transformation Product management Product Launch Strategy Technical project management Corporate strategy
  • BharatPe:
    VP of Products (Banking, Loyalty & Merchant Lending)
    TECH
    December 2021 - October 2023 (1 year and 10 months)
    India
    Disbursed over $1.5 Billion in business loans and processing over 3.3 billion payments every month.
    • ● Created the vision & digital product roadmap for UNITY Small Finance Bank.
    • ● Led a team of designers, engineers, and analysts in the creation of a truly digital, mobile first banking
    Product management Business Unit Strategy Start-up Fintech artificial intelligence
  • TIER Mobility:
    Senior Product Manager
    April 2021 - December 2021 (8 months)
    France
    • ● Manage & overlook the entire starting from app download to signup & onboarding, and the 1 st ride taken by the user.
    • ● Responsible for user acquisition, activation, transaction & retention.
    • ● Ideated & launched Single Sign-On (SSO) feature to uplift onboarding conversion rate by 5-7% which contributed in over $9-11 Million in addition revenues for the company.

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Education

  • Bachelor of Technology
    Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
    2008
    Bachelor of Technology

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