TSTanu Sonwane

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Tanu Sonwane

Senior Product Manager · Fintech & Payments · Platform, Onboarding & Growth

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Tanu Sonwane

Mumbai, India

tanusonwane@gmail.com · +91 8169463606 · linkedin.com/in/tanusonwane

Professional summary

Customer-obsessed, data-driven PM with 6+ years owning end-to-end delivery of enterprise fintech platforms in highly regulated environments — including 2+ years applying growth and PLG practices through activation, retention and experimentation. A platform thinker who automates manual workflows toward zero-touch processing and rethinks onboarding, KYC, authentication and risk for a scalable, reliable stack.

Experience

Senior Product Manager · Kotak Securities

Apr 2025 — Present

  • Own end-to-end roadmap and platform strategy for Matrix & Nexus — onboarding, KYC, authentication, trading, regulatory systems.
  • Define vision, quarterly roadmap and PRDs with 50+ cross-functional stakeholders across Eng, Design, Compliance and Ops.
  • Champion customer-first, data-driven decisions via RICE-prioritized, value-based backlogs.

Product Manager · Kotak Securities

Jul 2021 — Mar 2025

  • Shipped compliance-automation moving manual regulatory workflows toward zero-touch — saving ₹7–8 Cr in potential penalties.
  • Instituted SLA, KPI, velocity, cycle-time and defect-trend dashboards across onboarding and back-office workflows.
  • Transformed Nexus from ad-hoc to Scaled Agile (SAFe) — doubling team throughput.

Management Trainee · Kotak Securities

2020 — Jun 2021

  • Automated manual support applications; built the foundation of the Nexus platform.
  • Top KRA score (5/5) in Year 1.

Selected case studies

EdTech — Personalized Learning Recommendations · Self-driven

2025

  • Modular-monolith recommendation platform (AWS Personalize → custom ML); +30% completion, +25% engagement target.

VitaFit — Retention & Habit Loop · Self-driven

2024

  • 5-tier FitPoints gamification + Tribe Challenges + 4-tier Soft Return; 28% → 40% retention target.

Uber Pickup & Zepto Week-2 Retention · Self-driven

2024

  • CIRCLES + JTBD friction maps; RICE-prioritized concepts and A/B frameworks.

Core competencies

AI Product StrategyPRD & SpecsRoadmappingPlatform ThinkingPLGActivationRetentionA/B TestingRICEJTBDUser ResearchKYC / AMLCompliance AutomationSAFe / ScrumJIRAFigmaAWS PersonalizeAzure

Education & certifications

  • B.Tech, Electrical Engineering — VJTI, Mumbai · 2016–2020
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) — Scrum Alliance
  • Google Project Management Professional Certificate
  • Rewards & Recognition Award — Kotak Securities