Top Talent like Akshat are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.

Akshat Gupta

Data Analyst
User Researcher
Product Manager
Gurugram, HR, IN
Product Management
Data Analysis
AI
Tableau
SQL
Python
Available for hire fromNegotiable
Assistant Product Manager (0→1) | AI/Fintech Product Builder | American Express | SQL, Python, Tableau
Product builder at American Express, owning 0→1 ideation, MVP definition, and global roll-out of enterprise risk and analytics platforms. Scaled solutions across global markets (7→12), drove major workflow reduction, and helped protect multi-million-dollar annual revenue using SQL, Python, and Tableau in production. Currently building AI-powered fintech products and targeting PM roles across B2B SaaS, fintech, and B2C companies.

Projects

MerchantSignal — AI Anomaly Triage Assistant

• Developed a prototype using Lovable that auto-creates severity-based merchant outreach (email/WhatsApp/call), enabling proactive decision-making for marketing partners and faster merchant engagement.See More

WhatsApp Web Task Automation Extension

• Designed and built a WhatsApp Web extension to turn chat messages into actionable tasks with inline tagging, reminder, and a unified task dashboardSee More

Work History

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Assistant Manager - Products

American ExpressNew Enterprise Platform (0→1, Ideation & MVP) Unified anomaly platform protecting $25M+ annual revenue • Owned 0→1 product definition and MVP launch of an enterprise risk platform consolidating two legacy products — protecting multi-million-dollar annual revenue across global markets through earlier merchant intervention. • Defined personas and built end-to-end workflows to convert anomaly triggers into merchant outreach journeys; anchored V1 on 5 high-impact use cases protecting $25M+ revenue • Designed multi-tier success metrics (input: trigger usage, behavior: partner action rate, outcome: revenue protected) — used these as gates for go/no-go decisions on subsequent product phases. Enterprise Product Recommendation Platform (Recommendation engine boosting merchant product adoption by 28)% • Built a merchant product recommendation platform to cut large product catalog complexity, enabling marketing partners to make confident, data-driven recommendations. • Defined and tracked product KPIs (adoption rate, usage frequency, downstream action rate) and led quarterly impact reviews with senior stakeholders, influencing roadmap prioritization for 2 subsequent quarters.
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Business Analyst

American ExpressMay 2024 - Oct 2025 • 1 yr 6 mosMerchant-Facing Analytics Dashboard (Client & Marketing Solutions) • Led design and delivery of merchant analytics dashboards to benchmark performance across spend, transactions, geography, and penetration for a global luxury apparel brand. • Initiated and shipped a dispute monitoring dashboard for multiple markets surfacing early card-member dispute signals, enabling proactive merchant outreach to reduce dispute escalation rate. Transaction Anomaly Identification & Flagging Platform (Scaled anomaly detection from 7 to 12 global markets) • Scaled a merchant risk detection platform from 7 to 12 global markets, proactively flagging transaction anomalies — protecting $10M+ in at-risk merchant revenue annually. • Automated backend workflows, reducing weekly operational effort from 6 hours to 30 minutes (90% gain) and improving anomaly flagging logic to increase actionable flags from 2 to 20 per week.
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Operation Manager

Radhe TradersNov 2020 - Oct 2021 • 1 yr• Managed multi-channel e-commerce operations across marketplaces, optimizing visibility, assortment, pricing, and inventory through data-driven decisions while reducing stock-outs and improving replenishment efficiency.
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Programme Analyst Trainee

Cognizant Technology SolutionsNov 2019 - Oct 2020 • 1 yr• Built and supported enterprise backend solutions, including a legacy data archival system, improving storage efficiency and performance while collaborating with insurance clients on requirements, testing automation, defect resolution, and deployments.

Education

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SIBM Pune Pune, IN

MBA, MBA in Operations, Minor in Marketing2022 - 2024
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Swami Keshvananda Institute of Technology Jaipur, IN

B.Tech, Honours in Mechanical Engineering2015 - 2019

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
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Assistant Product Manager (0→1) | AI/Fintech Product Builder | American Express | SQL, Python, Tableau
Product builder at American Express, owning 0→1 ideation, MVP definition, and global roll-out of enterprise risk and analytics platforms. Scaled solutions across global markets (7→12), drove major workflow reduction, and helped protect multi-million-dollar annual revenue using SQL, Python, and Tableau in production. Currently building AI-powered fintech products and targeting PM roles across B2B SaaS, fintech, and B2C companies.

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call

Top Talent like Akshat are on Pangea

Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.

Akshat Gupta

Data Analyst
User Researcher
Product Manager
Gurugram, HR, IN
Product Management
Data Analysis
AI
Tableau
SQL
Python
Available for hire fromNegotiable

Projects

MerchantSignal — AI Anomaly Triage Assistant

• Developed a prototype using Lovable that auto-creates severity-based merchant outreach (email/WhatsApp/call), enabling proactive decision-making for marketing partners and faster merchant engagement.

WhatsApp Web Task Automation Extension

• Designed and built a WhatsApp Web extension to turn chat messages into actionable tasks with inline tagging, reminder, and a unified task dashboard

Work History

A

Assistant Manager - Products

American ExpressNew Enterprise Platform (0→1, Ideation & MVP) Unified anomaly platform protecting $25M+ annual revenue • Owned 0→1 product definition and MVP launch of an enterprise risk platform consolidating two legacy products — protecting multi-million-dollar annual revenue across global markets through earlier merchant intervention. • Defined personas and built end-to-end workflows to convert anomaly triggers into merchant outreach journeys; anchored V1 on 5 high-impact use cases protecting $25M+ revenue • Designed multi-tier success metrics (input: trigger usage, behavior: partner action rate, outcome: revenue protected) — used these as gates for go/no-go decisions on subsequent product phases. Enterprise Product Recommendation Platform (Recommendation engine boosting merchant product adoption by 28)% • Built a merchant product recommendation platform to cut large product catalog complexity, enabling marketing partners to make confident, data-driven recommendations. • Defined and tracked product KPIs (adoption rate, usage frequency, downstream action rate) and led quarterly impact reviews with senior stakeholders, influencing roadmap prioritization for 2 subsequent quarters.
A

Business Analyst

American ExpressMay 2024 - Oct 2025 • 1 yr 6 mosMerchant-Facing Analytics Dashboard (Client & Marketing Solutions) • Led design and delivery of merchant analytics dashboards to benchmark performance across spend, transactions, geography, and penetration for a global luxury apparel brand. • Initiated and shipped a dispute monitoring dashboard for multiple markets surfacing early card-member dispute signals, enabling proactive merchant outreach to reduce dispute escalation rate. Transaction Anomaly Identification & Flagging Platform (Scaled anomaly detection from 7 to 12 global markets) • Scaled a merchant risk detection platform from 7 to 12 global markets, proactively flagging transaction anomalies — protecting $10M+ in at-risk merchant revenue annually. • Automated backend workflows, reducing weekly operational effort from 6 hours to 30 minutes (90% gain) and improving anomaly flagging logic to increase actionable flags from 2 to 20 per week.
R

Operation Manager

Radhe TradersNov 2020 - Oct 2021 • 1 yr• Managed multi-channel e-commerce operations across marketplaces, optimizing visibility, assortment, pricing, and inventory through data-driven decisions while reducing stock-outs and improving replenishment efficiency.
C

Programme Analyst Trainee

Cognizant Technology SolutionsNov 2019 - Oct 2020 • 1 yr• Built and supported enterprise backend solutions, including a legacy data archival system, improving storage efficiency and performance while collaborating with insurance clients on requirements, testing automation, defect resolution, and deployments.

Education

S

SIBM Pune Pune, IN

MBA, MBA in Operations, Minor in Marketing2022 - 2024
S

Swami Keshvananda Institute of Technology Jaipur, IN

B.Tech, Honours in Mechanical Engineering2015 - 2019

How Pangea Works

Effortlessly discover top talent

We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.

Start working with talent today

The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.

Track work and invoices in one place

Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!

Talk with a Talent Expert

Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
Available Now
Book a Call
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