Akarsh Soni

About Akarsh Soni

Impact-driven professional with over 12 years of diverse experience in digital product…

Experience

1. Director

   American Express

   Jul 2014 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Driving innovation in risk strategy by building robust scalable product solutions and governance frameworks that mitigate risk and enhance business resilience.Product and Enterprise Data StrategyLead, craft, and launch enterprise product strategies and multi-year roadmaps, enhancing customer experience and financial wellbeing. • Designed and executed multi-vendor product roadmap for industry first ‘no credit impact’ application journey feature, enabling decision certainty, leading to X% acquisition increase in MVP and $XXB incremental billed business in release. • Led payroll product optimization roadmap, prioritizing, and implementing new features, partnering with strategy, data science, engineering, and external vendors, resulting in improved $XM ROI.• Led enterprise data product strategies for third-party products valued at managing strategic partnerships and influencing product integrations, resulting in $XM cost savings.• Managed AI/ML credit sandbox product optimization, partnering with tech and data science.Data Science (AmEx India)Developed risk models, ensuring compliance with federal reserve and improved resilience during economic downturns.• Conceptualized, built, and rolled out models to manage credit risk and capital planning.• Transformed and automated modeling techniques, reducing model development time by 25%.