Paras Karandikar
Product @ Airtel | Ex-Swiggy | NIT Bhopal
- Role
- Senior Manager, Product at airtel
- Location
- Gurugram, HR, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Paras Karandikar
Product Manager at Airtel
Experience
Senior Manager, Product
Oct 2021 — Present
Leading product strategy and execution for Airtel’s checkout, UPI, and recurring payments ecosystem, powering 70Mn+ monthly transactions.Checkout – Autopay and recurring payments- Led 0 to 1 build of Autopay to reduce bad debt, late payment fees, and call center load for collections- Rebuilt ground up and added it to the core bill payment journey, 6X growth and 5% postpaid base adoption- Projected to pull forward ~₹150 Cr in monthly collections before due date- Currently driving further scale through an Autopay offer and redemption flow in the pipelineCheckout success rate – 79% to 84% over 2 years (~50Mn transactions monthly)- Personalized pay mode recommendations for new users based on recharge behavior outside the Airtel app- Enabled QR code payments on app when NPCI banned collect requests- Expanded payment coverage to intent flows on mobile web and QR on desktop web- Implemented soft status checks for third-party UPI apps, faster payment status updates, quicker retries- Compounding effect of these fixes added ~₹30 Cr in monthly recharge revenue.Airtel UPI – Growth and Experience (~ 20Mn transactions monthly)- Built a dedicated UPI full page basis customer immersions consolidating all UPI activity in one place,engagement up 40%, month-on-month retention up 7% in 6 months- Improved conversion by 3-5 pp across core UPI journeys via step-level drop-off and error analysis months- Owned NPCI compliance for UPI B2C, translated mandates into product requirements and coordinatedecosystem rollouts.
Education
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
2013 — 2017
Skills
- Public Speaking
- Data Structures
- Communication
- Leadership
- C
- Analytical Thinking
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