Anuj Agarwal
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since January 26, 2021
Anuj is a customer-centric product manager and CTO with a track record of innovating for early-stage startup environments and large multinationals. He blends his computer science, human-centered design, and analytical skills to ensure teams are focused on the right goals and delivering value. Anuj excels in building and leading teams (US, Europe, and Asia) and has a knack for bringing developers, marketers, and designers together to build great products.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Blockchain
- Product Management
- Recommendation Systems
- Solution Architecture
- Subscriptions
- Technical Consulting
- Technical Product Management
- Trading Systems
Work Experience
Product Head
Cryto Research Fund
- Started with the concept, worked on defining the product vision, and hired resources—UX, marketing, tech, and design.
- Defined the product roadmap with user value and defined product north star as the code of each feature planning and prioritization.
- Launched the beta product in six months with core features built-in to gather data for the following features.
Startup Mentor
Fashion Tech
- Created a product idea for a fashion Trend Generator for the supplier. Completed industry research and product development.
- Worked with companies' anchor clients to refine product features.
- Led the prototype and GenAI models analysis for the product build.
Founder
TechProfile
- Built a data-driven candidate profile generation to provide technical resources and more opportunities.
- Contributed to the platform that is used by 30,000+ students and candidates.
- Built the OpenAI GPT-3 tools for candidates in three weeks.
Roadmap and Financial Modeling
TicketX
- Defined the commercially aligned product roadmap performing idea validation and feature enrichment.
- Built the funding-focused pitch deck. Defined the three years financial model for the company.
- Set up key elements of the roadmap like the early market launch and constant release of features that made additional revenue streams for the business.
Product Head and CTO
BondsIndia
- Designed the product roadmap for a fixed-income product.
- Collaborated with the marketing team to build product metrics.
- Developed a technology strategy to support product concepts and built the technology team from the ground up, including selection, hiring, onboarding, making them productive, and more.
- Conducted market research on core banking systems and integration strategies.
- Performed market and technical research on payment and exchange integration.
- Defined the product success criteria and designed the product to enable A/B testing.
- Defined user personas, pain points, and journeys. Defined the MVP features by distilling the product down to desirable, viable, and feasible.
- Designed the Serverless architecture using APIs to drive micro-frontend designs.
Co-founder
FlexC
- Developed a deep understanding of users and customers, identified and filled product gaps, generated new ideas that improved UI/UX, and drove growth.
- Designed the marketing plan and go-to-market strategy for the product.
- Built a prioritization model combining the MoSCoW RICE scoring and Kano model, which helped prioritize the features based on customer and company bottom-line impact.
- Delivered investor presentations and VC roadshows. Built business pitch decks with detailed three financial models to obtain a Series A funding round. Attended roadshows to talk about the product and its offering to potential clients and partners.
Blockchain Product Architect
i8labs
- Led the design, development, and launch of blockchain-based KYC solution.
- Built and ran experiments to validate the hypothesis on various blockchain platforms.
- Designed the user journey for the blockchain-based KYC.
Innovation Head
High Street Bank
- Spearheaded the innovation for the asset finance domain as global innovation lead. Built a domain-level innovation program.
- Delivered robotic process automation (RPA) and chatbots use cases to improve customer turnaround time by 14%.
- Built a proof of concept (POC) for an asset finance blockchain solution using R3 Corda.
VP | Technical Product Head
The Royal Bank of Scotland
- Managed the new asset finance digital offering. Built the architecture design repository of the legacy application. This helped in the application of the rationalization process.
- Led the Agile and DevOps ways of working for the complete area and set up the maturity model to help and support various teams across the department.
- Worked across the UK to understand the market, meet with customers to understand how they operate and consume our offering, and studied the latest technology developments suited for the asset finance business.
Project History
Fixed Income Trading Platform
Led the design and development of the fixed income trading system with one million active clients.
Trading App – Fixed Income Bonds
http://www.bondsindia.comLed the feature, design, and development of first BondsIndia platform.
Blockchain Based KYC Product
Detailed out the business to blockchain mapping for a Blockchain-based KYC solution. Managed the market research and cost to ensure the service was attractive for end users.
I led the market research to ensure the product built was better than existing products. I reduced the additional functions from the existing product, thereby making it highly cost-effective.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
UP Technical University - Lucknow, India
Certifications
Azure AI Fundamentals
Microsoft
Product Strategy Certification
Product School
Generative AI Overview for Project Managers
Project Management Institute (PMI)
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
Amaon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services Training and Certifications
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
SAFe Agilist Certification
Scaled Agile, Inc.
AgileSHIFT
AXELOS Global Best Practice
Corda Developer Certification
R3
Management and Fintech
Said Bussiness School, Oxford University
Fintech Management
Oxford University
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification
AXELOS
Certified Scrum Master
SCRUMstudy
Skills
Tools
Asana, Jira, Trello, Facebook Ads Manager, AWS IAM, Figma
Paradigms
Database Design, Data Product Management, Low Code, Agile, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Agile Product Management, DevOps, Mobile App Design, Penetration Testing, Design Thinking, HIPAA Compliance
Platforms
Blockchain, Twilio, Mixpanel, ProductPlan, Blockchain Platforms, Shopify, AppsFlyer, AIX, Azure
Industry Expertise
Luxury Goods, Marketplaces, Healthcare
Other
Python 3, Feature Planning, Architecture, Serverless, Digital Marketing Strategy, Product Owner, Fintech, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Technical Product Management, Startups, eCommerce, Digital Transformation, Scrum Product Owner, Product Management, Product Strategy, APIs, Regulated Industries, Financials, Consulting, Product Design, Roadmaps, Solution Architecture, Technical Consulting, Recommendation Systems, Trading Systems, Crypto, Feature Roadmaps, MVP Design, Product Discovery, Product Roadmaps, Business Strategy, New Product Development, Strategy, Business Plan Consulting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Machine Learning, CTO, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Project Management, Data Extraction, User Stories, Software Development, Conceptualization, Ideation, OpenAI, API Integration, Market Research, Requirements, Data Analytics, Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), Feature Prioritization, Business Cases, Pitch Decks, Presentation Design, Presentations, Product Analytics, Data Reporting, SQL, Marketing Analytics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), User Journeys, Monetization, MEAN Stack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mentorship & Coaching, Team Mentoring, Team Management, Product Ownership, Cross-functional Collaboration, Data Products, Chatbots, Software Development Management, Leadership, Technical Requirements, Product Vision, Go-to-market Strategy, User Experience Design, AI Product Management, Recruitment, Mobile Applications, Web Design, Web UX Design, User Workflows, Business Requirements, Scope of Work (SOW), Technical Documentation, Technical Project Management, Web Development, Vendor Management, Digital Marketing, SEO Tools, Backlog Grooming, Team Leadership, Project Timelines, Web & Mobile Applications, Dashboards, Web App Development, Human Resources (HR), Fractional CTO, Financial Management, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Interviewing, User Development, Data Science, Algorithms, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), AWS Lambda, Market Fit, Customer Journeys, User Experience (UX), DApps, SaaS, Marketing Strategy, Growth Marketing, Mobile Apps, Web Applications, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Data Analysis, Sprint Planning, Web Content, Product Consultant, WordPress, Competitive Analysis, Artificial Intelligence Product Manager, Subscriptions, Wireframing, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO), Product Marketing, Web3, User Research, Pricing Models, Business Analysis, Documentation, Workshops, UX Design, Marketing Research & Analysis, Monetization Models, User Interface (UI), Software as a Service (SaaS), Large Language Models (LLMs), Customer Insights, Google Sheets, Applications, App Development, Customer Success, Advisory, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Visualization, Mobile Data, Mobile User Acquisition, Predictive Modeling, Agile Leadership, Business to Business (B2B), Feasibility Studies, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Digital Health, Commerce, Supply Chain, Motivation, Conversational AI, UI Design, Requirements & Specifications, Code Review, Quality Assurance (QA), Trading, Marketing, Cryptocurrency, UX Wireframes, Multi-channel, Investor Presentations, Payment Gateways, eCommerce UX, App Store, Automation, Bots, User Journey Maps, Competitive Strategy, Audits, JSON API, Product Research, Regulatory Compliance, Corda, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), Hyperledger, Go-to-market Plans, Price Analysis, Design, Web UI, A/B Testing, Technical Design, Ideation Workshops, Management, ROI, Python, Development, Early-stage Startups, Startup Consulting, Use Cases, Digitization, Smart Contracts, Competition Research, Product Launch, AWS Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Computing Services, ChatGPT, OpenAI GPT-3 API, PDF Conversion, AI Design, Amazon SageMaker, AI Programming, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), Market Strategy and Research Product Manager, Marketing Technology (MarTech), Virtual Reality (VR), Forex, Fundraising, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Databricks, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Fashion & Beauty
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