Debjani Pradhan

Senior Product Manager at Visa · Payments

Visa

Kolkata, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

9+ years experience

VIT Vellore

English, Hindi, Bengali

Advising Co-founder

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Overview

9 years in product management, the last 1 at Visa, where I work on the payments team. Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 10 days to 2. Before that: Paytm and Morgan Stanley. Most at home with product strategy and checkout. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Advice on payments
People who want to build this with me
Questions about payments

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Unpaid work or spec projects
Offshore staffing offers
Crypto token projects

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product strategyfraudcheckoutpricing

AdvisingOpen to advising

closes in 3 months

Office hours for engineers moving into product: payments and fraud

Topics: payments, pricing, fraud
Format: Office hours
Terms: Equity
Capacity: One advisory role at a time
Best for: Engineers moving into leadership

9 years of payments. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Kolkata, Indiacheckoutproduct strategypricing

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

closes in 3 months

Need a technical co-founder: energy audits in Africa

The idea: Energy audits in Africa
Stage: Idea
I bring: 6 years in payments
Looking for: Product-minded engineer
Commitment: Part-time to start
Location: Kolkata or remote

I bring 9 years of payments (currently Visa). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Kolkata, India · remote OKfraudproduct strategypricing

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Experience

Senior Product Manager
May 2025 - Present
Visa · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
- Grew payments revenue from $7 million to $28 million ARR.
- Ran 104 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
- Took payments activation from 31% to 53% in three quarters.
Product Manager
Nov 2023 - May 2025
Paytm · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
- Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
- Grew payments revenue from $1 million to $29 million ARR.
Product Manager
Apr 2021 - Nov 2023
Morgan Stanley · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
- Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 14 days to 2.
- Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
Associate Product Manager
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Larsen & Toubro · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
- Grew payments revenue from $1 million to $33 million ARR.
- Ran 109 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

Projects

Write-up: payments in practice

2025

A long-form guide to payments for people starting out.

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Education

VIT Vellore
B.Tech, Computer Science
2012 - 2016

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