Rizwan Lakdawala

Overview

I work on payments at Razorpay in Hyderabad. Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for. Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 13 days to 4. Before that: ICICI Bank and Siemens. Most at home with pricing and checkout. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Experience

1. Principal Product Manager

   Apr 2022 - Present
   Razorpay · 4 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
   • Sit on 6 boards.
   • Led or co-led 40 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Group Product Manager

   Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
   ICICI Bank · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Took payments activation from 30% to 57% in three quarters.
   • Ran 198 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
3. Product Manager

   Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
   Siemens · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 10 days to 4.
4. Product Manager

   Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
   Mastercard · 2 yr 6 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 11 days to 2.
5. Associate Product Manager

   Jun 2013 - Dec 2015
   ITC · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
   • Grew payments revenue from $2 million to $50 million ARR.

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Education

1. Indian Statistical Institute

   M.Stat, Economics
   2011 - 2013
2. IIT Kanpur

   B.Tech, Economics
   2004 - 2008