The Fintech PM: Recent Episodes
Adam
I help people become product gurus in Fintech. On this channel I cover everything you need to land a PM role in Fintech, such as: product breakdowns, skill acquisition, portfolio, networking, career planning, exit, and more.
Please join me for a very informative, career-oriented chat with Mansi Sanghavi, a former Fintech product manager who is on a mission to productify herself through coaching new PM’s. It was a great episode and I really appreciate her coming on the show and thank her for her time!
In this episode, I speak with Swapna Malekar, a Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada, leading fintech innovation and R&D efforts in digital payments, cards and emerging technologies. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation and I hope that you find it as insightful as I did.
Topics:
- What is PM? What is Fintech PM?
- Fintech trends
- Product management principles and product delivery
- How to get into PM? How important is your product portfolio?
- How to think like a product manager?
Background:
- Prior to this role, she led experiences and products in the financial planning & investments space.
- Prior to RBC, Swapna was the Head of Product at a UK-based SaaS Data intelligence company, Klood, that provided insights to enterprise clients through artificial intelligence.
- Whilst in Singapore, Swapna was responsible for driving eCommerce growth in Asia and Europe for the world’s largest publishing company, Scholastic as their Product Manager.
- She started her career with Accenture, and is a technology buff.
Socials:
- LinkedIn: swapnamalekar
- Payments Innovation newsletter: https://paymentsinno.substack.com/
- Medium blog: https://swapna-malekar.medium.com/
- Personal website: https://www.swapnamalekar.com/
- Twitter: @swapna_malekar