Anshu Katiyar

About

Senior product leader with experience at Discover and Capital One, focused on platform modernization, partner onboarding, and AI-enabled workflow automation in regulated financial environments. Particularly compelling for roles needing a 0-to-1 builder who can align engineering, design, compliance, and executives while shipping human-centered AI products with measurable impact like 50% faster onboarding and 40% lower design load.

Key Strengths

• Led end-to-end modernization of Discover's data-exchange infrastructure into an API-first Open Finance platform
• Strong 0-to-1 platform builder with multi-year roadmap ownership
• Dual-track execution strategy balancing early partner delivery with scalable platform foundation
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, design, compliance, risk, and executives
• Turned engineering skepticism into momentum by slicing scope and shipping early working integrations
• Improved design scalability through reusable UX patterns and standardized components
• Reduced design load by 40% through reusable design systems thinking
• Shipped AI-assisted partner onboarding that cut onboarding time by 50%
• Pragmatic AI product judgment balancing compliance, automation, and model accuracy
• Strong UX judgment; redesigned onboarding from linear to stage-based and dynamic workflows
• Clear product strategist who aligned diverse stakeholders around 'standardize the core, configure the edges'
• Established operating cadence and shared metrics to maintain alignment and accountability
• People manager and mentor who developed junior and mid-level PMs into strategic product thinkers
• Human-centered AI mindset emphasizing transparency, override controls, and bias guardrails

Reference Highlights

• owned multiple product roles across industries
• strong end-to-end product ownership
• data-driven roadmap planning
• nimble Agile leadership
• very hands-on with delivery teams
• effective AI/ML feature leadership
• drove BOPS conversions at Macy’s
• great cross-functional leader
• strong mentor
• able to influence without positional authority
• led teams to success

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