Akshay Jawharkar
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Studied at Carnegie Mellon University
Works at Affirm
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Work Experience
Director of Product Management
Affirm
July 2025 - Present
Leading product for the Affirm Marketplace, a large-scale consumer platform spanning personalization, consumer experiences, merchant monetization, and ads. Own end-to-end product strategy for the consumer app, driving engagement, monetization, and merchant value across the platform. Partner with engineering, data science, marketing, and executive stakeholders to align on strategy and deliver impact at scale.
Product Lead
Meta
January 2024 - July 2025
Drove product strategy for consumer Ads purchase journeys, monetization, and digital wallet, leading the launch of next-generation checkout and wallet features. Delivered AI-driven commerce solutions, accelerated merchant adoption, and partnered with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive large-scale business impact. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Checkout and +6 skills
Director of Product Management
PayPal
March 2022 - January 2024
Led PayPal’s personalization platform, boosting user engagement and revenue by delivering personalized experiences across app, web, and communications. Drove platform strategy that enabled building and deploying highly scalable systems for experimentation and rewards, enabling growth. Managed a high-performing product team and partnered with large cross functional engineering, marketing, and data science to drive alignment and impact. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Management and +3 skills
Platform Product Manager
PayPal
April 2021 - March 2022
Product Management, Strategy and +2 skills
Product Partnerships Lead
PayPal
August 2016 - April 2021
Led global financial partnerships, launching seamless account linking and driving user and revenue growth. Accelerated partner integrations by optimizing processes, scaling cross-functional collaboration, and delivering impactful experiences across multiple markets. Strategic Partnerships, Product Management and +2 skills
Manager, Product
Slalom
November 2012 - August 2016
Defined and executed enterprise mobility strategy, guiding project scope, budgets, and delivery while making key business decisions to support company goals. Coordinated executive communications, managed stakeholder alignment, and oversaw business requirements, technical architecture, and vendor management. Developed secure mobile SSO and BYOD solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, improving secure access to corporate data and optimizing user experience. Monitored industry trends and implemented process improvements to drive secure, scalable, and user-friendly enterprise mobile adoption. Product Management, Product Strategy and +1 skill
Software Engineering Professor
Slalom
September 2011 - November 2012
Designed and developed responsive, secure mobile applications for both web and native platforms (iOS/Android), including offline capability, client/server architecture, and optimized user experiences using modern frameworks and technologies. Delivered backend modernization and cloud migration projects for large enterprises, replacing legacy systems with scalable, service-oriented solutions and improving data transmission, integration, and accessibility.
Senior Software Engineer
FactSet
July 2007 - September 2011
Software developer building real-time financials application for major banks and institutions Designed and developed a robust real-time data analytics platform in C++ with custom alerting, advanced UI, client-server architecture, and multiuser modules—powering trading and analytics for over 20,000 financial professionals worldwide.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Masters, Information Networking & Computer Science
2005 - 2007
· Developed a distributed whiteboard and chat system using Java applets, beans and multi-threading · Hosted secure (https) web server with scalability and reliability for over 150 simultaneous clients
University of Mumbai
Bachelors, Information Technology
2000 - 2004
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