Uzair Alvie

TAG, is a one-year-old startup that offers digital banking and financial services to users in Pakistan, has raised over $12 million in what is now the largest seed financing round in the South Asian market

• Strategic planning and management of the entire product portfolio
• Create product strategy and present visionary innovations (occasionally in front of founder/CEO, investors or analysts), as well as the calculation of business cases
• Lead the team from idea conceptualization to research, wire framing, user stories, design and delivery
• responsible for strategic partnerships and lead necessary contract negotiations
• Steering product management team and engineers to deliver on high quality user friendly use cases.

• Responsible for entire business operations in Pakistan
• Making digital strategy and solutions for client including UN agencies, World Bank and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Leading team of business development, finance, IT and Programs.

Joined JS Bank to set up Digital Banking vertical called Zindigi. www.zindigi.pk. As a part of the initial team I was involved from start creating MRD and PRDs.

• Led a team of product managers and designers to make sure product delivery is done according to strategy and road map
• Developed product the tech roadmaps across the Group and train the team to meet the needs of these priorities
• Implemented tools and techniques to ensure all product managers are able to track and manage their work in a way consistent with their peers
• Ensured strong written and verbal communication is maintained across engineering, product, test and design within sprint teams
• Collaborated with the Head of Design, Head of Engineering and Head of Data to ensure high performing cross functional teams.
• Signing contracts and bringing on board like minded partners to create win-win situation.

• Lead a team of 7 people and looked after the digital products
• Built the largest digital agriculture portfolio in Pakistan
• Built products for feature and smart phones for rural audience which entails to more than 50% population of Pakistan
• I was responsible for UX, UI, platforms, e-commerce and marketplace domain along with Biz Dev & Partnerships
• Focused on higher engagement, revenue maximization and OPEX savings

Achievements:

• MAU increase by 20%
• DAU increase by 100%
• Revenue increased 20 times
• 6 New Product Launched
• 2 Team Members Promoted
• 30% OPEX Savings

Team Structure:

• Team Member A) Primary Platform (Assisted by a junior resource)
• Team Member B) Paid Walls (Assistant by a junior resource)
• Team Member C) Smart Phone Journey (Assisted by a junior resource)
• Team Member D) BI & Analytics

• The job role entailed to the ownership of Revenue, Subscribers, ARPU, segmentation, product launches and product life cycles
• Looked at the effectiveness of the pre and post analysis of the campaigns done in line of the historical data
• Took decisions on the segmentation, retention, churn control and increasing customer life cycle
• My role included interaction with all operators and content providers (local and international) while conducting RFPs and be responsible for the service launch.

• Products and Partnerships
• This was a regional role of ME region
• I was supposed to take care of digital services portfolio
• I was posted on a project in Pakistan and looked after three major telecom operators, with whom we were able to develop strong relationships and launched different products
• Interacted with content providers all across the globe for gaming, audio and video and build business propositions with them
• If required develop a new product for the respectivemarket
• Build new business verticals and partnerships with vendors and operators - Nurture already launched products - Understand customers’ requirements; manage their expectations with respect to digital and content products
• Build complete solution from idea imitation, design till post launch analysis
• Making meaning full business models for vendors and operators.

• Managed cross-functional teams to commercialize new products and drive improvements.
• Analyzed consumer and financial data to develop strategic insights and make clear and compelling recommendations for overall business growth.
• Worked in product pod environment consisting of product developers, design teams, software personnel and quality assurance testers.

VAS Segments - Marketing

• Looking at the 4 P’s of Value Added Services
• To work in liaison with the product usability team on defining the customer focused service aspects to insure quality of service which should translate into ease of use & subscriber acquisition
• Promotion of the caller tunes, extracting Revenue from the latest VAS database
• To assist the line manager with all actives relating to the RBT/MTV & other Music/Entertainment platforms enhancement
• Contributing in all stages of launch, development, promotion and coordinating with internal & external stakeholders to ensure that the products correspond and are customized in accordance to the business requirements

• Worked in these three companies in the capacity of Team Leader in customer services and inbound and out bound operations
• Worked at different radio shows television shows and short films while performing following tasks
• Hosting
• Production, programming and designing of shows
• Involved in production of advertising campaigns
• Voice overs for different advertisements
• Designing campaigns for different advertisers.