Kaustubh Dixit

Product Manager specializing in AI & Payments - Leading innovation at Pine Labs

Bengaluru, India
IIT Jodhpur
3+ Years Experience

About Me

Product Manager with 3+ years in payments AI, currently leading innovation at Pine Labs. At Pine Labs, I've worked 360 degree across the payments lifecycle, covering: AI assisted merchant onboarding, Pay by Points platform, and Risk,FRM, AML platform.

My expertise spans across AI/ML, payments infrastructure, and cross-functional team leadership. I'm passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve real-world problems and create exceptional user experiences.

AI Sales Nudge Agent

1.5× Lead Coversions via increased productivity

AI Onboarding

Reduced onboarding from 4.5 days to 1 day using GenAI

Leadership

Led 8+ cross-functional teams to deliver AI-first products

Payments Experience

Across merchant onboarding, pay by points, settlements and Risk, FRM & AML

Career Journey

Demonstrating consistent growth and impact through progressive roles at Pine Labs

Pine Labs Limited

Bengaluru, India • January 2022 - Present

3+ Years • 2 Progressive Promotions

Product Manager 2

Current Role

May 2025 - Present

Merchant Onboarding App

Leading end-to-end product strategy and execution for an Generative AI-driven, sales-assisted merchant onboarding app, reducing average onboarding turnaround time from 4.5 days to under 1 day

Pioneered S.I.A (Sales Intelligence Ally), an AI-based sales enablement tool leveraging behavioral nudges and gamified incentives, leading to a 1.5× improvement in POS sales productivity

Fast-tracked through two promotions in 3 years for consistently delivering high-impact products and driving cross-functional alignment

Product Manager 1

Promoted after 18 months

Jan 2024 - April 2025

Risk Platform & Pay by Points In-store experience

Led the India-first implementation of Google Wallet Tap & Pay on Pine Labs POS, showcased live in collaboration with Google at the Google I/O event

Owned the product roadmap for the Pay by Points merchant experience , enabling ₹3.21B in annual transactions and scaling integrations with 15+ reward partners

Owned risk mitigation initiatives by introducing pre-authorization limits and transaction monitoring, maintaining chargeback-to-sales ratio under 0.5%

Associate Product Manager

Starting role - Foundation building

June 2022 - Dec 2023

Payment Mode Activation Experience

Increased UPI activation success % from 68% to more than 96% by re-designing the activation flow to handle junk user inputs

Technical product skills - Developed proficiency in API integrations, payment gateways, and POS systems

Cross-functional collaboration - Built strong relationships with engineering, design, and business teams

Early Career & Internships

Product Intern
Kuku FM • Audiobooks • Remote
  • • Built a self-sign-up portal for content creators, boosting conversion by 30%
  • • Performed A/B testing on audiobook play page layout to reduce user drop-offs by 8%
AI Intern
OttonomyIO • Robot Navigation • Remote
  • • Spearheaded development of vision based navigation framework, achieving path accuracy of 98%
  • • Delivered 95% success in real-time path re-planning, adapting to obstacles and traffic changes

Featured Projects

ISRO
Featureless Visual Servoing
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) • Gaganyaan mission - Vyommitra
  • Achieved 15% increase in end-effector position accuracy using featureless visual servoing
  • Developed a physics-based environment in CoppeliaSim and applied Super Quadratics for precise servoing position fitting
Computer Vision
Deep Learning AI for AOI
Computer Vision - IITJ
  • Developed an Automated Optical Inspection model for classification of surface defects in hot-rolled steel strips
  • Achieved ~105% increase in FPS in real-time object detection using Intel's Movidius Neural Compute Stick

Skills & Expertise

AI/ML Expertise
Generative AI
LLMs
NLP
Deep Learning
TensorFlow
OpenAI Assistant
Python
SQL
Product Management
Roadmap
Stakeholder Management
User Experience
Strategy
Product Design
Domain Knowledge
AI Chatbots
Payments
Pay By Points
Onboarding
KYC
FRM
Tap & Pay
POS

Leadership & Responsibilities

Secretary Head

Robotics and AI Society, IITJ

Led team of 24 members across Inter IIT Tech meet, Smart India Hackathon and Robocon events

Head of Web Development

Student Placement Cell, IITJ

Led team of 5 to develop Django portal for 1000+ students and recruiters

Technical Festival Lead

IITJ Technical Festival

Led team of 3 to develop event management portal with 650+ signups

Let's Connect

Ready to discuss opportunities, collaborations, or just have a chat about AI and product management? I'd love to hear from you.