AMIT VAID
- Product Strategy
- Platform Thinking
- AI Products
- Enterprise Software
BUILDING PRODUCTSPEOPLE TRUST.
Turning complexity into clarity.
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Building Products
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Investors
Served
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Revenue
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Reduction
Processing Time
$0M
Exposure
Protected
Executive Impact
Domains I've built for.
- Trading Platforms
- Capital Markets
- Brokerage
- Wealth Management
- Payments
- Enterprise SaaS
- Document Automation
- AML / KYC
- RegTech
- Analytics
- AI Products
- Developer Platforms
Trusted Experience
Fifteen years across the firms that shape how money moves.
- OracleFinancial Services2006 - 2010Consultant
- BNY MellonCapital Markets2012 - 2013(Inautix)Lead Product Manager
- NatWestBanking2013 - 2014(RBS)Senior Product Manager
- OSTTRACapital Markets2014 - 2016(MarkitServ)AVP, Product Management
- Publicis SapientEnterprise SaaS2016 - 2019Senior Product Manager
- QuestradeBrokerage2020 - 2022Senior Product Manager
- NexJWealthTech2022 - 2023Group Product Manager
- ApryseDocument Automation2023 - 2024Product Lead, Fluent
- Xlabs ConsultingNowAdvisory2024 - NowCo-founder, Fractional Product Leader and Advisor
Selected Work
Different products. Same product thinking.
Track Record
Every role, every year, in one place.
Dates
Title
Company
Focus
Dec 2024 - Now
Fractional Product LeaderNow
Xlabs ConsultingFractional product leadership. Co-founded an AI equity research platform.
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Product Lead, Fluent
ApryseDocument automation, $80M recurring revenue. $2.5M new revenue, churn down 15%.
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
Product Management Consultant
Xlabs ConsultingAdvisory across fintech and business-to-business product teams.
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Group Product Manager
NexJWealth management CRM and advisor workflows. Led two PMs and a designer.
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Senior Product Manager
QuestradeTrading platform for 1.4M+ investors. Led product across two teams.
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Senior Product Manager
Publicis SapientCapital markets delivery. Led two PMs and three business analysts.
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
Assistant Vice President, Product Management
MarkitServ(now OSTTRA)Multi-asset derivatives, post-trade confirmation.
Dec 2013 - Jul 2014
Senior Product Manager
NatWest Group(formerly RBS)Capital markets risk.
Apr 2012 - Dec 2013
Lead Product Manager
BNY Mellon Technology(formerly Inautix)NetX360 platform. Cut postal costs $2M+, delivered $200M remediation.
Jun 2010 - Mar 2012
MBA
Full-time graduate studyFinance and Banking
Oct 2006 - May 2010
Consultant
Oracle Financial Services Software(formerly i-flex Solutions)Banking and financial services. Prepaid cards, Citi, business-to-business payments.
- MBA Finance and Banking
- BTech Computer Science
- 15+ Years Building Products
- 8+ Years Leading Teams
How I Think
A point of view, one line at a time.
Playbooks
The frameworks I actually use.
Open any playbook for the steps. These are working outlines and they grow over time.
How I Decide
The process behind the call.
Six beliefs that show up in every product decision I make. Written down so my team can hold me to them.
Default to evidence over opinion.
The best product decisions come from customer behaviour, not the loudest stakeholder.
Optimise for long-term trust.
In financial products, short-term growth should never undermine customer confidence.
Every roadmap is a strategy document.
Prioritisation is about making trade-offs explicit, not collecting feature requests.
Say the hard thing first.
Executive time is spent best on the decision, not the setup around it.
Ship the smallest test that could prove me wrong.
Certainty is expensive. Disproof is cheap. I invest in the second.
Engineering is a partner, not a vendor.
Shared context beats specifications passed over a wall, every time.
Product Principles
What I believe about building products.
The best products make difficult decisions feel simple.
Great products are built one decision at a time.
Contact
Let's talk.
Currently open to Director and Head of Product roles in fintech, capital markets, and enterprise software. Toronto, remote, or open to relocation.