Manan Modi

Product Manager

2024

Acquired in Dec ‘24. Product Lead & Team Lead (New Verticals and B2B Growth). Acquired by Gen Digital for $1B (NASDAQ: GEN) Led product and team growth initiatives that scaled revenue for the emerging verticals team from $0 to $10M+ annually by launching and expanding multiple verticals, including Cash Advance, Earned Wage Access, Debt Relief, and Credit Builders. Spearheaded the launch of new enterprise verticals from ideation to market: Small & Medium Business Lending, Home Equity Line of Credit, Income Opportunities (Games/Surveys), and additional debt financial products. Delivered innovative B2B solutions, including MoneyLion’s first SMB lending marketplace, driving new revenue streams and strategic partnerships. Built and integrated new verticals supporting high-impact marketing campaigns, including a major collaboration with MrBeast (world’s #1 YouTube channel), enabling expanded reach and customer acquisition. Developed consumer and enterprise lead generation tools for the personal loans vertical, generating millions of views and impressions, significantly boosting user engagement and conversion. Engine by MoneyLion is a leading embedded finance platform serving enterprise businesses, formerly Even Financial (Series B FinTech), acquired by MoneyLion (a FinTech unicorn). In Dec 2024, MoneyLion was acquired by Gen Digital, a cybersecurity leader owning brands such as Norton, Avast, AVG, and LifeLock.

Venture Partner

2024

Helped diligence investments: CivCheck, RoVR, Hipp Health, MaxHome, and Arya by providing strategic insights on product-market fit, go-to-market strategies, and growth opportunities to help shape investment decisions.

Fast Track

2023

Selected for First Round Capital’s prestigious Product Fast Track program, a mentorship and professional development initiative connecting emerging product leaders with seasoned PM mentors. Engaged in hands-on learning and skill-building to accelerate growth as a senior product manager.

Product Manager

2022 - 2024

Received Company MVP Award (Feb 2023) and Product Team MVP Award (2022) for outstanding leadership and results. Early employee (#~30) and first Product Manager hire post-Series A, reporting directly to the VP of Product. Functioned as Head of Product for the digital applications and experimentation (A/B testing) teams. Led five critical product areas: 1) Brokerage experience (application + customer portal) 2) Led growth strategies by optimizing the top-of-funnel website and partnering with growth teams to enhance paid acquisition funnels (Google, Facebook, Meta). 3) Underwriting portal enhancements for case managers and sales agents 4) Operational re-engagements through text/email automation to boost retention 5) Built A/B testing and experimentation infrastructure, enabling rapid, data-driven growth experiments Built the first fully digital checkout application in the permanent life insurance industry, scaling revenue from <$1M to $7M in forward-looking annual revenue. Amplify is ranked the #1 permanent life insurance product by Forbes.

Product Manager

2021 - 2022

Joined post-YC as the first Product Manager reporting directly to the CEO at a Series A B2B FinTech startup. Backed by Y Combinator, Underscore, Uncorrelated (led by former Bain Capital Ventures Managing Director), and others. Contributed to scaling revenue from $500K to $4-5M+ ARR by leading product and design efforts as an early Head of Product. Built and helped grow the product team, bridging CEO and CTO organizations across Product, Design, GTM, and Engineering (50-person team including contractors). Owned three core product lines early on: 1) Credit Decisioning Engine: Integrated new external APIs and built an orchestration tool to automate underwriting processes. 2) Embedded Credit Operating System: Optimized loan origination workflows, enabling SMBs to manage applications and deal pipelines via onboarding and dashboards. 3) Lender Marketplace: Managed the platform matching SMBs with lenders offering tailored credit products based on lender partnerships. Grew the product team by mentoring and hiring an intern who became a full-time product manager leading the platform APIs team. Early employee (#~30), helping shape foundational product strategy and team culture.

Human-Computer Interaction Design: TA (INFO 3450)

2021 - 2021

TA for Cornell's largest UI/UX Design course | https://cis.cornell.edu/

Product

2020 - 2021

Founded by JJ Echaniz, former Softbank Vision Fund Investor. I joined while in stealth as an early intern hire — we shut down, but I learned a lot. It was the start of my passion for helping businesses that then led me to Lendflow.

Product Marketing Lead

2019 - 2020

Led all product marketing efforts and managed 7-10 marketers every semester.

Customer Success + Product Management

2020 - 2020

Analyst

2019 - 2019