About

Vaibhav Sambre is a Principal Product Manager at Airtel with over 9 years of experience in Agile Product Management, Analytics, Remittances, Payments, and Operations. He is responsible for all payments via the MyAirtel App, leading the payments product with a monthly active user base of around 80 million and volumes in excess of hundred billion INR a year, powering revenues for 12+ internal businesses. Vaibhav has previously worked as a Senior Product Manager at Airtel and as a Product Lead for Consumer Products at InstaReM. At InstaReM, he headed the P2P remittance product, owned web/mobile onboarding and payments for 52 countries with a volume of USD 23MN/month. He led the re-architecture of the web and app platform to React and Node stack, launched new markets of the USA, Europe, and the UK. He also simplified user journeys by integrating services such as Trulio e-KYC, PLAID, and ACH processors for the US into the platform. Vaibhav's core expertise lies in Agile Product Management, Analytics, Remittances, Payments, and Operations. He has worked with a lot of early-stage companies and is well connected to the start-up ecosystem in India. He is quite hands-on in his approach and believes in getting hands dirty, working hard, and leading by example. He has managed a team of 7 product managers and influenced 30+ engineers, participated in hiring loops. Vaibhav has a Master of Science (MSc) in Chemistry from IIT Bombay and completed his primary, middle, high school, and junior college from Bhavan's B.P. Vidya Mandir. His tech stack includes product manager, microservices, mobile, P2P, and web.