Nidhi Shrivastava

Product Owner & Product Design Leader

I lead product, design and delivery for complex, data-heavy platforms.

For 18 years I’ve owned the end-to-end lifecycle of technically demanding products in fintech, wealth management, government and enterprise SaaS. I’ve run delivery for teams in the US, UK, EU and India at the same time without missing a milestone, and designed the products they shipped. Most recently I’ve added AWS agentic AI and business intelligence to that work.

Portrait of Nidhi Shrivastava
Mumbai, India

How I take a product from brief to release

I use these seven stages with scrum teams, mixed teams and film production crews alike. Select a stage to see what I do and where I’ve done it.

Agree the outcome before anyone builds

I run discovery and alignment sessions with the business, engineering and compliance, so goals and requirements are agreed and prioritised before the cycle starts.

Where I’ve done this

At Oryn Labs this made design-to-development 20% faster and saved an estimated 1–2 weeks of rework in each release cycle.

Each release feeds the next alignment session, so stage 7 leads back to stage 1.

Work

A few recent programmes from a wider body of work that also includes CGI and VFX for film, and producing animated films and series. Client names are withheld under NDA.

Enterprise wealth intelligence platform

Organisation
Oryn Labs, for a financial services client
My role
Senior Product Owner & Strategy Lead
Period
2025 – present

The problem

Analysts managing multi-asset portfolios worked across four disconnected tools: a risk system, a transaction feed, a spreadsheet tracker and a reporting module. They spent 2–3 hours every morning assembling data before any analysis could begin.

What I did

  • Owned requirements, prioritisation and the roadmap, presenting direction to leadership across 5+ planning cycles.
  • Ran sprint and release planning and estimation sessions across design, frontend and backend workstreams.
  • Specified 30+ user flows for portfolio analytics, risk monitoring, transaction visibility and decision dashboards.
  • Defined every production data scenario with backend engineers before build.
  • Led design from a blank canvas to a production design system that let engineering build modules in parallel, and mentored 2 designers through weekly reviews.
  • Turned regulatory and compliance requirements into 40+ testable acceptance criteria across 3 modules.

Results

  • 20% faster design to development
  • 1–2 weeks of rework saved per release
  • ~15% fewer revision cycles
  • ~1 week faster decisions per planning cycle
  • 0 design-related compliance flags at QA

Zentrak: factory operations platform

Product
Zentrak, a role-based B2B SaaS platform for manufacturing plants
My role
Product design and project management
Engagement
Independent consulting
Period
2019 – 2021

The problem

Manufacturing plants ran production, workforce, inventory and reporting on separate systems. Supervisors lacked a real-time view of the floor, so decisions came late and problems surfaced after output was already lost.

What I did

  • Defined a role-based platform covering a supervisor’s command centre, a live floor monitor, an equipment registry, incident and work-order management, and operations analytics.
  • Designed the real-time floor monitor for 12 production lines: cycle time, yield, output against target, live line status and a 24-hour production timeline.
  • Structured incidents as a tracked lifecycle (detected, investigating, assigned, resolving, verified, closed), linking sensor alerts, root cause, affected lines and work orders.
  • Shaped analytics that trace output from theoretical capacity to actual (a loss waterfall), split downtime by cause and rank equipment by financial loss.

What each role gets

  • Supervisors see the anomalies that need action first
  • Maintenance gets prioritised work orders tied to alerts
  • Managers see OEE, downtime and the cost of each loss

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Land records and industrial development data platform

Organisation
P2H Solutions, for state government departments
My role
Product & Design Director, Co-founder
Period
2011 – 2021

The problem

Revenue and industrial development officials across a state’s districts needed structured access to land records and programme data that sat in fragmented systems.

What I did

  • Defined product requirements, information architecture and user journeys for a multi-role platform.
  • Tested prototypes iteratively with department officials and used the findings to shape navigation and workflows before rollout.
  • Ran the programme alongside other concurrent enterprise engagements, handling planning, estimation and stakeholder coordination.

Results

  • 10,000+ public-sector users given structured data access
  • Workflows validated with end users before rollout
  • Delivered on time

Automated futures trading platform

Organisation
Capital-markets client, through my independent practice
My role
Product owner, design and delivery
Period
2026

The problem

The client wanted a rules-based system for CME equity-index futures, and needed evidence that it would hold up under strict risk limits before any capital went live.

What I did

  • Defined a layered architecture: market-data ingestion, analysis engine, rule-based decision engine, execution and a monitoring dashboard.
  • Planned a phased rollout from backtest to paper trading to controlled live release.
  • Built a validation pipeline on 16 years of 1-minute CME market data, with hard go/no-go gates on profit factor and drawdown.
  • Built in risk controls: per-trade, daily and trailing drawdown limits, plus an exclusion calendar of 524 economic-event days (FOMC, CPI, NFP).

Results

  • 5.4M+ rows validated, zero data-quality issues
  • A failing version was stopped at the gate and redesigned
  • Each risk rule’s effect measured before adoption

Data and AI work

Two applied projects from the Future AWS Agentic AI Business Professional Nanodegree (Udacity, 2026), built in Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Quick on sample business data. Each starts from a business decision, not a tool.

Revenue intelligence dashboard

Type
Applied project, Udacity × AWS
Tools
Amazon QuickSight, Quick Topics
Data
CRM deals, marketing campaigns, support tickets

The business question

A software company’s sales, marketing and support data sat in three separate systems. Leadership couldn’t see how campaigns turned into revenue, or which valuable accounts were at risk.

What I did

  • Aggregated each source (499 deals, 2,240 campaign records, 3,000 support tickets) to account level and joined them on account ID into one 65,448-row, 63-column model.
  • Created the measures leadership asks about: Days to Close, Campaign ROI and Resolution Time.
  • Built three linked views (Marketing Funnel, Sales Pipeline, Customer Health) with filters and cross-sheet navigation, and wrote the finding and recommended action into each.
  • Set up plain-English questions on the data with a Quick Topic, and checked its answers instead of trusting them.

What it told leadership

  • Every channel had negative average ROI, so spend needed reallocating
  • One account combined $40,722 in deals with the most support tickets (334)
Marketing Funnel view: ROI by channel and leads by stage, with the finding and recommended action written into the dashboard.
Customer Health view: flags a high-value account carrying the heaviest support load.
How the data was modelled: each source aggregated to account level, then joined on account ID.

Market intelligence agent

Type
Applied project, Udacity × AWS
Tools
Amazon Quick agents, Spaces and Quick Research
Data
500-tool internal dataset plus external research

The business question

A B2B AI software company needed to understand the 2026 AI tools market (competition, pricing and adoption) to decide how to position its product.

What I did

  • Framed the research before querying: objective, scope, exclusions, competitor set, timeframe and constraints.
  • Configured a no-code AI agent on the internal dataset and combined it with external Quick Research.
  • Required every finding to say whether it came from the internal data, the external research or both.
  • Rated each insight for source quality, consistency, timeliness and confidence, and wrote down what the evidence could not support.

What it told leadership

  • Five evidence-backed insights in a leadership brief
  • Pricing is moving from per-seat to consumption-based
  • AI tools’ capability is ahead of enterprise readiness
Agent analysis of the 500-tool dataset, with each finding tagged by its source.
Framing first: objective, scope and exclusions, set before any querying.
Every insight rated for source quality, consistency, timeliness and confidence.

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Experience

  1. 2025 – present

    Senior Product Owner & Strategy Lead

    Oryn Labs, enterprise software engineering

    Product owner and design lead for an enterprise wealth intelligence platform: requirements, prioritisation, sprint and release planning, the design system and delivery. Mentor to 2 designers.

  2. 2019 – present

    Product & UX Strategy Consultant

    Embedded with founders and engineering leads

    8+ enterprise engagements across fintech, capital markets, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and AI, including Zentrak (2019–2021). Full lifecycle, multi-team planning and budgets, zero missed milestones. Wrote 4 case studies used in RFPs that helped win $50K–$200K contracts.

  3. 2011 – 2021

    Product & Design Director, Co-founder

    P2H Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

    Grew the company from 0 to 50+ people with full P&L ownership. Delivered 10+ multi-role platforms for government, healthcare, logistics and media clients on time.

  4. 2008 – 2010

    Director, Client Acquisition & Growth

    RME Pvt. Ltd.

    Line producer on a $300K+ animation production later sold to Walt Disney India. Ran 8+ enterprise engagements worth $100K–$400K each.

  5. 2006 – 2008

    CGI Lighting & VFX Artist

    Rhythm & Hues / Prana Studios

    Worked in multi-department film production pipelines on 5+ VFX productions.

Credentials

Future AWS Agentic AI Business Professional

Udacity Nanodegree, completed October 2026. Verify the certificate

AWS AI & ML Scholars 2026

Selected through the AWS AI Practitioner Challenge. Also certified in Generative AI & Prompt Engineering by DeepLearning.AI.

Figma certifications

UX Design with Figma. Accessibility & Inclusion with Figma.

Education

PG Diploma in Advertising & PR, Welingkar Institute. BBA, Madurai Kamaraj University. Diploma in Animation, Arena Multimedia.

Building something complex?

I’m open to senior product owner, product manager and design leadership roles, especially on data-heavy platforms. Available to start immediately.

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