Imran Haider

Product executive. Payments, fintech, and AI.

Two decades building the products people pay with and the platforms underneath them, from the strategy that became Zelle to the AI-native data platform behind TurboTax and QuickBooks.

IntuitDirector of Product, AI Data Platform
FDXBoard of Directors
Wells FargoEVP, Open Banking · Head of Digital Payments
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$650B
Annual money movement led
1B+
API calls per year
$250M+
Annual open-platform value
10+
U.S. patents, issued & pending
20+
Years of P&L ownership

Full cycle, from payment products to the platforms behind them.

I lead product at the intersection of machine learning, financial services, and large-scale consumer products. Today that means shipping multi-modal LLM systems, agentic data-acquisition pipelines, and autonomous workflow engines at Intuit. Before that I built the largest bank-operated open API platform in the world at Wells Fargo, ran a consumer payments business moving $650 billion a year for 15 million users, and authored the P2P strategy that became part of the foundation for Zelle. I sit on the board of FDX, the standards body defining how financial data moves as AI transforms the industry.

Three chapters, one arc: products, then platforms, then AI.

2023 – Now
Intuit · Mountain View

Making Intuit's data platform AI-native

Director of Product, AI Data Platform (Intuit Data Exchange)

Leading the platform that powers data, document, and app integrations across TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp.

  • Took document extraction from single-modal ML to a production multi-modal LLM pipeline spanning tax, bill payment, and verification documents.
  • Shipped the AI-powered document automation behind TurboTax Jumpstart, which lets customers begin their tax journey from partner payroll apps.
  • Built the data platform behind Intuit's first consumer lending product: cash-flow underwriting, account verification, and disbursement for TurboTax Flex Advance.
  • Replaced multi-day ACH verification with real-time payment rails, taking account verification from days to near-instant.
2024 – Now
FDX · Washington, D.C.

Defining the rules of the road for open finance

Board of Directors, Financial Data Exchange

Elected to the board of the industry standards body for consumer-permissioned financial data, shaping the policy and technical standards that govern how AI systems, fintechs, and financial institutions exchange data across 200+ member organizations.

2000 – 2022
Wells Fargo · San Francisco

Products, then the platforms beneath them

EVP, Open Banking & Embedded Finance · SVP, Head of Product, Open Finance · SVP, Head of Digital Payments

Twenty-two years from analyst to EVP, spanning consumer payments P&L ownership and the creation of the bank's open finance platform.

  • Built and scaled the largest bank-operated open API platform globally: $250M+ in annual value, 1B API calls a year, 40+ API products, and a 120-person organization.
  • Launched the platform from a $20M seed investment to market in 7 months, then to 300M API calls and $45M revenue within two years across 75 partnership deals.
  • As GM of Digital Payments, ran products moving $650B annually for 15M monthly active users, generating $150M in direct revenue, with Bill Pay ranked #1 in the U.S. five years running.
  • Authored Wells Fargo's P2P payments strategy, designing the email/mobile-token and shared-directory model for P2P money movement that became clearXchange and then Zelle.

The P2P model I designed at Wells Fargo became clearXchange, and then Zelle, now the #1 P2P payment network in the United States.

The through-line: build the system before the market names it.

Recognized by the industry, cited by the press.

Named one of Business Insider's "15 tech execs running the most ambitious projects on Wall Street."

Awarded By

  • Celent Model Bank
  • Global Finance
  • Barlow Research
  • Monarch

Featured In

  • Bloomberg
  • American Banker
  • PYMNTS
  • Payments Dive
  • Tearsheet

Speaking

  • Money20/20
  • Finovate
  • Collision
  • MoneyNext
  • Open Banking World Congress

How I think about product, platforms, and AI.

No. 16

Systems Thinking: Find the Boundary, Then Work Outside It

Every optimized system has a boundary, and the organization goes blind at exactly that line. The highest-leverage product moves live just outside the boundary of whatever the org has automated, optimized, or org-charted away.

No. 12

The AI-Native Operating Model

An AI-native product org is not a normal org with AI tools bolted on. It is designed lean from the start, with agents doing coordination and first drafts, humans setting direction and the quality bar, and fluency built by building.

From a working set of sixteen essays on product leadership. Full papers available on request.

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Most interested in product leadership roles where AI, fintech, payments, data, and customer experience come together. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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