Clinton D'SouzaProduct Manager
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Fintech / corporate travel and expense

Happay

Product Manager & Product AnalystMay 2017 – January 2019Public-safe case study

Led a team of 11 to build Happay Travel and increased funnel conversion by around 20 percent through analytics and product insight.

Team Shape

11-person product and delivery team

Primary Focus

Travel booking flows, analytics, and conversion improvement

Outcome Theme

Built product capability and the measurement layer behind it

Public Happay platform visual from the official site.
Platform visual from Happay’s public site

At A Glance

The outcomes, ownership, and public context in one pass.

A quicker read of the work before getting into the fuller story.

Outcome Signals

The clearest proof points from the role.

Led a team of 11 on Happay Travel

~20% funnel conversion improvement

Built analytics dashboards and user-behaviour visibility

Shipped multiple modules into production

What I Owned

Decision making, prioritisation, and hands-on product detail.

  • Led a team of 11 to build Happay Travel, a B2B flight and hotel booking experience with integrated travel workflows.
  • Independently drove features and modules from multiple products into production.
  • Established the analytics framework that surfaced product usage dashboards and user-behaviour insights.
  • Used data to improve conversion, product prioritisation, and decision making.

Case Study

The story, broken into the parts that mattered.

A lighter narrative read through the context, challenge, ownership, working style, and business effect.

Section 01

Company Overview and Product Context

Happay operates in travel, expense, and payments software for enterprises. The product space is operationally complex because it blends financial control, booking flows, approvals, compliance, and employee usability into one experience.

That complexity made it a strong environment for product thinking grounded in both workflow design and analytics.

Section 02

Challenge and Opportunity

Enterprise travel and expense products are only as strong as the workflows they simplify. The opportunity was to make booking and expense interactions easier while preserving the controls finance teams depend on.

That required both better product execution and better visibility into how users were behaving inside the funnel.

Section 03

What I Owned

I led a team of 11 on Happay Travel and also independently pushed features and modules from multiple products into production.

This was a role that combined hands-on delivery ownership with strong analytical responsibility, especially around conversion and user-behaviour instrumentation.

Section 04

How I Worked

I helped establish an analytics framework that gave the team product-usage dashboards and clearer visibility into user behaviour. That made it easier to identify friction, validate assumptions, and connect product changes to measurable performance shifts.

My product approach here became much more data-driven because the environment demanded both workflow reasoning and disciplined measurement.

Section 05

Outcomes and Product Impact

The most direct measurable outcome was an approximate 20 percent increase in funnel conversion, driven by stronger instrumentation, clearer insight, and more focused product decisions.

The role also strengthened my ability to operate where product management, analytics, and delivery all need to work together rather than as separate functions.