Director - Product - Technical Domain

Gurgaon Based Client is looking for a Director Product to lead their product team for their business vertical and to own the portfolio of user growth. This involves building products which would enable and bring value to a large community of medium/small size merchants. The product leader would also be responsible to grow the retention rates of our active merchant base. This involves focusing on core payment platform products i.e. settlement, refund, chargeback, analytics etc.

As the portfolio goes, the product development in this role would have a larger share of new product development along with some share of optimizing existing flows.

We are looking for a product manager with 10-12 years of product and solution experience along with extensive understanding of open banking APIs.

We are sharing some of the key skill sets required to succeed in this role:

Technicals

- User story writing, bug and roadmap management expert

- Uses analytics expertly

- Constructs API definition successfully - understanding of open banking APIs

User Empathy

- Understanding different user types and their needs

- Synthesize user needs into insights

- Strategic Thinking

- Ability to lead effective brainstorming with peers from Design, Marketing and Analytics team

- Ability to frame the problem, pull in external dynamics, involve key stakeholders, generate/prioritize ideas with appropriate support

Communication

- Articulate business problems to engineering partners well

- Write and deliver presentations to stakeholders with appropriate support

Collaboration

- PM should be considered as strong thought partner by peers

- Team handling experience

- Proactively identifies and solves problems with other product functions

- Delivers small and big features with little-no errors

We are looking for people who have a background in engineering. There will be preference given to folks having payments background but that's definitely not a mandate. What matters lot more is skill set of the product leader.