Lendingkart - Senior Manager - Product

The Product team is the backbone of the organization and significantly influences Customer Experience with Automation and Platform capabilities, streamlining the application journey and loan life-cycle and enabling efficient and quick movement of Customer application from the Operations team in case of manual touchpoints.

This Team works with multiple teams including Marketing, Operations, Credit, Business, Accounts and Data Science as well as external partners. Since, the team partners with multiple stakeholders, it provides a 360 view into the entire life-cycle and an opportunity to tackle the most impactful problems.

The ideal candidate is comfortable understanding varied business processes and requirements and is able to convert them to simple workflows. (S)he understands the customer and is able to solve the stakeholder and customer's needs. (S)he has experience in automating processes to enable digital experience.

(S)he is a systems thinker and is able to understand how to build systems or partner externally given ambiguous requirements. (S)he makes data-driven decisions and builds business cases. (S)he will work with many different parts of the Lendingkart organization, and as such, will need to be an effective influencer as well as a passionate leader.

This position is located in Ahmedabad, India.

Responsibilities :

- Work with key stakeholders to solve for the biggest impediments to scale

- Build a product that is easy to understand and use Significantly lower processing time and Cost of execution and drive process excellence by building products that leverage intelligence and automation

Qualifications :

- Prior experience in a FinTech/B2B Product/eCommerce company is an advantage

- Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically including the ability to formulate data-driven and result-oriented decisions.

- Ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment.

- 5yrs+ experience of product management/consulting highly preferred

- Exceptional interpersonal, communication (spoken and written) and influencing skills and an ability to navigate a complex and unstructured cross-functional environment.

About Lendingkart :

Lendingkart is a leading fintech startup in the working capital space. The Company has developed technology tools based on big data analysis which facilitates lenders to evaluate borrowers credit worthiness and provides other related services. The Company aims to transform small business lending by making it convenient for SMEs to access credit easily. The Company uses technology and analytics tools, analyzing thousands of data points from various data sources to assess the creditworthiness of small businesses rapidly and accurately.

The group is backed by reputed international investors like Fullerton Financials Pte Singapore, Sistema Asia Fund, Mayfield India, Saama Capital, Bertelsmann India Investments, Darrin Capital Management and others and has raised USD 113 Million of equity till date. In Feb 2018,group has raised USD 87 Million of equity in series C round led by Fullerton Financial Pte Singapore. Since its inception, Lendingkart Finance (the NBFC arm of Lendingkart) has evaluated more than 100,000 applications, disbursed over 22,000 loans in more than 1000 cities helping more than 16,000 SMEs across 23 diverse sectors.

Lendingkart is the only Indian Fintech player featuring in the Global Top 50 Established Innovators list published by KPMG in collaboration by H2 Ventures in 2017. The Product Operations team is the backbone of the organisation and is the voice of the customer for Lendingkart. This team simplifies the experience for the end customer through the entire loan life-cycle by closely working works closely with multiple all the teams including Marketing, Operations, Credit, Business, Accounts and Data Science as well as external partners.

This team builds the pipeline to ensure swift and seamless processing of the loan applications while ensuring that the cost of processing is as low as possible. Since, the team partners with multiple stakeholders, it provides a 360 view into the entire life-cycle and an opportunity to tackle the most impactful problems. (S)he is also comfortable looking at data to make data-driven decisions and build business cases.