Senior Product Manager - Loyalty & Rewards - AI Platforms

About Us:

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce.

Paytm's mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Product Manager - Loyalty & AI Platforms who will lead the design, development, and scaling of next-generation loyalty, rewards, and engagement platforms powered by AI and advanced analytics. The role requires strong expertise in loyalty program architecture, fintech integrations, merchant ecosystems, and AI-driven insights to build scalable solutions that help enterprises increase customer engagement, retention, and lifetime value.

The ideal candidate will bridge business strategy, product innovation, and AI capabilities to build industry-leading loyalty platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

- Define and execute the product vision, roadmap, and strategy for loyalty platforms including B2C, B2B, and Partner Loyalty (PRM/ERM).

- Identify market opportunities, customer pain points, and competitive gaps to build differentiated loyalty products.

- Drive development of AI-powered loyalty solutions including recommendation engines, predictive engagement, and dynamic rewards.

- Build scalable Pay with Points, Earn & Burn, Gamification, and Coalition Loyalty models.

Loyalty Platform Development

Lead development of core loyalty capabilities such as:

- Points management engine

- Rewards catalogue

- Campaign management

- Tier & membership programs

- Cashback & vouchers

- Referral & gamification systems

- Partner & merchant integrations

Design enterprise-grade loyalty architecture supporting:

- Real-time transactions

- Multi-tenant clients

- High-volume reward fulfillment

- API-based ecosystem integrations

AI-Driven Product Innovation

Build and implement AI-powered capabilities, including:

1. Intelligent Reward Recommendation Engine

- AI suggesting rewards based on user behavior.

2. Predictive Loyalty Analytics

- Churn prediction

- Customer lifetime value forecasting

- Engagement prediction.

3. Dynamic Campaign Optimization

- AI automatically optimizing campaigns for better ROI.

4. Fraud Detection

- AI models to detect loyalty abuse, fake redemptions, or suspicious transactions.

5. Conversational Loyalty

- AI chatbots to assist users with points redemption, rewards discovery, and offers.

Data & Analytics

Develop insight-driven dashboards for brands and business teams showing:

- Campaign ROI

- User engagement

- Redemption trends

- Partner performance

- Work closely with data science teams to build predictive models and automated insights.

Stakeholder & Client Management

- Work with enterprise clients, merchants, and internal business teams to gather product requirements.

- Translate business needs into clear PRDs and scalable product solutions.

- Collaborate with engineering, AI, data science, design, and sales teams.

Platform Growth & Monetization

Identify new revenue streams such as:

- Reward marketplace monetization

- Merchant funded offers

- Pay with points integrations

- Subscription loyalty models

- Build scalable coalition loyalty ecosystems.

Required Skills

Product & Loyalty Expertise

- 4-8 years of experience in product management, loyalty platforms, fintech, or MarTech.

- Qualification - MBA/M.Tech/B.Tech

Strong understanding of:

- Loyalty economics

- Rewards ecosystems

- Customer engagement platforms

- CRM/PRM/ERM systems

AI & Data Capability

Understanding of:

- AI/ML-based recommendation systems

- Predictive analytics

- Customer segmentation models

- Generative AI use cases for marketing and engagement

- Experience working with data science and AI teams to build production products.

Technical Understanding

- API-based product architecture

- Cloud-based platforms

- Data pipelines and analytics tools

- Martech stack integration

Product Execution Skills

- Writing PRDs, BRDs, and user stories

- Agile product development

- Product experimentation (A/B testing)

Preferred Experience

- Experience building loyalty platforms, rewards marketplace, or fintech engagement products.

- Exposure to AI-driven personalization platforms.

- Experience working with large merchant ecosystems or enterprise clients.

Key Success Metrics

- Growth in active loyalty users

- Increase in earn & burn transactions

- Campaign ROI for enterprise clients

- Merchant participation in reward marketplace

- AI-driven campaign performance improvements

- Reduction in loyalty fraud and abuse

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is someone who can think like a product strategist, loyalty expert, and AI innovator, capable of building scalable engagement platforms used by millions of users and enterprise brands.

Why join us:

- Work with a high-performing and passionate product, design, and engineering team.

- Shape the future of credit for millions of users.

- Build at scale in one of India's most dynamic and regulated spaces.

- Flexible and inclusive work environment with fast decision-making and ownership.

Compensation:

If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you with enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 25 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants - and we are committed to it. India's largest digital lending story is brewing here. It's your opportunity to be a part of the story!