Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Director of Product Management role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of product-led software and regulated financial infrastructure. The remit spans both new product strategy and ongoing optimisation, which is a common pattern in mature SaaS platforms that must balance innovation with reliability, risk controls, and measurable outcomes across the customer funnel.
From a career perspective, the role offers durable SaaS leverage: shaping portfolio direction, building a roadmap discipline, and using data to steer prioritisation across multiple stakeholders. Experience leading go-to-market planning alongside product execution is particularly transferable across SaaS, where adoption, activation, and retention are tightly linked to product decisions. The emphasis on process improvement and org-level problem solving also maps to senior product tracks in scaling software businesses.
This position is best suited to a product leader who prefers complex domains, enjoys synthesising customer inputs with quantitative signals, and is comfortable representing product trade-offs to senior leadership. It will fit someone who wants to mentor other product managers while staying close to platform details that affect user experience and operational integrity.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
You can become a part of
… a truly aspirational brand, one of India’s fastest growing fintech companies that offers a range of financial services & products for merchants, kirana store owners and end consumers. Valued at over $2.8 Bn within a short span of 3+ years, we focus on empowering small business owners and retailers with business ranging from QR & PoS payments to easy loans to high-yield investment products which in turn enables them to grow and transform. We understand that business and culture are two sides of the same coin. So, alongside business, we are equally focused on building a culture where employees succeed unconditionally.
We believe we are in an ever-evolving space with immense opportunity to build for Bharat! Our people will enable this journey with their ideas, innovations and capabilities. We value diversity, where we encourage different points of view, ways of thinking, new capabilities to strengthen and improve the lives of our customers. And that is not all, we have a lot of fun while we explore new ideas, solve real problems, collaborate, connect - and we do it all together.
Connect with us over social media, coffee or call. We promise to excite you with an opportunity that will “change the game”!
In this role, you have the opportunity to
..Lead the strategy and execution for product line & manage high complexity product line. You will be responsible for setting the vision for our product line, leading a team of product managers, and working closely with other departments to ensure our products not only fulfill customer needs but also drive our business growth.
Responsibilities will include
Functional Expertise
1. Identifies and solves problems at the Org level while influencing product beyond own area of control
2. Drives process improvements at product level, suggests improvements at team/Org level
3. Define, drive, and implement product strategy aligned with the company's overall business objectives
4. Oversee the development and execution of go-to-market strategies
Problem Solving
1. Customer Centric Mindset, able to synthesize wide range of customer inputs (research, data etc.) to identify underlying customer problems
2. Conduct comprehensive market research and competitive analysis to inform product development and strategic positioning
3. Utilize data-driven decision-making to assess product performance and drive improvements based on key metrics.
4. Manage and prioritize product roadmaps, balancing the introduction of new features with the optimization of existing ones
Interaction:
1. Manage focused occasionally complex stakeholder relationships with support from manager; represent activities to senior management with support
2. Awareness and detailed understanding of overall business and industry context
3. Recognized as a mentor for others; may manage team of Product Managers
4. Confirmed ability to work cross functionally to drive the implementation of new features; experience mentoring junior team members
To succeed in the role
Impact
● Define long-term strategy & vision for Product; provides strategic influence across teams and functions
Challenges & Decisions
● Strong analytical applications specifically demonstrating excellent problem solving skills with
complex data
Qualification & Experience (type & industry)
● BE/B.Tech or equivalent Degree. MBA is good to have
● 10-15 Yrs of experience
● Comprehensive knowledge of financial systems, wealthtech products and payment platforms
Skills & know-how
● Should have been hands-on in building & scaling mobile first WealthTech platforms especially in the Stock trading & Mutual Funds verticals.
● Should have owned the building & optimisation of the end to end funnel management for the above products.
● Should also have a detailed understanding of how the Indian Payment ecosystem works, especially the nuances around UPI payments, money flow, recon & settlements, payment error codes etc
● Should have experience in leading & growing a team of experienced Senior Product Managers
● Should have experience directly communicating with, presenting to & influencing CXOs
● High degree of competency with project management including: project planning, issue and
risk identification and management, tracking dependencies and breakthroughs, and communication of overall project status.
● Past success delivering high quality products in a complex and a fast moving environment
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