VP Product Management

About Us

PayU, India's leading online payment solutions provider, is regulated under the Reserve Bank of India and has advanced solutions to meet the digital payment needs of the Indian market. PayU India aims to create a full-stack digital financial services platform to serve all (tapped and untapped) financial needs of customers (merchants, banks and consumers) through technology.

PayU provides payment gateway solutions to online businesses through its cutting-edge and award-winning technology. PayU is one of the leading payment gateways in India & has empowered 5 lakhs+ businesses, including leading enterprises, e-commerce giants and SMBs. It enables businesses to collect digital payments across 150+ online payment methods such as Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Net Banking, EMIs, BNPL, QR, UPI, Wallets, and more. It is a preferred partner in the affordability ecosystem, offering the maximum coverage of issuers & easy to implement integrations across card-based EMIs, pay later options and new-age card-less EMIs. PayU offers merchants best in industry success rates while ensuring a seamless checkout experience.

Role Description

We are looking for a Vice President - Product to lead the product team for some of our critical core product areas. The product leader would be responsible for owning the overall Payments NPS across all of PayU’s business units; and specifically focus on solving for merchant pain points. Additionally, the person would be responsible for leveraging PayU’s data to provide right insights and analytics to merchants to grow their business

We are looking for a product leader with overall 15+ years of experience with payments/internet background, out of which at least 8+ years should be in leadership role.

As the portfolio grows, 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 sharing some of the key skill sets required to succeed in this role:

Key Responsibilities

• Product Leader for multiple Core Products across Payments
• Drive deep product synergy & knowledge sharing in the integrated org. 
• Develop and own the overall product strategy, vision, and roadmap in alignment with the company's strategic goals and market opportunities. 
• Lead and mentor a team of product leader, product managers, providing guidance, setting goals, and fostering their professional growth. 
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, business, sales, design, marketing, and operations, to translate business goals into actionable product initiatives. 
• Drive the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of products and features. 

Ideal Experience

• Post-Graduate, with 15+ years of experience in FinTech/ Payments industry of which at least 8 years should be in hands product management role

• Product Thinking

  • Providing best onboarding experience – TAT, frictionless, improve product penetration
  • Improving Product Discovery, engagement, reducing churn

• 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

• Team Management

  • Extensive experience in leading a team of product managers
  • Ability to mentor team and guide them to identify solutions
  • High level of maturity in delivery management in terms of project planning, execution, quality and reporting & stake holder expectation management