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Director Product | Financial Services

Gurgaon Permanent View Job Description
The Director Product role in the FinTech industry will involve leading product strategy and development, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and driving growth. Based in Gurugram, this position demands expertise in product management and a strong understanding of payment solutions.
  • Competitive Salary
  • Good brand

About Our Client

Our client is a global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world's underserved businesses to a rising global economy. They're a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 markets. By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows-including everything from global payments and compliance, to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence-we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Job Description

  • Manage: Lead the team in charge of product management of card issuing, serving hundreds of thousands of businesses around the globe.
  • Product Development & Roadmap: Define, prioritize, and execute the product roadmap, balancing innovation, customer needs, regulatory requirements, and business growth.
  • Customer Experience & Insights: Leverage customer feedback, market research, and competitive analysis to enhance product offerings and improve user experience.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, design, risk, compliance, operations, and marketing teams to ensure seamless product delivery.
  • Go-To-Market Strategy: Work closely with marketing and sales teams to develop positioning, messaging, and launch strategies for new card products.
  • Financial & Performance Management: Define KPIs, monitor performance metrics, and drive continuous improvements to optimize product success and profitability.
  • Partnership Development: Build and maintain relationships with issuers, networks, partners, and other stakeholders in the card ecosystem.
  • Strategic Decision-Making: Make data-driven, high-impact decisions aligned with business and product strategy.

The Successful Applicant

  • Education: Engineering degree required; MBA preferred.
  • Experience: 8+ years of experience in product management. Experience in the fintech or B2B industry, with card products or global payments, is a plus.
  • Technical Acumen: proven experience integrating with processors, card network and thirdparty APIs, ensuring seamless functionality across financial services infrastructure.
  • Technical Integration Expertise: Proven experience integrating with payment processors, card networks, and third-party APIs, ensuring seamless functionality across financial services infrastructure.
  • Industry Knowledge: Strong understanding of card lifecycle, underwriting, risk management, rewards programs, and interchange economics.
  • Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into actionable strategies.
  • Product led growth proficiency: Knowledge of PLG principles and experience in implementing PLG strategies is highly desirable
  • Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.

What's on Offer

  • Competitive Salary
  • Good brand value
Quote job ref
JN-082025-6804498

Job summary

Function
Banking & Financial Services
Sub Sector
Product Control & Valuations
What is your area of specialisation?
Financial Services
Location
Gurgaon
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-082025-6804498

Diversity & Inclusion at Michael Page

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