PayU - Product Manager - Data Platform

Who We Are:

PayU is the fintech division of Naspers, a global internet and entertainment group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Operating in more than 120 countries, Naspers builds leading companies that empower people and enrich communities. By joining PayU, you will become part of the global network of data science, machine learning and AI specialists of PayU and the Naspers group. This context will offer you travel and international career opportunities.

Under the aegis of PayU Payments Services Ltd., PayU provides payment gateway solutions to online businesses through its cutting-edge and award-winning technology. PayU's local operations span 18 growth markets across Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. PayU India forays into two business verticals - payment offerings under PayU Payments Services Ltd. and alternate lending under PayU Finance.

In India, PayU covers nearly 60% of the airline business and 90% of the entire e-commerce business and processes over INR 95,000 crores worth of digital payments annually. The company offers more than 70 local payment methods and serves more than 350,000 merchants including leading ecommerce businesses in India. The company also empowers SMBs, enabling them to accept mobile and online payments with minimum development effort. PayU India has processed more than 2 Billion transactions, which make us one of the best data companies. Payment behavior data for consumers and merchants provide a great platform for Data-as-a-service (DaaS) to help our merchant partners engage with their customers.

The Team :

Our data team develops machine learning technologies and data platforms based on hundreds of millions of transactions in India. This role is with the PayU India Product team, with specific focus on the Data Stewardship @ PayU comprising Initiatives that focuses on enriching PayU Payments data for various use cases. PayU Payments data has emerged as a powerful source of information.

Joining our Data Product team offers you the chance to make a difference for millions of people and businesses in a rapidly growing market. Exponential growth in PayU data, in volume and variety, is changing the conditions to build a successful financial business. They also underpin the growth of virtually every fintech business in the world. You will be able to help shape the data-based efforts such as AI and Data Intelligence initiatives at PayU in India and beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

- Product Manager for the Data Products @ PayU - PayU's Data Quality and Enrichment Program

- Work with all facets of the organization to Deliver data enrichment and quality improvement initiatives as defined, agreed and prioritized

- Business Ownership cum Data Specialist role which focusses on getting the most from data, ensuring data is efficiently and effectively captured, processed, stored and disposed off

- Build positive relationships with Technology, Product, Operations, Information Security Office partners to ensure that the Program KPIs are met

- Engage and utilize the Data projects framework to prioritize issues, agree definitions and raise the visibility of data quality

- Shape the creation, testing and refinement of Data Quality and Enrichment requirements, covering the full customer and merchant lifecycle through the PayU Payment Gateway.

- Establish & maintain Data Quality Scorecards to pro-actively monitor and report on data quality

- Drive data quality issue management, which will involve supporting the group data teams to implement the necessary structure within their businesses to implement effective data quality issue management

- Work with product managers and Agile scrum teams on design, definition, documentation and implementation of features for new applications, business infrastructure, data security, and data structure

- Document monitor and revise the following artifacts in support of application development: product requirements, process maps, use cases, user acceptance test plans, project plans, and release notes.

- Assist in preparing and maintaining the product roadmap which defines product enhancements for short- and long-term releases

- Collect and analyze data to determine product direction and define business requirements.

Qualifications and Requirements to be successful in this role:

- 6+ years experience with MBA from Tier 1 institute

- 3+ years hands-on experience in Data Analytics/Data Engineering/Data Science

- Experience working with business and technical project stakeholders to translate business requirements into data imperatives

- Relevant technical knowledge spanning Data Quality/Profiling and Data Management processes with the ability to identify technology solutions

- Working knowledge of business intelligence/reporting tools such as Tableau with related experience in analyzing data as well as writing SQL queries and reports.

- Experience of developing data profiling routines and data quality scorecards

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (for external use as well as internal liaison and influencing)

- Change Leadership skills, able to set an agenda and convince others to follow - a proven ability to influence people and challenge the status-quo

- Proficiency with software development methodologies such as Agile and experience working with Scrum teams

- Experience with Agile software development tools such as Jira or other Agile reporting tools