Product Manager - Emerging Markets - Lending Platform

Role: Product Manager - Lending Platform (emerging markets)

Location: Gurgaon

Experience: 6-10 years of experience with 3 to 4 years' experience in working on building Lending Platforms

Notice period: Max 30-45 days

Company: Our client is a global FinTech venture aimed at simplifying financial access to the 2 Bn+ under-banked people in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They use technology and analytics to reduce the cost of delivering financial services. In doing so, they partner with leading Telecom Operators, Banks, MFI's, Credit Bureaus, Mobile Financial Providers & handset vendors. Mission is to create world-class innovative products to improve the lives of these people.

Job Description :

We are looking for a Product Manager who will be responsible for Strategy, Roadmap, Design, Marketing and end to end delivery of the platform.

- Build an independent roadmap to create a robust platform supporting multiple products

- Instalment Loans, BNPL, Bullet Loans, Credit Line, Consumer Durable Loans, Merchant Cash

- Advance, Micro Credit, Micro Savings, Fixed Deposits etc.

- Create a Low Code PAAS product which can then be offered to as a Plug and Play system to enterprises

- Create Opportunity matrix for multiple Segments/ product lines and build a robust product roadmap

- Build digital Onboarding/KYC/CMS/Documentation and other allied modules to enhance the platform to support multiple lending workflows

- Derive & achieve intuitive channel experiences for customers

- Build and manage components and rules to manage each customer's lifecycle independently basis his profile and usage

- Create comprehensive documentation and Product collaterals

- Support Compliance in multiple markets and build standard products which can be offered out of the Box.

- Follow through launches meticulously, drive clear deadlines and faster closure

- Track all deployments to ensure product is working as expected

- Data driven & Hypothesis driven approach to creating features/ functionalities

Responsibilities:

Product Vision and Direction :

- Drive cross-functional teams around product vision

- Build the TAM and target segments for the product and map the Product Roadmap to the business priorities

- Support multiple credit products and lifecycles to support Business strategy Instalment Loans, BNPL, Bullet Loans, Credit Line, Consumer Durable Loans, Merchant Cash Advance, Micro Credit, Micro Savings, Fixed Deposits etc

- Develop core LMS enhancements on Accounting, Product flexibilities, charging models and more.

- Build additional components like LOS/KYC management/Document management etc to create an end to end Digital lending offering

- Build a flexible and customer profile led Lifecycle Management system for customers

- Build various accounting models to help offer multiple credit products on the platform

- Scan and understand the financial guidelines in each of the markets we enter and build all market specific regulatory and operational requirements into the product

- Interact with Business Analysts, Partners, Business teams to finalize solution

- Coordinate with Testing team and partner systems to enable testing and delivery of developed features

- Manage the multiple installations and Version control.

Key Qualification & Skills:-

Functional:

- 6-10 years of experience with 3 to 4 years' experience in working on building Lending Platforms

- Additional Delivery experience or product development experience in Payments is preferred

- Demonstrated ability to use data to drive critical results

- Developing product documentation, user stories and other relevant material required.

- Manage the Scrum and Product Delivery process.

- Ability to create business cases and drive rationale for product roadmap / Plan

- Experience in working in non traditional financial services space

Behavioral:

- An excellent team player to work with global matrix teams across time zones

- Good verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to present ideas/thoughts to wider teams and between various stakeholders

- Persuasive

- Ability to work under pressure

- Ability to think strategically and also grounded enough to operationally discuss with on ground teams in building roadmaps/features