Technical Product Manager - BFS

Company Introduction :

Founded by serial entrepreneurs Priyanka Kanwar and Prabhtej Bhatia, Falcon is a financial technology company that is disrupting the way modern fintech is built. The company is on a mission to give everyone the power to rewrite the rules of the new financial economy.

No matter what your core business, or size of operation - startups, corporates, and even financial institutions can use Falcon's future-proof stack to build bespoke cards, payments, accounts, and lending products at unreal speeds. Falcon stack can either be seamlessly embedded via flexible open APIs or launched instantly with no code solutions.

The company is backed by investors like Shamir Karkal (Founder, Sila Money), Abhay Hanjura & Vivek Gupta (Founders, Licious), Jeremy Solomon (Former CFO, Affirm), Ali Moiz (Founder, Stonks), Boling Jiang (Founder, Lithic), Rangarajan Krishnan (CEO, Five Star Finance), Deepak Shahdadpuri (MD of DSG Consumer Partners), Devesh Sachdeva (MD, Fusion Microfinance), and executives from Softbank, UAE Sovereign Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Robinhood, & Facebook.

Falcon's leadership team packs in ex-executives from the world's largest financial players like RBLBank, HDFC, FIS, Walmart, Mahindra Comviva, Intermiles, and Accenture.

Falcon has national and global partnerships with the largest banks, processors, card networks, and fintech companies. We aim to hit $2.5 billion+ in total payments value and $30M+ in revenue by 2023, on track to becoming the defacto embedded finance platform for the APMEA market.

Falcon's co-founding team, Priyanka, who is among the top five women fintech leaders in India and Prabhtej, a seasoned entrepreneur and the youngest board member of Board of Cricket Control of India, are now looking for a Product Manager. The duo are looking for a smart and ambitious individual, who will not take no for an answer.

Primary Responsibilities :

- Partner with a dedicated engineering team to define technological design and scope including architecture, APIs, data models, migrations and integrations

- Influence and inspire a cross-functional and cross-organizational team to reach ambitious goals

- Take end-to-end responsibility for product planning, development, release and success of the product

- Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps

- Produce and review product requirements documents (PRD)

- Investigate complex problems and design simple solutions for them

- Question assumptions, validate hypotheses, and define key metrics for success

- Obsess over getting the product details correct, and ship on time

- Writing and consulting on specs, managing design challenges, and planning sprint scopes / co-ordinating with the engineering team for sprint success

- Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products

- Produce reports for periodic review of the product life cycle

It's essential that you have :

- 3 - 5 years of experience as a Product Manager working on technically complex payments infrastructure and/or platforms

- Experience of working in cards (prepaid, UPI, BBPS, Virtual Accounts, debit or credit) domain.

- Has worked with banks, card hosts and network to launch new card products.

- Experience in the agile software development lifecycle

- Experience working directly with engineering teams with a clear understanding of their tradeoffs

- Deep customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution

- A real interest in hustling in a fast-growing Fintech startup environment

- Bonus: experience building and successfully scaling card programs