Zeta - Director - Product Management

About Zeta

Zeta intends to replace many legacy systems in use by banks for processing payments. Banks need to leapfrog into an era of connected devices and omnipresent commerce. Banking should become an integral part of the commerce and enterprise systems, thereby enabling seamless consumer and business transactions. The average number of interactions an account holder may have with a bank would increase to 12-15 per day in the near-term from the current average of 3-4 transactions per month. These could grow to an unimaginably large number in the future. Most banking systems aren- t designed for this scale. In many ways, these systems are limiting the imagination of the key stakeholders at the banks. We want this changed fundamentally, in an interoperable and regulatorily compliant manner.

We build large-scale transaction processing systems that can work with many current and future payment networks. We build applications that help banks realize the value of this new approach early. We also help banks to rapidly deliver the value of these applications to their customers.

Zeta's platform accelerates the phenomenon of digital native neobanking, unbundling and rebundling of banking and invisible payments. The platform enables the new-age financial institutes to have faster go-to-market. Enables the existing financial institutes with the much-required capabilities to partner with the FinTechs and to offer a suite of modern banking experiences.

Zeta is founded by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati. Bhavin has also been the Founder/ Co-Founder of Directi, Radix, Ringo, Codechef, and Flock. Zeta products have been recognized as the Best Prepaid Card in 2018. Zeta is recognized as the Fastest Growing Company of the Year, Fin-tech Rising Star Award, and India's Most Innovative Top 50 Product Companies by various trade journals. Zeta is a PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 company.

Zeta has been valued at $300 million in a recent series-C fundraise round. Zeta's platform is in use by 3 million users and by financial institutes across 4 countries.

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Background to the position:

As a Director of Product Management, you will be working closely with the leadership and the rest of the Zeta product team to define, build and scale the Zeta payment systems with 2 core objectives:

- Product as a Business - drive, build and manage a product line using a P&L analysis with the help of commercial, financial and other metrics

- Product Marketing - strong collaboration on go-to-market strategies, launch planning, product positioning and messaging You would lead a team of product managers across levels. We're looking for someone who thrives in the early stages of a product launch and is self-driven.

Your primary responsibilities include:

- Create company-wide product strategy and manage product team to shepherd new ideas through to implementation: research, product planning, discovery, development, execution

- Map solutions to specific opportunities so that Zeta can offer full-stack global payment processing including but not limited to

- Card networks - Mastercard, Visa, Rupay, Amex, JCB, CUP etc

- Payment networks - IMPS, NEFT, UPI, Swift, custom e-commerce payment gateways, direct acquirer integrations

- As a Product Director, you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team, are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, will set and manage the product's budget and financials, set the short and long term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

- Incorporate existing development backlog and make priorities as determined by the business, consumer, and market needs

- Proactively drive cross-team strategy, driving a tight collaboration with your key Design, Engineering, and Marketing partners and business stakeholders

- You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product owners while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams. You will be responsible to elevate your collective team's performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution-related barriers for your teams.

Who should apply for this role?

- At least 10+ years of experience in a Technology Product Management role

- You should have a track record of :

- Leading a product department

- Either marketing or building & shipping high-quality technology products owning the process end to end

- Formulating product strategy factoring industry trends, market, and competition

- Building web applications and mobile apps with modern UX/UI patterns

- Adapting to complex situations with an aim to achieve business goals

- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

- An engineering / technical / marketing background that will allow you to reason about product trade-offs and make good choices with minimal inputs from engineers

- You conceive possibilities, think big picture, but deliver on the details

- Optional - prior experience in payment systems or accounting systems