Razorpay was founded by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur in 2014. Razorpay is building a new-age digital banking hub (Neobank) for businesses in India with the mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes. What started as a B2B payments company is processing billions of dollars of payments for lakhs of businesses across India. 

About Razorpay

In 2014, what started as India’s first payment gateway built for Startups is now one of India’s youngest FinTech unicorns with a $3 Bn valuation and the single best destination for all things payments and business banking. Razorpay offers an integrated platform for all things payments and business banking, helping millions of small and big businesses simplify and accelerate every aspect of their financial journey. Today, Razorpay is a 1400 fun bunch of spirited, analytical, and ambitious folks building the first-of-its-kind technologies for the fintech ecosystem. We are a bunch of hungry mavericks here to empower 10Mn businesses in their digital transformation and enhance the payment experience of over 500 million end consumers in the next twelve months.And we are just getting started, Would you want to join this club of thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and challengers?

Job Role: Associate Director & Head of Product Strategy 

Roles and Responsibilities 

Work with Product Leadership to deliver on long term & short term business & product strategy (build, new product lines, market research, competitive benchmarking etc)

New opportunity identification

• Identify new initiatives and build investment thesis on Razorpay’s foray into them
• Deep dive into long term strategy of existing portfolio of products including build, GTM, and PMF/scale up plan 

Own horizontal mission programs e2e

• Own critical horizontal themes and conceptualize horizontal programs across the portfolio eg: Experience, Compliance, GTM excellence, AI.
• Champion product leadership across the org and partner with folks across the organization to achieve the success of the programs. 

Investor Relations

• All things investor updates on product function, deep dives & demos
• Leadership 
• Build & operate with a lean team of 3 to 4 high-agency Strategy champions who act as internal consultants
• Communicate verbally & in writing across the org to inspire & influence the larger org.
• Demonstrate high agency & boundaryless attitude.

Execution rituals & governance 

• Own & drive long-range planning in key areas
• Own & drive annual strategic planning
• Enable the org in setting annual & quarterly OKRs & milestones 
• Identify & solve challenges structurally to help achieve OKRs 
• Setup processes to drive execution excellence within & across BUs 

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong & structured problem-solving skills in ambiguous and unstructured problems
• Zoom in and zoom out of the problem quickly across a large breadth of problems
• Ability to wear multiple hats - strategic thinker, program executor, and operator
• Strong stakeholder management skills across functions & hierarchies, Strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to build rapport with senior leaders/CXOs
• Solid written & verbal communication
• High agency & Strong bias-for-action
• Previous experience in Tier 1 Consulting/CEO’s office/Chief of Staff/Corporate Strategy/Product roles
• At least 8-10 years of experience doing high-quality IC work and managing teams
• Fintech/Payments/Neobanking industry experience is good to have - not mandatory